Green Day

On March 7, 2012, join the Lasallian community as we celebrate Green Day, when we countdown one hundred days to De La Salle University's centennial year celebrations on June 16, 2012.

Download the posters below (courtesy of De La Salle Philippines) and use them on your blog, social network profiles, or even print them out and use them as cards!

Different Shades of Green

Never Shall We Fail

Animo La Salle!

DLSU UnivWeek 2012

Today is the day! Wear our school colors GREEN and WHITE proudly today, February 17, for the culminating party and concert of University Week 2012!

Green is More Fun in DLSU!

Join us as we celebrate our Centennial University Week today.

We have food stalls and apparel shops at Yuchengco Hall Lobby, Central Plaza, and SJ Walk, and Miguel Walk! Indulge, shop, and have a blast, the Lasallian way!

Party and concert begins 5pm onwards. Entrance is free for all Lasallians.

Photo by Andrew Pamorada.
"Wear Green" poster by the DLSU University Student Government.

DLSU Back in the Day

I saw these great pictures of my Alma Mater, De La Salle University, on my Facebook updates a little earlier. DLSU is situated smack in the heartland of the capital city, and it's quite a different sight now. 

Pictures are all courtesy of Lasallian alumnus Mr. Bibera, from his photo album "Nostalgia Manila".

Circa 1925.

Circa 1930s.

Post-Second World War.

St. La Salle Hall, circa 1970s.

St. La Salle Hall aerial view, circa 1970s.

Taft Avenue, home of DLSU, early 1980s. No LRT island yet.

St. La Salle Hall, circa 1980s.

Aside from being a beautiful school (we're quite famous for featuring Neoclassical architecture on our halls), the images above depict Manila at its finest, in my opinion. Note the clear, blue skies and the visible sky. Currently, there are almost a dozen condominiums surrounding De La Salle University (I live in one) and the skies are grayish-blue at best due to all the pollution. It's my dream that the Green Zone project* may help bring back Taft Avenue to its glory days as a gorgeous, sexy campus.

A hundred years on, and we're moving for a clean, modern look with the Centennial Hall, expected to rise by June 15, 2012. That's another blog post, though.

Jay~

I cannot thank Mr. Bibera enough for these images and making them publicly available. Animo La Salle! Pictures retrieved on January 28, 2012 from photo album "Nostalgia Manila". 

De La Salle University was known as De La Salle College when these images were taken. The creation of De La Salle - College of St. Benilde paved the way for DLS College to be DLS University. Just some info :)

*The Green Zone is an institutionalized project to turn Taft Avenue (from V. Cruz LRT 1 station to Quirino LRT 1 station, respectively) from the most polluted place in the Philippines (in terms of air quality) to the cleanest. Launched on January 18, 2012. Expected results between 2017 to 2022.

Animo Christmas! Concert

Member of the Lasallian community? Come this Friday!

In line with De La Salle University's Centennial Year, the Lasallian Community is having the FIRST EVER Animo Christmas! Concert on Friday, December 16, 2011 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm at the De La Salle University Amphitheater.

Watch our very own Lasallian Bands and Singers, DLSU Alumni, representatives from the different sectors, De La Salle Brothers and many more as they render us Christmas Performances! Skittlez Crew will also be performing our Remix 2011 championship piece here :)

Guest singers and bands such as PUPIL, AKAFELLAS, KUNDIRANA, CLAYTON RISNER (International Youtube Singer) and others will be performing as well ;)

SEE YOU THERE!

Note:
Unfortunately, this event is only open to the Lasallian community (students, alumni, staff, and students from the other sixteen Lasallian schools).

Jay~

DLSU 100 Years - The Centennial Tree

One of the most amazing videos for De La Salle University's Centennial Celebrations. This is the tree - the oldest one on campus - that is beside the walkway going from St. La Salle Hall to Yuchengco Hall, and in between the Marian Quadrangle and the Amphitheater. It should be familiar to the many generations of Lasallians that have passed by it while it stood a silent sentinel over all of us Greenies :)
Director: Mayk Juat
Asst Director: Ryan Dino
Cinematographer: Nix Lanas
Producer: Grays Pelayo
Editor: Thop Nazarano
Compositing: Mayk Juat

Jay~

DLSU - 100 Years of Lasallian Presence in the Philippines

Happy Centennial!


Today, we Lasallians celebrate our university's one-hundredth year in the country.

With the university's humble beginnings as De La Salle College located in a small corner of Paco, Manila, the De La Salle Philippines network has expanded into 17 schools and over 90,000 Lasallians.

I love this school.
I am a proud former student, alumnus, and staff member of this great academic institution.
Green Pride!
Animo La Salle!



Jay~

Photo from here.

Remembering the First Nine

Today, the majority of the De La Salle University community (as well as the other Lasallian schools around the country) are proudly wearing Green and White, and also various De La Salle shirts. Today we remember the arrival of the first nine De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines.

The first three Brothers arrived in Manila on March 10, 1911 from Europe and the Middle East, an understandably long voyage at that time. The following six arrived weeks later on May 3, 1911 and the first community of the Lasallian Brothers in the archipelago was complete.

A hundred years on, they have left a peerless legacy of quality Christian education that has produced some of the best and most notable Filipinos in history. They have left an impact not just on society, politics, and business but in culture, arts, and environmental awareness as well, as De La Salle Philippines immerses itself in numerous community development and green projects. A hundred years on, just under 20 La Salle schools around the country have given hundreds of thousands of young people the education that they so rightly deserve, and the education that our patron saint, St. Jean Baptiste de La Salle, envisioned giving to all the young people of the world.

Thank you for bringing the educational institution of De La Salle in the Philippines, bros :)

Brother Louis
Brother Aloysius
Brother Blimond
Brother Camillus
Brother Augusto
Brother Joseph
Brother John
Brother William
Brother Martin

It's a momentous day today. Wear green, and wear it proud.
I am a Lasallista and nothing will ever change that.

Part of my De La Salle Centennial series.

Reference:
Quirino, C. (1986). La Salle: 1911-1986. Manila, Philippines: Paragon Printing Corporation.

Jay~