My dear Brods,

 

 

Hereinbelow is what i had originally intended to deliver as a Welcome Address, but I decided on the last minute to just give them to you "in snippets". I thought that the message would be more lasting if you read it the day after.
Here goes:

 

Consolidated from the messages of Willie “Tatang” Vergara on the occasion of the Pismo Conference, January 26, 2008.

 

The next two years will revolve around the framework of the 4Ls – (1) Living, (2) Learning, (3) Loving, and (4) Leaving a Legacy.  Just to explain briefly, Living is about taking care of ourselves and our health (Tetada Kalimasada, Betan Nerve Treatment, engagement in sports and other activities that promote fitness, dancing included), and keeping to heart and/or practice the learning we derive from  health sections in our website that will soon include the works of our very own Dr. Philip Chua, M.D. UP Beta Sigma ‘55.

 

Learning is about continuously sharpening our minds and bodies by acquiring knowledge of new things like tonight’s Six Sigma Orientation & tomorrow’s Ikebana Seminar or stuff we see in our website pertaining to our global environment. There will be more as we go along.

 

Loving is about strengthening our brotherhood by providing every opportunity to bond together so that we can become a devoted support system to one another; starting with the use of loving and respectful language and avoiding name-calling, and by kindred acts like visiting the sick or praying for healing of an afflicted brother or sister or uplifting a downtrodden brother or a member of his family. The publication of a New Betan Immigrant Handbook is intended to fast track a Betan (or member of his family) to become an asset to his adopted country and to members of his family -- one project showing that we truly care.

 

Leaving a Legacy is about undertaking activities, projects and programs that will make the UPBSFI help craft the future of Beta Sigma Fraternity and become good global citizens, initially with our current programs like: (1) Promoting Environmental Awareness among our members and, hopefully become true and devoted practitioners of environmental protection; (2) Enhancing recruitment efforts among our residents to attract the best students of the University of the Philippines; (3) Mentoring them to be disciplined and restrained individuals through the JC-School of Martial Arts; (4) While providing them with know-how and technology that will immediately make them productive young professionals as soon as they graduate from the university and, finally; (5) That our resident members will later become the Philippines' good leaders and emancipators in the future. I hope that our UPBSFI today will soon go down in history as
one that has strongly advocated for the revival of the idea that Beta Sigma is one of a Brotherhood of Scholars, which has been the original intention of our Founders and carried on for many years thereafter.

 

This is UP’s Centennial Year. The brightest products of UP are coming together to talk about the next 100 years. If we’re saying that UP Beta Sigma should have an impact in our respective campuses in the years to come, then we should likewise stay within the grove of the university’s vision for the next 100 years. Given this perspective, there is no
time or space for petty squabbles or paltriness that will derail us from pursuing our mission and vision. In UPBSFI, let it be said that’s “There is only space for living, learning, loving, and leaving a legacy.”

 

 

Disclosure: The 4Ls concept is adopted from the writings of Stephen Covey.