Gift of Choice

The Gift of Choice: The Lives and Times of Leon Z. Roda and Alfonso P. Roda By Consuelo Roda Jackson Published 2003 TEACH Services, Inc. 363 pages ISBN:1572582464 http://books.google.com/books?id=KKOSMjahrB4C&dq=history+of+philippine+union+college&output=html&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Sarrat - Page 83 Two new church groups organized in Sarrat from this evangelistic effort. Antonino was baptized on November 19, 1919, and at once began his own ... more pages: 74 75 82 134 Bacarra - Page 135 They had taken a bus from Bacarra, where they had stopped to visit with his wife's folk. Alvaro shed tears as he embraced his older brother. ...  Hi! Blanchie, Your Roda Reunion report is so interesting that I read it all in one sitting. I felt I was there as I read each event....but alas! I don't know many of them. BTW in the list of the Roda brothers, I recall they had a younger brother named Bartolome whom the Leon Roda children called "Tata Tomy," who came to U.S. as a young man. Is he the same as the "Rosario" in the list? Their "Tata Tony" was Antonino. They also had one sister named Manuela who, I recall used to visit them once in a while. You see, the Leon & Maria Roda were our next door neighbors in Pasay days, and the 5 children from Eduardo, Elizabeth, Mercedes, Alfonso and Arturo, and us Villanueva children were very close friends... Mattie (Mrs. Paz Villanueva-Peng)

Standing back L-R: Leon, Sergio, Alvaro, Antonino;
Seated L-R: Maria with son Alfonso standing to her right, Candida holding daughter Natividad, Maxima holding daughter Esther and son David standing in front, Bartolome;
Seated front, children: Mercedes, (an elder daughter of Sergio and Candida who died at a young age), Elizabeth, and Eduardo.