CATALINO AURELIO CHAPTER:

- The first De Molay Chapter was instituted on April 21, 1947, and its chartered officers installed on May 28 of the same year.

- It was named after WB Catalino Aurelio, a Past Master of Kanla-on Lodge No. 64, who, while doing an intelligence mission with the resistance movement during World War II, was captured by the Japanese and was later on executed by them.

- The first Chairman of the Advisory Council was the late WB Ernesto S. Salas, and the chartered Master was his son, the late Bro. Rafael M. Salas Bro. "Paeng" Salas later became the Undersecretary of the United Nations.

- Catalino Aurelio Chapter formally surrendered its Charter on the summer of 1953.

 SERAFIN V. AGUILAR (formerly Frank S. Land Memorial) CHAPTER:

 - Kanla-on Lodge No. 64, officially agreed to sponsor once again the formation of the De Molay Chapter during its stated meting of July 1968. WB Serafin V. Aguilar was designated to act as Chairman of the Advisory Council.

 - Frank S. Land Memorial Chapter was officially instituted by MW Manuel M. Crudo. Grand Master of Mason on 21 December, 1969. The installation of its chartered officers was done on the same date by the Installing Team from the Leon Kilat Chapter.

 - WB Serafin V. Aguilar died of heart failure on January, 1973. The Kansas City, Missouri, USA, to changed the name of the Chapter from Frank S. Land Memorial to Serafin V. Aguilar, International Supreme Council (ISC) approved such petition on 21 June, 1973.

 - Serafin V. Aguilar Chapter instituted the first De Molay Community Assistance Project by adopting the Island of Na-uway as it summer Protectorate. The Chapter brought a medical team to the island, distributing much needed medicine, build an artesian well, and planted a hundred trees on the hill of the island. For its effort, the Chapter was presented a plaque of recognition and thanks from the government of the sub-province of Guimaras, and the municipality of Jordan, on which the island belong. This activities were also published, complete with pictures in the "CORDON", the officially organ of the International Order of DeMolay. The project lasted for seven summers, and the evidence can be seen even today by the tall trees on the hill Na-uway Island.

 - The first outdoor conferral of the Initiatory and De Molay Degrees was held at the mountain retreat of the Salas family at Brg. Ara-al, on the foothills of Kanla-on Volcano.

 - Serafin V. Aguilar Chapter hosted the first Visayas Leadership Training Camp on December 20, 1973 at the Mambucal Summer Resort. It again hosted the same Camp two years later at the San Antonio Beach Resort.

 - The Chapter played the host to the first city-wide inter- fraternity sportfest and physical fitness activities. It received a plaqued of commendation from the city government of Bacolod and from the Integrated National Police for this achievement.

The 1st Advisory Council

Flag raising in Valladolid on DeMolay Week