second person from left.
In
March 1968, a three-man committee was organized to screen the nominate
PGFF candidates,
two of whom was sent to Honolulu on a travel grant to
conduct the feasibility study of the oceanarium project.
The committee was composed of Gordon Fraser, Virgilio Talusan and
Lawrence Ng with Col. Urbano Caldoza
as alternate member. The Oceanarium is the first recorded civic project undertaken by the PGFF.
Around the
midlle of 1968, Conrad Antonio and Larry Ng were sent by the PGFF to
Hawaii to study the
oceanarium
there with the objective of adopting its features to the proposed local
project which may be set up in
Manila because of the polluted waters of Manila Bay.