BLUE DIAMONDS 2020 | AC HS 1955
By Chingay Diaz Lagdameo, Cora B. Lopa and Ana O. Olondriz
We are caring… Blue Diamonds High School Class ‘55.
Our togetherness spans more than 65 yrs.
Beginning when we were first led through iron gates
Opening up to the Assumption Convent grounds dotted with acacia trees,
and there taken, not by the hand of Mommy or Daddy,
but by someone with a gentle voice that said, “call me Mother.”
It was a new world that would eventually feel like a 2nd home, where we learned our ABC’s and where our eyes were
opened to the many exciting wonders of the world.
It was at this time when our Mothers
also introduced us to the core values of our school:
fidelity to duty, love of simplicity, love of God,
devotion to Jesus and Mother Mary.
Values that would lead and mold us to eventually become
women of Faith
and women of Action
These were words welded in our young minds,
though we could not yet grasp the essence.
But our Mother would tell us:
“someday you will understand.”
In our High School years, new horizons opened up before us
and we spread our wings to navigate these new horizons
with all its conflict of emotions
and the complex realities of teenagers growing into adulthood.
We created memories and cultivated dreams,
and loved and laughed.
But somewhere in the back of our minds was a tinge of sadness
because we knew that the time would come
when we would have to say… goodbye.
So, our lives moved on towards college,
career, marriage and children
We once again traversed a new world
and tried to carve our own personal space of happiness in this world,
Through all of this
we continued to get together,
to share our dreams and joys, battles and pains.
We constantly pray for one another
and assure one another that we can and will courageously survive
the challenges and crises that come our way,
From our Assumption Mothers, we have learned to go beyond ourselves
And so, we continue to always be there for one another,
for a friend who is ailing, in financial distress,
and in grief from the death of a loved one
Today we find ourselves nearing the threshold of the pearly gates,
but the values we have learned continue to echo in our minds
and throb in our hearts: women who care, women of faith
and women of action.
Our voices speak out:
we hope to have shown examples of caring
in our own small ways,
for we are like the candle still burning bright
like precious blue diamonds that endure
We are caring…High School Class ‘55.
Velada of Blue Diamonds 2020 | HS’ 55