“I was right. I was really right endorcing Northern Laguna as a Chapter.” This what was said by Engr. Jupiter Gonzales, former IIEE Region IV governor when he deliver his speech on NLC’s second year anniversary.
Probably the issue over the creation of NLC is the Zenith of Engr. Gonzales’ career as a governor. The issue over the creation of a chapter having enough member but refusal of the mother chapter to endorce it became a national issue and come-up as one of the reasons why we have a proxy voting; to ratify IIEE’s Constitution and by-laws.
Although I was not yet a member of the original team who form and stablish the chapter but I was there and witnessed their struggle. Those months were turbulent and we there’s one a moment that they almost loose hope, but NLC, even not yet a formal chapter have shown its character, a team of high spirit individual with great determination.
I just wonder if NLC haven’t won the best chapter award last year. Would they still be as determine to serve the first district of Laguna as what they are right now? I can certainly say yes. I’ve been in the group for a couple of years now and I’ve seen some of the officers come and go and each time an officer come into the core, it seems that they are destined to be NLCian.
If you read Attila artice I have wrote here, you would find one of the leadership traits attributed to him is his being committment to high standard. NLC is like that, they always aim high, always go after things that make difference rather than seeking the safe path of mediocrity.
Although it’s difficult to work with this people behind you, on other hand, I feel grafitied and relieved everytime I have completed a task because I know it is something of greater value. I have done things which I though I wouldn’t be doing right now. Example of this is this article. Before I became NLC member, I have very little knowledge about webpage design but never in my mind that I’ll be making one. ‘Well to make story short, their high expectation pushes me to my full potential.
Now lets go back to the story. First quarter of the year is over, yesterday we access our performance and find that there’s still lots of things to improve. Comparing to last year’s activity and if my memory serves me right, I believe we did twice activity this year compare to last year at same quarter. If things will go right for the team and if they still have the same momentum, for sure, there would be another celebration next year, and that would be bigger because they will be the second Chapter to win back to back best chapter award.
