By Norman C. Caguioa
SAN CARLOS CITY — Some 20,000 alumni and balikbayans who graduated from the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF) here will converge on February 8, 2008 during the university celebration of its 50th Golden Anniversary and Grand Alumni Homecoming.

Dr. Angelo B. Juan, VMUF alumni relations director and overall chairman of the activity expressed optimism that hundreds of graduates who are now employed abroad will come home to attend the university reunion.

Juan said the graduates will be coming from different regions in the world including USA, Canada, Europe, Middle East and other Asian countries. He expects hundreds of graduates because of the enthusiastic response of alumni abroad.

The VMUF will be 50 years old on February 2008, founded in 1958 by the late educators and trailblazing couple, Dr. Martin P. Posadas and Dr. Rosalina Quebral-Posadas.

Originally rising as a 10-bed medical and dental clinic in 1951, the VMUF, famously known as the non-stock, non-profit, non-sectarian Catholic Virgen Milagrosa Educational Institution (VMEI), has gone a long way to become one of the country’s premier medical, educational and sports center.

It is one of the fastest growing universities in the Far East region today strategically located in the heart of San Carlos City in Pangasinan, about 200 kilometers north of Manila. It was named after the Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, the patroness of the Virgen Milagrosa Complex.

The institution’s founders nurtured the institution from just a vision for a 20-hectare school located in the heart of the city to its present stature, turning it into a university with state-of-the art facilities.

Dr. Juan said that one of the highlights of this affair is a ballroom dancing party and evening surprises to be led by university officials headed by Dr. Ma. Lilia P. Juan, university president.

Other activities include a Holy Mass; a motorcade parade; an exhibition by the award-winning VMUF-Drum and Bugle Corps; floral offering to the tomb of VMUF Founders; fireworks display; parlor games, and a buffet luncheon picnic and a raffle draw.

Drs. Angelo and Ma. Lilia Juan, now vice-president for administration and president respectively, are classmates at the VMUF-College of Medicine of Class 1979. The first 21 medical graduates had a very outstanding performance in the board examinations when all of them passed, 100 percent
VMUF graduates are invited to visit the website at http://www.vmuf.edu.ph or send email at vmuf50years@yahoo.com.
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