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CEBU: DBTC PLANNING YEAR-LONG GOLDEN
JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
CEBU CITY: 29th December '03 -- In
January 2004 Don Bosco Technology Centre (Boys Town) Cebu City will begin its
50th anniversary celebrations, appropriately, as its Director Fr. Lan Guaio
points out in his letter to all alumni and friends of DBTC, just as the Salesian
Congregation also celebrates the 50th year of Dominic Savio's
canonisation. A long list of events is planned.
Bosconians, parents, present faculty and staff will open
the year with a display of fashion design. Later in the month (January) there
will be a Technical exhibition, but the true opening of the Jubilee year
will commence in grand fashion on the 30th January with a Motorcade, a Mass to
which the Salesian Bishops in the Philippines have been invited, a
choral presentation of Bosconian songs composed by Salesians who have worked in
the Philippines, and fireworks later in the evening.
On 1st February, all alumni not only from DBTC but from
the other Salesian works that arose from this wonderful beginning in Cebu 50
years ago, are invited back and to contribute to the renovation of the chapel
where so much of their religious formation took place. It is called a
Golden Jubilee Homecoming, sponsored by the '79 Silver Jubilee batch of
alumni.
And so it goes on - Cadet drill displays, DB Triathlon,
studies in Salesianity for staff and parents, the 'Bosdak' Awards for people who
are outstanding in some sector of Church or society, and finally, to conclude
the year's events, a National Olympics of all Salesian Schools from North and
South.
No doubt 'austraLasia' will be able to report on many of
these events as they occur.
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