OUR MENTOR, OUR MOTHER

Today shall mark the celebration day for Ma'am Rebecca Febrero, CPA to leave the teaching profession. She retires from teaching Accounting and related subjects after the challenging and grueling 20 years in  Saint Paul University Surigao, formerly known as San Nicolas College.

The BS Accountancy Alumni has collaborated to realize a "Tribute to Ma'am Bec-Bec" event. Most of the transactions happened and being facilitated by the Facebook. And today here it comes. I did not go home to attend the ceremonies but I was requested by Dupong, my classmate, friend and colleague in the profession, to prepare a poem in dedication to Ma'am Bec-Bec - Nanay Bek.

A poem? Are you kidding me? I only wrote a poem once in high school and have it published in the college school paper. I can not even remember what it contain. I don't even know what and how to word a poem, much more a poem for my favorite mentor? But the request came this afternoon and Dupong will be reading it tonight. So I rushed and have finally come up a reasonable amount of words, simply written and arranged to look like a poem. Dupong titled it "The ASCENT of a MAN: a TRIBUTE to my TEACHER!"

Here it is.

Oh how blessed we have been

We thank God for this wonderful offering

A teacher of high caliber is given

Who teaches us life beyond accounting

To our beloved Ma’am Bec-Bec we admit

We became achievers because of your deeds

We thank you for such great teachings

We love you for such great caring

You have been consistently great

You have been constantly excellent

You have always been our great teacher

You will always be our mother

Many a times we make you laugh

There have been times we make you cry

Though most of the times we make you mad

But everything no matter unfathomable is grounded on love

Times had passed, years gone by

Some of us stay, some of us fly

As we showed the world who we really are

We always declared in our lives the who you are

We will always keep the memory forever

We will always maintain Ma’am Bec-Bec in a special ledger

As we periodically account for our revenue

Our balance sheet will be complete because of you

Now that you leave the portals of teaching

We wish you the best of luck in retiring

Along with it our congratulations

And we thank you for making an indelible mark on our souls

The BSA Alumni, Batch 1997 would like to send our best wishes to Ma'am Bec-Bec: