Cheer/Song Books circa 1950s

” The Elders” doing some  traditional  cheers in a Powwow.

The battle for supremacy in the old NCAA  has always included San Beda in the equation.  The 1920s, 1930s, 1950s and the 1970s saw the greatest battles fought by Red Lions  under the Red and White banner.  It was during these historic campaigns  that battle cheers, songs and chants were developed and nourished.  During this Golden Era of the NCAA, San Beda’s cheering tradition was  forged in blood, sweat and tears. To date, San Beda continue to remain a traditional cheering school. Not a surprise since stability and continuity are Benedictine values taught to Bedans of different generations.

The books presented here came from the Crispulo Zamora era of the 1950s. The Zamora cup was the most coveted crown during the post-war NCAA.  San Beda retired the Cup in 1955.

*Pictures and youtube provided by stardust  and projectorking of Bedista.com

Hippies and Indians

“Pow Wow A Gathering Of The Tribes For A Human Be In”

Original poster designed by Rick Griffin, featuring an illustration of a Plains Indian on horseback cluching a blanket and holding an electric guitar, announcing the first ‘Human Be-In’Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Jan. 14, 1967. Along with Ginsberg, the poster lists all the other main participants, who included Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lenore Kandel, Jerry Rubin, and Richard Alpert. Live music was provided by Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother & The Holding Co., Sir Douglas Quintet, Loading Zone, and a few members of Country Joe & The Fish, who backed folksinger Pat Kilroy. A rare, era-defining poster for the first mass Be -in, and the event generally considered to have ushered in the ‘Summer of Love’ in California.

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Hippies and Native Americans?

Carlos Santana, an icon of the counter-culture generation can explain the connection between Hippies and Indians.

• “I bring practical spirituality together with the rebel from the street, because I still live the principles of the sixties. I’m still a hippie. We were rainbow warriors, reincarnated Native American Indians who wanted a different dimension of existence.” – taken from http://www.wie.org/j28/santana.asp

• ” San Francisco was the greatest blessing that transformed my existence,” proclaims Santana, who looks cool in a black ribbed cotton pullover shirt, black sweatpants, woven leather burgundy slip-ons, and a black Hugo cap. Around his neck is a large gold chain with a star shaped angel pendant that hangs mid-chest. “The hippies I hung out with were probing some serious, profound questions beyond government, beyond religion, beyond the status quo. Hippies represented the highest good for people on the planet—not for blacks, or whites, but for the whole thing. The real Hippies, I feel, are like reincarnated American Indians that we call Rainbow Warriors.” – taken from http://www.aumag.org/coverstory/May04cover.html

• “Some hippies sold out. They came to San Francisco with fake mustaches just to get free drugs and sex and free food. But there’s real hippies still – American Indians, the first people of the land, and there’re still musicians who are deeply invested in utilizing their music.” – taken from http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?StoryID=11942&pagenum=0

In the Philippine Collegiate Sports, Indian War whooping is a Bedan Tradition since 1947 with the introduction of the Indian Yell. The “Woodstock Rain Chanting” adopted by Bedans as the Lion’s Roar (Indian Chant) in 1970 is part and parcel of that tradition.

Whoever said that Hippies have no connection with Native Americans?

Wooooohoooooooooo! Go San Beda Fight!