UP Alumni Chapter of Washington DC, MD, VA Turns 40!

The University of the Philippines Alumni Association of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia (UPAADCMDVA) will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its founding with a Gala Ball dinner-dance, entitled "The Red Ball: 40 and all fired up!", on October 18, 2014, Saturday at the Tysons Corner Marriott in Virginia. The evening program will feature a keynote speech by Dr. Gisela Padilla-Concepcion, Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the University of the Philippines (UP), song and dance presentations by UP alumni and friends, a silent auction and a raffle. General admission is $85 per person ($50 for children under 12). Music will be provided by DJ Noel Gamboa. Proceeds from this fundraising event will go towards establishing faculty grants for the UP Visayas Tacloban College and the UP Manila School of Health Sciences in Palo, Leyte, which were both severely damaged by Typhoon Haiyan last November 2013.

For more information, please call Liza (301) 294-2705 or Edwin (703) 963-6712
Send us an email: upaadcmdva@yahoo.com; upaadcmdva@cox.net
Visit our website: http://www.upaadcmdva.org/Red_Ball.html
We are also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UPAAdcmdva

October 18, 2014, Sunday
6:00 pm to 12 midnight
8028 Leesburg Pike
Tysons Corner, VA 22182