Evelyn Nabor Revestir: A Pride of Lezo, Aklan

Evelyn Nabor Revestir: A Pride of Lezo, Aklan

By Melchor F. Cichon

November 24, 2012

Can we predict whether a child will grow to be an achiever or not?

I do.

What could be my bases?

First, if that child is healthy both in body and mind.

And she/he has developed self-confidence and dedication in whatever he/she does.

I am thinking of a lady achiever from Lezo, Aklan. Her name is Evelyn Nabor Revestir.

She came from a family of achievers.

Consider the following. Her father, the late Gabriel Navarrete Gubatina Nabor was a painter, sculptor and teacher, while her mother is Mrs. Adela Cezar Isidro Ibuyan. Her brothers are Rev. Fr. Jerome I. Nabor and the late Gabriel I. Nabor, a B.S. Architecture, UP Diliman, Quezon City graduate. Her sister is Mary Grace N. Cajels, a B. S. Nursing, now in Brooklyn , New York, USA.

Early in her studies, Evelyn had already shown her top caliber intelligence. From Grade I to Grade V, she was always their First Honors and when she graduated in her elementary grades, she was their Valedictorian.

Her academic achievements did not stop there. She graduated as Magna cum laude with the Highest Distinction in Religion when she received her BS in Commerce, Major in Accounting degree at the Aklan College, now the Aklan Catholic College, Kalibo, Aklan.

Even before she graduated from college, Evelyn employed as a working student at De Paul Community Credit Union, Kalibo, Aklan; Aklan College Employees Cooperative, and at Aklan College Treasurer’s Office as a bookkeeper.

Immediately after her graduation from college, Evelyn worked  as a bookkeeper in Rural Bank of Buruanga (Aklan), Inc., then as an Accountant at Rural Bank of Lezo (Aklan), Inc., in Lezo, Aklan, and retired as manager of UCPB Rural Bank, Inc, in Lezo, Aklan.

With this background, I have no doubt that whatever endeavor Evelyn or Eve will get into, she will surely give her best, most especially when it comes to public service.

In Memoriam: Dominador I. Ilio

In Memoriam

by Melchor F. Cichon

 

Dominador I. Ilio was born in 1913*, to a farmer couple, in Malinao, Capiz (now Aklan).

 

He was until his retirement in 1978, a professor of hydraulics at the University of the Philippines College of Engineering and head of its Engineering Science Department and College Secretary for many years. He was the Secretary of the UP Alumni Engineers since 1954 and was selected the Most Distinguished Engineering Alumnus in 1977.

 

With writing as an avocation, Prof. Ilio has been published as early as 1934 while still a student at the University of the Philippines where he was the literary editor of the Philippine Collegian (1938-39). He finished with civil and geodetic engineering degrees from UP. While working for his MS in Hydraulics at the Univeristy of Iowa, he attended the renowned poetry workshop of Paul Engle.

 

He was in the first wave of Martial Law detainees back in 1972/73. (This period of our lives is so foggy I don't even remember what year it was he was imprisoned by the Marcos regime.) His recent works include The Collected Poems of Dominador Ilio, Guerilla Memoirs (a novel), Madia-as (tales and legends in verse), The Katipunan of Aklan, and Vagaries of a Wild River. He is also included in Gemino Abad and Edna Manlapaz's Man of Earth (Ateneo, 1989) and its sequel, A Native Clearing (UP Press, 1993) and in Nick Carbo's anthology Returning a Borrowed Tongue, a collection of Filipino poetry in English, published by Coffee House Press, 1995. He died on February 7, 2006 at age 93.

 

*His year and date of birth is always in question. It's either 1913, 1914 or 1915. I am sticking to 1913 in this biography.