History
By:
Mighty Baylon
Date:
Monday, December 1st, 2008 
When martial law was declared in 1972 all student organizations in UP was banned. After all, there is even a presidential decree which says that any group of three persons is an "illegal assembly". And if this three persons talk they will even be guilty of "rumor-mongering" which is punishable by imprisonment! I even remember an incident with Nestor Raneses in the waiting shed going to Yakal Residence Hall from Molave.
By:
Mighty Baylon
Date:
Monday, December 1st, 2008 In the four academic years that I have been on-and-off a resident member of UP Ibalon (this covers the school years that started in the years 1974 to 1977 but his stretches up to March 1978), a total of about 110 members entered the organization. This includes the 19 doctors of medicine that I already wrote about ["The MDs of UP Ibalon Of Earlier Years", 11/15/08]. With my own eyes I have seen Ibalon grow big and flourish.
By:
Mighty Baylon
Date:
Monday, December 1st, 2008 
The anniversary celebration of UP Ibalon and UPIAA on December 1, 1995 was more subdued than 1994 (which was the organization's 20th anniversary). But it was no less attended. Its ambience was even better as it was held in the old house of Lodie Padilla and Delen Padilla-de la Paz in Magallanes Village, Makati.
By:
Mighty Baylon
Date:
Friday, November 14th, 2008 
It was said that even before the Spaniards came, our region was already called Ibalon by its inhabitants. I doubt if we were already a united entity during that time owing to the difficulty of transportation and communication and having no ruler higher than a datu. But somehow due to a common language, albeit with distinct dialectical variations, its people might have some sort of common identity.
Founded in 1974, the UP Ibalon is an organization of Bicolano students at the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus. It accepts as members students who trace their family roots to Bicol Region, Philippines. The term Ibalon is the ancient name of the Bicol, a region south of Manila in Luzon Island. The place is the setting of the Bicol epic of the same title.
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