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Your monthly guide to school news, information and events.
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Issue 2
May
2021
awards were further
explained by Mr. Errold
Serrano, the Secretariat of
the DSEA committee.
Dr. Canoy encouraged
all the participants to
By: Sahlee M. Rivera submit as many entries
they can. The said program
May 15, 2021 – The The four awards mentioned aims to recognize
Benita and Catalino Yap were CSR Youth Awards, BCYF innovation, great thinking,
Foundation (BCYF) North Innovation Awards, Hometown work, personal and social
Luzon CSR Council in Heroes Awards and Developmental responsibility, citizenship
partnership with the Lyceum Social Enterprise Awards. These and sustainability.
Northwestern University
launched its annual BCYF
Awards 2021 via Zoom and
was streamed live on the
official Facebook page of
LNU.
The virtual launching and
orientation were attended by
Lycean students, other
professionals and
representatives from different
institutions.
Dr. Eric Canoy, a member of
the Board of Trustees of BCYF,
presented briefly the schedule
and deadline of submission of This photo was taken during the speech of DR. ERIC CANOY, member of the Board
nomination. of Trustees of BCYF, as he welcomes and inspires participants in his speech.

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one of the many that he organized Magalang, Pampanga, a

around that time. charity institution in
Today, the SACT College System partnership with the local
includes various schools and parish. It organized the
In the year 1993, the Benita colleges offering education and “Dalubhasang Tanglaw
and Catalino Yap Foundation training at all academic levels. The Awards for Most
(then known as the Catalino D. College System considers the Outstanding Teacher in the
Yap Foundation or CDYF) was Foundation as the “soul of the Elementary and High
established to honor Mr. school”. School” levels in the
Catalino D. Yap. Sr., who was From 1993-2003, the province and has given out
then a sports patron. He was Foundation was focused on over 5,000 scholarships
one of the founders of the Education, Sports, and Institution including Study Now Pay
Philippine Olympic Committee Building. It organized Holy Rosary Later plans and full
and an active member of the School (HRS) in 1995, the scholarships for various
Lion’s Movement, and an Mabalacat Community College, and types of achievement.
educator being the founder / the Clark Education Centers. Source:
co-founder of many schools, In its almost 20 years of http://www.bcyfoundation.org
including the Saint Anthony existence, BCYF has established
institute in 1945, which is just the Holy Rosary School in

A collection of photos taken during the virtual launching and orientation of BCYF AWARDS 2021. The third
person in the frame is Mr. RodneyOdesson Raguindin (the emcee), 2nd row Mrs. Cythia Lopez (VP for research and
innovation at LNU), Mrs. Violeta D. Sibal (Head of BCYF Secretariat) and Dr. Marco Duque (Executive VP of LNU),
and 3rd row Mr. Errold Serrano (the Secretariat of the DSEA committee).

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