During my time at SAS this was open space. Where the town auditorium now stands was a kiosk that fronted a tennis court. There used to be a small concession stand operated by the late Tang Doming Agas and his family right there where the road bends to pass by the front gate of the church plaza. But all those familiar landmarks have given way to progress. The artesian well is gone and the Rizal Park now looks more streamlined.
Isn't it great that most, if not all of us who attended SAS can return home from wherever in the world we now live, work and perhaps even have retired in order to get together with friends, classmates and townmates and reminisce about the good old days when we were high schoolers - certainly kings and queens of the campus grounds?
And when we do return home and enjoy each other's company as we walk around the old campus, can we think of a better way to say thanks to our old Alma Mater than to make sure that St Augustine's School keeps on operating and offering the same high quality education we enjoyed to all young students who aspire for greatness?
And how about the bright and promising sixth graders who come from very poor families right here in our community of Tagudin, who have attended the public schools and SAS Elementary? Will they ever get to attend SAS high school on their own? I think not. But we can certainly help them. We who have walked through those same portals on our way to personal greatness and wealth can and must help them. It doesn't take much to give these underprivileged kids a hand. It takes less than $1.50 a day to sponsor a bright youngster attend SAS high school. We can spend more on a Happy Meal with Soda and French Fries in one fast food lunch excursion than we can to help send a bright scholarly student to SAS high school.
We are inviting you fellow Augustinians to join us here at SAS Ai, Inc. in pursuit of this mission by sponsoring a scholar. We can collectively pool our resources if we can't do it alone. Just imagine, some day, these same bright kids we are helping will also help others attend SAS high school. Indeed Education is Freedom. Freedom from ignorance. Freedom to pursue a bright future. Freedom from the shackles of abject poverty.
Won't you join us?
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