It was 1993. I was just a new member then, from batch 93A, when I first heard about the idea of organizing an alumni association. I still remember, during the 10th year celebration of the founding of PLM-SOUL, some alumni members volunteered and committed themselves into drafting the articles of incorporation and by-laws of the would-be organization. Maybe due to the hectic schedules in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives, the planned meetings failed to materialize. On the contrary, after about a couple of years, a group of alumni members was successful enough to draft the first workable by-laws for the alumni association. The problem then, I think, was on how to gather and reach out to the increasing number of alumni members. Many of them can no longer be traced in their addresses; some were already working abroad. Such problems and the enormous tasks and commitment confronting them halted the attempts to formally establish the SOUL alumni association.

With the years of silence in forming the association, the resident members then were haunted by various problems; some were serious that the alumni members had intervened. With no formal procedures to follow, they themselves were helpless in providing concrete solutions to the problems encountered by the resident members. The innocence and lack of power of the resident members in handling serious and critical issues awakened once again the urge of the alumni members to be organized.

It was Christmas Party of 2001. A group of alumni members seriously talked about pursuing the halted attempts to establish an alumni association. With an alumnus to provide and assist in the legal needs in establishing its organization, their vision to be organized this time is no longer far from reality. 

On a birthday celebration of another alumnus, the members agreed to pull their financial resources since these are necessary for the initial actions in achieving the goal. Though some of them would be then leaving for abroad, their passions to be organized were the same as the others. They handed-over the first workable articles of incorporation and by-laws to this group, crucial to the founding of the alumni association. These later on become the bases in drafting its own articles of incorporation and by-laws.

January 26, 2002, a group of twenty (20) alumni members attended a gathering by invitation conducted at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The gathering was limited to a selected few since it would be impossible to invite and gather the alumni members all at the same time. It was agreed upon of all those present, now called the Incorporators, to conduct the elections with regard to the following: the official name of the organization; the nine (9) members of the board of directors; and the officers for specific positions. They also agreed to draft the articles of incorporation and by-laws once the members of the board of directors are elected. All of which was witnessed by the resident members themselves.

That very same day, the SOUL ALUMNI INCORPORATED or SOUL AI was born. The nine (9) elected members of the board of directors are as follows: