Ateneo Cebu Wheels and Diagram of Leadership compilation

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
January 17, 2019

The nice thing about having an electronic medium for instruction is that the bulletin board where you post the outstanding work is not the classroom but the whole wide world.  I am truly amazed at the talent and creativity, and the magis exhibited by these students.  They could be very well new theory on rocket science or magnetic levitation, or new discovery on the genomes if that were our subject matter.  While every body thought that everything has been taught on leadership, these Leaders created their own theories:   Congratulations

There were 2 wheels of Leadership at Clark, none in the two succeeding Leadership class, and prodigous 5 for this class.  What a quantum jump in creativity!

This Lecturer is blessed and grateful and honored that he was with these top student leaders.  May we have more of them and may they multiply themselves to heal this sick world.

Their work glorifies the Ateneo (despite the loss of an accreditation) as a premier learning instituion in the country;  and the theory that we grow the learning in schools not from the lecturer but from the learning shared and created in the classroom

                                           Wheel of Leadership by Leader Glym

                                        Wheel of Leadership by Lt. Cmdr. Andre Ladan

Certificate of Recognition - Call to Arms Speech

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

CEBU REGIS LEADERSHIP GENOGRAM by Leader Leonard Castañeda

My Genogram

GRANDPARENTS

Father's Side

No information available

I do not even know their names. I do remember my father telling me that he was in high school when they died. They were very poor and could barely afford to send their children to school. They hail from Imus, Cavite, and according to my father, our family started from a Spanish priest who apparently could not keep his vow of celibacy.

Mother's Side

HILARION "LARIO" GAITAN GALLENTES (+)

My grandfather was born on February 2, 1922, and was an Ilonggo from the island province of Guimaras. he was a teenager during the second world war. I remember him telling me how Japanese soldiers once forced him to carry their supplies and officers across the river. He migrated to Mindanao with his wife in the 1960, when my grandmother was assigned as a school teacher in Pagadian City. There, being only a high school graduate, he worked as a humble clerk in our provincial capitol of Zamboanga del Sur until his retirement in the early 80's. He was the 6th of 7 siblings (Ambrosio, Lorenza, Lucia, Florencio, Silvestra, and Aniana), all of whom, except one, I have never met, since I have never been to Guimaras. He died of old age in 2000.

MARIA SOCORRO "CORRO" GASTIL GALLENTES (+)

Born in September 17, 1920, my grandmother came from Iloilo and was a schoolteacher. She was teaching in Iloilo when she first met her husband. Soon after they got married, they left for Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur, where she taught in one of the public elementary schools. In their time, you only needed two years of college to teach, but this was changed around the time when my mom was in high school, so around that time, both of them went to school together.

No one impressed on me the value of education more than my grandmother, who, despite their meager income, managed to send all her children to college.  My grandmother taught me to read at a very young age, and because of this, I was considered good enough to skip kindergarten and go straight to first grade at the age of 5. She was my first tutor in everything, and I also remember her teaching me my first Bible verses. She would always bring me to church and leave me in Sunday School with other children. She had only one sibling, ALEJANDRA GASTIL BUCOG (+), who was also an elementary school teacher. She died in March 2004.

All of my grandparent's children are working, of have worked, in government, like their parents. My mother's siblings are:

LILLIAN GALLENTES, has a BS Business Administration, major in Marketing degree from Mindanao State University, used to work in the Development Bank of the Philippines and the Department of Trade and Industry.

NELSON GALLENTES, a BS Forestry graduate of  Gregorio Araneta Universtiy, works in the Bureau of Immigration.

LINA GRACE GALLENTES-BARBASO, a Psychology major from Silliman University, is an administrative officer in the provincial government of Zamboanga Sibugay.

PARENTS

PEDRO 'PETE" LOPEZ CASTAÑEDA (+)

My father was a working student who lived with his aunt and uncle in San Juan after his parents passed away. They agreed to take him in, but could not promise him a college education. He then worked in various jobs, from messenger to kargador in the Manila pier, while at the time studying Accountancy in the University of the East. He told me that he used to study under a truck during their breaktime, and that he flunked the board the first time he took it because he was often too tired to seriously study. He had various jobs until he got a break with Pilipinas Shell, Inc., where he served as company comptroller. He was also assigned to their operations in Nigeria for a while. He left Shell in 1987 and started a couple of small businesses. Aside from being one of the top executives of his company, he was a boxer, a chess player (with national master rating, according to him) and a 2nd-dan black belt in Karate. He died on June 28, 2001 from cardiac arrest after completing a 10 km jog with boxers in training at the Elorde Gym in Parañaque. One of the reasons why I chose Ateneo for my MBA was because he too finished his MBA in Ateneo ( batch '79). <that was when I finished my MBA academics at de la Costa, ka batch ko?>