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society, she
subsidizes students who come from poor
families and offers socialized tuition
fees. Some of her Graduates who have
nowhere else to go are offered the
dignity of job training for various
tasks at Bridges. For her distinct
contribution to the field of education
for special children, in 2001, she was
recognized nationally as one of the Ten
Outstanding Women in the Nation's
Service.
KARIN MARIA
RACELIS HOLLNSTEINER
GS ‘73, HS ‘77
A sports enthusiast
and prime mover of the baseball and
softball programs of the Miriam Grade
School and High School Departments. In
2002, she has served her alma mater well
by creating the Grade School softball
program benefiting the Grade 4 to 7
students. This year, she took over as
Club Moderator and Head Coach of the
Grade School team. In 2003, she set up
the High School softball program and led
the girls to stunning back-to-back
victories in the 2002 and 2003
Philippine TOT Baseball/Softball
Tournaments. Winning the prestigious
national championships in this age group
level definitely gave the students the
drive to succeed and develop into
confident and skilled athletes which
made our country proud. Karin believes
that the best way to develop the
over-all character of the girls is to
get them involved in sports.
MA. CELESTE T.
GONZALEZ
COLL ‘75
She was blessed with
foreign education and training and very
impressive credentials.
Nevertheless, Celeste has shunned
the more glamorous and high-paying
career abroad and chose to return home.
She embarked on a less lucrative
but more heroic journey of teaching and
educating students in her own country.
Her work has been recognized both
locally and internationally as she was a
recipient of, among others, the PEO
International Peace Scholarship award.
She is presently the Chairperson of the
Education Department and Director of the
Ateneo Teacher Center, School of Social
Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University.
She has remained selfless with
solid piety and heroic generosity,
tirelessly pursuing her commitment to
enhance students’ lives.
SOCORRO A.
ALMANZOR-BECKER
HS ‘68, COLL ‘72
Corro exemplifies the
true Maryknoll spirit of selfless
service to the community.
Unmindful of the debilitating
effects of her 20-year illness, Corro
has pursued with relentless dedication
her project to impart to the children of
indigent families in Alabang, Muntinlupa
the Montessori method of teaching.
Through her tireless efforts and
unwavering guidance, her admirable
project has grown from two sitios and
200 children to seven sitios for 400
children.
With the support of other
housewives who have embraced Corro’s
commitment, even more children will
benefit from a teaching method that used
to be available to society’s more
privileged few in the years to come.
FLETA JULIA S.
VARGAS-ERRASQUIN
COLL ’67
Fleta is a breast
cancer survivor who has turned this
negative affliction into a very positive
aspect of her life. She founded the
non-profit organization, the Healing
Partners Foundation, Inc. that has
helped a lot of underprivileged cancer
stricken patients particularly in the
area of nutrition and education,
promoting total well-being and a
healthier way of life. She actively
endorses unconventional and alternative
cancer cures (that she herself
practices) and has promoted its wide use
in the country. She developed a
prosthesis bra called “Fleeting Boobs”
and has made it available to the poor
breast cancer patients who has had
mastectomy. To this day, Fleta does not
tire in inspiring, comforting and
motivating cancer patients and has
continued to be a happy and healthy
living example of how effective
alternative cures to cancer can be.
SYLVIA V.
ROCES-MONTILLA
HS ‘54
Exemplifies a
genuine spirit of volunteerism. Her
commitment to her family and being a
writer did not in any way prevent her
from being involved in activities which
benefit the underprivileged, and the
physically and mentally handicapped
children.
Among the apostolate work she did
in the past and offices held included: a
feeding program for malnourished
children; a teacher aide here and
abroad; introduced SPED Individual
Education Program; co-founder and member
of the Board of Trustees of Riding for
the Disabled; Chairman of the Board and
President of the Learning Center,
Merville Subdivision; Board member and
Community Council Director of Ang Arko
ng Pilipinas and representative to the
International Council Meeting L’Arche
International ,Japan.
She is currently
the President of Ang Arko ng Pilipinas,
a non-stock,
civic, charitable organization
whose aims are patterned after L’ Arche
(L’Arche is an international federation
of communities which welcomes people
with mental handicaps called “core
members” and those who want to share
their lives with them.
It was founded in 1964 by Jean
Vanier, a French nationale, when he
first welcomed two mentally handicapped
men to live with him in a small house
he had bought in a French
village).
SOLEDAD
TOLENTINO CAJUCOM
GS ‘36, HS ‘40
We are truly honored
to cite this pioneer grade school and
high school alumna of Maryknoll in the
Philippines for her unique contribution
to our heritage. Her life exemplifies
the Maryknoll spirit and dedication that
has withstood the true test of time,
manifest in her heroic generosity,
prudence, solid piety and sense of
humor. Though she was the only pioneer
alumna to continue on to a Maryknoll
College education, this was interrupted
in 1941 by World War II. Undeterred,
with the help of her classmates she
personally took care of captive
Maryknoll nuns during the war by
providing food for them, openly and
clandestinely. Today, at the age of 84,
she continues to regularly visit her
pre-war mentors at their retirement
house in Ossining, New York. As first
hand witness to the birth of our school,
she recorded history for us in a piece
called “The Maryknoll Saga.”
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