[thanks to my Google Blogs Alerts, i’m at once privy to this mention of den, another ‘jewel’ to treasure. thanks to carl jamie! i’m sure if den were alive, he’d smile that inscrutable yet deeply satisfied smile of his, knowing that his name lives on in the hearts of his students. he’d say, it was all worth it.
p.s. den’s name appears in number 78, which i have highlighted.
100 REASONS WHY DO I LOVE U.P.
December 17, 2008 by champoyupee
Carl Jamie Simple S. Bordeos
17 December 2008
Today, December 17, is the culmination of the celebration of the UP’s First Centennial (or First One Hundred Years). I am one of her proud sons/alumni to sing “UP Naming Mahal” with clench fist in the air and to shout the words, “Ang Galing Mo, UP! Salamat. Maraming Salamat, UP! ”
- It has been said that there are only two universities in the Philippines, and these are: the University of the Philippines, and Others (Universities of the Philippines);
- U.P. is the country’s National University, which was embodied in its new charter signed by the Philippine President last April 2008;
- U.P. was first established as the American University of the Philippines;
- U.P. was considered the mother of all State Universities in the Philippines;
- U.P. is the premier State University;
- U.P. is a ‘liberal’ university where plurality of thoughts is welcome;
- Students of UP enjoy the title ‘Iskolar ng Bayan’;
- U.P. is a community of scholars;
- U.P. is the University of the People, thus a service University;
- U.P. had produced 7 out of the 14 Philippine Presidents;
- U.P. had produced 30 out of the 31 National Scientists;
- U.P. had produced 36 out of the 57 National Artists;
- U.P. had produced 12 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court;
- U.P. is a system composed of 7 Constituent Universities: UP Baguio (in the northern part of the country), UP Diliman, UP Manila, UP Los Baños, UP Visayas, UP Mindanao, and UP Open University;
- U.P. has the UP Diliman as the flagship campus specialized in liberal arts, sciences, law, etc.;
- U.P. has the UP Manila as the nation’s Health Sciences Center, specialized in medical and other health courses;
- U.P. has the UP Los Baños as the best agricultural school in Asia;
- U.P. has the UP in the Visayas composed of four colleges: UPV Tacloban, UPV Cebu, UPV Iloilo, and UPV Miag-ao, Iloilo, specialized in Fisheries, Marine and Aquatic courses;
- U.P. has produced the world’s famous singing groups like the Philippine Madrigal Singers (Madz), the UP Singing Ambassadors, and the UP Concert Chorus (in short, Korus);
- U.P. has a signature symbol, the U.P. Oblation which stands for freedom, selfless service and love of the country;
- U.P. has pioneered the U.P. Oblation Run;
- U.P. has the U.P. Ikot and U.P. Toki jeepneys in the campus;
- U.P. has the annual Grand Lantern Parade;
- U.P. topped in all licensure examinations in all courses according to the Commission on Higher Education;
- U.P. is the Center of Excellence, with the most numbered Centers of Excellence (COE) awarded by the Commission on Higher Education to UP’s academic programs;
- U.P. is a research university;
- U.P. had produced the first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School in the person of Dr. Fe del Mundo;
- U.P. had produced the ‘Philippines’ Florence Nightingale, the founder and first dean of the UP College of Nursing, Julita Sotejo;
- U.P. had produced the Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines, Dr. Paulo Campos;
- U.P. had produced the one and only Philippines’ youngest college graduate at age 16, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, who graduated Summa Cum Laude with BS Physics degree;
- U.P. had produced Fernando Amorsolo, the visual artist and National Artist;
- U.P. had produced Anna Bayle, Asia’s first International supermodel during the 1970s and 80s;
- U.P. had produced Cristeta Comerford, the first female White House executive chef;
- The child prodigy, CJ de Silva, studied in U.P.;
- U.P. had produced Francisca Reyes Aquino, the National Artist for Dance;
- U.P. had produced Lino Brocka, film director and National Artist;
- U.P. had produced visual artist and National Artist, Benedicto Cabrera (‘BenCab’);
- U.P. had produced Jose ‘Pitoy’ Moreno, Asia’s fashion czar;
- U.P. had produced Frances Rivera, U.S. based Emmy award-winning TV journalist;
- U.P. produced Isagani Yambot, publisher of the most read newspaper in the Philippines, the Philippine Daily Inquirer as well as its president Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez;
- U.P. had produced Lilia Calderon Clemente, the ‘Wonder Woman of the Wall Street,’ and chairman and CEO of Clemente Capital Inc.;
- U.P. had produced Felipe Gozon, chairman and CEO of GMA Network, Inc. as well as the founders of Alta Broadcasting System (ABS) and Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN);
- U.P. had produced Loida Nicolas-Lewis, chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc. who ranked number 1 among the “Top 50 Women Business Owners in America” by the Working Woman Magazine (1994) ;
- U.P. had produced Mercedita S. Nolledo, senior counsel, corporate secretary and senior managing director of Ayala Corporation;
- U.P. had produced the founding CEO of SMART Communications, Orlando Vea;
- U.P. had produced Manuel Villar, billionaire businessman, former Speaker of the House of the Representatives and Philippine Senate President;
- U.P. had produced Robert F. Kuan, chairman of the Board of Trustees, St. Luke’s Medical Center, and founder and President of Chowking Food Corporation;
- U.P. had produced Nestor A. Espenilla Jr., Deputy Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas;
- U.P. had produced Johnip Koa, president and General Manager of Procter and Gamble Philippines;
- U.P. had produced Eduardo Mañalac, president and CEO of the Philippine National Oil Company;
- U.P. had produced Amador Muriel, physicist who developed a microscopic theory of turbulence and the first Filipino member of the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton;
- U.P. had produced biochemist Baldomero Olivera, 2007 Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year;
- U.P. had produced Jose Abad Santos, Supreme Court Chief Justice and World War II martyr;
- U.P. had produced Carlos P. Romulo, Pulitzer Prize winner, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and President of the United nations General Assembly (1949-1950);
- U.P. had produced Wenceslao Q. Vinzons, student leader, lawyer, and World War II hero;
- U.P. had produced national historian, Teodoro Agoncillo;
- U .P. had produced Cebuano studies expert, Erlinda Alburo;
- U.P. had produced the first woman historian of the Philippines, Encarnacion Alzona;
- U.P. had produced Nora C. Quebral, known as the ‘Mother of Development Communication’;
- U.P. had produced the Father of Filipino Psychology, Virgilio Enriquez;
- U.P. had produced historian Gregorio F. Zaide;
- U.P. had produced Janet Belarmino and Noelle Wenceslao, two of the first ASEAN women to summit Mt. Everest;
- U.P. had produced Ryan Gregorio, head coach of the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants Basketball Team in the PBA;
- U.P. had produced Yeng Guiao, head coach of the Red Bull Barako Team in the PBA;
- U.P. had produced Teodoro Kalaw Jr., athlete during the 1972 Munich Olympics;
- U.P. had produced Teodoro Malasig, athlete during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin;
- U.P. had produced Bo Perasol, head coach of Air21 Express Basketball team in the PBA;
- U.P. had produced a fifth degree black belter judoka, Isabela Maria Rellosa;
- U.P. had produced Nicanor Abelardo, renowned Filipino musician and ‘UP Naming Mahal’ composer;
- U.P. had produced Glenn Aguilar, a Fisheries expert;
- U.P. had produced National Artist and sculptor, Napoleon Abueva;
- U.P. had produced Vicente Abad Santos, former Supreme Court Chief Justice;
- U.P. had produced Jerome Bailen, a forensic expert;
- U.P. had produced Ramon Barba, an agricultural and farming technology scientist;
- U.P. had produced musician Ryan Cayabyab;
- U.P. had produced Isagani R. Cruz, literary critic;
- U.P. had produced Fredegusto ‘FG’ David, professor of physiological psychology, the only professor who taught the subject in the country;
- U.P. had produced Dante B. de Padua, founder of the National Post Harvest Institute for Research and Extension (now BPRE);
- U.P. had produced Myrna Feliciano, Library science expert;
- U.P. had produced Patrick Gregorio, TOYM Awardee and Waterfront Hotels President;
- U.P. had produced Antonio A. Hidalgo, former UNICEF official;
- U.P. had produced Emil Javier, plant breeding and genetics scientist;
- U.P. had produced Felipe Miranda, political scientist and analyst of Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia founder;
- U.P. had produced Cristina Padolina, President of Centro Escolar University;
- U.P. had produced Raymundo Punngbayan, geologist and former Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) director;
- U.P. had produced Maria Ressa, ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs Head and former CNN reporter;
- U.P. had produced Cynthia Neri Zayas, ocean and marine anthropologist;
- U.P. had produced Josette T. Biyo, the only Filipina to have a planet named after her;
- U.P. had produced Haydee Yorac, chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Good Governance;
- UP had produced thousands of alumni who are successful in their respective fields;
- U.P. continues to dominate the annual Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature; has faculty members who are frequent recipients of Palanca awards, Cultural Center of the Philippines awards, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Free Press Literary Awards, ,Philippine Board on Books for Young People-Salanga Prize, NCCA Writer’s Prize, Philippine Graphic Awards for Fiction, Gawad Komisyon, Gantimpalang Collantes, Premio Zobel, and other prizes;
- U.P. also dominates in Metrobank Foundation’s Search for Outstanding Teachers;
- U.P. had produced thousands of activists and leaders for the welfare of the people;
- U.P. is composed of 12 campuses, where students from different regions in the country and different economic strata studied;
- U.P. has 400 plus graduate and baccalaureate degrees offered, 300 plus student organizations which some are oldest in the country or even in Asia, and 300 plus bird species found only in UP campus like Diliman;
- U.P. is where I had my ‘best education’ not simply studying theories, visited UP campuses except Mindanao and Pampanga, met several people, and opened my heart and mind to the social concerns of the people and the larger society;
- U.P. has the School of Health Sciences, a college under UP Manila, which was the first community-based school in the country where I learned the ideology of serving the un-served and underserved communities;
- U.P. has contributed much and continues to contribute to my whole being; and,
- the last reason why do I love U.P., it is simply because I love her. =)
March 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hello! Thank you for posting in Sir FG’s memorial blog, my article on the 100 REASONS WHY I LOVE UP! Salamat.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Thanks for students like you, Carl Jamie!
April 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Welcome, Ethel!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:32 am
40. U.P. had produced Jerome Vinarao, founder and president of the Center for Arts Foundation, Inc.
- FACT#1: Did not graduate at UP. He admits this but keeps it secret.
- FACT#2: Have you read his scams lately???
- FACT#3: ALL UP STUDENTS ARE MAD TO CALL THIS MAN FROM UP!
March 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Hi, Mr. Grape,
I Googled ‘Jerome Vinarao’ and learned that he allegedly issued a bouncing check for P200,000 to Lea Salonga, who appeared in his production ‘Echoes of Dreams’. While it would be in the interests of fair play to get Mr. Vinarao’s side, meanwhile, I’m deleting article #40, until this issue is settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
Ethel P. David