The PRRM Years...Batch '67

My first assignment as a Rural Reconstruction Worker (RRW)was in Candating, Arayat, Pampanga. Candating was another remote barrio that could be reach during dry season thru a karetela and during rainy season thru boat along the Arayat river. I was assigned in Candating with another batch '67 member, Avelino Pacleb. Management said that we were assigned together because of the big size of the barrio. I was in Candating for six months. I figured that with the two of us RRWs assigned in Candating I had no prospect to shine and show my potentials because the performance would be credited to the two of us.

During the PRRM December 1967 Conference in Nieves I wrote a letter to the Field Director, Mr. Menandro Pernito expressing my desire to volunteer with the Bislig team in Mindanao.

In January, 1968 I was assigned in Mangagoy, Bislig, Surigao del Sur under Team Captain Cipriano Ramos, Jr. The other members of the Bislig Team were: Casilda Ramos, Nazarena Nejal, Flaviano Cruz(batch '67), Jessie Aquino(batch '67),and Mimay.

I was assigned in Bislig for about a year. It was during the later part of 1968 that one of the members of batch '67 and one of my closest friends who was also from Guimba, Vic Lucas was killed in a vehicular accident in his assignment in San Fernando, Pampanga.

During the December Conference in 1968 in Nieves, I was informed by Mr. Pernito that I will be assigned in Calibutbut, Telebastagan, San Fernando, Pampanga to take over the area of the late Vic Lucas.

By the early part of 1969, I went to Calibutbut.

Batch '67 male members with Luz Escuadro