91st MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS Reunion

All set for 91st MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS grand alumni homecoming


BAGUIO CITY (25 Mar) – It’s all set for the 91st grand alumni homecoming next month.
Baguio City High School 1985 (CiTiHi 85), host of this year’s grand celebration, has made April 29 to May 1 as the dates of the biggest school homecoming in this part of the country.
More than 500 attendees are expected to troop to the biggest high school north of Manila, the Baguio City National High School, now home to more than 6,000 students.
April 29 is a special addition made by the host batch wherein graduates are to have a torch/lantern parade the night before the actual homecoming.
The parade is expected to start at the Baguio Convention Center, wound its way to Session Road, Harrison Road and at the BCNHS grounds where the host batch have converted the ground into one big dap-ay and where the ecumenical activities will be held before the offering prayers to the local gods with a native chicken.
There the host batch will have a pinikpikan, bonfire and concerts that are open to all BCNHS graduates in the event which has Celebrate the past, invest in the future as theme.
On April 30, the activity will include a batch amazing races as classes will try to outwit each other in a city wide competition. That will be followed with the opening program and dinner at the BCNHS auditorium.
On May 1, the grand alumni period will start at the Post Office Loop as graduates, as early as 1932, will take the route from Session Road, Harrison and at the BCNHS grounds where the president’s and treasurer’s report will take place. This will be followed with the lunch at the BCNHS auditorium. That night, activities will shift to the Baguio Country Club Multi-purpose Hall where the Wave: A Fusion of Two Generations, a School Dance will take place.
Class of 1932 include two of the most respected women in the city, museum curator Leonora Paraan-San Agustin and former acting city mayor Virginia de Guia. Noted graduates include veteran newspaper editor Cecil Afable (1936), the late former mayor Francisco Paraan (1935), the late mayor Ernesto Bueno and former senator Juan Flavier (1952), among others.
CiTiHi 85 will not only honor the class of 1960 as the golden jubilarian but also former teachers. The night will be capped with the awarding of the outstanding alumni.
Registration fee is only P700.00 but attendees must also pay the annual alumni fee of P100 which will go to the MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS Alumni Association which recently finished the second gate of the school, while also taking charge of a scholarship program that benefits several deserving but indigent students.
CiTiHi 85 has been active in various activities the past months. Recently, it held the inter-school chess and Scrabble tournament at the BCNHS library. It will be the co-host, with class of 1960, of the Silver & Gold golf tournament on April 25 at the BCC golf course. -From Pigeon Lobien's Facebook page