Something new in the 2009 Lantern Parade and fireworks display:

Beta Epsilon hosts 10 survivor families of Ondoy flooding

 

UP Diliman campus

 

December 18, 2009

 

Our Bagong Silangan guests with Dean Rowena Guevara and Associate Dean Antonia Tanchuling

 

This is the first time that Beta Epsilon has guests to enjoy with them the UP Lantern Parade and the spectacular fireworks display. Our guests came from our beneficiaries in the fraternity's relief work in barangay Bagong Silangan in Quezon City, one of the most devastated by the Ondoy flooding where more than 119 died and 20 still missing. We were told that it is good for faster recovery from a traumatic experience if the survivor families could enjoy happy experiences like viewing the Lantern Parade and the fireworks.

 

The fraternity decided to hosts 10 families of about 52 members, chaperoned by 8 members of our partner organization in the community, SAMAKANA-Gabriela, 3 of whom happened to be graduates or students of UP Diliman.

 

The following photos show our guests in UP Diliman -- from the Archithecture building, to the tambayan at  Melchor Hall, to the Beta Epsilon Way, and to the amphitheater.

 

We give special thanks to Dean Guevera and Associate Dean and Betanak Tonette Tanchuling for welcoming our guests and joining in a photo-ops with them.

 

 

 

Campus tour

 

Campus tour started at the Architecture compound.

Carlo 05C was the tour guide.
 

 

Entering the College of Engineering

(today, as guests; tomorrow, as students, hopefully)

walking from the parking lot at the back to the front entrance

 

Awed by the huge school. We hope the kids get to enter UP, and the boys get to enter Beta Epsilon

Asking permission from the guard who consulted first with the Dean's office before letting Beta Epsilon's guests in

 

Our guests at the Beta Epsilon Tambayan

 

 

Proudly giving our guests a tour of the Beta Epsllon Way,

still the crown jewel of all Beta Epsilon projects in the university

 
 

 

The trip from Melchor Hall to the amphitheater

for the Lantern Parade and the famous Beta Epsilon fireworks

(a walk through the future Beta Epsilon park)

 

 

A ringside view of the Lantern Parade floats and participants

from a cordoned area assigned by the UP authorifites

 

Resident brods behind the guests to help in the security

Packed dinner of barbecue, rice, etc.

 

Christmas gifts to our guests

(resident brods as Santa Clauses)

 

Our resident brothers, having mastered the art of purchasing and repacking relief items as a result of their extensive involvement in the relief work for the Ondoy flooding victims at the Bagong Silang QC community, prepared 10  Xmas packages for the 10 families.

 

Each pack conisisted of  hamon and other familiar items on the noche buena table worth a thousand pesos. The noche buena gift is a donation of Davaenos of California  sent through Betanette Fe Albano and her sister Bing who is the assoiciation's president.

 

In addition, our fraternity  gave a cash gift of P500 for the recados, etc.

 

Everybody was happy, including all the resident and alumni brothers. After all, It is Christmas time.
   
   
   

 

BONUS TRACKS

Announcing the fireworks display

 

Tarp announcement of the famous Beta Epsilon fireworks were put up at the entrance to the UP, at the oval near the Vinzons Hall, and elsewhere.
 

 

Congratulations to our resident brods who made this possible!

with special mention of the following:MEB Aerson who took overall lead of the hosting, Rellan who ked in fetching our guests from Bagong Silangan, and Carlo for acting as the campus tour manager.