VISSIA MARIE P. ALDON is a woman of infinite virtues who is a member of INNHS Class 1970.
As City Personnel Officer of the Makati City government since 2004, she oversees all personnel concerns of the local government’s 8,400 employees – from recruitment, staff development, training and retention, firing, employee discipline and benefits/payroll.
Prior to her present position, she worked with the Metro Manila Development Authority having served as Director of the Management and Organization Services (1997 to 2003) and Director of the Real Property Assesssment Services (1993 to 2001).
In her stint with the Metro Manila Commission, she was Supervising Management Specialist/Division Chief of the Physical Resource Management Division and Executive Assiistant II where she conducted researches and studies on querries or referrals submitted by government offices and constituents pertaining to the basic functions of the Commission.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service at UP Diliman in 1976 where she was a consistent Dean’s Lister at the School of Urban and Regional Planning, she received a commendation Diploma in Urban Management Planning at the Institute of Housing Studies, The Netherlands and pursued a masters degree in Urban Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), The Netherlands.
Above all these myriad virtues, she considers her greatest accomplishment on her marriage to Atty. Cornelio P. Aldon, who granted her the best gifts ever –– her two sons: Juan Paulo, a graduating law student and Jose Miguel, a senior medical Intern at the Makati Medical Center.
If knowledge and persistence are combined, Mr. LEONARDO ERICTA BLAS could be the perfect substance. If he can be viewed as a vessel of morals and values, he could be the exact model.
A genuine Laoagueño, he was born in Laoag on Oct. 1, 1956. He finished elementary at the Laoag Central Elementary School in 1969 and secondary education at Ilocos Norte National High School in 1973. He obtained his Bacheor of Arts, Major in Mathematics at the Divine Word College of Laoag where he graduated Cum Laude in 1977.
After college, he joined the GSIS Laoag City branch, where he rose from the ranks, as an Accounts Clerk in 1980 up to the Chief of the Administrative Division in 1998 until his retirement in 2008. Even during his 20-year stint with the GSIS Laoag, he pursued his educational aspirations. He joined the teaching staff of the DWCL as a part-time college math instructor in 1980-1987. He enrolled back to his college alma mater where he obtained his Masters in Business Administration in 1995. In 2000, he served as an MBA professor of the same institution.
After his GSIS years, he returned into teaching where he is presently a part-time instructor of the Data Center College of the Philippines - Laoag Campus.
Mr. Blas is married to the former Pureza E. Aguinaldo. They are blessed with an only child, Dr. Lutece Krystle A. Blas, a Resident Physician of the Makati Medical Center.
Atty. HUMPHREY D. TUMANENG is a member of INNHS Class 1974. Credibility, civility, confidence, curiosity, and a competitive spirit are the five key traits that make him the quintessence of a lawyer. He finished Bachelor of Arts, Major in Political Science at UP Diliman in 1977. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws at the same school in 1982 where he became a member of the Order of the Purple Feather Honor Society.
As a government lawyer, he is one of the leading lawyers in the aviation industry, handling the legal requirements and cases of various airlines and airfreight forwarders before the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). He also deals with various concerns of sea freight forwarders and logistics companies under the Philippine Shipping Bureau (PSB). Furthermore, he is among the prominent lawyers of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB).
As a corporate secretary and legal counsel, he oversees and regulates corporate matters. He also has extensive practice as a court litigator in trial and appellate courts and administrative bodies with quasi-judicial functions for criminal, civil and administrative cases as well as special proceedings.
After decades in the trenches, he has discerned that to become an effective lawyer, one doesn’t lean on experience but to live with it in order to enhance the five-fold traits and continually improve the craft.
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