After years of unrelenting courage and faith, we have come to this day where all our reasonable expectations and hopes come to their fruition. Today we are making history. Our very first commencement exercises, with modesty aside, explicitly prove that we must have done something really good. In 2011, a fine, loving and altruistic couple envisioned a higher academic institution to the young people of Pampanga, a school focused on service and not profit. Engr. Sebastian Pagcu with wife Engr. Carina Pagcu, who is also the current president of Colegio De Sebastian profoundly believe that benefits and opportunities should be extended to everyone. Special attention, in fact, must be made available for the disenfranchised, the disadvantaged and the people who are least seen, heard and touched. Inspiring and motivating, their goal is to raise courageous and faithful men and women who shall become lifelong learners and catalysts for change.
"CDS is indeed fortitudinous and it has exhibited genuine courage, if only for starting a new institution in the midst of the challenges and vicissitudes that one meets within an economy beset by all familiar social ills- corruption and the general lack of enthusiasm towards selfless social service."
"Despite the paralysis of will apparent in the government, among other sectors , CDS keeps its fides- its faith in the indomitable spirit of the Filipino. It is a faith in the ability of the Filipino not only to survive in the face of impossible hurdles, it is also a faith in the divine gift of the Filipino persona to draw beauty from the quagmire or natural calamities. It is a faith in the Filipino soul’s keeness about the good, even when he himself has been a helpless victim on evil for centuries. It is finally, a faith in the Filipino’s discernment of truth despite the pervading collision course of the human spirit against the disruptions to the spirits brought on by the godlessness of some heralds of modernity."
These same Courage and Faith have been inculcated to our 58 graduating students in our midst today, the FIRSTBORNS of Colegio De Sebastian. The members of the CDS Family whose hearts are filled with joy and excitement welcome all of you today, parents, friends, guests and everyone here who are one with us on this BIG DAY.
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