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St. Scholastica’s College Alumnae Association Celebrates 10^th Anniversary

St. Scholastica's College Alumnae Association Canada (SSCAAC) celebrates the 10^th year of its founding in Toronto on May 4, 2001. Billed TEN: A Scholastican Celebration, the event will be held at Toronto Famee Furlane, 7065 Islington, north of Steeles Ave.  The programme will include a dinner-dance highlighted by a two-piano concert featuring Milagros Macuja-Markun and Elsieta Arao, two of the outstanding graduates of St. Scholastica’s School of Music.  Ms. Macuja-Markun is currently Adjunct Faculty and Piano Class Co-ordinator at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and Ms. Arao, who recently moved to Toronto from Thunder Bay, is a piano teacher and personal banker with Royal Bank. The mini-concert showcases some of the works for two pianos by foremost Filipino composer, Francisco Buencamino Sr. and a piano duet by J.S. Bach.

SSCAAC was started in Toronto 10 years ago by a group of four Scholasticans meeting socially in the downtown store of Myrna Bayaborda, Scholastican owner of The Cakeshoppe.  The group of four touched base with eight more and has since grown to its present list of over 80 members. 

The association has adopted projects of its alma mater, St. Scholastica's College, in Manila, Philippines.  In response to a request from Sr. Mary Placid, O.S.B., SSC Dean of Music and Alumnae Moderator, for financial support for her music ministry, proceeds from Christmas carolling have been sent for two music scholars annually for the past six years. 

In 1998 a fun night was held to raise money for “A Chair for St. Cecilia's”, a project to provide financial assistance for the renovation of St. Cecilia's Hall, SSC's concert auditorium, a premier music hall that has been declared a historical landmark in the Philippines.  Other endeavours include an SSCAAC-funded four-year college scholarship and initial donations to the SSC Faculty Endowment Fund and the new branch school St. Scholastica (Westgrove), in Silang, Cavite.

Tickets for TEN: A Scholastican Celebration are $35 each, and still available from members of St. Scholastica's College Alumnae Association Canada.  For more information, interested readers may contact Myra Salonga, (905)707-9359; Boots Montano, (905) 508-3894; and Millie Nowakowsky, (905) 763-7670.