BERNARDO M. VILLEGAS (HS '54, Liacom '58), one of the country's foremost economists, remembers the 1950s as a decade of positive attitudes. The La Salle slogan, Religio, mores et cultura, “meant something,” Villegas says, “and students felt that they belonged to a family. The upperclassmen knew the lower classmen and vice-versa. La Salle was a typical undergraduate college with a family atmosphere. It was an extension of one's family.” Class '58 was the second class to major in Liacom, a combination of the liberal arts course and commerce. It was a five-year course, but Villegas breezed through it in four years and graduated summa cum laude. No isolated bookworm, he was also active in the glee club, Student After a year, GE promoted him to general manager. Simultaneously he became the executive vice-president of the family-owned Bataan-Manila Ferry Services, Inc. He was appointed Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Administrator of the Fertilizer Authority in 1977. As a result, he was named vice-president of Fertiphil the following year. For six years he was president of PHIL PHOS, a firm manufacturing phosphates.