The Roces family has been in the newspaper and movie theatre business in the Philippines since before World War Two. I met some of their children my age when I was studying at the Ateneo Grade School in Intramuros before the war. Alfredo Ding Roces was one of them. The other was Marquitos.
An older brother, Alejandro "Anding" was an officer at the Far Eastern University and head of the Institute of Arts at the time when I was teaching there in 1954. Anding was, for a time, Secretary of Education at the same time he was also teaching and working as an executive of the Far Eastern University.
Ding in 1977 moved to Sydney Australia with his wife Irene. And he really kept his paintings, writings and photography steadily - and winning prizes.
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