EXCERPTS ABOUT MY FILIPINO GRANDFATHER, Norberto Quisumbing, Sr. Norberto received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Philippines in 1920, his second AB from Philadelphia University in the same year and Bachelor of Science in Business from Columbia University two years later. He worked as assistant chief, Loans and Discount Department, of the Philippine National Bank (PNB) and People Bank and Trust Company of Manila. See ibid. ; Jennifer Ulrich to the author dated May 16, 2005 by email. In the 1950’s he owned a ham processing plant whose meat supply came from Cebu to be processed as ham under the label “orchid” in Pasay City, a fishing fleet consisting of a mother ship with six smaller ones docking at Dasmarinas, Cavite to sell fresh fish to Manila, a shipping company of three ships (Occidental, Oriental and Continental) plying between Manila and Cebu or vice versa and a match company, Pan Oriental Match Company (PANOMATCH), whose buildings were constructed by the author’s father, Engr. Carlos C. Quisumbing, Sr., in Mandaue City. All these business ventures except the fourth under new management are presently non-existent. A telephone and personal interview of Ramon Quisumbing, former councilor of Cebu City, on June 9 and 11, 2005 at Myra’s Pension House; author’s recollections. sancarloscity.org/quisumbingsite/emiliostory11.htm
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