four year struggles for secondary education. Before we finally part from you, our dear teachers, we graduates publicly convey our thanks and appreciation for your collective efforts in moulding us to what we are today. Thank you, ma'ams and sirs, for giving us the best of what you have, to provide us with quality secondary education that will be our potent weapon in meeting the challenges and demands of tertiary education. We recognize, with grateful appreciation, the fact that all our teachers have been candles for us graduates; they burned themselves so that we their students will be lighted, removing in us the mantle of darkness and ignorance. Thank you very much, dear teachers. We graduates will forever cherish everything good that you have done for us. We also bid farewell to our schoolmates. Thank you, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors for the pleasant company that you shared with us. Your pleasant company has made, to a certain extent, our stay in our school enjoyable, memorable, and fruitful. We are leaving you behind with a challenge to crown our beloved Cabatuan National Comprehensive High School with more laurels by demonstrating excellence in contests and competitions. This you can do by burning your midnight candles and enhancing your commitment to studies. Ingratitude is one cardinal sin that anyone of us can commit. We members of the graduating class do not want to commit this sin by publicly expressing our thanks, appreciation, and gratitude to our beloved parents who are the unsung heroes behind our success today. It is an incontrovertible fact that our ever-dearest parents left no stone unturned in facilitating our acquisition of secondary education. In this regard, I take this opportunity to publicly thank my own parents for translating my dream to reality – the dream of not only finishing my secondary education, but also of acquiring the highest academic honor I am now enjoying. Thank you papa and mama, for your all – out support to me. Thank you very much, lolos and lolas at both my paternal and maternal sides. I also would like to thank publicly my elder sister Anne and my elder brother Ryan for challenging and inspiring me to strive for academic excellence. My elder brother Ryan has been constantly challenging me since my first year up to my fourth year to be at the top of my class. His challenge kept on ringing in my head and it inspired me to maximize the development of my innate intelligence. His challenge motivated, me to graduate at the top of class 2002 although I finished my preparatory and elementary education without any academic honor. Thank you very much Inday Anne. Thank you very much, Manong Yan-Yan. Above all, we graduates lift our eyes to heaven in thanksgiving to God for his gift of graduation to us graduates. Thank you very much, our heavenly father, for blessing our efforts. We implore you, Lord, to continue blessing our efforts and guiding us until we shall have attained the realization of our dreams in life. In closing, from the bottom of our hearts, and in behalf of, class 2002, 1 am reiterating our fond farewell and our million thanks to all those who have a part in our success today. Thank you very much and good day, everyone PTCA donates building to school The Parent Teacher ­Community Association recently donated a two-classroom building. The new school facility cost the association P335,078. Upon its completion, the building was formally turned over to the school by the association, through Mr. Felipe A. Casianan Jr., the chairman of the Board of Directors, and Mr. Pio R. Lujan, the president. To formalize the donation, a Deed of Donation was executed by the PTCA and the school, through the school administrator, Mr. Rey B. Vencer. The other officers of the CNCHS PTCA are: Valentine Sujede, Vice Chairman; Elena Mandarin, Secretary; Annie Tobias, Treasurer; Josefina Samar, Auditor; Rafael Galindo, Business Manager; Edwin Ortega, Dante Roldan, Lope Apelo Jr., Rebeccas Fenis, Zelpha Carmelo, Evelina Artieda, Rufo Casianan, Pio Pedrola, Victor Maroma and Cliff Jim Gallego, Directors. "We are optimistic that the additional classrooms will greatly benefit the students of CNCHS. We , members of the PTCA are confident that the students will help take good care of this legacy," Mr. Felipe Casianan, PTCA chairman said the GLOW aprd 2002 29