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www.hau.edu.ph/kcenter The Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY ANGELES CITY, PHILIPPINES 1 RECENTRECENT VISITORS MARCH & APRIL F. Sionil Jose Ophelia Dimalanta Mayor Ding Anunciacion, Bamban, Mayor Genaro Mendoza, Tarlac City Joey Lina Sylvia Ordoñez Mayor Carmelo Lazatin, Angeles Vice Mayor Bajun Lacap, Masantol Ely Narciso, Kuliat Foundation Ching Escaler Maribel Ongpin Gringo Honasan Crisostomo Garbo Museum Foundation of the Philippines M A Y Kayakking among the mangroves in Masantol Dennis Dizon Senator Tessie Aquino Oreta Mikey Arroyo Mayor Mary Jane Ortega, San Fernando City, La Union Cecilia Leung River tours launched Ariel Arcillas, Pres, SK Natl Federation THE Center sponsored a multi-sector Congressman Bondoc promised to Mark Alvin Diaz, SK Nueva Ecija Tessie Dennis Felarca, SK Zambales research cruise down Pampanga River convert a portion of his fishponds into a Oreta Brayant Gonzales, Angeles City last summer, discovered that the river is mangroves nursery and to construct a port Council not as silted and polluted as many believe, in San Luis town where tourist boats can Vice Mayor Pete Yabut, Macabebe and as a result, organized cultural and dock. The town’s centuries-old church is Vice Mayor Emilio Capati, Guagua ecological tours in coordination with the part of the planned itinerary for church Carmen Linda Atayde, SM Department of Tourism Region 3, local gov- heritage river cruises. Other cruise options Foundation ernment units in the river communities, include a tour of the mangroves in Masantol Efren de la Cruz, ABC President Estelito Mendoza and a private boatyard owner. and Macabebe, and tours coinciding with Col. Agripino Razon JUNE The project was folk festivals like the batalla of Ben Cabrera, visual artist launched last June 28 to Macabebe, kuraldal of Patis Tesoro coincide with the fluvial Sasmuan, Apung Iru fiesta of Atty. Estelito P. Mendoza procession marking the feast Apalit, and the aguman sanduk Vice Governor Mikey Macapagal of Apung Iru (St. Peter), of Minalin. Patis Tesoro Arroyo patron saint of Apalit. Rep. The University’s Mayor Buddy Dungca, Bacolor Rimpy Bondoc of Community Outreach Program Mayor Dennis Pineda, Lubao Pampanga’s Fourth District, will also participate in DOT Vice Mayor Tiger Lagman, City of San Fernando Masantol Vice Mayor Bajun Region 3’s skills enhancement Rosve Henson Lacap, DOT Region III training program on basic tour Ingrid Sala Santamaria Ben Cabrera officials and members of guiding and other livelihood Maestro Reynaldo Reyes local and national media projects to help boost tourism Efren “Bata” Reyes attended the launching and and other economic activity in Javier Nepomuceno press conference. Ivan the river communities. San Luis Church Bunny Fabella Anthony Henares, San The HAU Department of Dir. Jerry Pelayo Fernando City tourism officer, and Engr. Hospitality and Tourism Management will JULY Nestor Mangio Joey Lina, DILG Secretary Robert Canlas, owner of the boatyard, take charge of booking and promoting the Sen. Gregorio Honasan coordinated the affair. The Holy Angel tours in coordination with DOT Region 3, Rep. Zenaida Ducut University brass band, rondalla and polosa while the Center, which prepared the tour’s Rep. Willie B. Villarama performer Renie Salor provided itinerary, will also train tour guides from the Roberto Pagdanganan, DAR entertainment. local communities. Secretary Eric Domingo, DOH Usec. Zenaida Ducut Arturo Naguit, Minalin Vice Mayor Singsing is published quarterly by The Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies Nestor Mangio, Lakeshore of Holy Angel University, Angeles City, Philippines. The opinions expressed in the articles are Gen. Vidal Querol, Camp Olivas solely their author’s and do not reflect official position of the Center. For inquiries, suggestions Robin Nepomuceno and comments, please call (045) 888-8691 loc. 1311, or fax at (045)888-2514, or email at Hannah Bauzon, CL Times [email protected]. John Pangilinan MBP Alabang Carmelo Lazatin Araceli and Tessa Aldeguer Editor: Robby Tantingco Titos Bernardo, Alabang Contributors: Dr. John Alan Larkin, Prof. Lino Dizon, Alex Castro, Ivan Henares, Dr. Jean- Corito Ocampo Tayag Christophe Gaillard, Erlita Mendoza, Kaye Mayrina Lingad, Joel Mallari, Arwin Lingat Editorial Assistants: Sheila Laxamana, Ana Marie Vergara, Iza Salazar, Erlinda Cruz, Gina Diaz Bacolod City Local Government Photos by Jimmy Hipolito 2 Classical piano concert Center to held at Betis church publish THE SANTIAGO de Galicia parish church of Betis, one of the few churches in the country book on declared National Treasures by the government, was the setting of the free concert of world-class translation pianists Ingrid Sala Santamaria and Maestro THE CENTER for Reynaldo Reyes held early last month. The concert was part of the Pampanga leg of Kapampangan the concert series entitled A Romantic Journey Studies will launch which Ms. Santamaria and Maestro Reyes have the book Gloria: taken across the archipelago to educate their Roman Leoncio’s fellow Filipinos on classical piano. The Center for Lost and Found Kapampangan Studies, which sponsored the Betis Kapampangan concert in cooperation with the Betis Pastoral Translation of Council, invited students from various schools in Huseng Batute’s Pampanga and Tarlac as well as three busloads of Verse Novel next HAU students. month. It is the third “Originally the concert was planned for the HAU book published by the campus, but we had this vision of merging beautiful Holy Angel University music and beautiful venue, so we transferred it to the loveliest church you can find, the Betis Church,” Press, after Lino says Robby Tantingco, Director of the Center. Dizon’s An Epistle of a Friar Prisoner 1898-1901 and Dr. Luciano Santiago’s Laying the Foundations: Kapampangan Pioneers in the Philippine Church 1592-2001. On exhibit at the Center The book is the idea of Ambassador Virgilio Reyes who discovered a complete manuscript of Kapampangan beauties of yore Roman Leoncio’s Kapampangan Ongoing at the Center’s gallery is an exhibit of version, written in the late 1920s. It photographs of Kapampangan women who won local and contains Jose Corazon De Jesus’ (a.k.a. national beauty contests in the early 20th Century, specifically Huseng Batute) handwritten letter to in the Manila Carnival, the forerunner of Miss Philippines pageant. It is curated by Alex R. Castro, the Center’s Leoncio as well as proofreading notes new museum curator. by the renowned Kapampangan poet Rare photographs of early Kapampangan beauty Isaac Gomez. Roman Leoncio, however, queens like Socorro Henson of Angeles (the first remains obscure as no other information Kapampangan to win a national beauty title in 1926), about his life and works has been Corazon Hizon (1933), Carmeling del Rosario of San uncovered so far. Fernando (1935), Cleofe Balingit of Macabebe (1936), Elisa The book features, aside from Manalo (1937), and Cristina Galang of Tarlac, Tarlac (1953), the complete Kapampangan and Tagalog after whom the Maria Cristina park was named. texts, critical analyses by Prof. Lino Dizon, th Baro’t saya from the early 20 Century, on loan from Dr. Albina Peczon Fernandez and Dr. Leonor “Denden” Sanchez of Betis and Jojo Valencia of San Lourdes Vidal, with foreword by Foreign Fernando are also on exhibit. Affairs Secretary Blas Ople. Socorro Henson c. 1926 Mr. White of Tarlac Book on Thomasite to be launched at Center The Center for Tarlaqueño Studies and the Center for Kapampangan Studies will jointly launch Prof. Lino L. Dizon’s latest book, Mr. White: A Thomasite History of Tarlac Province, 1901-1913 on September 3. The launching will coincide with an exhibit entitled Escuelang Laun: The Thomasites and Early Public Education in the Kapampangan Region and another exhibit by the Public Affairs Office of the United States Embassy, which partly sponsored the publication of the book. Mr. White was the name of the ghost that schoolchildren reported seeing in an old school building in Tarlac. Prof. Dizon’s research revealed that there was a real Mr. White who served as principal and later an education minister during the American regime 100 years ago. Dr. Ronald J. Post, the US Embassy’s Counselor for Public Affairs and Rep. Jesli Lapus of the Third District of Tarlac will be the guest speakers. Prof. Dizon is the Director of the Center for Tarlaqueño Studies based at the Tarlac State University, and Consultant for the Center for Kapampangan Studies. 3 GIANT SISIG FESTIVAL sponsored by the Trade and Investment Promotions Office in Balibago, Angeles City last summer featured what was claimed to be the world’s largest sizzling sisig, a dish of broiled pig’s head diced and mixed with onions and pepper. The Hospitality Management students of Holy Angel University prepared and cooked the sisig which fed the thousands who came. The Center, through the research of Siuala ding Meangubie, provided the historical context. TODAY Native Bencab and Kapampangan other donors architecture Ben Cabrera, a.k.a. Bencab, TO help promote the pre-colonial the famous visual artist who hails from Sasmuan but is now based in Baguio architecture of Filipinos, specifically City, recently donated copies of his Kapampangans, the Center will have a books as his contribution to the permanent exhibit of a miniature bale elements of the native,pre-Hispanic house Center’s efforts to build a library kubu (bahay kubo, or cube house), to design, which was simple, useful and in harmony where students and researchers can be constructed by Santy Dizon and with the environment. The fact that we still have access to books in annotated by Siuala ding Meangubie. see such houses today proves their resilience Kapampangan, on the Kapampangan “Filipino architects today prefer after all these centuries.” region and by Kapampangans. Mediterranean, Japanese, American, As Siuala ding Meangubie explains, the Bencab was in Angeles City Balinese and Mexican designs, anything orientation and design of the bale kubu depend to attend the opening of his exhibit with Claude Tayag and Patis Tesoro except Filipino,” Robby Tantingco, Center on the ancestors’ understanding of wind at the Museo ning Angeles.