FEATURES 16

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      Teddy Rey

 TOYM Awardee 1978

 *Click for Messages

   

    Teddy Rey

   In Memoriam

*Click for Pictures

 

 

 CHEERS to Pogs Gaspay's B'day !!

    "All roads lead to Palo Alto..."

     

JC-PRONUS SUPINUS SOMA (PHASE III)  As our residents embark to train again in Cebu 5/27-6/05 with Brods JC, Jopet & Ollie, let's revisit the "Tales from Cebu SOMA & TK '07" by Freddie Fajardo'64

 

"An Old Man's Dream" - speech delivered by Brod Narcing Lapus' 48

at UP Norcal Frat Ball in May 2007. He talks about his pride as a Betan and his dreams for our Fraternity.

 

 

*PUBLIC SERVICE ADVISORY* 

                It's coming!

Read FAQs on California new cell phone laws eff. 7/01 from California Highway Patrol.

  

           

Brod Popoy Castaneda'55 chronicles in a multi-chapter series,"A Betan's Journey Thru Time And Space", his admission and his young frat days in  Los Banos. *Chapter Two continues to his sailing to Mindoro and his farming adventures with Brod Johnny Quijano. *Chapter Three is his fugitive years and start of scuba diving.

           

  Environmental Awareness - May

In this 5th issue, Willie Vergara writes  about Inggo (in picture) and all the poor,

pitiful and marginalized people "living" in the garbage dump, aka Smokey Mountain.

            

Brod Pet Grajo'60 writes a short history of the grand Betan tradition started in the '60's, Folkways. "The group was first conceived when the fraternity started to do the Friday night "Harana" at the girls' dorms in Diliman during the '60's".

 

 2nd Tito de Santos Medical Mission in   Sultan Kudarat March'08 led by Viching de Santos and UP Beta Sigma SoCal GP Frank Mamaril.   *Click left pic for more pictures.  *Click right pic for PwrPt video.

   

  First 180 Days: "It's All Of Us"

"With the ever-growing number of 'champions' among our ranks, we have done much more than our promise

            

Brod Bernie Bacosa, UPD'71

urges Beta Sigma to be the Brotherhood of Servant-Leaders

   

Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come". Despite the threatening cloud and rain, the UP Betans met  again on Jan. 26-27 at the beautiful California coastal city of Pismo Beach for their annual Board of Directors mtg. and general assembly. A nice weekend of  productive discussion, shindig, golf, Ikebana and fraternal fun, check out

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**Click pic for "Dues Paid" list

(updt weekly by Treasurer Edsel Arceo)

President's New Year Message

A Betan greeting for 2008, and the brod who has committed to spend an average of 4 hours daily for UPBSFI matters now shares what has been done the past 3 mos., to ensure delivery of the Work Program promises... (click frame for message) (click pic for acceptance message) --->

Brod Willie "Tatang" Vergara UPD'67

is the President & Chairman of the Board of Directors of UPBSFI, Inc. as of 01 Oct 2007.

UPBSFI Membership Campaign

Join in the campaign and win  prizes, as we give opportunity for all Brods around the globe to partici- pate in fraternity-strengthening programs, in an orchestrated and cohesive manner.  Take a vacation in Cancun, Mexico or Lake Tahoe..!

UPBSFI Alaska Cruise '07

A project proposed at Pismo '06, realized a year later, and a group of 18 from the Betan family made it happen. To see the grandeur of America's last frontier before global warming melts all the ice...

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UPSoCal Christmas 2007 & Election

LA brods and families bid 2007 goodbye with traditional Christmas Party and welcomed 2008 by electing Dr. Brod Frank Mamaril UPLB'56 to lead the chapter for the next 2 years; outgoing GP Brod Sonny Pagador

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Brod Ted Topacio '49, Torch Bearer-UP Centennial Launch

A personal account of UP Professor Emeritus and UPBSFI Elder on being chosen as one of the 100 Torch Bearers for the lighting of the UP Centennial Flame...                 

Living. Loving, Learning, & Leaving a Legacy

originally intended to be delivered as Welcome Address on the occasion of the Pismo Conference, January 26, 2008, UPBSFI President Willie "Tatang" Vergara decided to just give this message "in snippets"...     ----->

  

"Special Feature"

Erik Spoelstra, 1st Filipino-American to become head coach in NBA replacing Pat Riley at Miami Heat;

played for Univ. of

<<--- Portland.