NHS has long been proud of its mission to prepare students with the character and skills needed to be productive members of today’s society. While this can be said of most high school experiences, there’s something truly inspiring about our alma mater - it is made of more than just bricks and mortar! Simply taking a tour of our on-line community one can truly sense the commitment, respect, expertise, and dedication of our NHS community at large.

For NHSOC, alumni “Giving Back” projects are a vital part of a Reunion. Most of our alumni find that we are more comfortable providing support to individual areas of interest, such as the NHS eLibrary, computer room, school activities, or in a special program. Thus, it is but important for us to consider our NHSOC Alumni “Giving Back” Project as a whole carefully and to work with the Class Special Project Committee closely before proceeding with a project to ensure its success and provide our alma mater (with it’s current student population) and the NHSOC members great rewards now and for years to come.

CLASS GIFTS 

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NHSOC IS STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE IN HELPING BUILD NHS FUTURE! 

Importance of Giving
The sad fact that the expense in providing an individualized, structured, and specialized education is often a foreign concept sadly to many public schools (like NHS) and cannot be covered by government funding alone. Fundraising is one way in which NHS alumni bridges the gap between government support and operating/capital expenses. It is clear that the generosity of those who care so much about NHS has had a major impact on our school, the faculty and its current students.



Photos from NHSOC 1ST Anniversary Reunion December, 2005 (Philippine & California Edition)

• NHSOC 1ST Anniversary California Reunion

• NHSOC 1st Anniversary Philippine Reunion

• NHSOC's 1st Brigada Eskwela Participation (2006)

• NHSOC In Support of TALDECO

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On Tap for 2006... NHS eLibray NEEDS OUR HELP!!!
Whatever your affiliation with NHS (alumni, parent, grandparent, past & present students even friends), we hope that you will please consider making a gift to our school’s eLibrary.

Novaliches High School’s  eLibrary Needs the following:
1. Computers & CD writers
Ms. Dina Valenzuela (2006 eLibrary in-charge) said, “At present there are only 2 computers functioning at NHS. Our enrolled students this year more or less is 7,000. NHS has a computer lab but only those students who are enrolled in the computer class are allowed to use it. Inside the library, all the students are given the opportunity to use the computers in allotted time to allow more students/researchers use in a day”
2. Photocopying machines - This will avoid students from tearing off pages from the limited NHS collection of books and printed materials from magazines, local & international subscriptions, teacher journals, yearbooks, atlas, almanacs, thesaurus, and other reference materials available in the library.
3. Air conditioning & electric fans
4. LCD TV and Projectors (for viewing educational CD-ROMs for class discussion)
5. Licensed Educational CD-ROMs: Encarta, CCP Encyclopedia (Philippines) and other educational CD-ROMs.

NHSOC’s Reunion Fund Initiative & Rebuilding Novaliches High School Special Project Participation Update as of August 17, 2006

1. NHSOC 1st Anniversary Reunion Fund Initiative & NHS Special Gift (Drinking Fountain): With NHSOC 1st Anniversary Reunion Expenses (California & Philippine Reunion) & our Special Gift Donation of Drinking Fountain to NHS amounting to a total of  P103,016.30 and with an Actual Reunion Dues Collected and verified as P16,600 (83 x 200) only, we have launched a successful 1st Anniversary Reunion Fund Initiative to help cover the costs. We have raised a total of PHP112,294.05 (not including donated raffle prizes and gifts in kind by NHS alumni, family & friends) as of December 31st 2005.




Thanks again to the following cash donors of course: Batch 1968 - Hernani Del Rosario; Batch 1969 - Erlinda De Leon-Del Rosario;  Batch 1974 - Cleotilde Villafuerte-Buranday;   Batch 1976 - Eustacio Villafuerte; Batch 1980 - Cherrylene Viola Monreal; Batch 1981 - Consuelo Villafuerte-Tungpalan; Batch 1982 - Thess Bajandi, Heidee Anacio-Ignacio; Batch 1983 - Gretheline Bolandrina, George Calicdan & Jessica Liwag-Calicdan, Emmanuel V. Udtuhan; Batch 1984 Edwin Cando; Dr. Reynaldo Sta. Mina; Batch 1985 - Michelle Andres-Fujita, Leonidas Buriel, Enid Pablico-Casino, Virgilio Cruz, Ronaldo Dalistan, Fernando Del Mundo, Ruben Esperanza, Janette Ellson-Espinosa, Louie Olero, Cynthia Rivera, An anonymous donor from Canada; Batch 1986 - Ferdie Mar Abesamis, Rhodel Agatep, Minerva Crescini-Montemayor, Stephanie Costales-Nevalta, Rhodora Galang-Villenas, Arnold Pascual (Sy), Archiwald Penamante, Chona Villafuerte-Go, An anonymous donor from New York; Batch 1987 - Nozario Zaragoza; Batch 1990 -  Josephine Reyes-Esperanza; Batch 1993 - Edward Logan and The Villenas Family

Thanks also for our Raffle/Prizes & Gift Donors: Cherrylene Viola Monreal Batch 1980, Myra Contessa Diokno-Sarmenta Batch 1981, Virgilio Cruz Batch 1985, Ronaldo Dalistan Batch 1985, Julie Sudla Yang Batch 1985, Michelle Andres Fujita Batch 1985, Gloria Cecilia Galgana Batch 1985, Obeth Odulio Batch 1985, Fernando Amil Batch 1985, Ferdie Mar Abesamis Batch 1985, Cherleen Flores Aquino Batch 1988, Norman A. Garcia Batch 1993

2. NHSOC’s Participation to Brigada Eskwela - a yearly activity aiming to bring together teachers, students, parents, private organizations and communities to clean up as well as do minor repairs for the beautification of our school and in preparation for the opening of classes last June. NHSOC provided the volunteers with refreshments (lunch, snacks & drinks) costing us about P14,729.00 in catering expenses. This event not only brought together some of our NHSOC members in support for Brigada Eskwela but it also helped raised a total of P2,000 from Alumni Donors: Ohwell Simbulan Batch 1980 and Rommel Buriel Batch 1986 (at P1,000.00 each), plus 10 pcs. of “walis tambo” from Cherrylene Viola Monreal Batch 1980.






NHSOC's catered lunch and snacks for volunteers of Brigada Eskwela (Special Thanks to Cherrylene Viola Monreal Batch 1980 for sharing these pictures to NHSOC)

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3. TALISMAN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE. Seeking prosperity and growth for alumni members, Talisman Development Cooperative (TALDECO) was established in 2006. They hold an Inauguration & Mini Olympics celebration on Saturday August 19th, 2006. Read in Full

4. NHSOC In Support of TALDECO's Inauguration/Mini Olympics. As initial support to the TALDECO organizers, NHSOC have raised a total of P5,000.00 from Alumni Donors: Thess Bajandi Batch 1982 (P2000), Chona Villafuerte-Go (P2000) & Maryknoll Bathan-Zamora Batch 1989 (P1000) to help cover food expenses for the TALDECO Inauguration allowing per head contribution for attendees at a minimum.

5. NHSOC's eLibrary Fund Raising. During the Talisman Development Cooperative (TALDECO) Inauguration/Mini Olympics, NHSOC presented to the NHS Administration a total of P40,000 in cash pledges.  Special Thanks to the following donors: Alvin Tanjutco Batch 1977; Rodel Esperanza Batch 1982; Cesar Dalida Batch 1982; Archiwald Penamante Batch 1986; Chona Villafuerte-Go Batch 1986; Chona's friend who wants to remain anonymous also donated P5000. Thank you!

As we continue to address the needs of our alma mater, one of the many pursuits of our NHSOC website has been our responsibilities that alumni and students continuously have a vested interest in helping our School stay as one of the best public high school in Quezon City.

In 2005, our fund raising focused on funding our NHSOC’s 1st anniversary reunion celebration and donating a drinking fountain for our school. And thanks to the generosity of our donors, we really had them both.

NHSOC PHOTOCOPIER DONATION


6. NHSOC In Helping Bryan Sanchez. This year 2008, we also helped our fellow NHS graduate Bryan Sanchez in I hope we could somehow continue this fund raising momentum, your donation—of any size—will truly helps us maintain our strong giving percentages.

This just sends an important message to our on-line community by showing that the people who know NHS best (our alumni, faculty and students) supports Novaliches High School with not only their time and talent, but their cash donations as well.

We really need to be thinking of an appropriate cheer for this bunch and like I always say I'll lead you on it. We have so much to be thankful for… from our yesterdays and our todays. And there's really no help that's unwelcome...no gift too small...no prayer unnecessary. Today is the day it is needed… and you are the one who can help.

Let’s keep the NHS Torch burning in our hearts!!

May God bless you all and keep you in the palm of His hands.