Our next collaboration was during the pandemic.  In a zoom meeting when we were asked for fund-raising ideas ( our usual golf and bazaar initiatives could not be undertaken due to  social distancing needs), I suggested an art auction.  Lo and behold, I instantly became the committee head and was asked to pick anyone in the board for the art auction team.  I knew that the golf team of the previous year had  raised huge amounts, so I immediately requested for the entire team to join the very first MagnificART online auction.  Brin, as we fondly call her, was a part of that team.  Brin not only sourced many paintings for donation to the MagnificART auction,  but also helped in transporting paintings to and from seller to buyer.  She generously made her vehicle and driver available, helping us to save immensely on operational costs.  She also deepened the MagnificART coffers by purchasing several auction items, the most notable of which is a wooden relleve of Our Lady, now hanging proudly and  fronting her weekend beachside home.      Her generosity was also evidenced through another advocacy of mine.  I am a trustee of PPCRV, an election advocate, which among other mandates, audits the integrity of the transmitted vote through the Unofficial Parallel Count in our Command Center.  In 2022,  I received a distressed SOS call from our Command Center.  We did not have enough food and drinks for the volunteers in PPCRV’s UST Command Center.   I messaged Brin, asking if she could donate bottled water.  Immediately, she donated 100 cases of bottled water.  Her only question was where she should send the cases of water…just like that!  That’s Brin…generous, kind and helpful always!

Brin was the college representative to the Board.  Our AAA charter requires that there should be at least 1 college alumna among the trustees of the AAA.  Brin was an excellent representative for Assumption College.  A devout Assumptionist , she undertook the spiritual formation of the College Faculty through the Marie Eugenie Institute, grounding the faculty deeply in St. Marie Eugenie’s teachings.    Her vast network also  helped bring in donors for our Golf Tournament, MagnificART and the Assumption Bazaar.  At a time when the inclusion of College in the Velada was just being initiated , Brin was the perfect example of an Assumption college alumna. Beautiful, well-spoken (she even speaks fluent Spanish!), well-mannered and perfectly educated in the Assumption core values of fidelity to duty and love of simplicity, she was and is testimony that the Assumption education knows no colors…it is both red plaid and blue!