1945 - year of your birth?

(Click on photo to enlarge) This is the scene of Baguio when you were being pushed out of the womb (maybe). Perhaps most of Class 61 members were born in 1945. Here is a photo kept at the US Archives, part of the collection of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. It shows a number of bombed-out ruins, to be reconstructed in later years. Luneta Park, where the old Pines Hotel stood and now SM, would be on the upper left corner. Do you remember that big gash on the hill, opposite Baden Powell Hall, as you walked from City High to upper Session Road? It was already there in 1945, as you can see.

So this is what Burnham Park looked like when you were a tiny tot or a newborn.