Dear departed artists

This November, as I do every November, I remember dear artists, writers, and publishers whose lives I shared all too briefly:

Marilou Diaz Abaya, Felicito Abiva, Temistocles Adlawan, Shirley Advincula, Carol Afan, Nick Agudo, Rudy Alano, Wilfredo Alberca, Asuncion Albert, Odette Alcantara, Edilberto Alegre, Reynaldo Alejandro, Estrella Alfon, Roy Alvarez, Zeneida Amador, Lilia Pablo Amansec, Ang Kiukok, Carlos Angeles, Pacifico Aprieto, Butz Aquino, Corazon Aquino, Jerusalino Araos, Emerenciana Arcellana, Francisco Arcellana, Liwayway Arceo, Sandra Arroyo, Monico Atienza, Jose Mari Avellana, Lamberto Avellana, Jose Ayala,

Inday Badiday, Concesa Baduel, Filemon Balbastro Jr., Gopal Baratham, Corinta Barranco, Nazario Bas, Brigido Batungbakal, Manuel Principe Bautista, Betty Go-Belmonte, Luis Beltran, Teodoro Benigno, Joly Benitez, Trinidad Benito, Ishmael Bernal, Salvador Bernal, Benjamin Bernales, Mike Bigornia, Nida Blanca, Mario Bolasco, Raul Bonoan SJ, Maria Borger, Art Borjal, Santi Bose, Erlinda Bragado, Lino Brocka, Jose Buhain, Jaime Bulatao SJ,

Aurelio Calderon, Jeremias Calixto, Giovanni Calvo, Ross Camara, Eloisa Canlas, George Canseco, Guadalupe Carbonell, Ledivina Cariño, Celso Carunungan, Gabriel Casal, Alex Casambre, Celso Ad. Castillo, Angelo Castro Jr., June Keithley-Castro, Levi Celerio, Claro Ceniza, Behn Cervantes, Frank Chavez, Renato Constantino, Onofre D. Corpuz, Adrian Cristobal, Andres Cristobal Cruz, Isagani A. Cruz, Jesus Cruz, Jose Cruz SJ, Neal Cruz, Patricia Melendrez-Cruz,

Concepcion Dadufalza, Edilberto Dagot, Ester Vallado DaRoy, Petronilo Daroy, Danilo Dayag, Joy de Castro, Pio De Castro III, Horacio de la Costa, Adul de Leon, Benjamin Defensor, Johnny Delgado, Ricaredo Demetillo, Francisco Demetrio, Eduardo Deveza, Pacquito Diaz, Fe Dizon, Pearl Doromal, Maria Luisa Doronila, Martin Drury, Antonio Dulalia, Reynaldo Duque,

Antony Easthope, Jean Edades, Anacleta Encarnacion, Antonio Enriquez, Emigdio Enriquez, Virgilio Enriquez, S. V. Epistola, Don Escudero, Tony Espejo, Merito Espinas, Federico Licsi Espino, Clemencia Espiritu, Aurelio Estanislao, Ariston Estrada, Frankie Evangelista, Winnie Evangelista,

Pacita Fernandez, Rudy Fernandez, Susan Fernandez, Wili Fernandez, Abe Florendo, Marcelino Foronda, Willelmo Fortun, Henry Francia, Hilario Francia Jr., Juan Francisco,

Lamberto Gabriel, Carolina Garcia, Mark Gil, Maita Gomez, Pablo Gomez, Rita Gomez, NVM Gonzalez, Salvador Gonzalez, Grant Goodman, Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, Joey Gosengfiao, Sidney Greenbaum, Butch Guerrero, Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, Jean-Pierre Guingané,

Luisa Mallari-Hall, Atang de la Rama Hernandez, Ricardo Herrero, Antonio Hidalgo, Sid Gomez Hildawa, Eduardo Hontiveros SJ, Alejandrino Hufana, Dominador Ilio, Abdulmari Asia Imao, J. Eddie Infante, Elmar Ingles, Raul Ingles, Junix Inocian, Arsenio Jesena SJ, Nick Joaquin, F. Landa Jocano, Estelita Juco, Ogie Juliano, Lucrecia Kasilag, Maria Kalaw Katigbak, Isabel Enriquez Kenny, Emmanuel Lacaba, Vilma Labrador, Amado Lacuesta Jr., Serafin Lanot, Jose Lansang Jr., Jane Lartec, Pura Kalaw Ledesma, Leandro Locsin, Raul Locsin, Salvador Lopez, Rogelio Lota, Ella Luansing, Mochtar Lubis,

Jose Maceda, Fidela Mendoza-Magpayo, Cesar Majul, Armando Malay, Frank Mallo, Vicente Manansala, Raul Manglapus, E. Arsenio Manuel, Antonio Manuud, Bert Marcelo, Nonoy Marcelo, Josefina Mariano, Epifanio Matute, Genoveva Edroza Matute, Isagani Medina, Susan Calo-Medina, Felicidad Mendoza, Roberto Mendoza, Eddie Mercado, Helen Meriz, Maningning Miclat, Graham Millington, Carminia Miraflor, Dominador Mirasol, Lina Espina Moore, Alfredo Morales, Santiago Mulato, Tita Muñoz,

James Na, Orlando Nadres, Julie Fe Navarro, Clovis Nazareno, Ana Maria Escalante-Neri, Antonio Nieva, Evaristo Nievera, Valerio Nofuente, Wilfrido Nolledo, Bienvenido Noriega Jr., Alfeo Nudas SJ,

Ramon Obusan, Mario O’Hara, Onib Olmedo, Tomas Ongoco, Blas Ople, Elenita Ordoñez, Sedfrey Ordoñez, Jose Orosa, Franklin Osorio, Fe Otanes,

Ellen Paglinauan, Rey Paguio, Jose Villa Panganiban, Loreto Paras-Sulit, Emy Pascasio, Patricia Pascua, Benjamin M. Pascual, Benjamin P. Pascual, Bernardo Perez III OSB, Joseph Perloff, Guillermo Pesigan, Manuel Pichel, Ponciano Pineda, Joaquin Po, Andy Poe, Fernando Poe Jr., Nina Estrada Puyat,

Douglas Quijano, Carlos Quirino, Jose Quirino, Purificacion Quisumbing, Rodolfo V. Quizon, Jess Ramos, Elizabeth Ramsey, Maria Clara Ravina, Cerge Remonde, James Reuter SJ, Edgardo Reyes, Felicitas Reyes, Godofredo Reyes, Ramon Reyes, Evelyn Ribaya, Carolina Rionda, Pete Roa, Ruth Roa, Alejandro Roces, Raul Roco, Francisco Rodrigo, Raul Rodrigo, Eddie Romero, Richard Rorty, Mario Rosal, Ma. Teresa Escoda Roxas, Ben Rubio,

Bonifacio Salamanca, Letty Salanga, Dionisio Salazar, Oscar Salazar, Leopoldo Salcedo, Rachel San Miguel, Lucio San Pedro, Romulo Sandoval, Josefa Saniel, Cirio Santiago, Bienvenido N. Santos, Bienvenido Santos (the principal), Vito Santos, William Henry Scott, Raman Selden, Anthony Serrano, Jesus Sibal, Bonifacio Sibayan, Rogelio Sicat, Chat Silayan, Vic Silayan, Lourdes Estela Simbulan, Larry Smith, Charito Solis, Max Soliven, Agustin Sotto, Felixberto Sta. Maria, Elpidio Sta. Romana, Osmundo Sta. Romana, Ellen Stewart, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido, Nilda Sunga, Conchita Sunico, Han Suyin, Sy Yinchow,

Josefina Tabujara, Abby Tan, Milagros Tanlayco, Alfredo Tiamson, Edilberto Tiempo, Edith Tiempo, Rolando Tinio, Lito Tiongson, Mae Astrid Tobias, Romeo Togonon, Yolanda Tomeldan, Cesario Torres, Filonila Tupas, Kerima Polotan Tuvera, Azucena Uranza, Teodoro Valencia, Vic Vargas, Joven Velasco, Andrea Veneracion, Rey Ventura, Oscar Villadolid, Danny Villanueva, Rene Villanueva, Ruben Villote, Manuel Viray, Wilfredo Virtusio, Virgilio Vito, Yoshiko Wakayama, Mary Walter, Leopoldo Yabes, Isagani Yambot, Ernesto Superal Yee, and Winton Lou Ynion. (To be continued)