Ethel on August 4th, 2011

FG David as a campus poet belonged to the ‘group’ of young poets writing in the ’60s: Ernesto Manalo, Jose M. Lansang, Jr., Leopoldo Gerardo, Gemino Abad, and the younger poets like Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, Jose Nadal Carreon, Erwin Castillo. It was a time of great ‘intellectual ferment’, to borrow a phrase much-used at the […]

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Ethel on December 11th, 2010

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Originally posted by brat1
mitch ong? she was my prof in psych stat. kami 1st batch na tinuruan nya–fresh out of college. galing!
anyways, who among my profs i had a crush on?
DR. FG DAVID of the psych department! wohoo! he’s in his 60’s na, but he’s so cool and smart and irresistibly cute! mwahahaha!
he […]

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Ethel on August 13th, 2009

Dear Tony,

I enjoyed reading the reactions of your readers. One thing I discovered is one reader sent her observation on Chicago at the same time mentioning her poet husband’s name with initial FG David. If I am not mistaken, Ethel’s husband could be “FREDI GUSTO” David a classmate in Professor Armando Malay’s 1959 Journalism Class […]

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Ethel on July 15th, 2009

From a Facebook Friend:
15 Books, 15 Minutes
Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me because I’m interested in seeing what books my friends choose.
My Reply, for fg:
01. Bertrand Russell’s […]

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The Family of the late Dr. Fredegusto G. David is pleased to announce that it will again confer the Academic Award for Excellence in the Sciences and Mathematics on a select outstanding student(s) at the Philippine Science High School’s “Toast to Excellence”,  to be held on March 30, 2009 at the PSHS.  In this connection, […]

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faye on January 31st, 2008

It’s now hard to imagine Dad as a student, but that he certainly once was.

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Ethel on October 23rd, 2007

[when fg and i got married, i learned that one of his favorite books was ‘the rubaiyat’ by omar khayyam, as translated by edward fitzgerald. i remember that book very well. a slim hardcover, with a painting of a persian woman with a veil underneath a date tree. i post these poems here in fg’s […]

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Ethel on September 8th, 2007

CONFRONTATION
Faith healers meet non-believing doctor
By Veronica T. Velosoyap
Of the Journal Staff
If wise men have any doubts about the ability of faith healers, they didn’t bother to hide it a bit when they recently came face to face with a growing legion of ‘psychic surgeons’ at the NSDB auditorium.
The occasion was an open session conducted by […]

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