"Aditako Bokodan Di Gawis" = Let Us Share our Blessings

Sports/Auditorium Complex
Funding Assistance Project

Project Description. As provided for in the 5-Year Development Plan, the Sports Complex consists of  Physical Education and Athletic Facilities proposed to be built during the  SY 2007-2008. It may be started sooner pending  receipt of pledges from alumni. 

The Sports Complex, proposed on the site of the current basketball court on the Athletics Field, will house the following: 

1. Covered Courts with 2 sets of latitudinal playing areas and 1 longtitudinal competition court for basketball and volleyball.  The area can also serve as courts for badminton and as an assembly area for school functions like graduation and school mass.

2. A stage for concerts etc.

3. Shower and Changing Rooms for boys and girls

4. Equipment storage

5. Offices for the proposed Athletic and Activities League (currently being set up) among the following schools: St. Mary’s School, Sagada National High School, St. James School, and Besao National High School.  Other schools like Bangaan National High, Antadao HS, and Suyo also have expressed interest in joining this league.  The league’s program  will include interscholastic sports like basketball, volleyball, and table tennis to start, and cultural exchanges in music, drama, dance, and forensics (debate etc). 

Estimated Project Cost. Based on the 5-Year Development Plan the estimated cost of the project amount to two million Philippines Pesos [P2,000,000] or about thirty six thousand four hundred U. S. Dollars [$36,400] at a "55-pesos to one-dollar" exchange rate.  The itemized costing follows:

1. Covered Courts Roof                    P  500,000

2. Lighting and Floor                        P  200,000

3. Offices and Shower Room
   (incl. pipe system)                       P  400,000

4. Stage, Lighting & Sound                P  500,000

5. Bleachers                                    P  400,000
          T o t a l                               P2,000,000

Project Status. From earlier postings I [LBS] have been referring to this as a Norman Longid and Siblings sponsored project. I received clarifications from manang Catherine [Carlin] that the project sponsors actually include the descendants of four orphaned sisters who were best identified as:

• Masinnay: the grandmother of Pacyaya and Malecdan among others,

• Kangkangan: the grandmother of Banagui and Gayagay among others,

• Kalugidan: the grandmother of Abeya, Bacagan, Olat among others, and

• Bistanga: the grandmother of Alagon, Andawi and Longid among others.

Any  descendant  of the above matriarchs who wish to make any corrections, additions or subtractions please feel free to call the attention of  Igorot44@aol.com

According to manang Catherine, the descendants of the four matriarchs have decided to call this "The Four Sisters Project" as well as their "Leap of Faith" contribution to St. Mary's School. She said it was a way of honoring their grandmothers who, in spite of many adversities (they were orphaned when they were still very young), became heads of such big and, in so many ways, blessed families. Manang Catherine added that it [the project] "is our thanksgiving offering to St. Mary's School (and to Sagada and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin) for all that these have meant to us".

So to the descendants of the four grandmothers identified above, in case you have not yet been informed about your distinguished clan's cooperative project to help St. Mary's School continue serving our folks back home, you may wish to contact Norman Longid at llongid@yahoo.com or Catherine Carlin at cathielc@juno.com to find out more about how best you can coordinate with them.  

For the proposed committee on this project click on the following hyperlink: Sports Facilities Funding Assistance Committee

Where to send tax deductible donations for SMS in the USA:

• The Treasurer
  SMSS Alumni and Friends Foundation
  760 George St.
  Teaneck, NJ 07666
  Phone: 201-833-1548
  Email: Isaley@aol.com

For other help options, click on any of the hereunder hyperlinks:

I. Computers and Related Equipment Funding Assistance Project.

II. Sponsor A Student Funding Assistance Project

III. Library Facilities Improvement Funding Assistance Project  

IV. Sports Complex/Auditorium Funding Assistance Project   

V. Dormitories Funding Assistance Project    

VI. School Building and Facilities Renovaion/Upgrading  

VII. Endowment Fund Build-up

VIII. Book Campaign     

IX. Salary Equalization Fund          

X. Raffles     

XI. SMSSI Operating Budget       

XII. Memorial Funds