Mrs. Flor Elita Umali

There is life after 80! Who else can exemplify this, but our BOD Adviser Mrs. Flor Elita Umali, now 87 years old but still an indefatigable worker for causes she believes in.

She graduated in 1956 from Sta. Theresa’s College, B.S. in Education, Major in Math and English. She joined JASHS in 1959, having taught first in her alma mater, then moved to St. Vincent’s Parochial School in Manila, which employs only Theresians.

She was back to JASHS to teach Match and Geometry in 1964, and stayed until 1972. Towards the end of 1972-73, she became Division Supervisor in Math. She took the test for Superintendents and passed it in 1981, was assigned Asst. Superintendent of the DepEd in Pampanga, then promoted to Division Superintendent in Tarlac from 1992-1995. On or around 1992, she became a JICA scholar, sent to Japan with other superintendents, but was the only one from Pampanga, to have an exchange with Japanese educators. From 1995, she was back to Pampanga as Division Superintendent. She retired in 2002.

Looking back at what she has accomplished in the education field, Ma’am Umali remembers that she has received regional recognition at being the First Lady Superintendent at both her previous stints in Tarlac and Pampanga. Other achievements were her Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award in Education; Holy Cross Most Outstanding Alumni in Education; and most precious for her, the Papal Award for lay people from the Archdiocese of Pampanga given to her in 1992.

Ma’am Umali is now retired as Parish Council President of the Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of San Fernando. She continues to be a member of the laymen volunteers of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. After the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, she became active in the Foundation of Lingap Kapampangan League, a Save Pampanga from Lahar movement. Working for Domus Pastorum closely with the Archbishop of Pampanga , she has assisted in helping construct a building for the elderly and sick priests to stay, with a chapel for them to continue their lifetime prayers.