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The founding of the Eagles Fraternity was heavily preceded by a series of marathon meetings by its key architects and founders who had virtually cut the bridges behind them. Lo and behold, the die was cast and they were ready to face up to the enormous challenge of founding an indigenous socio-civic fraternal organization intensely determined in the light of local environment and necessity.

What was once only a vision, became an idea that lingered in the minds of these men. And the idea was born! It came into fruition when the following dynamic men of integrity formed themselves into an Ad-Hoc Committee tasked to primarily discuss the real meaning of what has been going to explode out from their ambitious minds which held marathon meetings for almost a period of two months from May to June 1979. The Ad-Hoc Committee became the nucleus of the dreams and aspirations of the founders.

The following were the original eleven ( 11 ) members of the Ad-Hoc Committee who eventually founded the Eagles Fraternity in 1979. The members of the Ad-Hoc committee were the prime movers of the fraternal movement. The words spoken and ascribed to them had been refined to approximately reflect their thoughts not only of their characters but also of the movement itself. Here, they are:

NILO H. RAYMUNDO, a known wealthy, benevolent and cause-oriented businessman, who eventually became the Charter National President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles). The Haring Agila!

PEDRO R. BALBANERO, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy known as the Strategist, Muscle, and the Adviser, of the movement.

CELSO P. MARIANO, a prominent election lawyer, who became the chairman of the Ad Hoc committee and was the “Literary craftsman” of the movement who wrote the historic Declaration of Goals and Objectives of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Philippine Eagles) and its Constitution and Magna Carta!
CRISANTO T. SARUCA, the ever colorful lawyer, the gut and dramatic articulator, of the movement. Together with Celso Mariano, they were given the task to do the research and find the appropriate name for the soon to be born movement.

RIZAL ALBERTO C. NOLIDO, an engineer-businessman, characteristically very uncontroversial but possessed a very strong conviction for the movement when he made a strong declaration by saying: “I have pledged not to join any other civic organization after we have founded the Philippine Eagles. I have absolute faith that the Philippine-born civic organization will deserve the support of the Philippine community”. To this day, he has not joined any other civic organization. Unfortunately , he is now bed-ridden due to a lingering illness.

MEL P. SAMSON, also an engineer-businessman, is another Key founder and pillar of the Fraternity, ever generous, accommodating and steadfast. His views and those of Bert Nolido run parallel. He is alive and still strong in his age past the middle eighties!

ELEUTERIO C. DUMOGHO, a business consultant and political analyst, was a fundamentalist and better remembered as the early “father of the Eagles Seminars.” Almost unfledged and unflinching, he emerged, at a time, as the hardliner of the movement strongly agitating for the restoration of the Filipino cultural and social heritage. As he always said, “The Fraternal Order of Eagles will easily stand out among its peers in support of our country.”

EUGENIO E. LLARENA, an engineer, was very valuable to the movement. With Dominador Ordonez, he had vastly given and committed his time to the fraternity.

DOMINADOR ORDONEZ, was also valuable to the movement. While he was an ambivalent founder as he was not prepared to cut altogether his umbilical connections with the Lions international. He was fondly remembered as the “eyes and ears” of Nilo Raymundo.

LORENZO TOLENTINO, also an engineer-businessman, is a key founder of the Philippine Eagles. He designed the first LOGO of the movement.

WILSON C. WY TIU, another engineer-businessman, is one singular founder by-passed by the history of the movement. He was so dedicated and steadfast. Unfortunately, Wilson missed the historic signing of the Declaration of Goals and Objectives of the Fraternity on June 22, 1979 and of its Constitution and By- Laws on 7 July 1979 at the Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT) in Diliman, Quezon City. History failed him but had the distinction of being one of the eleven ( 11) who sweat out during marathon meetings of the Ad-Hoc Committee.

To the founders and pillars of the movement: “Birth is responsibility.” Today, their hands are deliberately laden with care and burdens no less demanding from them to continue exercise their unselfish hands and minds to blue print the long-range objectives of the Philippine Eagles planted in the Philippine service milieu.

In the search of a name of the movement (organization), the Ad-Hoc Committee deliberated for several suggestions and recommendations such as LAKAN, TAMARAW, GRIFFIN and Philippine monkey-eating eagle. And finally, after intense deliberation and discussion, the name of the movement adopted by the Ad-Hoc Committee, was the THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES ( Philippine Eagles ) which was unanimously approved by the body. They called themselves the Philippine Eagles whose guiding principle is “Service Through Strong Brotherhood”.

And by definition, the Philippine Eagles shall be:

E – Enlightened and innovative humanitarian.
A – Animated primarily by a strong bond of brotherhood and fraternal ties.
G – God fearing, God conscious, non-sectarian.
L – Law abiding, liberty-oriented, non political.
E – Emblazed with intense mission of
S – Service to country, its people and its community.

It was then Col. Pedro Balbanero, who recommended that NILO RAYMUNDO should initially lead the newly organized movement. He has given the maximum sacrifice to steer and guide the movement to the extent of having to give up his ambition to become a Lions District Governor. He readily accepted the challenge anticipating the enormity of the problems that he would be facing ahead!

CHARTERING OF NEW NATIONAL PRESIDENT 1979-1981.

Eagle Nilo H. Raymundo took his oath as the charter national president of the The Fraternal Order of Eagles ( Philippine Eagles ) during the chartering of the first Philippine Eagles club, the Quezon City Central Eagles Club held at the Club Filipino, Greenhills, San Juan City.

EAGLES’ CLUB CHAPTERS

The Eagles movement had spread out and rooted nationally, in the decade. Scores of club chapters were formed and organized in the major parts of the country as it continued to enjoy the confidence of young dedicated men who desired to join and become members of the organization under its guiding principle of “service through strong brotherhood”. It readily spread out in the Mindanao area especially in Northern Mindanao when the Cagayan de Oro Eagles Club, the Iligan City Eagles Club, and the Ozamis City Eagles Club were eventually chartered in three ( 3 ) successive nights each between them spearheaded by the amiable and charismatic leadership of Eagle Sancho K. Chan, formerly the Regional Director of the National Bureau of Investigation in the Northern Mindanao Region who was eventually elected Charter Regional Governor for NMR.

The National Leadership then in 2006 decided to register the organization with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the name: THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES ( Philippine Eagles ) Inc. The incorporators were all past national presidents of the Eagles Fraternity, namely:

CELSO P. MARIANO
CRISANTO T. SARUCA
MELENCIO P. SAMSON
RIZAL ALBERTO C. NOLIDO
CESARIO C. DUMOGHO

The application was eventually approved by the SEC which granted SEC Certificate of Incorporation No. CN200618418 dated December 04, 2006.