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Hi, I am Errol Mendoza, the youngest brother of Esther Mendoza-Pacheco. After a 6-week confinement at The Medical City in Manila, Esther passed away on February 1, 2022. Her two children are hard up, and they would like to appeal to your generous hearts for donations to relieve them of the enormous burden of paying the medical fees incurred. Please see below the personal appeal of my niece, Kathy Pacheco.
Dear Friends of Esther and Family,
I want to appeal to your generous hearts to help defray the astronomical medical expenses incurred during my mother’s 6-week confinement at the ICU of The Medical City (TMC).
On Christmas Day, my mother, Esther Mendoza-Pacheco, was confined at the ICU of The Medical City for pneumonia. During the succeeding two weeks, the doctors diagnosed tuberculosis and two new strains of pneumonia (after she got cured of the first strain). In the third week, she acquired covid and suffered from internal bleeding. After almost six weeks at the ICU, my Mom passed away on February 1st from multiple organ failure.
Dear Friends of Esther and Family,
I want to appeal to your generous hearts to help defray the astronomical medical expenses incurred during my mother’s 6-week confinement at the ICU of The Medical City (TMC).
On Christmas Day, my mother, Esther Mendoza-Pacheco, was confined at the ICU of The Medical City for pneumonia. During the succeeding two weeks, the doctors diagnosed tuberculosis and two new strains of pneumonia (after she got cured of the first strain). In the third week, she acquired covid and suffered from internal bleeding. After almost six weeks at the ICU, my Mom passed away on February 1st from multiple organ failure.
Esther was born to Pedro and Feliciano Mendoza in Baguio City on October 2, 1938. As a young and promising Catholic leader, Esther was sent to Belgium to study the CHIRO Youth Movement in 1955. Upon her return to the Philippines in 1956, she was appointed the National Leader for CHIRO in the Philippines. She worked tirelessly spreading the CHIRO spirit to the young Filipinos.
In 1960, Esther completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Louis University in Baguio City. She further earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1962 and graduated Magna Cum Laude. In 1971, Esther was conferred with a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Cum Laude. Upon completing her Bachelor's degree, Esther taught at the St. Louis Girls High and was Editor of the St. Louis Quarterly for the next ten years.
After marrying my father, Jaime Masferre-Pacheco, and settling down in Manila, Esther worked for several decades as Director of the Ateneo University Press, building it into the institution it is today, respected by Filipino and foreign scholars alike. Upon retirement, she took on editing projects at the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALIWW) and for Vibal Publishing (Filipiniana.Net). She also focused her energy on environmental advocacies and contemplative outreach programs. Fearless and boldly passionate about causes she cared for, my mother lived and died with her boots strapped on.
Due to our family’s meager savings and since I had to stop work and be a full-time caregiver for my Mom, we cannot cover the hospital costs of P 4M (approximately USD 80k). Please see attached hospital bill.
We thank every kind donor who chooses to contribute whatever amount to our fundraising efforts.
US Donors may transfer their donations to the US $ Account that my uncle, Errol Mendoza, opened for this particular cause.
On the other hand, Philippine Donors may send their donations via GCash or BPI fund transfer.
GCash Account
Name: Kathleen Therese Pacheco
Number: 0917 [phone redacted]
BPI Account
Name: Kathleen M. Pacheco
Number: 3025618369
For any inquiries, you may reach me at +63 [phone redacted] or [email redacted].
Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 21, 2022
Esther M. Pacheco, influential academic publisher, dies at 83
By Ruel S. De Vera @RuelSDeVera
Influential academic publisher Esther M. Pacheco died on Feb. 1 due to multiorgan failure from complications of pneumonia. She is survived by her two children, Kathleen and Michael.
Born Oct. 2, 1938, in Baguio, Pacheco graduated from St. Louis University and was director of Ateneo de Manila University Press from 1977 to her retirement in 2003. She then served as an editorial consultant for Vibal Foundation Inc.
In a statement, the university press lauded Pacheco for building up the press as one “respected by Filipino and foreign scholars for consistently coming out with books that tackled issues in a number of disciplines,” and championing the work of Reynaldo C. Ileto, Resil Mojares, Vicente Rafael, Filomeno V. Aguilar, Patricio Abinales, William Henry Scott, Alfred McCoy, Michael Cullinane, Paul Hutchcroft, John Sidel and Paul Kramer in the field of Philippine studies.
“As press director, she understood the key role of the university press to retrieve long-forgotten texts and make them useful to the present ... Further, Esther Pacheco made sure that critical works that plotted the emergence and development of various genres—poetry, drama, novel and short story—were crucial to contextualize the rise of the genres. An important but often marginalized aspect of this body of writing were texts written by female writers, such as Liwayway Arceo, Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz Marquez Benitez, Genoveva Edroza-Matute, Rosario de Guzman Lingat and Rosario Jose, among others.”
Supreme expression
Karina Bolasco, current director of Ateneo Press, told Lifestyle that Pacheco “laid down clearly what a university press should do as the supreme expression of the university’s mission to contribute to nation building. It was to publish books that are pioneering in new research and knowledge; that bring forth original ideas which could validate, invalidate or provoke older ideas; and all these books should be able to hold their mettle when raised up to scrutiny. She encouraged Filipinos here and abroad, and even foreign Filipinists interested in our history and current concerns, to articulate, whether in a creative or academic and critical matter, their varying interests in all the many disciplines of learning.”
The Book Development Association of the Philippines, of which Pacheco was a founding member, held an online memorial Mass officiated by Fr. Mario Francisco, SJ, on Feb. 5.
In his homily, Father Francisco noted Feb. 5 was the Feast of St. Agatha of Sicily, a 3rd-century Christian martyr who is commemorated for her refusal to renounce her beliefs despite torture and eventual death on the orders of the Roman Emperor Decius. He compared St. Agatha’s strength of beliefs to Pacheco’s activism, particularly with causes such as the urban poor and gender inequality.
The Mass was followed by a tribute given by industry colleagues, longtime friends and family. Pacheco’s daughter Kathleen thanked the guests. Her ashes were inurned at the Sta. Maria della Strada Parish columbarium on Feb. 8.
Pacheco died in the 50th anniversary year of her beloved university press.
“Slowly, she built a list of what we now consider foundational classic texts in different fields reprinted every year since first released,” Bolasco said of Pacheco. “She began a tradition of publishing books that engage a nation, that provide social and cultural interventions. That list we stand on today. That tradition we continue at the Ateneo de Manila University Press, and on our 50th anniversary, we renew our commitment to that mission.” INQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 21, 2022
Esther M. Pacheco, influential academic publisher, dies at 83
By Ruel S. De Vera @RuelSDeVera
Influential academic publisher Esther M. Pacheco died on Feb. 1 due to multiorgan failure from complications of pneumonia. She is survived by her two children, Kathleen and Michael.
Born Oct. 2, 1938, in Baguio, Pacheco graduated from St. Louis University and was director of Ateneo de Manila University Press from 1977 to her retirement in 2003. She then served as an editorial consultant for Vibal Foundation Inc.
In a statement, the university press lauded Pacheco for building up the press as one “respected by Filipino and foreign scholars for consistently coming out with books that tackled issues in a number of disciplines,” and championing the work of Reynaldo C. Ileto, Resil Mojares, Vicente Rafael, Filomeno V. Aguilar, Patricio Abinales, William Henry Scott, Alfred McCoy, Michael Cullinane, Paul Hutchcroft, John Sidel and Paul Kramer in the field of Philippine studies.
“As press director, she understood the key role of the university press to retrieve long-forgotten texts and make them useful to the present ... Further, Esther Pacheco made sure that critical works that plotted the emergence and development of various genres—poetry, drama, novel and short story—were crucial to contextualize the rise of the genres. An important but often marginalized aspect of this body of writing were texts written by female writers, such as Liwayway Arceo, Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz Marquez Benitez, Genoveva Edroza-Matute, Rosario de Guzman Lingat and Rosario Jose, among others.”
Supreme expression
Karina Bolasco, current director of Ateneo Press, told Lifestyle that Pacheco “laid down clearly what a university press should do as the supreme expression of the university’s mission to contribute to nation building. It was to publish books that are pioneering in new research and knowledge; that bring forth original ideas which could validate, invalidate or provoke older ideas; and all these books should be able to hold their mettle when raised up to scrutiny. She encouraged Filipinos here and abroad, and even foreign Filipinists interested in our history and current concerns, to articulate, whether in a creative or academic and critical matter, their varying interests in all the many disciplines of learning.”
The Book Development Association of the Philippines, of which Pacheco was a founding member, held an online memorial Mass officiated by Fr. Mario Francisco, SJ, on Feb. 5.
In his homily, Father Francisco noted Feb. 5 was the Feast of St. Agatha of Sicily, a 3rd-century Christian martyr who is commemorated for her refusal to renounce her beliefs despite torture and eventual death on the orders of the Roman Emperor Decius. He compared St. Agatha’s strength of beliefs to Pacheco’s activism, particularly with causes such as the urban poor and gender inequality.
The Mass was followed by a tribute given by industry colleagues, longtime friends and family. Pacheco’s daughter Kathleen thanked the guests. Her ashes were inurned at the Sta. Maria della Strada Parish columbarium on Feb. 8.
Pacheco died in the 50th anniversary year of her beloved university press.
“Slowly, she built a list of what we now consider foundational classic texts in different fields reprinted every year since first released,” Bolasco said of Pacheco. “She began a tradition of publishing books that engage a nation, that provide social and cultural interventions. That list we stand on today. That tradition we continue at the Ateneo de Manila University Press, and on our 50th anniversary, we renew our commitment to that mission.” INQ
Co-organizers (2)
Errol Mendoza
Organizer
Glendale, CA
Kathy Pacheco
Co-organizer