UST Beta Sigma Fraternity

We proudly congratulate 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐲. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 "𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞" 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐚 '𝟗𝟔 on his appointment as 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐁𝐈𝐑)!

Brod Charlie was the Undersecretary for the Revenue Operations Group of the Department of Finance prior to his appointment. He previously worked as a former district collector for the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of Cebu, founding partner of the Palafox Patriarca Romero and Mendoza Law Firm, law professor and Pre-Bar and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education lecturer.

Cheers, Brod Charlie!

"After every question answered and every battle faced, today we stand not just to welcome — but to celebrate the strength, grit, and heart it took to reach the finish line. ✨

Join us as we give the warmest Bar Salubong to our Brother — a true warrior of the law. ⚖️💙

📅 14 September 2025 (Sunday)
🕓 Assembly: 4:00 PM
📍 Metrobank España (near UST)

🎬 Lights. Camera. Purpose.

The University of Santo Tomas Beta Sigma Fraternity and Sigma Beta Sorority, in partnership with the Kiwanis Club of Kalayaan, proudly sponsor a Film Showing for a Cause. Every ticket you buy helps bring joy and support to children with special needs.

Watch a film. Change a life.

The Last Man Standing

He was present at creation, an eyewitness to history.

He was among the 35 who converged at the bombed-out ruins of the Cancer Institute of UP at Padre Faura to form a fraternity that will embrace scholarship and nobility of service to man.

This was how a friend, Larry Henares in his Philippine DaiIy Inquirer column, described him:

“A natural born genius with a rare gift of being humble and soft spoken.”

“He graduated numero uno from La Salle, with honors from UP, and ended up at Harvard.”

He is a Cum Laude Chemistry graduate of UP when such an honor was the intellectual equivalent of summitting Mount Everest. He went to Harvard on scholarship and the prestigious MIT - Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

He parlayed this first-rate mind into building a pharmaceutical company that tapped Filipino talent.

That company, Inphilco, manufactured and sold veterinary drugs, pharmaceuticals, livestock and aquaculture feeds, animal nutrition supplement, some of which it still sells today.

It also became a de facto Beta Sigma chapter as he recruited brods right out of college, not as employees, but as partners in a Filipino-owned enterprise that treats its workers as family.

Brods earned and learned from him, as a few still today. As a boss, he has been generous both with advice and compensation. He is a mentor who imparts not only the secrets of the trade but how to achieve work-life balance.

Above all, he is a deeply-religious man who preaches his faith by example.

Patrician in looks and bearing, he is a die-hard Beta Sigman who attends fraternity gatherings big and small, whether S-R-O frat balls or solemn farewell rites for brods.

Of the 35 good and noble visionaries who made a covenant to found a fraternity anchored on egalitarianism and excellence that July day 79 years ago, he is the last man standing from that famed batch.

He is Brod Gregorio “Greg/Goyito” Abreu,
The Last Living Founder.