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Four Tagon-ons passed the 2007 bar examination, namely: Allen L. Montenegro, Peter Bill C. Elizalde, Wilfredo C. Rebuyon, and Roseller P. Villarubia. People in the know said that it was the hardest in eight years.
Two of the four newly minted lawyers---Allen and Roseller--- are Purisimians. And interestingly their personal history and traits intersect: both were honor students of Batch ’96 in Purisima School, Allen being the valedictorian and Roseller, first honorable mention; though both laconic and self-effacing, they had the same passion as student leaders in high school and college.
Atty. Allen L. Montenegro finished Bachelor of Science in Education major in English at Saint Paul College-Manila with cum laude honors. She earned her Master in Teaching English at De la Salle University with distinction (equivalent to magna cum laude).
After college, Allen taught at Saint Paul University in Surigao City. A year later she took up law at the extension school of San Sebastian College in Surigao City where she graduated at the top of her class. Presently she's a department head at SPU-Surigao.
Atty. Roseller P. Villarubia finished accountancy at the University of San Jose-Recoletos in Cebu City. After passing the CPA board examination in 2001, he got accepted at the Court of Tax Appeal, an attached agency of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, where he works until now. It must be his work that inspired him to pursue law at the University of the East
Roseller has an altar date in May in Manila with a girl who's with Aboitiz Shipping Lines.
Atty. Peter Bill C. Elizalde is the son of Pedro A. Elizalde, himself part of a clan known for intellectual mettle. What makes Peter’s triumph sweet is that, despite the personal crisis he went through, he rose like a phoenix and became victorious.
Atty. Wilfredo C. Rebuyon’s story is no less inspiring. The son of a farmer in Badung, he finished commerce at Bukidnon State College-External Studies Center (now Surigao del Sur Polytechnic State College) with cum laude honors. He joined Land Bank of the Philippines in 1991 and rose from the ranks. While assigned in Surigao City, he enrolled at San Sebastian College and finished salutatorian. After he failed in his fist attempt at the bar, he resigned from LBP and went home to Badung to become a farmer.
He took the bar examination again last year and finally luck smiled at him.
At 22 per cent, it was one of the lowest bar passages in history, which is to say it was tough. But Tagon-ons, as everybody knows now, proved to be tougher!
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