Of all the La Salle alumni, MARCOS B. ROCES, who studied at Taft up to his second year in high school, had the most varied and checkered career. Coming from a large family of rich Spanish landowners, he was sent to Schwyz in Switzerland in 1933 to finish his schooling, and then to St. Joseph's College in London for a high school certificate. Two years later, in 1937, he moved to South Bend, Indiana, to enroll at the Catholic University of Notre Dame. He was attracted to a diplomatic career and so enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in the School of Foreign Service. By that rime, in April of 1942, Bataan had fallen to the enemy; and Marquitos felt he had to be of service to his country. He joined the U.S. Army, and was sent to the Fort Benning Infantry School. He graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant in October of that year, and was assigned to the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment at Fort Ord, California, where he served as intelligence assistant under Col. Jaime Velazquez. From June to October 1943, he was sent to a special training school in Presidio Monterey, where he was pro-moted to 1st Lieutenant. Knowing his value as an in-telligence officer, his superiors sent him to the Camp Ritchie Military In-telligence School for several months. In May 1944 when he was assigned to the G-2 Section of the 5th US Army in Europe. He would have preferred to see action in the Philippines, but he was sent instead to southern France. He participated in the Rome-Arno campaign in Italy and in the north Appenines mountain range. In 1944 he was promoted to captain and sent to Leyte the following year. By that time the war in the Philippines was almost over. So he organized the 0-2 section of the re-constituted Philippine Army. He was honorably dis-charged at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Upon his return to Manila in 1946, the family chose him to become the manager of Cine Ideal, where he work-ed for the next 32 years. He was president of the Manila Theater Association from 1955 to 1983. He was chairman of the Drug Abuse Foundation for 11 years. Twice he be-came president of the De La Salle Alumni Association. In April 1983 he was elected chairman of the Film Rating Board. He is also chairman of the Makati Cinema Square, the Eastern and the RYR Theatrical Enterprises. He is a director of the Manila Jockey Club. He is married to the former Teresa Prieto by whom he has two sons, Marcos Jr. and Antonio, both La Salle graduates.