Nasindulan nako ning article sa internet. Di' ba nagreunion ta last time para pagsaulog sa NOHS Centennial niadtong 2002? Atol sa Centennial, gipasidunggan pod ang Maxino Family isip pinaka-astig nga pamilya nga product sa NOHS. Pito ka magsoon nga Maxino nieskwela sa NOHS, unom ang valedictorian unya ang ilang blacksheep sa pamilya, salutatorian. Basaha naa sa ubos ang kompletong article. Very inspiring.
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Family gets rare award from Negros high school
From Philippine Daily Inquirer By: Alex V. Pal, PDI Visayas Bureau
DUMAGUETE CITY - The Negros Oriental High School (NOHS) has extended a rare award to a family whose members, spanning two generations, topped their respective classes.
The Maxino family of Ayungon, Negros Oriental, received the Centennial Award, a first of its kind in the history of the NOHS, during the 100th Founding Anniversary of the school last Sept. 1.
Seven Maxino siblings graduated from the Negros Oriental High School from 1941 to 1967, with six of them graduating as valedictorian and one graduating as salutatorian.
Six of the siblings, now in their 50s to 70s who all have curved successful careers, were present during the awarding rite. Their mother, Raymunda Chua Maxino, who will turn 100 in January 2003, was also around to receive the family award. Their father, Hermenegildo, passed away in 1970.
The eldest of the siblings, Dominador, was valedictorian of Class 1941. He was followed by Luciano, who graduated valedictorian of Class 1948, then by Lorenzo, who graduated salutatorian of Class 1950.
In 1954, Vicente graduated valedictorian, followed by Marcelino who was also valedictorian of Class 1955, and then by Gerardo, who graduated valedictorian of Class 1958.
The youngest in the family, Hope, graduated valedictorian of Class 1967.
The cycle was repeated by the succeeding generation when, in 1994, the daughter of Gerardo, Clare Cabahug Maxino, also graduated valedictorian from the NOHS.
Other grandchildren also kept the tradition of graduating as valedictorian, although they studied in other schools.
The outstanding academic performance of the siblings did not end there. In college, they also topped their respective classes and all earned magna cum laude ratings.
Aside from Dominador, who survived the Death March but died at the age of 19 in a Tarlac concentration camp, the other Maxino siblings went on to become leaders in their own fields.
Luciano, now 76, a Fulbright-Hayes scholar in the US, became a lawyer and was dean of the College of Law and president of Foundation University. He also served as manager of the Dumaguete Central Savings and Loans Association.
Lorenzo, now 74, became mayor of Dumaguete City in the 1980s. He also served as manager of Dumaguete Rural Bank.
Vicente, 67, also a lawyer, was immigration chief of Dumaguete City for a long time and eventually became the Regional Director of the Commission on Immigration and Deportation for Region VII.
Marcelino, 64, another lawyer and a Mc Dewitt scholar in Michigan, USA, became dean of the College of Law of Foundation University at 27 years old and later became its president. Immigrating to the United States in the middle 1980's, he passed the California Bar and later became Lead Attorney of the California Court of Appeal. He was also a bar examiner for the State of California, USA.
Marcelino has since retired and is now back in Dumaguete City to enjoy his retirement years. Gerardo, now 61, a physicist and a doctorate degree holder, now works with his physicist wife, Vicenta Cabahug, at the Physics Department of Silliman University where he is professor.
He served as department chairperson for sometime and was also dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Silliman University. He is the president of the Philippine Physics Society.
Hope, now 52, also a physicist and a doctorate degree holder, is married to Regional Trial Court Judge Rosendo B. Bandal, Jr. and is presently professor and chair of the Silliman Physics Department.
She previously taught college Physics at the University of San Carlos, Foundation University, University of Santo Tomas and De La Salle University in Manila.
Two sisters, Nicerata, now 71, and Hospicia, now 57, did not study at the Negros Oriental High School but they also graduated with honors from their respective schools.
Ironically, the parents of the Maxino siblings, Hermenegildo Dy Maxino, now deceased, and Raymunda Chua Maxino, only reached grades one and two, respectively.
But they still stood tall in the eyes of their townmates as Hermenegildo could solve mathematical problems orally, while Raymunda earned the distinction of having been accelerated to second grade while studying first grade.
At that tender age, she got first honors in her class, but had to stop studying to help her father in his small business.
