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In 1990, all efforts were directed towards institutional development in the three main functions of the then Trinity College of Quezon City: instruction, research and community extension. This task entailed a great deal of planning and sourcing. Hence, on November 1, 1990, through an $8,000 grant from the Episcopal Church Foundation and with the help of the Association of Episcopal Colleges (AEC), New York, USA, the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs (ODAA) was created. From 1990 to 1998, the office was headed by Mr. Menandro M. Magculang who was designated Assistant Vice-President for Development and Alumni Affairs.

To empower the leadership of the ODAA, Mr. Magculang was sent in the summer of 1991 for an orientation tour sponsored by United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) in several colleges in the USA particularly in the East Coast. Also with the sponsorship of UBCHEA, Trinity became a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), an international association of educational advancement professionals based in Washington, DC. In October of the same year, Mr. Magculang underwent a hands-on-training and intensive exposure on fundraising under the tutelage of Mr. Gordon Duggins, a fundraising professional and Trinity’s fundraising consultant in the US that time. This training was sponsored by the Archdiocese of New Hampshire through the AEC.

Upon his return to the country, Mr. Magculang started to strategize the operations of ODAA and established the groundwork for institutional advancement specifically on Friend Raising, Image Building, Linkages, Relationships Building, and Fundraising. From 1991-1998, ODAA had the following accomplishments:

Laying the framework for the resource generation and alumni relations concerns of the College.
Appointment, with honorarium, of Alumni Coordinator for each of the academic units of the College.
Creation of an Alumni Coordinating Committee
Institutionalization of the Alumni Day
Adoption of the Most Outstanding Alumnus/Alumna Award
Crafting of an alumni survey instrument
Federation of the various alumni organizations (units) into the General Alumni Association and the drafting and eventual ratification of its constitution and by-laws.
Inclusion of the President of the General Alumni Association in the College Board of Trustees in an ex-officio capacity.
Successful conduct of the Annual Grand Alumni Homecomings with big attendance in the vicinity of 800.
Strengthening of the unit alumni through financial support in their unit activities.
Strengthening of student campus leadership via the Arthur Carson Leadership Award started in the High School.

Upon the installation of Dr. Orlando B. Molina in 1999 as the Fourth President, ODAA was restructured and named Planning and Alumni Office. Miss Evelyn B. Das, an alumna and a faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, was appointed Director. The office initiated ways to establish and maintain contact with alumni and communicated by phone and sent e-mails. In the same year, to enhance the system of information dissemination, the TCQC Alumni Association’s official publication, The Trinity Alumni Files was born. The name of the newsletter was changed in its second issue to TRIUNE which means Three God in One. This was published quarterly until its last issue dated April 2002. The TRIUNE was able to reach a large number of alumni who expressed their gratitude and joy upon receiving updates about their alma mater.

When Dr. Josefina S. Sumaya was appointed Officer-in-Charge to replace Dr. Molina, the Alumni Affairs Office had a new OIC, Ms Milagros Gutierrez, the Director of the Center for Human Kinetics. Ms Gutierrez held the position for SY 2002-2003 and continued to update the existing alumni database. She was succeeded by Mr. Dante Rarangol, an alumnus and faculty of the College of Medical Technology who held the position for three (3) consecutive years from 2003 to 2006. He initiated in establishing linkages with local companies for job placement of alumni; the issuance of Alumni ID initially to facilitate their entry into the campus and later to enjoy the benefit of using the school library; and the creation of the alumni website. He maintained updating the alumni database from elementary through college which his predecessors had initiated.

Mr. Rarangol was succeeded by Dr. Elena R. Catalo, a faculty from the College of Education.

During her first year (SY 2006-2007) as Acting Director, the Alumni Coordinating Committee which was non-existent since SY 2003-2004 was re-created; colleges where there were no existing alumni associations reorganized; a General College Alumni Homecoming (2007) was held, the first since 2001; the Alumni ID was approved as an inclusion in the miscellaneous fee; the guidelines, criteria and nomination forms for the Search for Outstanding TCQC/TUA Alumni were drafted and subjected for critiquing by the deans of the different colleges and the basic education principal; the alumni website was linked to the university website; the brochure for the Alumni Affairs Office was drafted; and linkage for job placement of graduates increased from 9 companies in June 2006 to 65 in June 2007.