Demand Letter

31 July 2017

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Dear _______:

My client, __________________, approached me regarding your unsettled indebtedness from her. As per documents presented, your last indebtedness amounts to Php 100,000.00 as of October 28, 2009 and PhP 100,000.00 as of December 4, 2009.

While initially, you made some installment payments as agreed, you eventually stopped making installments and refused to make the full payment. My client made repeated attempts to collect the payment in full, but you did not make good of your promises.

Thus, I am requesting that you make the payment in full by 15 September 2017, or make specific arrangements with my client to pay the balance.

My client expects a response to this letter no later than 15 August 2017. If this matter is not resolved by the time specified above, my client planned to commence legal proceedings to recover the debt without further notice to you and this letter may be tendered in court as evidence of your failure to pay.

Please consider this letter as our final demand.

Very truly yours,

ATTY. ROBERT JOHN I. DONESA

Block 17, Lot 2, Mapagmahal St.,

Fiesta Communities, Tabun, Mabalacat City, Pampanga

At my instance,

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Affidavit of Loss

Republic of the Philippines      )

Province of Pampanga             ) s.s.

CITY OF MABALACAT        )

AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

I, _________________, Filipino, single, twenty-four years old, and a resident of 69 st., B-82, L-08, Mauaque Resettlement Center, Sapang Biabas, Mabalacat City, Pampanga after having been sworn in

accordance with law, hereby deposes and states the following:

1. That I am holder official receipt of a student driver's license which I usually place in my bag;

2. That sometime on March 2017, I lost my bag and with it the official receipt of a student driver's license;

3. That despite diligent efforts to locate it, I am unable to find it, I firmly believed that the said official receipt of a student driver's license is now lost or it cannot be recovered;

4. I execute this affidavit to attest to the truth of the foregoing to the best of my knowledge and belief.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I signed this Affidavit of Loss as of the date set forth below.

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Affiant

ID: _________________

Issued at:_____________

Valid until:____________

SUBSCRIBED and SWORN TO before me on the date and at the place indicated below. The

affiant exhibited to me his competent evidence of identity as indicated above.

Signed this ______________at ________________, ______________________, Philippines.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL.

Notary Public

Doc. No._____

Page No._____

Book No._____

Series of _____

Abstract: The Mindanao Death March

The World War II in the Philippines is a story of cruelty. American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) were shocked at how uncivilized Japanese soldiers treated not only the allied POW but more so, the civilian population. A grand total of 142,076 reported American and Filipino men, women and children, military and civilian, died during the atrocities. Hundreds of thousands were made to suffer ordeals shocking to the conscience of civilized societies. There were wholesale murder, torture, rape, and all kinds of indignities and barbarities. Death marches were ordered in many parts of the country to herd POWs to concentration camps. These death marches highlighted all the indescribable sufferings of the POWs. Only two death marches were recognized in the Japanese war crime trials in Tokyo as evidence of inhuman treatment to POWs, one is the Bataan Death March and the other is the Iligan Death March or sometimes known as the Mindanao Death March. However, little is known about the Iligan Death March.

The purpose of the paper is to bring into the fore the rather untold story of a Death March in Mindanao. The Iligan Death March narrates the long exhausting walk from Camp Keithly in Dansalan, Lanao Province to Iligan with the purpose of bringing the POWs to Camp Casisang in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. It is fortunate that at least two POWs of the said ordeal survived to vividly narrate the story. They were Victor L. Mapes and Herbert Zincke. From their narratives, we can put flesh to the sketchy accounts on the Iligan Death March.    

The Filipino and American forces were ordered to surrender to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. Those who surrendered in the Lake Lanao area, some 300 Filipinos and about 40 or so Americans, were concentrated in Camp Keithly, Lanao Province on May 27, 1942. On 4 July 1942, the prisoners were made to march from Camp Keithly to Iligan, Lanao, a distance of about thirty-six kilometers, for the purpose of joining them with the rest of POWs from Mindanao at Camp Casisang, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Transport trucks, although available, were denied the POWs. They were ordered to traverse a distance of about thirty-six kilometers of rocky dirt road under the blazing tropical sun. 

At 8:00 A.M., July 4, 1942, the POWs lined up for the march at Dansalan. The Americans were arranged by four abreast and were strung together, in columns, by a heavy wire through their belts. The Filipinos, though left unwired, were barefooted. A truckload of Japanese soldiers with a mounted machine gun followed the prisoners, ready to shoot anybody who will try to escape.

As the day progressed, the midday sun became unbearable. Without food and water, one by one the soldiers fell down due to exhaustion. Those who fell were left behind, however, they were first shot at the forehead to prevent them from joining the guerrillas in case they eventually recover.

A wounded soldier, Childress, struggled to keep up with the march. Major Luther Heidger, the military physician in the group, requested the Japanese for Childress to be taken on board the truck. The Japanese guard acceded. Later, a gunshot was heard from the truck ending Childress' suffering. The prospect of ruthless death drove the other weakened soldiers almost to a point of insanity.

The Filipino POWs were no less luckier. They started at a lively pace, but by the time they reached Iligan, at 6:00 P.M., they were in worse shape. Their bare feet had worn raw on the rough rocky road.

The paper will include a list of those who participated in the Iligan Death March and, whenever possible, trace whether or not the said POWs eventually survived the gruesome war.

Jose C. Feliciano College Foundation Matagumpay na Nagdiwang ng Buwan ng Wika 2013

Sa ilalim ng temang: Wika Natin ang Daang Matuwid, matagumpay na ipinagdiwang ng Jose C. Feliciano College Foundation ang Buwan ng Wika noong ika-29 ng Agosto 2013. Ginanap ang selebrasyon bilang pagtalima sa pambansang pagdiriwang ng Buwan ng Wika.

        Nagdaos ang Kolehiyo ng iba’t-ibang patimpalak na naglalayun na isulong ang paggamit, pagpapalago at pagpapahalaga sa pambansang wika. Nagkaroon ng paligsahan sa rap sa Filipino, sabayang pagbigkas, isahang tinig, at tagisan ng mga Lakan at Lakambini.

        Nagkaroon ng “Rapublika” o paligsahan sa pag-rap o mabilis na awiting pasalita. Nagkaroon din paligsahan sa pinaka-gwapong Lakan at pinakamagandang Lakambini. Dalawang klase ang nagtagisan sa Sabayang Pagbigkas. Nagpakitang gilas naman ang tatlong estudyante sa pag-awit ng mga awitin Pinoy sa Isahang Tinig.

        Ang pagdiriwang ay binuksan ni Dr. Aurea De Vera, Pangalawang Pangulo ng Kolehiyo. Sa kanyang talumpati, malugod na binati ni Atty. Manuel M. Feliciano, Pangulo ng Kolehiyo, ang mga miyembro ng faculty, staff, at students at mga hurado sa kanilang pakikilahok na siyang naging susi ng tagumpay ng pagdiriwang. Sina Atty. Robert John I. Donesa, Gng. Marian P. Tapnio at G. George C. Granados ang umupo bilang mga hurado.

CHED RO III Awards Atty. RJ Donesa

          The Commission on Higher Education Regional Office III awarded Atty. Robert John I. Donesa, among others, for his “steadfast devotion in contributing professional expertise” to CHED and its advocacies. The surprise awarding ceremonies is one of the highlights of CHEDROIII 19^th Founding Anniversary celebration last May 24, 2013 at the Diosdado Macapagal Government Center, Maimpis, City of San Fernando, Pampanga.

          Atty. Donesa supported and served CHEDROIII in its various activities and endeavors. He is a member of the Regional Quality Assessment Team for Humanities, Social Sciences and Communications since 2008. For several years, he served as a member of the Board of Judges for the Regional Super Quiz Bee and the Regional Search for the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP). He also served as a speaker to the CHED's in-house seminar  on Sexual Harassment.

          Other Awardees include Dr. Felizardo Y. Francisco, former CHEDROIII Director, Prof. Leo Vicente Tago of Systems Plus College Foundation, Angeles City, and Atty. Atty. Toots Cruz of Meycauayan College, Meycauayan City, Bulacan.