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
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DATE
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HEADLINE
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1 |
Dec
25, 1994
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UPSCA
ROLADEX
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2
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1st Qtr, 1996
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A
BELATED AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
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3 |
1st
Qtr, 1997
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ALL
HEP ABOUT LAKBAYAN USA 98
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4 |
3rdt
Qtr, 1997 |
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SOUTHERN CRUISE FELL THRU, BUT
LAKBAYAN WON'T
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5 |
1st
Qtr, 1998
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TIME TRAVEL CLAIMED BY SOME UPSCANS
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6 |
2nd
Qtr, 1998 |
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FUNDRAISER ON FOR DELANEY HALL
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7 |
3rd
Qtr, 1998
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A TALE OF TWO PARTIES
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8 |
4th
Qtr, 1998
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WORDSMITH BOOK WINS AWARD!
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9 |
1st
Qtr, 1999
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EMAIL LOOP LINKS UP AND DOWN!
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10 |
2nd
Qtr, 1999 |
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THE TRIBE INCREASES AS OLD MEETS NEW
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11 |
3rd
Qtr, 1999
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THE LOOP GOES ON A HIGHER TECH PLANE
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12 |
Spring-Summer,
2000
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BOOKS ON FR DELANEY COME OUT
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13 |
Special
Edition, 2001
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LAKBAYAN BECOMES A REALITY!
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14 |
Summer,
2001
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LAKBAYAN AGAIN IN 2003, IN PROVANCE?
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15 |
Late
Summer, 2003 |
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PHOENIX? RESURRECTION? WE'RE BACK!
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16 |
March,
2007
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RESURECTADO, ON BATANES LAKBAY
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17 |
Fall,
2014 |
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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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