One of the most bemedalled DLSC graduates is CARLOS LEDESMA (HS '33, BSC '35) who graduated as the valedictorian of his two classes. He was the editor of the La Sallite, a fortnightly newsheet in 1935-36, and editor-in-chief of the Green & White in his last year at la Salle. He was the captain of the handball team that won the NCAA championship for three consecutive years. After the third year the NCAA excluded that sport. He was also a member of the junior football and volleyball teams that won the NCAA title. Then he took up law at the University of the Philippines where he graduated magna cum laude months before the outbreak of the war. He placed sixth in the bar exams of December 1941. When his older brother Juan (HS '26) died from an accidental explosion in his home laboratory, he took over the management of the family sugar hacienda in San Carlos, Negros Occidental, that their father, Don Julio, had bequeathed them. He was elected president of the National Federation of Sugar Planters. The family branched out into the maritime business in 1959 and he became president of the Negros Navigation Company that owns and manages a shipping line from Manila to the Visayas. Charlie, who always had an eye for feminine pulchritude, married the beauteous Susan Magalona, and after that marriage was annulled, married another beauty, Conchita Arenas, with whom he has five children. In 1980 he immigrated to Canada. (La Salle: 1911-1986 by Carlos Quirino)