Campus writers

This photo was sent to us by Fe Mamaril-Fauni of Batch ‘71. It features that year’s staffmembers of both The Barangay (TB), which Fe edited, and Ang Baranggay (AB). The pic was taken during their graduation day and they are shown here with TB’s adviser, the late Mrs. Elma Pineda-Baking.
Aside from Mrs. Baking, the other [...]

Valedictorians and salutatorians

We’re making a list and checking it twice …
We’d been interested to make a list of the school’s valedictorians and salutatorians from 1965 to the present. So we got in touch with fellow alumni yesterday and asked them who topped their respective batches. A number of them promptly replied and we managed to come up [...]

History museum

Ma’am Yoly, Ma’am Fe, Remy, Jo, Lito, George inside the principal’s office
When we went to Lakan Dula High School last July 10, we received a sollicitation letter from Mrs. Florinda V. Sarabuno, head of the school’s social studies department, for the building of a mini-museum that focuses on Tondo.
Below is Mrs. Sarabuno’s letter to our [...]

Festival of dances

Do you still remember those field days we had at the Ventura campus, where we mounted all those dance production numbers led by our YDT (Youth Development Training) teachers?
This school activity is still being done, as we have just discovered. Last March, for instance, a cultural festival of folk dances, participated in by students from [...]

JS prom 2008

A YouTube user, named haste2008, posted a video of last month’s junior-senior prom held at the LDHS campus. Thanks for this one, haste2008, and congratulations to all the graduating members of the IV-12 class. Good luck to all of you.
We didn’t have a JS prom in 1977-78, did we? Just enjoy this one then:
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