UPSCA stands for University of the Philippines Student Catholic Action. This organization has existed from pre-war times to the present.  Over the years, membership has reportedly ranged from a high of a few thousand to just a handful at the lowest. From within that group who entered college in the late 50s, sets of friends have maintained close contact with each other. Starting from the early 90s, the internet played a big part in keeping them in touch. This cyber group of UPSCAns, known as the Loop, are about 150 strong, and span the college years from the late 50s to the mid 60s. A good number of these friends happened to be in Los Angeles, and they did have parties when the occasions arose, especially when visiting UPSCAns were passing through.  On Christmas 1994, a printout of names and addresses of these friends was distributed, and this eventually started the UPSCA newsletters.  Below is a listing of all the 17 issues over a 20 year period, followed by all the newsletters. Most of the issues were produced as b&w hardcopy, and mailed out to the members.  These have been have been scanned to PDF.  The last two issues were electronic files in color, emailed out to members.

     ISSUE   
      DATE     


   HEADLINE     





1 Dec 25, 1994


UPSCA  ROLADEX
2
1st Qtr, 1996


A BELATED AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
3 1st Qtr, 1997


ALL HEP ABOUT LAKBAYAN USA  98
4 3rdt Qtr, 1997

SOUTHERN CRUISE FELL THRU, BUT LAKBAYAN WON'T
5 1st Qtr, 1998


TIME TRAVEL CLAIMED BY SOME UPSCANS
6 2nd Qtr, 1998

FUNDRAISER ON FOR DELANEY HALL
7 3rd Qtr, 1998


A TALE OF TWO PARTIES
8 4th Qtr, 1998


WORDSMITH BOOK WINS AWARD!
9 1st Qtr, 1999


EMAIL LOOP LINKS UP AND DOWN!
10 2nd Qtr, 1999

THE TRIBE INCREASES AS OLD MEETS NEW
11 3rd Qtr, 1999


THE LOOP GOES ON A HIGHER TECH PLANE
12 Spring-Summer, 2000


BOOKS ON FR DELANEY COME OUT
13 Special Edition, 2001


LAKBAYAN BECOMES A REALITY!
14 Summer, 2001


LAKBAYAN AGAIN IN 2003, IN PROVANCE?
15 Late Summer, 2003

PHOENIX? RESURRECTION? WE'RE BACK!
16  March, 2007


RESURECTADO, ON BATANES LAKBAY
17 Fall, 2014

THE GREAT PHILADELPHIA ESCAPE

Since this blog is open to all, the telephone, email, postal addresses of members have been blanked out from the original scanned copies. Entire page directories have been expunged.

The original and complete hard-copy versions of these Newsletters are available as one book on Amazon at the link below, as collated and printed by Publisher Tatay Jobo. 

https://tinyurl.com/y853e7mg

Lately, a conversion process is being used to print the original files to PDF for better clarity, and this will go on for all the issues.


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