RENE SAGUISAG
LAST Monday, Sandiganbayan Justice Bernie Fernandez made his final sentimental journey home (San Beda, Home of Quality Products, a term Justice Florenz Regalado would borrow from San Miguel, in the 1960s). Bernie was No. 5 in the 1954 bar exams, Flor, No. 1 the following year, with 96.7 percent, a record-breaking mark that may stand until the desert sands grow cold (as in Boracay, at noon ). Bernie’s son, Lito, is now a Sandiganbayan justice himself, validating that fruit does not fall or roll far from the tree.