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No certain weather (1956 poetry)
Pedro Reyes Abraham Jr., the all-around performing artist everybody fondly calls “Edru,” officially retired as a member of the University of the Philippines faculty last June 4, capping his teaching career with a month-long tour of the Visayas where, together with his students, he tirelessly performed and lectured for the common folk.
Like many of us who entered UP as freshmen in the early ’60s and stayed on to teach after graduation, Edru completes a cycle of academic life spanning exactly half a century.
A few days ago, his colleagues in the Department of Art Studies organized a small sendoff party to which his closest friends and contemporaries were invited.
It was a happy and sentimental occasion, memorably framed by the kulintang music provided by Kontra-Gapi, the durable gamelan group that Edru founded in 1989. His fellow professors, students, and friends spoke about him as a passionate teacher, a gifted artist, a political activist, and a gentle and loving person.
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