SPU Manila INTER-OFFICE BULLETIN - St. Paul University Manila

SPU Manila INTER-OFFICE BULLETIN
Vol. II No. 27 1 June 2009
MANAGEMENT TEAM 2009-2010 ANNNOUNCED
Ms. Wynna Marie A. Medina, St. Paul University Manila President, announced the management team
2009-2010 last week.
Ms. Medina’s letter on the appointments for the year follows:
The SPC Community of Malate, which forms the corporation of SPU Manila, will be composed of the
following Sisters:
1. Sr. Maria Vicenta Estrella, SPC, Local Superior
2. Sr. Isabel of the Angels Narciso, SPC
3. Sr. Mary Clement Sarte, SPC
4. Sr. Mary Edmund Antonio, SPC.
5. Sr. Maria Anunciata Sta Ana, SPC
6. Sr. Asuncion de Marie Sosa, SPC
7. Sr. Mary Vianney Ramirez, SPC
8. Sr. Ignatius of St Joseph Tal Placido, SPC
9. Sr. Rosanne Mallillin, SPC
10. Sr. Natividad de Jesus Ferraren, SPC
11. Sr. Emma Joseph Perez SPC
12. Sr. Flordeliza Deza, SPC
13. Sr. Milagros Amos, SPC
14. Sr. Josephine Ramada, SPC
The following Sisters will be joining other communities soon:
1. Sr. Maria Bernardita Quiñon, SPC, who served as our Dean for the College of Nursing and
Allied Health Sciences, will be moving to the San Miguel, Bulacan campus of St Paul University
Quezon City.
2. Sr Mary Aurelie Cortes, SPC, who served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the National Office of
Mass Media, will be serving in the SPC Vigil House in Taytay, Rizal.
3. Sr. Mary Matthew Damo, SPC, who served as our Health Services Director, will be joining the
SPC community in DLSU Dasmarinas.
4. Sr. Hipolita Collado, SPC, who served as staff of the St. Paul Center for Renewal in Alfonso,
will be joining the SPC community in Pagadian, Zamboanga.
5. Sr. Maria Perlita Marasigan, SPC who served as Pastoral Care Minister in PGH, will be joining
the SPC community in Bagac, Bataan.
6. Sr. Mauricia Hofeleña, SPC who served as staff of the St. Paul Center for Renewal in Alfonso,
will be joining the SPC community in Culion, Palawan.

Please extend your warm gratitude to the six Sisters who are moving to other locations for the
services they have rendered the academic community of St. Paul University Manila.
I am also confirming the appointment of majority of our management team for AY 2009-2010.
PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL
Sr. Maria Vicenta Estrella, SPC
Sr. Mary Vianney Ramirez, SPC
Sr. Rosanne Mallillin, SPC
Sr. Natividad de Jesus Ferraren, SPC
Sr. Milagros Amos, SPC
VP for Finance Services
VP for Christian Formation
VP for Academic Services
VP for Student Services
VP for Administrative Services
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Sr. Flordeliza Deza, SPC.
Director, International Affairs and Language
Development Center
Sr.Rosanne Mallilin, SPC Director, Paula Pilipina Community
Development Center
Sr. Ignatius Tal Placido, SPC
Dr. Elizabeth Ramos
Brian Bantugan
External Affaire Officer, SPMAFI Moderador,
Project Manager, Museum and Archives
Quality Assurance Manager (tentative title)
Institutional Research and Planning Officer
Marionette Ocampo- Martinez Alumni Relations and Institutional
Communications Officer
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Undergraduate School
Dr. Irma Bustamante
Dean, Undergraduate School
College of Education and CFP
Dr. Runvi Manguera
Dean, College of Education and concurrently
Program Chair, General Education

Lamer Morales
Rosanna Manalo
Lourna Tagay
Program Chair, Teacher Education
Program Chair, Common Freshmen
Officer, Reading Program
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Pricilla Marzan Dean and concurrently, Program Chair,
Psychology
Lalaine Vitug-Mallari
Program Chair, Mass Communication
College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
Dr. Rhoda Reyes
Maria Encarnacion Dychangco
Jennifer Joy Olivar
Dean
Chair, Academics
Chair, Clinical Supervision
College of Music and the Performing Arts
Sr. Maria Anunciata Sta. Ana, SPC
Dean, College of Music and the Performing
Arts
College of Business and Management
Vacant
Noel Casquite
Vacant
Dean
Program Chair, BSBA and Entrepreneurial
Management
Program Chair, Accountancy
Mary Grace Leongson Program Chair, Hotel and Restaurant
Management
Sharon Manguerra
Maridel Negradas
Program Chair, Tourism
Program Chair, CS/IT

Graduate School
Aldrin Darilag
Dean, Graduate School
Office of the Registrar
Sr. Rosanne Mallilin, SPC
University Registrar
Library
Sr. Asuncion de Marie Sosa, SPC
University Librarian
STUDENT SERVICES
Dr. Regina Grace Ravara
Vacant
Sr. Isabel of the Angels Narciso, SPC
Patria Fortes
Director, Health Services
Head, Guidance Services
Manager, Residence Services
Student Affairs Officer
CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Sr. Josephine Ramada, SPC
Maribel Corcolla
Program Chair, Religious Education/Philo.
Campus Minister
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Lourdes Tan-Tuazon
Catherine Mojado
Manager, Human Resource Services
Manager, ICT
Daniel Ramos Supervisor, Building and Grounds
Maintenance
Nora Lopez Supervisor, Housekeeping and
Transportation
Abigail Valenzuela
Manager, SPC Renewal Center
FINANCE SERVICES
Sr. Clement Sarte, SPC
Purchasing Officer

Some positions are still vacant and discussions are on-going. I shall announce these
appointments in due time.
Other non-management appointments are also being made, such as coordinator positions.
These will be announced within each division as appointments are finalized. Many of these are in the
Academic Services Division.
Office staff assignments are also on-going and these shall be announced shortly by the VP for
Administrative Services.
Office spaces will be provided for new management jobs created and these shall also be
announced by the VP for Administrative Services as soon as decisions are finalized.
Homeroom advisers for Freshmen and Sophomores will be selected and trained by the
Christian Formation Division. Announcements regarding this matter will come from the VP for
Christian Formation.
All lay management appointees will officially assume their positions on June 1, 2009.
Endorsements will begin immediately and I am positive new appointees will be ably assisted by their
predecessors so that we can begin the school year smoothly.
Let us thank the management team members of the past year for their invaluable service and
let us extend our cooperation to the incoming team of AY 2009-2010.
SHARING…SHARING…SHARING
From the College of Music and the Performing Arts
Bing Morado of the College of Music and the Performing Arts shares the following news:
Pianists from St. Paul University Manila College of Music and the Performing Arts will be performing
at Paco Park, San Marcelino St., Manila at 6:00 P.M. on 5 June 2009. Admission is free.
PROGRAMME
1. LUCKY ISAAC S. SORIA, III
Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI “Divertimento” (1 st movement)
Barcarolle in G minor
2. JOEL A. DAQUIOAG, JR.
Nocturne in C# minor
Children’s Corner (Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum)
Haydn
F. Tschaikovsky
F. Chopin
C. Debussy
3. MELISSA G. TAQUEBAN
6 Bagatelles op. 126 L. V. Beethoven
Andante con moto

Allegro, Andante, Presto, Quasi Allegretto
Presto - Andante amabile e con moto - Tempo I
Soirees de Vienne No. 6 after F. Schubert
4. BEAH DARDA C. GUMARANG
Waldesrauschen
Malikmata
Dancing Fool
5. BEAH DARDA C. GUMARANG, primo
MELISSA TAQUEBAN, secondo
Katakataka
Pandangguhan
F. Lizst
F. Liszt
A. Molina
A. Molina
Suarez-Espino
Umali-Espino
MEETINGS…MEETINGS…MEETINGS
Management Teams, Past and Present
The Paulinian Pianists: Pride of SPU Manila
Ms. Medina had a meeting with the past and present management teams on 28 May 2009. The
newly appointed members of the team were introduced and the former members requested to make
arrangements for the endorsement needed for a smooth turn-over.
The President also presented a review of the past five years and the priorities for the coming
school year.

Office of the President
Administrators reporting directly to the Office of the President will meet with Ms. Medina at 10:00
A.M., 3 June 2009 in the University President’s Board Room.
As with the other incoming management team members, the officers have been asked to be
ready to present their proposed activities and budget requirements for the year.
SPMAFI
The Board of Directors of the St. Paul Manila Alumni Foundation, Inc. (SPMAFI) will have their
regular monthly meeting at 2:00 P.M., 3 June 2009 in the University President’s Board Room.
Top billing the agenda are the proposed ballroom dancing fund-raiser and the 2010 annual
general homecoming.
Also invited to attend are representatives from the College of Commerce. They will be
organized for the Commerce Grand Reunion, which had been scheduled by the Centennial Core
Committee to take place in 2009.
It will be recalled that the College of Arts and Sciences had a Grand Reunion in November
2007 and the College of Nursing in June 2008. The College of Music alumni chapter has been
making plans for their Grand Reunion in 2010.
ALUMNI NEWS
HS 1954 Get-Together
Members of High School Class of 1954 will have a lunch get-together today, 1 June 2009, in the
White Plains home of Irma Moya-Guison. The class will be celebrating the birthdays of their April,
May, and June born members, according to Ms. Carmelita O. Reynoso, Class ‘54 President.
HS 1970 Tribute to Fr. Reuter
Corina Santos-Unson, High School 1970, recently pulled some strings to get a letter published in The
Philippine Star soon after Fr. James B. Reuter’s last column came out.
The letter is from Lotis Key-Kabigting, a classmate of Corina,
who is now based in the USA. She wrote it in January this year, and it
has been published in the Star. We are reprinting it here to show
what Father was to many Paulinians like Lotis:
I LOVE YOU FATHER REUTER
I was twelve when my mother divorced my father. He was a tall,
golden haired, blue eyed American, who had left California to serve in

WWII and returned home proudly flourishing a delicate souvenir from the Philippine Islands.
My tiny mother, observing this new world through almond shaped eyes, saw the rest of tall,
white America bending down to look at her. They would speak slowly and loudly at her, remarking to
each other, “Isn’t she cute?” My mother had a PhD in English literature and did not like to be
referred to as cute. After two painful decades of having to buy her shoes in children’s stores, she
broke the law and with two half white daughters, escaped back to the city of her own youth: Manila.
I was not yet a teenager when we stepped off the President Wilson Ocean Liner. The intense
heat, the bugs, the constant swirl and hum of laughing people was overwhelming. My mother moved
quickly to hide us, and within a few weeks, my younger sister and I were installed in a Philippine
Catholic girl’s school: St. Paul’s College of Manila.
It was confusing to us. We were barely religious, maybe only very slightly Catholic… at
Christmas. Who was St. Paul? We were children, why were we going to a college? Ah, the confusion
was only beginning.
Both of us came equipped with English and Spanish. The lingua franca was Tagalog, which we
could not read, write or understand.
Both of us were much larger than the Asian girls our age. My sister was a blonde. I had long
masses of curly hair. Like a slow motion dream, we were buried alive in a landslide of shimmering,
pitch black tresses that flowed from the heads of tiny, graceful nymphs. These girls didn’t guffaw
their laughter, they giggled demurely. They didn’t argue a point; they pursed their lips and lowered
their eyes. They didn’t push or shove, they pouted and turned away slowly, lifting high one perfectly
curved eyebrow. We were wildflowers blown into a hothouse of exotic orchids. They wanted to talk
about love. They looked us over and asked …did we have a brother? We had no brother. Ohhh,
tooooo baaaaad.
We also didn’t have the right shoes. The right socks. The right book bags.
This was the 1960’s and we’d been raised by bohemians who had encouraged us to speak our
minds, ignore our appearance and argue both sides of the communist take over of Cuba.
We were American peasants in bad need of a full spa make over.
To make matters worse, we had no father. Not only had my mother married a white man, she
had divorced him and come back home with two fatherless girls. This information produced a wave of
deep shock that washed over everyone around us. Where is your father? Will he come to get you?
Will you ever see him again? Doesn’t he love you? Does he have another wife?
My sister being younger took it more in stride and prospered, artfully winning friends with her
honeyed locks and dimpled smile. I closed and toughened. My mother had managed to escape
imprisonment on the wrong planet and one day, I would do the same. I was an alien who would
never, ever paint her fingernails.
Then, one morning, studying alone on the stone steps of the school chapel, my life was
changed forever. I looked up to see a tall man in a white cassock crossing the quadrant, Sister
Nieves and Sister Joanna hurrying to keep up with him. He was talking in the loud voice of the white

man, not hushing his tones for propriety sake. He was striding along purposefully like the white man,
not mincing his step to accommodate the women. The bright sun on his golden, white man hair
haloed him, making his approach akin to that of a brilliant comet. Was I dreaming? Was this a saint?
Was I dead but didn’t know it yet? He came straight towards the chapel and hypnotized by my
approaching destiny, I could not move. Looking down at me, a homeless animal crouched on the
stone steps, he smiled and said; “you must be the fatherless girl”. His eyes were blue, blue, blue.
This was the first white man I had seen since I’d come to the Philippines. In coloring and shape he
looked startlingly like my father, whose memory had begun to evaporate within me … except for his
coloring and shape.
Sister Joanna said; “Her name is Lotis.”
Sister Nieves said; “Lotis, this is Father Reuter.”
I was paralyzed, like the kitten before the tiger that will consume it. Father Reuter put his
large, white gold hand on my curly head and said; “Come, talk to me, I’ll hear your confession”.
Confession? What was that? What should I confess? That I felt ugly and stupid? That I hated this
place? That I hated myself? Ignorant of the concept of personal sin, unaware of what confession was
supposed to consist of, these were the things I told him.
I talked to Father Reuter that day and many, many more days
over the years to come. He heard my “confession” in person every
week or so, and the rest of the time I talked to him in my heart, in my
dreams, in my prayers. In reality he did not treat me any differently
than any other little girl. I was no special pet or favorite. I don’t know
if he even thought of me at all outside the confessional. I am unaware
if I ever made any particular impression on him. No. It was him who
made the impression on me.
Father Reuter had been sent by the Jesuits, to the Philippines,
just before WWII and wound up interned by the Japanese. At wars
end, the Jesuits asked him to stay on for a bit and he did…returning to
the U.S. for a visit only once in the next 60 years. There was nothing
of the effeminate about this priest. Nothing soft or flabby or repelling. His love was not vague,
distant, or carefully guarded. A gruffly practical, quick tempered, get to the point! kind of priest, he
could grab you by the back of the neck, give you a shake, stare you down and demand immediate
love and obedience in the same instant. He was a steely eyed, unflinching priest, who rarely
whispered when he could shout, loved with an iron fist, and was simultaneously feared and adored
by all who knew him.
In this day of gross immorality, I don’t know if anyone can understand how, without the
slightest hint of sexual impropriety, a little girl can love her priest and find her salvation through him.
But it is true. Father Reuter was more than a man or a priest. He was a father.
Before I knew God in the personal way I do now, I knew Father Reuter in place of Him. Before
I could accept God as my Father, Father Reuter was there to create that role for me. I was a lost
child who would have been lost forever if not for this celibate male taking me for one of his children.

He encouraged me to speak and communicate my thoughts. He pushed me to develop my voice. He
made me understand that even if I didn’t fit in I was valuable and gifted.
After high school I went on to a life filled with many elaborate diversions. I did foolish things
and I was pushed by my curly, wild nature to adventures that sorely tried all around me. I can
remember times I would pause for an instant and think; “I should go to Father Reuter for advice”,
but pride mixed with shame, would erase the impulse. In my heart nestled a deep fear he would be
so angry at things I had done, he would no longer love me. Anyway, I was an adult now, capable of
dealing with life.
I no longer needed a father of any kind.
I finally did go to see Father Reuter, but only recently, some
40 years since I had last seen him at my graduation. I am not taller
than I was in high school, but bent over with age he is now shorter
than I am. His slightly trembling hands and feet are misshapen with
arthritis. His golden hair is gone. He was seated in a wheelchair
wearing his white cassock, and when I entered he struggled to rise
and kiss me. I looked into his eyes and they were blue, blue, blue. I
was twelve again and struck dumb with love. I could not talk much
and in his fatherly way he understood and did the talking for me.
Nothing important really, just making enough sound to ease the
tension and let the ghost years slip away. As time dissolved between
us; the feeling of his strength, the powerful force of his love, the
intensity and vigor of his fatherhood, coiled and wrapped itself
around my heart, pulling me to my knees before God, in the very deepest gratitude for this man.
Dear, dear man of God. I have never said this to you but I have always wanted to: I love you
Father Reuter and I always will.
Lotis Key-Kabigting
January 20, 2009
POPE TO OPEN YEAR OF PRIESTHOOD
Pope Benedict and St. Vianney
The Year of Priesthood, as announced by our beloved Pope
Benedict XVI, celebrates the 150 th anniversary of the death of
the saintly Cure of Ars, St. John Mary Vianney. The Holy Father
will open the Year, presiding at the celebration of Vespers on 19
June 2009, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, in the
presence of the relics of the Cure of Ars brought by the Bishop
of Belley-Ars. The special Year, which will have the theme,
“Fidelity of Christ, Fidelity of Priesthood,” will end on 19 June
2010, with the Pope taking part in a ‘World Meeting of Priests’
in St. Peter’s Square.