Norlito Ison Cervo

The following article about Norlito Ison Cervo was published on the April 26, 1994 issue of Mr. & Ms. magazine.

Talk about professionals who aren't in the academic sense but by experience, Norlito Ison Cervo or "Norling" has grown his hair white doing the common man's work. "Marunong akong mag-electrician, magkaingin, maghukay ng kanal... Lahat ng ginagawa ng isang pangkaraniwang tao."

Tito Norling, now 61, also plays the violin, harmonica and ukelele. History traces him way back 1949 when he used to indulge in writing poems and comic scripts. His special liking for culture and anthropology brought him to his native roots. By 1965, he invested in social relations being the basketball playing coach/referee in Binangonan, his homebase. He found himself working for the television the next year. Even until Martial Law, his outlet ws doing comic stories. Tito Norling, a retired delivery supervisor and quarry paymaster at Rizal Cement Company., also laid his time as a translator in the Department of Labor from 1976 to 1977. On March 15, 1988, his very first article for Mr. & Ms. entitled "Is Tagalog the Missing Language?" came out in four pages, theorizing on how Tagalog became the mother of ancient languages.

Whether eating his favorite, menudo and Kanduli, or collecting archeological artifacts, Norling has immortalized national awareness. -- ap