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I BLAME the JESUITS:” Number 2 the PROGRESS of BEA LUMANAS FABILIOH! A TENEO ATENEO volume 1 DE MANILA number 2 ALUMNI december 2015 DE FABILIOH! MAGAZINE 2 MA NIL A A A L UM NI MAGAZ INE volume 1 volume • “I BLAME THE JESUITS:” number 2 THE PROGRESS OF BEA LUMANAS • december 2015 CHAMPIONS IN PROFILE: JUNIOR TANKERS & BLUE BATTERS FR. JOAQUIN BERNAS, SJ: A LIGHT 50 CHOOSING FOR 2016: KAPITAN, LINGKOD, KATIWALA • 2 DEFIANT (A CHRISTMAS REFLECTION) Ateneo college students welcome over a thousand underprivileged children from communities all over Metro Manila to the Ateneo campus for the annual Lights for Hope fellowship and celebration. Photos by Gabe Ferrer (above) and Reg Geli (below) / Lights for Hope. ATENEO volume 1 DE MANILA number 2 ALUMNI december 2015 FABILIOH! MAGAZINE 2 2 A Word from the Editor 3 From the Director, Office of Alumni Relations 4 From the University President 8 “I BLAME THE JESUITS:” The Progress of Bea Lumanas billie andrada 26 FR. JOAQUIN BERNAS, SJ: A Light Fifty patrick vance s. nogoy, sj 34 CHAMPIONS IN PROFILE: 36 WatERBOYS • The Ateneo Junior Tankers 42 StEPPING UP TO THE PlatE • The Ateneo Blue Batters louella e. fortez 50 CHOOSING FOR 2016: Kapitan, Lingkod, Katiwala antonio g. m. la viña 60 DEFIANT (A Christmas Reflection) francis d. alvarez, sj 66 Photo Essay: LAUDATO SI’ Photos by victor r. baltazar, sj 88 In Memoriam Fabilioh! is published semiannually, in print and online, by the Ateneo de Manila University Office of Alumni Relations. Office Of AlUMni RelAtiOns Room 104, Fr. Godofredo Alingal, sj Hall (beside Cervini field) Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Heights Campus Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108, Philippines phone +63 (2) 426-6082 (direct line) +63 (2) 426 6001 locals 4088 and 4086 fax +63 (2) 426 6080 email [email protected] A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Based on the response to our first issue, my own response was, “indeed there are so many stories still to tell.” Many of you wrote back of stories you’d like to hear; and others of stories you’d like to share. We look forward to featuring some of your suggestions in the issues to come. After all, we plan to last long as your reading companion. In fact, to make things even easier, this second issue now also has a print run so whether you are a digital native, or a traditional magazine in hand kind of reader, Fabilioh! is yours. This is a great issue, full of great ideas and I encourage you to read each and every article (how could we not feature our phenom- enal sports teams The Ateneo Junior Tankers and the Ateneo Blue Batters?) but I would like to focus on three extra special features. One, we asked Dean Tony La Viña of the Ateneo School of Govern- ment to write about how best to discern for the coming elections in 2016. We hope that this in-depth article will help you sift chaff from grain as you decide on whom to elect. We all pray for grace and wisdom for this momentous event in our history but we must also put in the work of studying and testing all the candidates. We thank Dean La Viña for finding the time to write for Fabilioh! in spite of his busy schedule. Two, there is a photo essay featuring the birding pictures of Fr. Vic Baltazar, SJ. We share with you the words from the encyclical EDITORIAL TEAM of our Holy Father Pope Francis Laudato Si’ side by side with these publisher pictures of birds that can be found just in our campus. What better norberto maria l. bautista, sj (gs ’74, hs ’78, ab Philo ’82, way to illustrate the Pope’s admonition to “care for our home” ma Pastoral Ministry ’99 than by showing you the fantastic creatures in our own backyard? editor-in-chief rica bolipata-santos, phd Fabilioh! thanks Fr. Vic, as well, for generously sharing his wonderful (ab Hum ’91, ma Lit (Eng) ’99) pictures. art director/designer And lastly, our alumni-in-the-periphery for this issue is Bea Lu- ali d. figueroa (gs ’90, hs ’94, bs me ’98) manas, bS/m Applied Mathematics, Major in Mathematical Finance 2009. In spite of Bea’s wealth of experience as a developmental CONTRIBUTORS worker, she offers no easy statements or slogans on how to truly francis d. alvarez, sj make the world a better place. It is perhaps as she says best: “Even billie andrada if you realize that [you cannot do everything], even when you know vic r. baltazar, sj that you are somehow powerless, it doesn’t mean that what you do louella e. fortez doesn’t have impact—it is up to you to realize what you do best. I antonio g. m. la viña like to think I am maximizing my skills to actually help. It probably patrick nogoy, sj won’t amount to much, and by much, I mean, I don’t know which FABILIOH! ACKNOWLEDGMENTS standards—the standards of the world?—but I know I’m doing my paul daza best in my little way.” joji lapuz These are words to live by as we fully enter into the presence harvey mateo, sj of Advent. Let us, at Fabilioh!, be the first to wish you the sweetest efren debulgado fruits of the season. Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. rita de villa Best, university communications and public relations office (ucpro) ateneo de manila university press Rica Bolipata-Santos, phd ateneo de manila university archives Editor-in-Chief center for ignatian spirituality 2 lights for hope FROM THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Simplicity, hiddenness, and silence always accompany My dear fellow Ateneo alumni, the Christmas Peace! memory. I wish to thank you for your overwhelming support for the maiden issue of Fabilioh!, our Ateneo alumni magazine. We aim to provide We remember www.ateneo.edu print copies of the first two issues by December 5, 2015, the day of our Grand Alumni Homecoming. the poor For the second and coming issues, we will solicit sponsorship packages and advertisements, not only for the printing and publica- in the tion of the Fabilioh! but for the projects and programs of the Univer- sity such as our scholarship programs, the construction of the Arete, peripheries— the Senior High School building, the International Residence and others. the simple, We again celebrate the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ with much joy and hope. As we celebrate Christmas this year, we remem- the hidden, ber the original and holy images of the manger, the accompaniment of the poor shepherds in His Birth that holy night, the presence of and the silent. animals in an unknown, dark stable in Nazareth, and the simple and quiet Holy Family hidden from the eyes of the world yet fully known As we remember and seen by God —the Holy Family that wants nothing else but to do the Will of Him who so loved us that He gave us His only Son. them, we serve Simplicity, hiddenness, and silence always accompany Christmas memory. We remember the poor in the peripheries—the simple, the them in our little hidden, and the silent. As we remember them, we serve them in our little ways and see the Infant Jesus in their faces. It is through our ways and see the engagements with them in-the-flesh that we are changed ourselves unto Christ, the Immanuel, God-with-us. Infant Jesus in Let this be the Grace we ask this Christmas: that as we engage ourselves with one another, let-us-be-with-us. Let us journey together their faces. and accompany each other towards the communion that Christmas brings. Let our personal and meaningful encounters bear fruit in our de manila university ateneo zeal to serve and love others especially the poor and the sick, the neglected and the rejected, with much mercy and compassion. A Blessed Christmas to all. Norberto Maria L. Bautista, sj Director, Office of Alumni Relations 3 Photo by Iya Regalario, courtesy of the University Communications and Public Relations Office (UCPRO). AMAREFROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ET Amanda Chan SERVIRE Detail from Carlos Sainz de Tejada (1897-1958), The Life of St. Ignatius Loyola. Plate 9. After their solemn vows at the Basilica of St-Paul- Outside-The-Walls in Rome, the companions set off to help souls with unbounded joy, from the Jesuit periodical, El Mensajero de Corazon de Jesus (Bilbao, 1958). Courtesy of 4 the Jesuit Institute, London. LovE AND SErvicE. This was the theme of the Ignatian Festival this year and it can be the running theme of our lives as Ateneans, Amanda Chan wherever we are, whatever profession and vocation we are called to live. In our recent University convocation, I said that to love and to serve are two infinitives, two verbs, two actions that can very well stand separately and alone. There can be love, sentimental and tender, but without service. And there can be service as well, efficient and compe- tent, but without love. Service without heart, wanting in affection. Love without deeds, bereft of execution. The legacy of Loyola, the spirit of the man, the very spirit that animates this place and the people of and beyond this University, was to bring these two move- ments together, love and service, love with service, service with love. Let us reflect on this interweave of love and service Reiner Locsin in our lives. Let us examine the “why” of our service and the “how” of our love. Let us follow where the love above, top row.
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