Let us give thanks....

Another November 2013 Photo

Now we know!  This was taken at MOA (no idea where that is) for Ed Buenaflor's birthday. Manuel Ubaldo trying to use straws as chopsticks, Ed Buenaflor a pensive birthday celebrant, an un-id. guest, Joe Andaya with a cheerful T with green logo.

Goodflower's Birthday, November 2013

id'd by Rudy Lambino in Frank's page: 

"left to right: Manuel Ubaldo, Eduardo Buenaflor, Franklin Frigillana, Jose Andaya, Myrna Andaya, Bonifacio Gutierrez. Nice to see my dear HS classmates in a group picture."

November 2013 Photo

Here is a posting on Facebook by Pastor Frank Frigillana.  Not having the context in which this photo was taken, here is a wild, wild guess on what they are up to:

Pastor Frank:  O, ala garood, our photo is being taken.  Attention ah, so smile and look as though it was the last dealbreaker you would make.  Because this, gagayem and kakabsats,  is for posterity.

Dr. Linda Dacanay-Gaffud:  Okay lang Pastor Frank. I hear you good. But since the lighting is directly in my eyes, I will give a prize-winning smile so viewers can focus on that and not on the glare on my anchokoz.

Boni Gutierrez:  Hmmm, di ba, guapo pa rin ako kahin matatanda na tayo?  And this blue shirt makes me look and feel like a doo-wop teenager again.

Joe Andaya:  Hi there folks!  This is me, Joe, with three of my fellow Class 61 mates. You are looking at two pastors in this photo.  Guess who is the second one, after Pastor Frank.  See, I choose my wardrobe well:  I texted them to find out what color they will be wearing, so that I can choose and blend with the rest of them.
The End!!

Cafe by the Ruins

This Cafe is situated right opposite the City Hall, next to the old Arvisu house which is rented by Bayquen Realty.
Here is an entry from Mark Walther's Facebook page.  The Ruins is where the Whitmarsh house stood.
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From:  Mark Walther facebook page.

 Hubert "Phelps" Whitmarsh was a British reporter for the Outlook magazine who came to the Philippines in 1898. He went to Baguio (where in 1900 he was made the first Governor of Benguet Province) and loved it so much he telegraphed his wife and daughter in Boston "come to God's country". He later opened the Benguet Commercial Co. and several sawmills, he also bankrolled prospectors. He was contractor for the Easter School (1906) and supplied materials for the Rectory (first building on Brent Campus, completed in time for the birth of Rev Robb White's son, Robb White jr. who would later become a famous author) and the main school building (Ogilby Hall). His son Phillip Whitmarsh was the first "foreigner" (British/American) born in Baguio and the first "day" student at Bishop Brent's "Baguio School". The Whitmarsh home was famous in its day for the elaborate formal English style gardens. It was partially destroyed in the carpet bombing of Baguio and Cafe By The Ruins stands where it used to be. The photo (mid 1920s) shows him and his wife and granddaughter.

From:  Alicia D. Carlos- President, Alumni Association.
"I remember Mrs. Whitmarsh, a smallish woman who walked with a limp as she went around the Whitmarsh apartments collecting rents.  I used to pass by the house which had a low fence so you can see the white-painted house with green trim,  and its floral garden clearly from the street."

Farewell, Bert