SANTA CRUZ INSTITUTE - MARINDUQUE INC. : July 2013

Friday, July 19, 2013

Louie Pineda a new Marinduqueno for a Worldwide tournament

By: Jomar L. Linga

Fourth Year Bachelor of Secondary Education Student

(Louie Pineda after receiving the Medal and Certificate of Appreciation)

A young boy, only 16years old, now a Senior High School as Night High School Dept at Santa Cruz Institute made it not just on the national event but at a worldwide venue of sports event in USA.

I first met this boy way back January 2013 for the celebration of 62^nd Foundation Day of Santa Cruz Institute after the School Vice President Mr. Joel Pedro introduces Louie Pineda who makes it as 8^th placer in Worldwide ranking of Table Tennis Championship game in London.

He returned home with bacon last January after his first tournament in London as rank 8^th placer. And such an honor to know that he will back again abroad and in early this July in Las Vegas Nevada for another Championship Match.

(Louie with SCI teaching Staff and School President Mrs. Rachel R. Pedro)

At first and it’s true that Louie is a shy boy a very humble student and a lovable son. A religious one as member of Iglesia Ni Kristo here in Santa Cruz Marinduque where he first discovered his talent since this sect is promoting badminton and table tennis for their youth members.

Louie participate Palarong Pambansa last March in Zamboanga City and awarded as Gold Medal on his chosen category same with another SCI Student from Grade 8. They represent Santa Cruz as his home town, Marinduque as his Province and Region IV – MIMAROPA as his Region.

(Louie with Vice Mayor Ismael Lim and Sangguniang Bayan Member with Mrs. Rachel Pedro)

Last day July 18 2013, exactly 7:00pm at Santa Cruz Town Plaza, Santa Cruz Institute (Marinduque) Inc. give a warmed welcome to him. Night High School Head Mr. Romeo Jimenez and Night High School teaching Staff and students, Day High School and College Dept cheers the new athlete after the SCI Brassband made a short parade to the town. Together with Santa Cruz Vice Mayor Ismael Lim and four Municipal Councilor, his Mother and Father (fresh from the church where they are member) and Mrs. Rachel R. Pedro escorted Louie upstairs of the Plaza.

“Sa mga sumuporta po maraming-maraming salamat po. Sa mga kapwa ko mag-aaral muli po maraming-maraming salamat po” a short message of Louie Pineda.

According to Vice Mayor Lim, while at the event in Las Vegas Convention Center, Louie requested to his trainor to wear his shirt “SANTA CRUZ, MARINDUQUE” are printed before the event.

As a result of hardwork and trainings he bagged the First Place.

From your SCI family Congratulation, you are such a real PRIDE and a true blooded MARINDUQUENO.

More photos is at SCI - Marinduque facebook fanpage.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Farewell Sir Toots

Almost 4 days have past since Mr Gerald Gene "Sir Toots" Querubin passed away last Monday morning.. Heart problem (enlargement of the heart) is the cause of his death. Sir Toots aged 38 was too young to say that this is not the right time for him to passed away.

   Sir Toots is an educator (graduate of University of the Philippines ), a professor in Marinduque State College (Boac) and Santa Cruz Institute (Santa Cruz), a proud mountaineer, a tourism advocate, a news correspondent ( of Philippine Daily Inquirer ) a great son to his parents, and a brother to his 2 sister and a brother.

    Tomorrow at 2:00pm will be his last funeral rites to be held at Holy Cross Parish Church located here in the town of Santa Cruz. Students both from Marinduque State College and Santa Cruz Institute, co-teachers friends and relatives are all expected to be part of this farewell event.

Central College Organization new sets of Officers (A.Y. 2013-2014)

SANTA CRUZ INSTITUTE (MARINDUQUE) INC.

Santa Cruz, Marinduque

CENTRAL COLLEGE ORGANIZATION (CCO)

A.Y. 2013-2014

PRESIDENT : RETIRO, ROY

VICE PRESIDENT : REYNA, PRINCESS KAYE

SECRETARY : RAMIRO, REBECCA

ASSISTANT SECRETARY : QUEZADA, RYAN

TREASURER : RIEGO, CATHERINE

ASST. TREASURER : VILLANUEVA, CHRISTINE

AUDITOR : VILLARON, MJ

P.I.O. / S.I.O. : LINGA, JOMAR

BUSINESS MANAGER : RAMORES, EMMANUEL

REPRESENTATIVES

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT BSBA/BSC DEPARTMENT

1. RAMIRO, MARK 1. RECTO, ARMAN

2. LIMPIADA, JIMBOY 2. PERALTA,MARY GRACE

3. REANZARES, RICHARD 3. REVEDIZO, ROSE ANNE

4. QUINDOZA, RICHELL 4. PERALTA, MARY JOYCE

5. VITTO, ARABEL 5. REVILLA, MARY ANNE

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING DEPT

1. ARENUA, RAYMOND 1. PERNIA, MARY JOYCE

2. REAL, CARLO JAY 2. PALOMARES, JOSELL ANN

3. POSAS, LESLIE JOY 3. GRIMALDO, JHEN ROSE

4. RODIL, JENNY LYN 4. PIEACES, WILMAR

5. REGIO, DANICA 5. GRIMALDO, JOHN ELKIE

HARDWARE SERVICING DEPARTMENT

1. PALUSTRE, MICHAEL

2. REVIDIZO, REYZON

3. PERGIS, ABEGAIL

4. TAGBAGO, PHILIP

5. REVILLOSA, RODERICK

MRS. HONORATA RICAMARA MRS. RONIELDA RICOHERMOSO

CCO ADVISERS

MRS. RACHEL RETARDO PERDO M.A.

SCHOOL PRESIDENT

The story of ‘Toots’ Querubin

10:16 pm | Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

GERALD QUERUBIN: This photo was taken when he attended the Inquirer Southern Luzon bureau meeting in 2011. JOANNA LOS BAÑOS

There was so much more to the byline of Gerald Gene R. Querubin, the Inquirer’s correspondent of eight years in Marinduque.

In his native town of Sta. Cruz, he was a community worker, an environmentalist and a mentor.
“Toots,” Querubin’s nickname, came from “Tot,” his grandfather’s pet name for him when he was a child. His elder sister, Sheila, 40, remembered a quiet boy who would often shut himself in his room and read his books.

“Between us, he’s the loner and I was more like the extrovert type,” Sheila said. “I remember when we were in grade school, he would run to me when the other kids bullied him.”
Toots indeed grew into a very private person. He talked less, but worked hard building his community and inspiring the youth.

His death on Saturday, June 29, at the age of 38 came as a shock to his family and colleagues.
“We may not have spent much time together but the bond has become so strong that such loss we all feel deep, deep down,” wrote Melvin Gascon, Inquirer Correspondents’ Guild president and Nueva Vizcaya correspondent, on Facebook.

Love for Marinduque

Toots’ former student, Ahy Ien, said Toots “never thought twice about helping other people,” and remembered having both a teacher and a friend in him.
“You’ve taught me a lot of things, not just (academically) but also to be true to myself,” another former student, Japoy Historillo, said.
Glecy Danao, also on Facebook, promised to keep in mind what her former teacher always told them: to “pay it forward.”

After college at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, Toots worked in a coffee company that offered him a job in Malaysia.
“He could have gone abroad, but he said he’d rather go back to Marinduque and teach,” Sheila said in a phone interview.

Toots taught Philosophy and Humanities subjects at Marinduque State College in Boac and at Sta. Cruz Institute, the same year he began writing for the Inquirer.In 2004, he cofounded the Marinduque Youth Volunteers Corps, a school-based youth organization.Sheila, who stays in Laguna, recalled once she came home to Marinduque and saw the sacks of noodles and goods. “Toots said he collected them for donations to poor families and calamity victims,” she said.

Green tourism

Toots also invited speakers, even rock bands, from Manila to Marinduque. “He said he wanted his students to see the bands perform, as not everyone could afford to go to Manila,” Sheila said.
She said it was his brother’s way of promoting the island province, particularly the virgin caves and the long beaches of the Maniwaya island in Sta. Cruz. His advocacy was “green tourism.”
Among the four siblings, it was Toots who took after the parents’ love for public service. He wanted to run in the 2007 local elections but decided not to because their father, Yolando Sr., was a provincial board member then.

He took a leave of absence from the Inquirer and ran for municipal councilor in Sta. Cruz in May but lost. During the campaign, he went house to house, collecting peso coins in a project dubbed “Piso para sa Bayan.”

‘Piso para sa Bayan’

“The money went to every village (in Sta. Cruz) to buy books for students.
He may have lost in the elections, but he was still able to serve,” Sheila said.
Toots never married. She believed it was his brother’s decision to look after their elderly parents.
“Our mother would always say the little money he earned, he would spend on other people. But we let him be, because we knew he was very fulfilled,” she said.

From his hospital bed when Toots was confined early in June after undergoing angioplasty due to a heart condition, he remained passionate about his environmental advocacy and told his sister about a research he was doing on the lingering effects of the mine tailing that Marcopper Mining Corp. had spilled into the Boac River in 1996.

It was a story that he never got the chance to write.