Bonifacio Jr. Piedad

I consider myself member of Batch 70 even if I only completed my first two years of high school at NVHS (I finished high school in Manila). Those two early teen years will forever be with me the rest of my life. I presently reside in Tampa Bay, Florida with my wife and two kids, both boys. Our first child was born in Manila while I was assigned at the US Embassy back in '88-'90 and the other was born in the US in '92 after we were reassigned back to the states. I thank my classmate F. Sonny Bautista for including me in the database even if I'm not officially an alumnus of the school (although in my heart I feel I am).
- 4/9/10 - received messages from former classmates and it's very nice to know they still remember me somehow even if I had a difficult time recognizing them in their photos. They all have mellowed very gracefully through the years.

Batch 70
Coming from LaTorre, the high school experience was made even more memorable by the different kinds of transportation we used to get to school, e.g., karetela, bisikleta, tricycle de pedal, and even cadi-lakad.....and then there were motorcycles, thank God, Suzuki, Honda, and Yamaha. We polished our English with Mrs. Bisquerra, wracked our brains in Mrs. Magaway's Geometry class, dissected frogs under Mrs. Torralba, and endured PMT (prep military training) punishments like being ordered to squat for five or more minutes with the weight of a wooden rifle on the outstretched arms with everyone's eyes on you including your crush(es) right there on the quadrangle.. ang lupit! Sometimes the embarrassment is worse than the punishment. There were also occasional "hamonan sa swimming pool" where fistfights usually happen and end up with a bloody nose and a hand shake afterward (Ody Torralba vs. Danilo from Bonfal, Simeon Callores vs. can'trecall anymore). Our beloved principal Mr. Genato, as everyone knows has this muscle tic that causes him to flex his neck in an odd way repeatedly. Not everybody probably know that because of this he was "fondly" called "Bettu Cuyigyig" by troublemakers who gets called into his office for some infraction or another. Kaya siguro nagkaganoon dahil sa kunsumisyon. The Beatles were big back then and I hope someday we can all get together, Sonny, Ody, Allan, Tanying, Cesar, Bobby, Cirilo, Amelia, Amelita, and the rest of Batch 70 do a drunken rendition of "Hey Jude" - the tune during those times... I need to open another ice cold San Miguel beer. - Dios ti ag-ngina, maraming salamat po.