At 1:50am on July 28th, 1963, while turning to prepare for landing at Bombay's

Santa Cruz airport, the de Havilland Comet 4C of United Arab Airlines flight 869 that
was carrying the whole Philippine Scout contingent to Marathon for the 11th World
Scout Jamboree, crashed into the Arabian Sea just off Bombay under severe
turbulence and heavy rain. The crash took the lives of all 55 passengers and 8 crew
members aboard and the bodies were never recovered.
On the occasion of completion of 50 years from the tragic loss of the Philippine
Scout contingent, the Manila International Scout Museum issued, earlier in 2013,
two special limited edition scout badges. Angelo Manarang, founder and curator of
the museum, kindly shared the badges with marathon1963.com (see graphic).
On the same occasion, the families of lost Filippino scouts are preparing a
commemorative edition in remembrance of their boys for which marathon1963.com
is honored to have contributed rare photographic material and information.
Information and material from this edition will appear here shortly.
They couldn't reach Marathon

The Official Contingent from Philippines consisting of 21 Scouts and 3 Scouters,

could not reach the Jamboree at Marathon due to the air crash which took the lives
of the entire Contingent, and all 55 passengers and 8 crew members aboard the de
Havilland Comet 4C of United Arab Airlines flight 869 from Tokyo, Japan to Cairo via
Hong Kong, Bangkok, Bombay and Bahrain. The aircraft crashed into the Arabian
Sea just off Bombay on 28 July 1963, 1:50am, while turning to prepare for landing at

Bombay - Santa Cruz Airport at night under severe turbulence and heavy rain. Their
bodies were never recovered (read more about the tragedy).
For the first few days the three flags outside the Jamboree General
Headquarters -the World Scout flag, the Soma Hellinon Proskopon (Scouts of
Greece) flag and the Marathon Jamboree flag- in common with all national flags,
flew at half-mast in memory of the Philippine contingent that was so cruelly struck
by tragedy.
The camp site the contigent would have occupied, in sub-camp Aeantis, was
kept empty as a sign of honour to the lost lives.
The sentimental burden was enormous for J.P.A. Silvestre, the Philippino Chief
of Sub-camp Antiochis, who was already at the Jamboree as a member of the
International Staff with the special role of representing the host country of the
previous, 10th, World Scout Jamboree which took place in July 1959 in Makiling Park,
Philippines. During the opening ceremony, on the evening of August 1st, an
especially warm applause was heard by all 14000 Scouts when, after all previous
Jamboree kylixes where lit, J.P.A. Silvestre lit the kylix of the 1959 Jamboree and then
handed the torch that lit the central Kylix of Friendship of Marathon.
Everyone was astonished when, within few days of the opening, a token
delegation of three Philippine Scouts, Assistant Scoutmaster Nicasio Fernandez Jr.
and Scouts Louis P. Santiago and Guillermo Flores, arrived at Marathon to
participate in the Jamboree. In a sign of mourning, the three scouts wore black
armbands during the whole Jamboree duration.
On their first morning in camp, the token delegates were welcomed over
breakfast by Camp Chief, Dimitris "Rann" Alexatos, the Organizing Commissioner
Colonel J. Wilson and JPA Silvestre.

The 11th World Scouts Jamboree was held at Marathon, Greece in August 1963. The
Philippine contingent, boy scouts from ages 14 to 19, represented the best of the
generation and the idealism of the Philippine youth.
On 28 July 1963, the Eqypt Air jetliner that was carrying the Filipinos crashed on
approach to Bombay Airport into the Indian Ocean. Their bodies were never
recovered. Three Filipino scouts were sent as a token delegation, days after the
tragedy.
In remembrance of the scouts and scouters, a cenotaph* was erected outside the
Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines the year after the accident. Streets in
Quezon City's Barangay Obrero, Laging Handa ("Always Prepared", the Scouts'
Motto) and Paligsahan, bear the names of the fallen. A monument for the Scouts

was erected at the rotunda on the tip of Tomas, Morato in Quezon City. For a
complete list of memorials to the scouts, please refer to this Google map.

To be verified. Wikipedia lists that the memorial outside the Manila North
Cemetery are empty tombs; but an interview with Mrs. Virginia Castor, the
mother of a scout, quotes her as saying " the boy scouts went together, died
together, and are laid side by side in their final resting place ..."

The Tragedy of the 11th World Scout Jamboree

16 JANUARY 2012

The 11th World Scouts Jamboree was held at

Marathon, Greece in August 1963. The Philippine contingent, boy scouts from
ages 14 to 19, represented the best of the generation and the idealism of the
Philippine youth.

On 28 July 1963, the Eqypt Air plane that was carrying the Filipinos crashed
on approach to Bombay Airport into the Indian Ocean. Their bodies were
never recovered. Three Filipino scouts were sent as a token delegation, days
after the tragedy. In remembrance of the scouts and scouters, a cenotaph (an
empty tomb) was erected inside the Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines
the year after the accident. Also, street in Quezon Citys Baranggay Obrero,
Laging Handa and Paligsahan, bear the names of the fallen.

THE SCOUTS

Scout Ramon V. Albano, Age 15

Ramon Chito Valdes Albano was born on 3 September 1947. He was the
the fifth child and fifth son of eleven children of Dr. Paulino E. Albano and Dr.
Pilar Valdes-Albano. The couple owned and managed what was once called
the St. Rita Maternity Hospital in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila. He attended the
Immaculate Concepcion Academy and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran,
where his interest in the Cub Scout movement grew. In 1955, he was dubbed
the Letrans Cub Scout King by Yvonne de los Reyes, the reigning Miss
Philippines. An Air Scout for the Manila Council, he was in the drum and bugle
corps and enjoyed the outdoors. He was 15 years old in 1963. A street and
the school owned by his family were named in his memory. View his family
tree.

Patricio Tec Dulay Bayoran, Jr. was born on 17 November 1944 in

Manapla, Negros Occidental. He was an Explorer Scout from the Pasay City
Council; and was a senior patrol leader. He was 18 years old in 1963. The
Bayoran Memorial, erected in Manapla, Negros Occidental, also bears the
names of the other members of the Philippine delegation to the 11th World
Scout Jamboree. View his family tree.

Gabriel Gabby Nicolas Borromeo was born on 24 March 1949. He was

an Air Scout from the Manila Council. He was 14 years old in 1963.

Roberto Bontsie Corpus Castor was born on 28 April 1949. He was a

First Class Scout from the Quezon City Council. He was 14 years old in 1963.
View his family tree.

Henry C. Chuatoco, Explorer Scout, Manila Council Born 16 September

1945

Victor O. de Guia Jr., First Class Scout, Baguio Benguet Council

Jose Antonio C. Delgado, Life Scout, Manila Council Born 11 August 1949

Felix P. Fuentebhella Jr., First Class Scout, Camarines Sur Council Born 19
July 1948

Pedro H. Gandia, Star Scout, Manila Council Born 06 February 1948

Antonio M. Limbaga, First Class Scout, Zamboanga City Council Born 14

June 1948

Roberto P. Lozano, First Class Scout, Dagupan City Council Born 7

February 1944

Paulo C. Madrinan, Explorer Scout, Pasay City Council Born 26 January

1943

Jose Fermin G. Magbanua, First Class Scout, Negros Oriental Council

Romeo R. Rallos, Star Scout, Quezon City Council Born 22 April 1946

Filamer S. Reyes, Explorer Scout, Cavite Council Born 16 June 1942

Wilfredo M. Santiago, Star Scout, Manila Council Born 28 May 1949

Benecio S. Tobias, First Class Scout, Tarlac Council 23 August 1946

Antonio R. Torillo, Eagle Scout, Cavite Council 10 July 1946

Ascario A Tuason Jr., Star Scout, Manila Council Born 28 November 1947

Rogelio C. Ybardolaza, First Class Scout, Quezon City Council Born 9

September 1946

Tragic death of boy

scouts remembered
SCION OF CEBU FAMILY AMONG THE 24 SCOUTS
KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN 1963
Fifty years ago today, a group of Filipino boy scouts died in a plane
crash on their way to represent the country in the 11th World Jamboree
in Marathon, Greece.

On July 28, 1963, the entire delegation perished with passengers and
crew members of United Arab Airlines Flight 869 when the plane
crashed into the Arabian Sea near India. The Scout streetsin
barangay Laging Handa in Quezon City were named in their honor.
Scout Gabriel Nicolas Borromeo, who represented the Manila Council,
was a scion of the Borromeo family of Cebu.
Visayas was represented by Scout Jose Fermin G. Magbanua of Negros
Oriental.
The Egyptian airliner, a British-made Comet jetliner, was bound for
Athens, Greece. The flight originated in Hong Kong and had a stop over
in Bangkok, Thailand. The ill-fated plane carried 52 passengers and
eight crewmembers. Among the passengers were the 24 Filipino boy
scouts and scout officials en route to the 11th World Jamboree in
Marathon, Greece.
According to eyewitnesses who were mainly fishermen from Mahd
island off Bombay, India, the airliner plunged into the sea in one piece.
Among the members of the Philippine scouting delegation, only five
bodies were positively identified from the human remains that were
recovered in the Bay of Bombay.
The Filipino delegation composed a happy bunch when it called on
President Diosdado Macapagal on July 25, 1963, at the Malacaang
Palace. Two days later the delegation took a KLM flight for Hong Kong
to catch a connecting United Arab Airlines flight to Athens, Greece. The
plane departed for Bangkok, Thailand, on the night of July 27, 1963, for
a stop over and refueling.
During the courtesy call in Malacaang, delegation head Dr. Bonifacio
Lazcano, introduced the members of the delegation. Among them were

the Manila Boy Scout Councils Dr. Florante L. Ojeda and Librado
Fernandez, an assistant scoutmaster. Fr. Jose Ma. Martinez, SJ, a faculty
member of the Ateneo de Naga, who was an assistant scoutmaster in
Naga City, was the delegations chaplain.
The scouts who died in the plane crash were:Air Scout Observer Ramon
Valdes Albano (Manila Council), Senior Scout Pathfinder Patricio Dulay
Bayoran (Pasay Council), Air Scout Observer Gabriel Nicolas Borromeo
(Manila Council), First Class Scout(FCS) Roberto Corpus Castor (Quezon
City Council), Senior Scout Pathfinder Henry Cabrera Chuatoco (Manila
Council), FCS Victor Oteyza de Guia (Baguio Council), Life Scout Jose
Antonio Chuidian Delgado (Manila Council), FCS Felix Palma
Fuentebella (Manila Council), FCS Pedro Hermano Gandia (Manila
Council), FCS Antonio Mariano Limbaga (Zamboanga Council), Rover
Scout Roberto del Prado Lozano (Dagupan Council), Senior Scout
Pathfinder Paulo Cabrera Madrian (Pasay Council), FCS Jose Fermin G.
Magbanua (Negros Oriental Council), Star Scout Romeo Rafael Rallos
(Quezon City Council), Senior Scout Pathfinder Filamer Santos Reyes
(Cavite Council), Star Scout Wilfredo Mendoza Santiago (Manila
Council), FCS Benecio Suarez Tobias (Tarlac Council), Eagle Scout
Antonio Rios Torillo (Cavite Council), Star Scout Ascario Ampil Tuason
(Manila Council), and FCS Rogelio Celis Ybardolaza (Quezon City
Council).
Filipino people from all walks of life mourned the deaths of the 24
scouts and scouters. World leaders from Pope Paul VI to President
Sukarno of Indonesia sent messages of condolence.
At the world jamboree in Greece, all the flags were flown at half-staff.
The BSP sent a third groupto the world jamboree. The group was
composed of Nicasio Fernandez of the Far Eastern University, Louis
Santiago of the Mapua Institute of Technology and Guillermo Flores of

San Beda College, which was the school attended by Scouts Jose A.
Delgado and Felix Fuentebella, Jr.
The City Council of Quezon City renamed on April 24, 1964, streets in
the Kamuning and Roxas Districts after the 24 scouts and scouters. At
San Beda College in Manila, a memorial was dedicated in honor of
Scouts Delgado and Fuentebella
In 1988,President Corazon C. Aquino declared the 28th of July of every
year as Scout Memorial Day.

At 95, mom leads rites

to honor Boy Scouts in
63 plane crash

50 YEARS LATER Boy Scouts from Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. High School in
Quezon City join Virginia Castor, 95, at Manila North Cemetery on Friday to
pay tribute to the 24 scouts who perished in the 1963 aviation disaster.
RICHARD REYES
Virginia Castor was among the more than a million people who packed
Manila North Cemetery to offer prayers for their departed loved ones
on Friday, All Saints Day.
At age 95, she went there still with vivid memories of a tragedy that
struck the family when she was only 45.
Castor turned teary-eyed as she recounted how the remains of her son
Roberto were recovered from the July 28, 1963, plane crash that killed
23 other Boy Scouts who represented the country in the 11th World
Scout Jamboree in Greece.

Fifty years after the crash, joining her in remembrance were scouts
from Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. High School, Robertos alma mater in
Quezon City.
Castor recalled that she even accompanied her son during his monthlong training on Mount Makiling, Laguna province, and saw how hard
he worked to be a worthy Philippine delegate to the international
jamboree.
Parents like me were not allowed to get near the boys during their
activities. I cried because Im not used to that, especially when I saw
him perspiring and sometimes getting mud all over, she said.
Those exciting times for mother-and-son bonding proved to be their
last.
The planeUnited Arabian Airlines Flight 869carrying the Boy Scouts
to Athens, Greece, crashed into the Arabian Sea near India, killing all
52 passengers and eight crew members.
Several streets in Quezon City were later named in honor of the scouts
who perished.
The BSP training program was recently revived at Eulogio Rodriguez
through the efforts of the Castor family, who sponsored the camps and
the students uniforms.
The alumni are also helping the school raise funds for uniforms and
training especially for students from poor families, to promote the
BSPs mission.
Being a Boy Scout is about having the leadership and discipline to
become good citizens. We teach the scouts how develop their

character as well as their relationship with God and their fellowmen,

said Raymond Dizon, a scout master and teacher at the high school.
The City Government of Manila offered flowers at the Boy Scout
Memorial and also at the graves of other notable personalities buried
in Manila North, such as former Mayor Arsenio Lacson and former
Presidents Ramon Magsaysay and Manuel Roxas.
Also buried at the cemetery is movie legend and 2004 presidential
candidate Fernando Poe Jr.
SCOUTS HAD PREMONITION OF TRAGEDY
Manila Chronicle July 30, 1963
By Sylvia Mayuga of the Chronicle Staff
I will die a scout, Roberto Lozano, 19, and one of the 24 ill-fated Philippine scouting
delegates, often jested to his family and close friends. The pleasantry has assumed a
grim prophetic undertone.
Antonio Torillo had a more ominous warning. He dreamed of a plane crash two days
before he left. His uncle, to whom he confided this dismissed the thought and talked
about the places he was going to visit in Europe and America during his two-month
trip.
His parents, Col. And Mrs. Alfonso Torillo, were unaware of their sons tragedy until they
heard about it flashed over the Chronicle Broadcasting Network Sunday afternoon in
Rosario, Cavite.
Col. Torillo, a hardened veteran constabulary officer, is still suffering from shock. He
recalled that his son had worked hard to be able to join the contingent. Antonio was a
model scout of Cavite and his parents are still praying that he survived.
Crippled by polio at four months old, Roberto Lozano overcame many obstacles to lead
a normal life and scouting activity.
Julia del Prado, a cousin, recalls that even as a little boy, Roberto knew the signals
thoroughly, intent as he was on becoming a scout.
The trip was both a chance for a meeting with kindred spirits and a chance to pass by

Lourdes where many similarly affected had been cured.

Hence, his tenacity to raise whatever money he still lacked a day before the trip, to the
extent of approaching Malacaang for sponsorship.
With the tenacity typical of him, he raised whatever money he lacked for the trip by
approaching Malacaang and friends, said his mother, Mrs. Patrocinio del Prado vda. De
Lozano. He is the youngest of her three children.
Ebullient and enterprising, Roberto was a consistent honor student at Dagupan City
Colleges. As a student leader, he recently won a prize in an extemporaneous speaking
contest. He was on his second year in a pre-medicine course.
His death is the second tragedy in the family. It followed his fathers who died in an
accident shooting last January.
However, excited by the trip, he has specially requested his mother not to wear black at
the airport since he thought it not a cheerful send-off.
He had gone to confession before the trip and was hoping to go to Communion on the
Catacombs of Rome, Julia sobbed.
Florenta Ojeda, Agusan council master, who mourned by nephew by affinity, Florante
Pascual. The latter, a PE and PMT teacher at the Rajah Soliman High School, said he
had not contacted Ojedas family in Agusan because he was at a loss at what to tell
them.
He wept recalling the comradely relationship he had with Ojeda, a close friend of nine
years. Ojeda had slept in his house the night before he left. He still couldnt believed is
luck at being able to go abroad.
Romeo Rallos, 17, was the only son of four children. Gavino Santos, the boys uncle,
who is staying with the family, says that after his studies at the Quezon City High
School, they had intended to send him to Mapua Tech for an engineering course.
His father, who is working in San Francisco, California, had great hopes of sending for
his son to continue his studies there.
Jose Fermin Magbanua, a 14-year-old boy from Dumaguete City was on his first
exciting trip away from home.

Twice before he had been frustrated in his plans to go abroad when his visits to elder
sisters who are Smith-Mundt scholars in the United States have been called off.
The trip to Greece was for him a big adventure. According to Mrs. Padolina, a wife of a
BSP official, his family had planned on his studying to ne an engineer to follow in the
footsteps of his father.
Roberto Castors family held hopes for his safety and did not give up the thought of
seeing him once more.
The second of eight children, his parents had scrimped and saved in order to finance his
trip.
They had paid up P2,600 as down payment for his expenses and were only able to pay
the rest of the P6,000 required only a few days before his departure.
His mother sacrificed for him because we want to contribute what little we can towards
raising Filipinos international prestige
The parting at the airport was a little too much for Roberto. He was in tears as he bade
goodbye to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Castor.
Nobody thought that the goodbye kiss he gave to his mother would be the last act of
affection. Before his departure he shared a piece of cake with his mother.
His trip was sponsored jointly by Quezon City Mayor Norberto Amoranto, Councilor
Proceso Sebastian and the Quezon City Parent Teachers Association.
Librado Buddy Fernandez died because he wanted what little he could do for the
delegation. As supervisor of the United Arab Airlines, he didnt have to leave with the
group.
He went as an observer and being a scouter himself, donned a uniform because he
wanted the boys to feel that he was one of them.
Father Jose Martinez, S.J., chaplain of the group, was born in Laoag, Ilocos Norte on
Sept. 11, 1921 although his parents are now residing in Cebu City.
He finished his elementary at the Little Flower Academy and went to high school and
the university (then just a college) of San Carlos, where he was an honor student and
worked up to the rank of eagle scout.

He studied at the San Jose Seminary in 1939 to 1942. He became a Jesuit on May 30,
1942 and entered the Sacred Heart novitiate in Manila and Novaliches.
He taught at the Ateneo de Naga from 1950 and 1952 and then went to Woodstock
College in Maryland.
He was ordained priest June 16, 1956 at Fordham University by Francis Cardinal
Spellman.
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Remembering my uncle - Scout Wilfredo Santiago
18Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:01
I will always remember my uncle every July 28th and wondered what he could have
been if he is still with us. I was only 7 years old when the tragedy happened but saw
and felt the lost and sadness in my grandmother's (Pacita Santiago) and grandfather's
(Eduardo Santiago) faces.
I am sure they are all together now with the Lord.

Some older Filipino Americans can still recall vividly the crash of
an EgyptAir jetliner in the Bay of Bombay, India, on July 28, 1963.
EgyptAir was called at that time the United Arab Airlines. The Egyptian
airliner, a British-made Comet jetliner, was bound for Athens, Greece. Its
flight originated in Hong Kong and had a stop over in Bangkok, Thailand.
The ill-fated plane carried 52 passengers and eight crewmembers. Among

the passengers were 24 Filipino boy scouts and scout officials en route to
the 11th World Jamboree in Marathon, Greece.
According to eyewitnesses who were mainly fishermen from Mahd Island
off Bombay, India, the Egyptian airliner plunged into the sea in one piece.
Among the members of the Philippine scouting delegation, only five bodies
were positively identified from the human remains that were recovered in
the Bay of Bombay. There were no survivors in the plane crash.
Heres the story of ill-fated Filipino delegation to the 11th World Jamboree
in Marathon, Greece.
The Filipino delegation was composed of 24 scouts and scouting officials
(called scouters in the Philippines). The delegates composed a happy
bunch when it called on then Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal on
July 25, 1963, at the Malacaang Palace. During the courtesy call, a Boy
Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) official, Dr. Bonifacio Lazcano, introduced
the members of the delegation. Among them were the Manila Boy Scout
Councils Dr. Florante L. Ojeda and Librado Fernandez, an assistant
scoutmaster. Fr. Jose Ma. Martinez, SJ, a faculty member of the Ateneo de
Naga, who was an assistant scoutmaster in Naga City, was the delegations
chaplain.
The boy scouts who died in the plane crash: from the Manila BS Council:
Ramon V. Albano, Henry Chuatoco, Jose Antonio Delgado, Pedro Gandia,
Wilfredo Santiago and Ascario Tuason, Jr. From the Quezon City BS
Council: Roberto Castor, Romeo R. Rallos and Rogelio Ybardolaza. Felix
Fuentebella, Jr., represented both the Manila and Goa, Camarines Sur BS
Councils. The rest of the scouts: Victor de Guia, Jr. (Baguio City), Antonio
Limbaga (Zamboanga City), Roberto Lozano (Dagupan City), Paulo

Madrian (Pasay City), Jose Fermin Magbanua (Negros Oriental), Filamor

Reyes and Antonio Torillo (Cavite) and Benecio Tobias (Tarlac)
Two days later the delegation took a KLM flight for Hong Kong to catch a
connecting United Arab Airlines flight to Athens, Greece. The plane
departed for Bangkok, Thailand, on the night of July 27, 1963, for a stop
over and refueling.
Only the bodies of Jose Delgado, Henry Chuatoco, Roberto Castor, Ascario
Tuason, Jr., and Librado Fernandez were positively identified from among
the human remains recovered in the Bay of Bombay. Aviation authorities
were not able to ascertain conclusively the cause of the accident. Sabotage
was ruled out.
The head of the BSP delegation and three other scouting officials left
ahead of the main group. The four lucky ones were Gabriel Daza, the
BSP president and chief scout, H. B. Reyes, BSP vice president and
deputy national scout commissioner, J. Plaridel Silvestre, BSP vice
president and Godofredo Neri, a BSP executive.
The Filipino people of all walks of life mourned the deaths of the 24 scouts
and scouters. World leaders from Pope Paul VI to President Sukarno of
Indonesia sent messages of condolence. At the world jamboree in
Marathon, Greece, all the flags were flown at half-mast. More than 14,000
scouts and scouters at the world jamboree mourned the untimely deaths of
the Philippine delegation members. Bishop Benedict Parientis of the Athens
Archdiocese conducted a necrological service and mass in Marathon in
memory of the 24 Filipino scouts and scouters.

The BSC decided to send a third group on Aug. 3, 1963, to the world
jamboree. The group was composed of Nicasio Fernandez of the Far
Eastern University, Louis Santiago of the Mapua Institute of Technology
and Guillermo Flores of San Beda College, which was the school attended
by Scouts Jose A. Delgado and Felix Fuentebella, Jr.
The City Council of Quezon City renamed on April 24, 1964, streets in the
Kamuning and Roxas Districts after the 24 scouts and scouters. At San
Beda College, a memorial plaque was dedicated in honor of Delgado and
Fuentebella.
Editors Note: Bobby M. Reyes, the writer of this article, wanted to join
the Philippine delegation to the 11th World Jamboree. Reyes was a scout
of the BSP Sorsogon Council and he attended the 10th World Jamboree in
Mt. Makiling, Laguna, Philippines, in July 1959. When he returned to
Sorsogon in August 1959, Bobby asked his father support for his
participation in the 11th World Jamboree. The father, Dominador S. Reyes
(now deceased), who was then a candidate for provincial governor in the
November 1959 elections, said that Bobby would attend the jamboree if he
won. The father said that he could not afford the expense of Bobbys
attending the world jamboree if he lost his electoral bid. Fortunately for
Bobby his father lost the election and he gave up his dream of attending
the Marathon, Greece, jamboree. The election defeat of his father was
Bobbys blessing. In July 1963 Bobby was then a first-year AB student in
San Beda College and he felt that part of him died with Bedan scouts
Delgado and Fuentebella. He compiled the news reports about this tragedy
and wrote a summary about it. This article was previously published in the
now-defunct www.yimby.com in 1999 and some other Filipino-American

hardcopy magazines in 1988 and in the early 2000s, some of which have
also ceased publication.