My Fellow Ateneo Alumni,<\/p>\n
We are paying the price of becoming a duly registered and structured body. We’re fighting among ourselves about technicalities and ruining friendships. Our problems had compounded when we joined another organisation such as the ”umbrella” PCC-NSW, which has been even more political in actual practice.<\/p>\n
Our alumni group did not have any of this for the 10 or more years that we had no structure.<\/p>\n
I don’t like [to] stand up now and say ”I told you so” because I had been against our becoming a formally registered structure, and then against our joining the PCC-NSW as an affiliate.<\/p>\n
But I would like to see us start by accepting the fact that a majority of our members at the Annual General Meeting last July 28 wanted our AAA to withdraw from PCC-NSW. Bringing up ”constitutional technicalities”, if you like, would do little, if nothing, to change the will of the majority.<\/p>\n
To the winners in the ballot, I say prove to our membership that withdrawal from the PCC-NSW would eventually be of benefit to the AAA.<\/p>\n
To the losers in the ballot, I say all is not completely lost. You can come to fight a friendly battle another day.<\/p>\n
But let’s keep the AAA a haven of friendships. Only as good friends can we become men and women for others.<\/p>\n
Jaime Kelly Pimentel<\/strong><\/p>\n Lidcombe NSW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Fellow Ateneo Alumni, We are paying the price of becoming a duly registered and structured body. We’re fighting among ourselves about technicalities and ruining friendships. Our problems had compounded when we joined another organisation such as the ”umbrella” PCC-NSW, which has been even more political in actual practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,51,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}