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| WHO WE ARE NOW - DLSAA is a
non-stock, non-profit corporation
- Started in August 1916
by Brother Director Acisclus Michael FSC
- 2009 is DLSAA’s
93rd year
- 2016 will be DLSAA’s centennial year
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There are currently 11 office-based staff ready to serve you
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DLSAA has both a Board of Directors and a MANCOM
- DLSAA
President and Vice President for Finance are elected every 2 years
during the DLSAA World Congress. Other MANCOM officers are
appointed - 2007-2009 President: Johnny A. S. Valdes (GS 66,
LSGH 70, BSC 74)
- Current Brother Adviser: Br. Bernie Oca
(GS 67, LSGH 71, AB 74)
- Current Executive Director: Benjie
Uichico (GS 71, LSGH 75, BSC-MFI 79)
- DLSAA boasts of
around 100,000 alumni globally
- 30,000+ card-bearing
members with the current design launched in 2005
- Cards
currently are released while you wait at LS Building Room 202
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Grand Alumni Homecomings are now celebrated on every 1st Saturday of
March
- DLSAA Alumnews is the official bi-annual newsletter
of the DLSAA
- DLSAA currently has 36 total chapters and
affiliates, locally & internationally
- DLSAA Awards
given: Exemplary Awards: (1) Distinguished Lasallian Awards, (2)
Lasallian Achievement Awards (3) Sports Hall of
Fame and (4)
Sports Achievement Awards (5) Br Benedict Award, (6) Lasallian Merit
Awards, (7) Chapter Honors - Regular Events (1) Grand
Homecoming, 1st Saturday of March (2) Awards: One La Salle Excellence
Awards Night – DLA, LAA &
SHOFA, Merit Awards – Annual,
Sports Achievement Awards – Annual (3) Tournaments: Golf Tourney, Br.
Benedict Golf Tournament, Tuesday of the Homecoming week;
Badminton: DLSAA’s Totally Smashed, 3rd Saturday of February (4) Masses:
Lasallian Memorial Mass, February 12, DLSAA Traditional Christmas
Eve Mass, December 2 - Program for students: AIR La Salle
(Alumni-In-Residence) for 3rd and 4th year students
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| BRIEF HISTORICAL POINTS
- 1911 arrival in Manila of nine Brothers of the Christian
schools and established the first De La Salle school in the Philippines
- October 31, 1916, signing of the first known Articles of
Incorporation of the De La Salle Alumni Association (DLSAA)
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1915 saw the first high school graduates of De La Salle College
- June 28, 1936 - First Silver Jubilee year
- 1960 -
First annual alumni mass for deceased members and more notably, held the
1st Lasallian Alumni World Congress in Rome
- 1961 First
Golden Jubilee year
- June 17, 1961 marked the official
alumni homecoming until the change
- In 1961 18 carefully
chosen pre-war alumni were given plaques for outstanding achievements
- Also in 1961, the DLSAA rechristened its official publication,
De La Salle Alumni Newsbriefs to De La Salle Alumnews currently,
DLSAA Alumnews - De La Salle College Alma Mater Hymn,
was formally sung for the first time during the graduation rites of HS
’64
- 1968 graduation of the last high school class from
DLSC Taft, the “Last of the Mighty”
- 1973 acceptance of the
first 38 female students; 1977 graduates female students
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1981 Start of the tri-semester system; 1984 first batch of graduates
- 1993 first Sports Hall of Fame induction honoring 11
outstanding Lasallian alumni athletes
- 1997 “Beat Brother
Ben” golf tournament, fronted by Batches ’72 & ‘73 as a tribute to
Br. Benedict
- 2003 launch of the while-you-wait card
release
- 2004 maiden run of the annual golf cup, the DLSAA
Br. Benedict Cup
- 2005 launch of the www.dlsaa.com website
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