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NEWS
The 1st
Semester 2005; Ending
By : Wilfredo F. Montermoso, Batch
2005
October 2, 2005
The first semester is
about to bid farewell, but not for the experiences
USCChES, who have gotten through big challenges over
the 5 months that passed, did go through... There are
much oddities that we all wish to put memory of and
learn from mistakes, which have kept us going.
There was the
recruitment, which was not bought by the students.
Three times was it postponed and still no one seemed
to have shown interest in experiencing the prestige of
what it is to be a member of a life-long membership in
USCChES. The student members crumbled and shaken by
the event thinking that we might end up with a low
standard of numbers of applicants. But Brod Ponts, as
the Master Instructor this year, remained firm and
strong for the group, and went on with the training.
The first oddity was when 16 applicants started, who
were seemingly difficult to recruit because they all
came from different class schedules (only three came
from the block section), and after four weekends, all
16 of them dedicatingly finished off the month-long
agony and survived the training.
The final rites came, on
the 23rd of July, and the venue brought disaster as it
was not conducive for the affair. The members then
again felt it was a terrible lost, almost about to
cancel the rite which will open the dedicated
applicants to the gateway of membership. But a group
of armed alumni, armed by their deep sympathy for the
mother chapter and love for the group, was assembled
for the first time, unknowingly enjoined again to
serve a purpose for the USCChES. With Brod Fred, aware
of what the problem was (on the venue), with no second
though offered his relative's townhouse, which used to
be the venue of my training before, while the rest of
the alumni, also equipped with the necessary
transportations, helped us to travel the silent, yet
far-ending roads from Mactan Island to Danao City.
With everyone contributing as much as they could, the
Final Rites went through, though caught by the rising
sun the next day, and we made an initially divided
group of 16 applicants into USCChES-blooded brods and
sis. I, for one, saw and felt the dedication of the
alumni, willing to risk for the group inspite of the
farewell they rendered for the school. And indeed the
farewell may have been only for the University, but
not for the Society, we all have lived to love.
Many instances have the
group been challenged and tested, and not will the
members allow these things to put the Society down.
And as I have seen it, the University of San
Carlos-Chemical Engineering Society will always be the
platform for something bigger to take in the future
and the spirit that will bind the brothers and sisters
under one true essence of unrectified, unbent, and
deep brotherhood and sisterhood.
Now, as we are growing
from our mistakes, and as we are enriching our
strengths, we are about to prepare another semestral
report for this semester to try to look back and
revisit the feeling of what it was to step on those
uncanny challenges...The deadline being set this
October 8, 2005, the Execoms, prime movers of filing
the report, together with some members who will
volunteer to pay time to help, will gather the night
before at our Mother Chapter President's, Sis Medz,
place to brainstorm on the presentation of the report
to be submitted. Inspite of the demanding time the
academics have to impose, our brods and sis still have
the spare time to make efforts for the Society. To all
brods and sis, let us all pray for the continuing
success and growth of our Society and, each time we
feel the world is on our shoulders, go back to the
times when we were still trained to apply for the
membership, and we will all just laugh at the
problems, which try to burn us to the ground... And as
our sincere cliche is always understood and practiced,
"Let us all keep the fire burning!..."
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