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1n 1963, she enrolled at the Far Eastern University (FEU) in Manila to take up
a course in Psychology, but decided to shift to Education in 1965 under a
scholarship grant given by spouses Juanito and Rufina Evangelista of Catanghalan.
Ludy’s teaching career started in July 1968 when she was taken in as a
substitute teacher for Grade 1 pupils in Quibadia (now San Pascual) Elementary
School. The following year, she was assigned as a permanent teacher in Binuangan
Elementary School handling Grade 6 pupils. This was followed by a teaching
assignment in Catanghalan Elementary School where she handled Grades 5 and 6
classes from 1969 to 1976.
Among the exams. she passed in the US are: the 1994 California Pharmacy
Assistant Exam. where she ranked 6th in the state, the June 1997 California Basic
Educational Skills Test (CBEST) where she had a Score-146, Cumulative status:
Highest Results, and the U.S. Postal Service Exam.
On June 4, 1988, Ludy married Bill Ray Robnett. Five years into their union,
she quit her work and decided not to pursue a promising teaching career after
passing the CBEST in order to help her husband Bill in his small business.
In between her professional and personal life, Ludy has dabbled in literary
writing for her avocation. In 1956, she wrote a Pilipino story which was published by
the newspaper “Bagong Buhay.” From 1959 to 1960, she was one of the
10 “Bagong Dugo” regular trainees of Liwayway magazine under the mentorship of
the famed Liwayway A. Arceo, its founder and adviser. Between 1960 and 1963,
she became a regular contributor of Tagalog short stories, poems and articles in
“Liwayway,” “Aliwan” and “Bulaklak” komiks-magazines. One of her short stories
saw print in a komiks published by Prencillo “Cil” Evangelista, her kababaryo and
contemporary in Catanghalan.