The 1980s was truly a very special decade.

Historically, there was the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 that toppled the Marcos dictatorship. This was triggered by the 1983 assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.

In sports, Grandmaster Eugene Torre topped the 1982 Chess Interzonals held in Toluca, Mexico that allowed him to enter the World Eliminations, eventually succumbing to Hungarian Zoltan Ribli in a close series 6-4. Leopoldo Serrantes finally broke a 24-year drought by winning the bronze medal in the light flyweight division at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Lady kegler Arianne Cerdena also took home the gold medal in the exhibition event of bowling. The UP Fighting Maroons also won the UAAP basketball title in 1986, with a team coached by Joe Lipa and led by Benjie Paras, Ronnie Magsanoc and Eric Altamirano.

In music, the second coming of the British/European wave saw great bands like Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, Culture Club, U2, and the like hitting the top of the charts in the United States and the Philippines.

At the University of the Philippines, a different kind of new wave invaded its campus, more specifically, the College of Arts and Sciences Bridgeway that connected the 2nd (Chemistry) and 3rd (Physics) Pavilions. It all started in 1980 when freshmen from Lourdes School Quezon City like Leo Herrera-Lim, Nash Gonzales, Bong Pizzaro, Dante Mayo, Manolo Quizon, Jun Pineda, Ray Paulino, Joey Sebastian, Arthur Ortega, Gene Mercado and Eric Guevarra were looking for a place to stay. Initially, they stayed at AS 101 which, unfortunately, was also the tambayan of Kappa Epsilon. Not wanting to be recruited, the group moved to the bridgeway, a vacant spot no one in UP would consider using as a tambayan, particularly during the rainy season.

From then on, an amazing transition happened as Lourdes graduates who went to UP became fixtures in Tulay. 1981 saw Pampi Tamesis, Don Cabigao, Robbie Mercado, Philip Manalo, among others, joining their senior colleagues in establishing Lourdes' presence. It was in 1982, however, when a heavy influx of Lourdesians came into the scene, that the Tulay became a permanent Lourdes territory.

The 1982 products were quite big in numbers and pretty solid. It wasn't difficult to entice future Lourdesians from joining the Tulay as they, like their predecessors, became big brothers to the younger ones. While the products of 1980 and 1981 went on their own college ways (most of them joined the Interschool Business Association, then dominated by Lourdesians, while others became active with their own organizations), Batch '82 made Tulay a home by coming up with various activities like basketball, billiards, and even a backgammon tournament won by Erwin Alandy in 1984.

More Lourdesians came in and the group became even bigger and more established. There was even a proposal back in 1986 to have the Tulay group accredited as a student organization, aptly named UP Tulay Society (UP TUSOC), only to be stymied by documentary requirements (constitution and by-laws, objectives, etc). The plan was eventually shelved but the group remained strong.

The final wave came in 1989 when more than half a dozen freshmen entered. Unfortunately, this was also the last class that became part of the group, as the fixtures of the Tulay graduated and no one else from the succeeding batches took the mantle. Likewise, the Tulay was slowly being surrounded by buildings that today, you won't even get to recognize the old tambayan.

This website was designed to make us recall the happy moments of our college lives. A lot has been said about how special our high school lives in Lourdes and other schools were (we actually had non-Lourdesians who hanged out with us, most notably Cynthia Del Rosario, a 1984 product of Poveda who genuinely considers herself as true-blue Tulay), but only a few would realize how equally special it was to be part of UP, much more, with our old high school buddies at the Tulay.

The resources are quite meager at this point as we have only collected a couple of photographs and profiles. Kindly help us by filling the form in the Registry section, and contributing your stories and pictures.

Enjoy the memories. Happy surfing.