He had always been an inquisitive student.  He loved asking questions and had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. He liked challenges — as early as the 1st Grade, he would emcee during school programs which nurtured his public speaking skills…

On a typical day inside his STEFTI classroom, Marvin Pacuri was the unassuming, lanky boy seated at the back row ready to pounce on a Trigonometry question from his Math teacher. He had always been his classmates’ go-to guy for…

No one expected him to enter the priesthood. He was a studious pupil sure, used to getting straight A’s in Science and Math exams, but people close to him know him more as the class comedian, the carefree boy often…

Xerxes Alain Hibanada, fondly called Zirk by his classmates, started his schooling as a toddler at The Learning Place. He was an adorable tiny tot whose piercing bawls bounced from wall to wall every time his aunt left him by…