TO       :             All Registered Corporations

   RE       :            Annual Meetings and Proxy

                            In the absence of rules, guidelines or provisions of annual stockholders or membership meetings and the acceptance and validation of proxies for those stock corporations whose stocks are not registered under the Securities Regulation Code, and the non-stock corporations, SEC Memorandum Circular No. 5 dated August 6, 1996 which provides the guidelines on the same subject for publicly listed corporation, when pertinent, shall be applicable also to those stock corporations and non-stock corporations.

                            This Memorandum Circular shall take effect immediately.

                             May 23 , 2001. Mandaluyong City.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Original Signed)

LILIA R. BAUTISTA

Chairperson