Godofredo Sebastian Reyes

He was born on November 8, 1918 in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur to Dionisio Reyes (a first graduate Nurse at PGH) and Encarnacion Sebastian (teacher).

He graduated from the College of Medicine, UP in 1943 and stood sixth highest in the Medical Board Examination in August
He practiced medicine in his hometown where he built the Reyes Clinic, a small hospital for the poor, on October 9, 1946, on his father’s birthday.
Opened the first branch of Reyes Clinic in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija in December 1951; the second in Villasis, Pangasinan in August 1952, and the third in Urdaneta, Pangasinan in
He was accepted as a fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons FPCS, a society of surgeons, in 1950, and was elected regent in 1959.
Former District Councilor of the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) in the districts of Pangasinan, La Union, Baguio City, Mt. Province, Abra, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte; twice president of the Ilocos Medical Society.
He was honored as Physician of the Year at the 1949 Ilocos Sur Carnival and 1964 PMA Convention.
He was appointed by former President Ferdinand Marcos as a member of the Board of Medical Examiners in 1966-1969

Political career

He was 29 years old when he became mayor of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur and served from 1947 to 1951. In 1955 he was re-elected mayor.
He ran and was elected Deputy in the second district of Ilocos in 1957
He was elected governor of Ilocos Sur in 1959 and served until
He served on the 9-Man Board of the Nationalist Party in 1961 as a representative of the Governor’s League.

Author

He began writing poetry, short stories in 1937 and most of them were published in the Bannawag. He wrote a poem entitled Angalo Ken Aran and it was published in
He joined Leon Pichay and Mariano Gaerlan in Manila in 1954, and in Baguio in
The coronation of the Queen was celebrated in various towns in Ilocos Sur, Baguio, Abra, La Union, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac.
He published in the Philippine Collegian while attending the UP College of Medicine.
He wrote Scientific Articles published in the Philippine Journal of Surgery.
In 1990, he was awarded the Pedro Bucaneg Award, the highest honor of GUMIL Filipinas for Ilocano writers.

World War II Veteran

He became a guerrilla in 1944 as a 1st Lieutenant. He served as a Batallion Surgeon in the 66th Infantry, USAFIP NL until the end of the war. Resigned in May.

Mentor

He was elected president of the Board of Trustees of St. Louis. St. Mary’s Junior College in 1948-1952 and 1964 respectively.