SAVE UP HIGH

To All UP High School Cebu Alumni:

We are very happy and touched by the immediate response from the alumni. Your concern and support have strengthened our resolve to fight for the high school. We have already written to the Dean and to the UP President Emerlinda Roman regarding our stand. We have requested for a dialogue with them. I believe we will be provided that chance for a dialogue this January.

I have been receiving emails from alumni stating your support to the high school. Letters from you are highly appreciated. We would like to compile them as testimonials for the high school and present them with other documents to UP Pres. Roman when she and other officials come to Cebu in January.

We would appreciate a resolution from the alumni attesting its support for the High School. Even individual testimonials of how UP High has helped them would be a great help.
(please send your letters and/or testimonials to inday_balt@yahoo.com )
It is only UP High School Cebu that is facing this problem. UP High School Iloilo is not being downsized to one section. Should we be able to charge tuition, we want to follow socialized tuition. We still want to be able to serve more economically-disadvantaged students. That is the mission of UP High School Cebu and we believe in that mission. We are also making a proposal for a new tertiary program for basic education which is interdisciplinary in nature and relevant to today's global environmental concerns. This unique program will further justify the need for the high school. If there is anybody who would know how to contact Ambassador Paynor, that would be great. I met him during the Garbo sa Sugbu awards where UP High was among the awardees. He was full of admiration for our students. He told me that should the high school need his help, we can always contact him. He is now consul general at San Francisco, California. He might also be able to give a letter of commendation or a resolution. We believe resolutions of support from all sectors of the community will convince the administration that UP High School Cebu is relevant to the community.
DAGHANG SALAMAT KANINYONG TANAN!

Prof. Purita T. Baltazar
Principal, UP High School Cebu