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Acknowledgments
I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to two individuals in the writing of this biography: to my mother Dr. Lourdes R. Quisumbing whose autobiography was a major source of information for this article and who co-edited it with my sister Dr. Maria Socorro Quisumbing-King, who provided me with a copy of our family genealogy.
NOTES
*The writing of this article was started in April and completed on June 18, 2006, Father’s Day, with the exception of the numbering of the references. As such, they are mentioned without detailed annotations. Sources include:
The author’s own recollections
Corrales-Quisumbing Genealogy, unpaginated in author’s files of different family genealogies.
“The Quisumbing Clan: Recollections of Carlos Corrales Quisumbing, 1910-1996,” p. 3a in author files. Hereafter cited as “The Quisumbing Clan.”
Office of UP Alumni Relations, UP Alumni Directory (Diliman, Quezon City: UP Press, 1970), p. 898.
Lourdes R. Quisumbing, An Instant is This Life (Quezon City: Adarna Book
Services, Inc., 1997).
Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People (8th ed.; Quezon City: Garotech Publishing, 1990), pp. 394, 418-421.
See a rare copy of 1948 CIT Yearbook owned by Ernesto Madrona, a civil Engineering graduate and one of his grandfather’s students during the school year 1947- 1948, showing his grandfather’s name as a consultant in hydraulics among the faculty and an advertisement of his father’s working partnership as civil engineer and Architect Gregorio G. Segura. Also see their Xeroxed copies in author’s possessions.
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from a family announcement sent to relatives and friends when Pepito passed away.
JOSE MARIA REYNES QUISUMBING
1942-2007
Please pray for the repose of PEPITO--eldest son of Lourdes Reynes Quisumbing (Nena)
of the II-01 Bartolome/III-4 Visitacion/IV-1 Lourdes/V-1 Jose line. As a Corrales and a Quisumbing, Pepito was of the III-4 Maria Zamora Corrales & III-1 Emilio Arguelles Quisumbing/IV-1 Carlos Emilio Corrales Quisumbing/V-1 Line.
Pepito/Pete/Joe was born on April 21, 1942 in Manila. He died in the evening of June 17, 2007, in Cebu City.
He is survived by his wife Godofreda Quirante; his children Joann, Jocelyn, and Joseph; his mother Lourdes R. Quisumbing; his siblings and their respective families--Vising, Blue Boy (Lulu), Sonny (Vicky), Ely (Babie), Dickie (Terry), Cora (Walt), Marilou (Gelo), and Agnes (Joel). His father Carlos, Sr. died in 1996 and a brother Roberto died in 1951 as an infant.
Pepito graduated from the University of San Carlos and had an M.A. in History. He was affiliated with several public universities including Maryknoll High School of Cateel, in Davao where he taught Algebra and History to the first graduating class and the Central Mindanao University in Muswan, Bukidnon, where he taught history for many years and from where he retired as associate professor.
He published research on the American occupation of Cebu, on Leon Guinto, and Jose Rizal as well as on the history of Pampanga Agricultural College. He wrote for Kinaadman, Xavier University’s Journal, (in Cagayan de Oro) which published his article on Don Carlos Corrales, his great grandfather. He was working on an article on his grandfather, Emilio Arguelles Quisumbing. Pepito also compiled the chronological history of his mother for her book, The River Flows On. He loved music and had a large CD collection. He also collected stamps. In his earlier years, he loved to play chess.
