While this year’s graduating class is preparing to leave the Alma Mater, Batches 73 to 79, together with the Board of Directors of the UP Tacloban Alumni Association, hosted a grand alumni homecoming on 23 June that was attended by more than 500 alumni from all batches.
The festivities, with the theme “Urusa, Padayon, Tambuligay (UPT),” kicked off with a motorcade around Tacloban City at 8:00 AM followed by photoshoots and group activities at the UP Tacloban city campus. At 5:30 PM the alumni reassembled at the Leyte Academic Center in Palo for a fellowship dinner and party.
Around a week later — on 2 July — the pioneering Batches 73 and 74 held a gala night at Summit Hotel Tacloban to celebrate the golden anniversary of Batch 74. The second of July was also the 51st anniversary of the inauguration of UP Tacloban College. The college was established on 23 May 1973 by the UP Board of Regents but was inaugurated together with the San Juanico Bridge on 2 July 1973. A plaque marking this historic occasion is installed in front of the old Leyte Provincial Capitol.
Watch a short video of the grand alumni homecoming at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/DYbCXj8cUJin1odo/
