For a long time before its absentee "son" came back from the US to take over the reins, Southeastern College (SEC) was just among the leading private schools in the Pasay City area.
Enter Conrad "Con" Manalac, whose family owned the school located in the heart of Pasay City.
Since returning from New York, where he studied and worked as an educator and network engineer, he has converted the institution into an IT education powerhouse that now trains teachers all over the country in its capacity as a Microsoft IT Academy and a local Cisco Networking Academy.
Mañalac presided over the school’s transformation, both physically and intellectually. He developed the school grounds and put up state-of-the-art computer laboratories. More importantly, he beefed up the school’s IT curriculum that competes with the IT curriculum of other prominent private schools.
The result was impressive: the school has now produced a total of 3,000 plus MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) certified graduates. Its 11 IT certified faculty members are constantly hired to train IT and non-IT teachers nationwide.
To celebrate and highlight these achievements, the school mounted festivities to coincide with its Foundation Week last February 13 to 18. This also served as SEC’s way thanking those who made it all possible.
A highpoint of the celebration was the live concert of local band "Bamboo," (whose lead singer Bamboo Manalac is Con’s cousin) last February 15.
To those who actually walked through the corridors of SEC, there was a Grand Alumni Homecoming at the last day of the festivities.
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