The Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles) 1979
The founding of the Eagles Fraternity was heavily preceded by a series of marathon meetings by its key architects and founders who had virtually cut the bridges behind them. Lo and behold, the die was cast and they were ready to face up to the enormous challenge of founding an indigenous socio-civic fraternal organization intensely determined in the light of local environment and necessity.
What was once only a vision, became an idea that lingered in the minds of these men. And the idea was born! It came into fruition when the following dynamic men of integrity formed themselves into an Ad-Hoc Committee tasked to primarily discuss the real meaning of what has been going to explode out from their ambitious minds which held marathon meetings for almost a period of two months from May to June 1979. The Ad-Hoc Committee became the nucleus of the dreams and aspirations of the founders.
The following were the original eleven ( 11 ) members of the Ad-Hoc Committee who eventually founded the Eagles Fraternity in 1979. The members of the Ad-Hoc committee were the prime movers of the fraternal movement. The words spoken and ascribed to them had been refined to approximately reflect their thoughts not only of their characters but also of the movement itself. Here, they are:
NILO H. RAYMUNDO, a known wealthy, benevolent and cause-oriented businessman, who eventually became the Charter National President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles). The Haring Agila!
PEDRO R. BALBANERO, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy known as the Strategist, Muscle, and the Adviser, of the movement.
CELSO P. MARIANO, a prominent election lawyer, who became the chairman of the Ad Hoc committee and was the “Literary craftsman” of the movement who wrote the historic Declaration of Goals and Objectives of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles) and its Constitution and Magna Carta!
CRISANTO T. SARUCA, the ever colorful lawyer, the gut and dramatic articulator, of the movement. Together with Celso Mariano, they were given the task to do the research and find the appropriate name for the soon to be born movement.
RIZAL ALBERTO C. NOLIDO, an engineer-businessman, characteristically very uncontroversial but possessed a very strong conviction for the movement when he made a strong declaration by saying: “I have pledged not to join any other civic organization after we have founded the Philippine Eagles. I have absolute faith that the Philippine-born civic organization will deserve the support of the Philippine community”. To this day, he has not joined any other civic organization. Unfortunately , he is now bed-ridden due to a lingering illness.
MEL P. SAMSON, also an engineer-businessman, is another Key founder and pillar of the Fraternity, ever generous, accommodating and steadfast. His views and those of Bert Nolido run parallel. He is alive and still strong in his age past the middle eighties!
ELEUTERIO C. DUMOGHO, a business consultant and political analyst, was a fundamentalist and better remembered as the early “father of the Eagles Seminars.” Almost unfledged and unflinching, he emerged, at a time, as the hardliner of the movement strongly agitating for the restoration of the Filipino cultural and social heritage. As he always said, “The Fraternal Order of Eagles will easily stand out among its peers in support of our country.”
EUGENIO E. LLARENA, an engineer, was very valuable to the movement. With Dominador Ordonez, he had vastly given and committed his time to the fraternity.
DOMINADOR ORDONEZ, was also valuable to the movement. While he was an ambivalent founder as he was not prepared to cut altogether his umbilical connections with the Lions international. He was fondly remembered as the “eyes and ears” of Nilo Raymundo.
LORENZO TOLENTINO, also an engineer-businessman, is a key founder of the Philippine Eagles. He designed the first LOGO of the movement.
To the founders and pillars of the movement: “Birth is responsibility.” Today, their hands are deliberately laden with care and burdens no less demanding from them to continue exercise their unselfish hands and minds to blue print the long-range objectives of the Philippine Eagles planted in the Philippine service milieu.
In the search of a name of the movement (organization), the Ad-Hoc Committee deliberated for several suggestions and recommendations such as LAKAN, TAMARAW, GRIFFIN and Philippine Monkey-Eating eagle. And finally, after intense deliberation and discussion, the name of the movement adopted by the Ad-Hoc Committee, was the THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES ( Philippine Eagles ) which was unanimously approved by the body. They called themselves the Philippine Eagles whose guiding principle is “Service Through Strong Brotherhood”.
And by definition, the Philippine Eagles shall be:
E – Enlightened and innovative humanitarian.
A – Animated primarily by a strong bond of brotherhood and fraternal ties.
G – God fearing, God conscious, non-sectarian.
L – Law abiding, liberty-oriented, non political.
E – Emblazed with intense mission of
S – Service to country, its people and its community.
It was then Col. Pedro Balbanero, who recommended that NILO RAYMUNDO should initially lead the newly organized movement. He has given the maximum sacrifice to steer and guide the movement to the extent of having to give up his ambition to become a Lions District Governor. He readily accepted the challenge anticipating the enormity of the problems that he would be facing ahead!
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