Jerry Dadap with the Andres Bonifacio Concert Choir. The late Vedasto Dadap Sr., a public school teacher, was a local hero in the town of Hinunangan, (now Southern) Leyte during the war years.

It was 1957, the nation was mourning the death in a plane crash of popular President Ramon Magsaysay, and Jerry A. Dadap, a student at the University of the Philippines College of Music, had taken ...