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Super Typhoon Reming Wreaks Much Destruction at Ateneo de Naga

Super Typhoon Reming, packing winds of 265-kilometers per hour, wrought great destruction in the AdNU as its "wall of the eye" tarried over Naga and destroyed buildings, houses, roofs, windows on Nov 30.

Families of teachers, students, and workers of the Ateneo lost their homes, or the roofs of their homes, forcing them to take shelter with relatives, friends, or emergency evacuation centers put up by local governments.

The damage at the Ateneo was considerable. Reming knocked out four of the Penera stained-glass panels in the University Church and two in the high school's St. Francis Xavier Church. It tore heavy mahogany church doors away from their hinges. It took the roof off the Santos building, and part of the roof of the main high school building. It destroyed the huge frontal picture window of the library, crumpled up covered walkways in both campuses, and took a section of the main covered courts down. It knocked down the fencing of the high school, and took down its interior electrical posts. Its rain traveled horizontally to damage computers in the Drafting Laboratory of the College of Engineering; it traveled upwards on the rooftop of the Madrigal building to enter at the roof's pinnacle and threaten the ceiling of the Madrigal ladies' dorm, forcing the dormers to evacuate in fear. Reming's winds tore away the high lateral windows of the Madrigal building and two main windows of Coko Cafe. Overall, pine, palm, mahogany, and narra trees were down.

In the wake of the storm, Fr. Tabora met initially with Engineer Engineer Boncodin, head of the Physical Plant Administration of the University. Estimated damage was feared to be worth roughly five million pesos.

Almost as soon as light allowed, the Xavier Honors and the Madrigal Dormers worked hand in hand with Nono Sto. Domingo of the CCD and with the Jesuit fathers in a clean-up operation.

Classes are to resume on Wednesday, December 6.

We are grateful that Ateneo was spared greater damage. Other schools have registered damage three (Univrsidad de Sta. Isabel) to ten times (Aquinas U) the damage wrought at Ateneo.

We would be grateful for contributions to help AdNU recover from this destruction and to help especially the members of its community and the needy who have lost their homes.

Please send checks to Ateneo de Naga University earmarked "Typhoon Reming/AdNU" or "Typhoon Reming/Homelsss" or send remittances directly to:

ADNU Dollar Account: 8864-0093-02
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)
Caceres Branch
SWIFT Code: BOPIPHMM
Routing: 005873
Branch Code: 886

Or, if a tax-deductible receipt in the United States might be required, please send your checks to:

Philippine Jesuit Foundation
130 Beekman Street, Studio 4-A
New York, NY, 10038
USA

Kindly earmark your checks:
Reming/ADNU or Reming/ADNU/for homeless.