Aliza Racelis awarded the Annabelle P. Brown Professorial Chair

Aliza Racelis awarded the Annabelle P. Brown Professorial Chair

Hey, the Professorial Chair I was awarded is actually the ANNABELLE P. BROWN Centennial Professorial Chair! :-) This is a dream come true! GRATIAS DEO! Thank you, Mrs. Brown!

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For my blog on the launch of the Annabelle P. Brown Centennial Professorial Chair last Oct. 7, 2008 at the U.P. Executive House, please click here:

http://alalaysapamilyaatbayan.blogspot.com/2010/06/annabelle-p-brown-centennial.html

:-)

Mrs Annabelle P. Brown, UPCBA Distinguished Alumni Awardee 2010

Mrs Annabelle P. Brown, UPCBA Distinguished Alumni Awardee 2010

UPCBA Distinguished Alumni Awardees 2010! :-)

Will be honored on Dec. 4th during Alumni Homecoming.

Congrats, Mrs Annabelle Brown!

Volunteers' Orientation, 7 August 2010

Volunteers' Orientation, Distribution of Kits and Assignments
7 August 2010
9:00 - 17:00


All Volunteers are requested to attend the August 7 (previously, July 24) ORIENTATION at 103B-Cedar Mansion 1, St. Josemaria Escriva Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. We will also distribute your kit and assignment on that day so please try to be there on that day if you are interested. Please confirm if you are joining this fun and exciting sharing of time and talent to the future leaders of our society.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
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1. FOR GRADE 6 PUPILS OF Nueve de Febrero Elementary School and Pleasant Hills Elementary School - Every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month; 9 - 11am with 14 SECTIONS

2. FOR GRADE 1 PUPILS OF Nueve de Febrero Elementary School - Monday to Friday with 15 SECTIONS with 2 shifts. First shift: 6 - 10am and Second shift: 10:15 - 12:00nn. The Principal is giving us 30 minutes of ChECS class PER SECTION.

3. FOR EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ INTEGRATED SCHOOL is every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month; 9 - 11am with 20 SECTIONS in High School.


4. FOR RAMON MAGSAYSAY CUBAO HIGH SCHOOL - Monday to Friday

Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, at Fatima Church, Liko Street, Mandaluyong

The International Pilgrims Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, will visit us on August 3 at 9:00 until August 4, 8:00am at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Church, Liko Street, Mandaluyong City.

We also recommend the following:

• Our Lady of Fatima Facebook group;
• "Call to Fatima" movie;
• "The Day the Sun Danced" (animated movie on the Fatima apparitions)

Why Volunteer?

By Susan J. Ellis
President, Energize, Inc.

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Found in the Energize website library at:

http://www.energizeinc.com/art.html

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People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some benefits for yourself from volunteering.

Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that a volunteer "benefits" from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based on altruism and selflessness. The best volunteering does involve the desire to serve others, but this does not exclude other motivations, as well.

Instead of considering volunteering as something you do for people who are not as fortunate as yourself, begin to think of it as an exchange.

Consider that most people find themselves in need at some point in their lives. So today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort. Even now you might be on both sides of the service cycle: maybe you are a tutor for someone who can't read, while last month the volunteer ambulance corps rushed you to the emergency room. Volunteering also includes "self-help." So if you are active in your neighborhood crime watch, your home is protected while you protect your neighbors' homes, too. Adding your effort to the work of others makes everyone's lives better.

Your Motivations
Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. Here are just a few of the many possible motivations identified by other volunteers:

• to feel needed
• to share a skill
• to get to know a community
• to demonstrate commitment to a cause/belief
• to gain leadership skills
• to act out a fantasy
• to do your civic duty
• because of pressure from a friend or relative
• satisfaction from accomplishment
• to keep busy
• for recognition
• to repay a debt
• to donate your professional skills
• because there is no one else to do it
• to have an impact
• to learn something new
• for freedom of schedule
• to help a friend or relative
• for escape
• to become an "insider"
• guilt
• to be challenged
• to be a watchdog
• to feel proud
• to make new friends
• to explore a career
• to help someone
• as therapy
• to do something different from your job
• for fun!
• for religious reasons
• to earn academic credit
• to keep skills alive
• because an agency is geographically close
• to have an excuse to do what you love
• to be able to criticize
• to assure progress
• to feel good
• to be part of a team
• to gain status
• because you were asked
• to test yourself
• to build your resume
• to be an agent of change
• because of personal experience with the problem, illness, or cause
• to stand up and be counted

You will probably have some special reasons of your own. Remember that the motivations you have to select the place to offer your services may not be the reasons why you stay. Once you're on the volunteer job, you will continue to serve as long as you feel that your efforts are accomplishing something, that your talents are appreciated, and that you make a difference. And if you also like the people with whom you work, so much the better!

As long as you are truly serving through your volunteer work, isn't it wonderful that such an exchange occurs? In fact, it tends to strengthen your commitment to volunteering when you can see the benefits to both the recipient of your efforts and to yourself. And it is much more comfortable than "charity" because it upholds the self-esteem of those with whom you volunteer.

A longer version of the list of motivations for volunteering can be found in The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book by Susan J. Ellis.

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Info about 'Alalay sa Pamilya at Bayan Foundation'

Feast of St Josemaría

http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/06/feast-of-st-josemaria/

Feast of St Josemaría

Here’s the account of St Josemaría’s death: On June 26, 1975, Msgr. Josemaría died suddenly in Rome. The previous month he had made his last visit to Spain, where he received the gold medal of his native town, Barbastro, and visited the nearby shrine of Torreciudad, which had been built at his request, and was about to be inaugurated. His death marked the end of the foundational stage of Opus Dei and, in the words of his successor, the beginning of the “stage of continuity and fidelity”. Msgr. Alvaro del Portillo, then Secretary General of Opus Dei, acted as its head until the elective congress was held. (Excerpts from Immersed in God: Blessed Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, as seen by his successor Bishop Alvaro del Portillo)

• All the works of St Josemaría Escrivá available at escrivaworks.org;
• You may send images/photos/representations of Josemaría Escrivá that you may have to josemariaescriva.info (press “Write Us” on the upper right of the page).

VIDEO: A selection of images from the Holy Masses celebrated on the liturgical feast of St Josemaria.

Annabel's Restaurant

Annabel's Restaurant

194 Tomas Morato

Quezon, Philippines, 1100

Tel. No.:

924-4131 - 34

http://www.annabelsrestaurant.com/

Facebook Group: Annabel's Restaurant

Annabel's offers you an unparalleled garden ambience with a delightful international cuisine combined with excellent service :-)

Annabel's is an exquisite fine dining restaurant, along Morato Ave., Quezon City, well known for its luscious food as well as its many choice areas like special function rooms, and the delightful garden area (picture above) most appropriate for wedding receptions, business functions, birthday parties, and the like.

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For more details, visit the Official Website.

If you're on Facebook, please don't fail to join Annabel's FB group.