<>MLQU 60th Anniversary<>
Office of the Alumni Affairs
Dear Colleague:
Our dear Alma Mater
will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in the 2007.
We intend to make
it a grandiose affair with you as participant. One of the main events will be
awarding of the Most Outstanding Alumnus/Alumna for each year from 1947 to 2007.
The search is now on, we need your active participation in this project, so
please submit the name of your nominee for your year together with his/her
resume. Your early response is requested for the screening of the candidates.
Make this a red-letter day in your calendar. Attend with your families and renew
acquaintances with former classmates and professors, reliving fond memories of
school years past and to feel young once again.
Should you be interested
in participating in the homecoming, please fill let us know, --- your early
reply will aid us in finalizing our plans and preparations for the event. For
further inquiries you may reach us at telephone number 734-01-21 up to 24 (local
112). Ask for our program coordinator, Ms. Loida R. Sta. Maria through the
Office of the Alumni Affairs.
As a final note, I would like to appeal to
all the alumni both young, and old, at home and abroad for your active
participation in the projects of the Alumni Association. More than monetary
contributions, it is your presence in our affairs that will energize and
vitalize us, creating a truly dynamic MLQ Alumni Association, that will better serve the interests of the
University’s graduates. Your time and participation is a way for us to
give something back to our Alma Mater, considering what our Alma Mater has given
to us.
Thank you once again.
Sincerely,
LAURA C.
SUNICODirector
Fax No. 733-79-76
Website:
www.mlqu.edu.ph/alumni
lauracruzsunico@yahoo.com
Alumni Association
Metro bank Account #: 082-3-082-50829-6 (Metro Bank, Recto)
Secretary ROBERTO "OBET"
PAGDANGANAN
Chairman and
President
Philippine International trading Corporation
(PITC)
Born in Calumpit, Bulacan, Obet is proud of his
humble beginnings. He is the eldest son of the late Barangay Captain and
Municipal Councilor Juan T. Pagdanganan Jr., a carpenter-farmer, Rosalina
Mamangon Pagadanganan, a market vendor.
Secretary Pagdanganan finished
his elementary and high school education as Valedictorian. He is obtained his BS
in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from MLQU School of Engineering in
1968. He also has an MBA from DE La Salle University (1981) and a Bachelor of
Laws degree from MLQU (1990). He has been awarded as outstanding alumnus by the
schools he attended. In 1995, he has honored with a doctorate in Education
Management, Honoris Causa by the Bulacan State University.
Before
serving the government, Obet was a top Executive Unilever PRC, occupying senior
management positions in technical and marketing divisions. He was also a
professional lecturer at the MLQU School of Engineering, The Pamantasan ng
Lungsod ng Maynila, the De La Salle University Graduates School of Business and
Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Obet was a Governor of Bulacan
for 12 years, starting as an OIC Governor after the Edsa revolution in 1986. In
the 1998 local election, He became the only Governor of Bulacan ever elected
unopposed. Thereafter, he was re-elected twice the landslide margin. Championing
local autonomy he served as National President of the League of the Provinces
for 3 terms, and founding chairman of the League of Leagues, the forerunner of
the Union of Local Authority of the Philippines (ULAP).
He was previously
served as the Presidential Adviser of the Cooperatives, Chairman of the
Cooperative Department Authority (CDA), Secretary of Agrarian Reform and
Secretary of Tourism.
Obet was also a National President of the Boy Scout
of the Philippines for two terms and presently a member of the BSP National
Executive Board. An Active Rotarian, He was a Charter President of Rotary Club
Calumpit and a Director-Elect of the Rotary Club of Manila. He is also fourth
degree Knights of Columbus.
Obet is happily married to the former Susan
Oblefias of Sariaya, Quezon, herself a Chemical Engineer and scouter. They have
children Maria Rossana Sicat, en expatriate marketing director of multi-national
company in Vietnam, and Roberto Raymond, an Entrepreneur. They now have three
grandchildren.
Many regard Secretary Pagdanganan as the father of Modern
Cooperativism for promoting equitable national progress through cooperativeness.
Today, inspired by his crusade to make quality medicines available, accessible,
and affordable, especially to poor Filipinos, not a few are calling him “Mr.
Botika.”
Resume of SEDFREY A.
ORDOÑEZ
Academe:
Bachelor of Laws, 1948; Master
of Laws, 1954
Doctor of Laws, (Hon.) Araullo University, 1987
Doctor of
Public Administration, (Hon.) Polytechnic University of the Philippines,
1990
Doctor of Humanities, (Hon.) Mindanao State University, 1991
Doctor
of Laws, (Hon.) Manuel L. Quezon University, 1999
Vice Chairman, Advisory
Council, Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1967 to present
Government Service:
Elected Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1971
Solicitor
General, 1986
Secretary of Justice, 1987-1990
Permanent Representative of
the Philippines to the United Nations, New York City, 1990-1992
Chairman,
Commission on Human Rights, 1992-1995
Chairman, Construction Industry Arbitration Commission, 1999, Re-appointed for 6
years until 2012
International Human Rights
Advocacy:
Member, Advisory Council of Jurists, 1999 for 6 years,
re-elected in 2006 for another 6 years in the National Association of Human
Rights Institutions, Asia-Pacific Region.
Alternation Dispute
Resolution:
Chairman, Philippines Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. - 1999
to present.
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Bio-data of
Justice ISAGANI A. CRUZ
JUSTICE
ISAGANI A. CRUZ was born in Manila on October 11, 1924, to Vicente G. Cruz,
after whom that street in Sampaloc is named, and Aurora Anzures.
His
early schooling was at the Legarda Elementary School and the Mapa High School.
He finished his pre-law and freshman law years at the University of the
Philippines, then transferred to the MLQ School of Law, where he graduated
cum laude in 1951. He placed eighth in the bar examinations for that year
with a rating of 90.15%.
He served as legal consultant of the Philippine
panel that negotiated the commercial treaty with Japan in 1961. He was also
legal adviser of the Philippine delegations to the Interparliamentary Union
Conference in Denmark in 1964, and to the Asian Parliamentarians’ Union
Conference in Japan in 1968, Cambodia in 1970, Indonesia in 1971, and Australia
in the same year.
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In 1966 he was appointed Chairman
of the Code Commission that later drafted the basis of the Child and Youth
Welfare Code. He resigned in 1972 to join Laurel Law Offices as senior partner
specialized in Constitutional Law and International Law.
Justice Cruz was dean of the
Lyceum School of Law from 1962 to 1968 and taught later as full professor and/or
bar reviewer in the law colleges of UP, Ateneo, San Beda, UE, UST, FEU, and
others. He now lectures for the UP Law Center and the Philippine Judicial
Academy. He is the author of widely used textbooks, to wit, Philippine
Political Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, and International Law
Reviewer, and many legal treatises.
Justice Cruz was appointed to the
Supreme Court on April 16, 1986, one of the five members chosen directly from
the bar and of the six law deans drafted from the academe. At the time of his
retirement in 1994, he was the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and
Chairman of its First Division. He was also Chairman of the Senate Electoral
Tribunal and, earlier, of the House of Representatives Electoral
Tribunal.
Chief Justice Enrique M. Fernando
said of Justice Cruz that “his interest in writings other than legal undoubtedly
contributes to his polished and elegant opinions.” Chief Justice Claudio
Teehankee called him “the lyricist of the Court.” Chief Justice Andres R.
Narvasa spoke of him thus:
“Hand in hand with possessing a
rare gift of language and a felicity of style, Justice Cruz is also an incisive
thinker and logician, as many lawyers who have orally argued before the Court
have discovered, often to their discomfiture.”
“These qualities, added to an
uncompromising rectitude and, withal, an understanding of human frailty that
would temper the harshness of the law with compassion wherever possible, make
him the complete jurist.”
The resolution unanimously adopted
by the Supreme Court on his retirement read in part:
“Some of the more important and
powerful statements on constitutional rights of Mr. Justice Cruz are embodied in
the dissents he has written. Time will tell us which of those dissents will
become the prevailing rule... Whether we joined in his dissents or not, we are
all indebted to Justice Cruz for the clarity of his vision and the learning and
passion with which he conveyed that vision.”
Justice Cruz was selected
Outstanding Manilan for 1995 in the field of law. In 1997, he was the St. Thomas
More lecturer at the UST, the Jorge Bocobo lecturer at the UP and the
50th anniversary lecturer at the MLQ University. He has received many
awards from, among others, the Supreme Court, the Integrated Bar of the
Philippines, the Senate and House of Representatives Electoral Tribunals, the
Supreme Court Lawyers Association, the San Beda College, the MLQ Alumni
Association, the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters, the Far Eastern University,
the Mapa High School Alumni Association, and the National Centennial
Commission.
He was conferred the award of the
Most Outstanding Alumnus of MLQU for the year 2003.
Launched in 2000 was Res
Gestae: A Brief History of the Supreme Court, which he wrote with his
daughter Cynthia, who also edited a collection of his Decisions and Dissents. He
is also the author of Separate Opinion and co-author of Correct Choice
of Words, Idiomatic Expressions, and Essentials of English
Grammar, parts of a laguage series for lawyers.
Justice Cruz is now dean of the
Perpetual Help College of Law and held the Jose P. Laurel Chair on
Constitutional Law at the Lyceum of the Philippines. He writes a week-end column
in the Inquirer entitled Separate Opinion and is Of counsel for
one of his three son's law firms.
Justice Cruz is the holder of the
degree of Doctor of Laws(honoris causa) from the MLQ
University.
He is married to Salvacion Lopez.
They have six children, namely, Cesar, Claro, Celso, Carlo, Isagani, Jr., and
Cynthia.
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TRIBUTE TO PROF.
TOMAS C. ONGOCO
By:
Dr. Alejandro R. Roces
National
Artist for Literature
(Published in his column “Roses and Thorns
”dated
September 6, 2005, Philippine Star)
Two months ago, the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts converted my collection of cockfighting stories into comic
strips. There I came across an old colleague from the Earthsavers Movement –
Prof. Tomas C. Ongoco and he gave me two of his recently published tagalog
modernized Tagalog translations of Jose Rizal’s two novels – Noli Me Tangere and
El Filibusterismo. And to my pleasant surprise he also handed me his Filipino
translation of the zarzuela version of my stories Something to Crow About. This
was the version that was serialized in Radio Balintataw, DZRH under the title of
Bagay na Maititilaok.
We have been highly impressed with Ongoco’s
contributions not only to national language, but to language in general. Some 20
years ago, he initiated the use of the word “garbology” to mean the study of
garbage which is one of our major problems today.
His versions of Rizal’s
two novels will be great help to teachers and students because they contain a
study help so that readers can have an understanding of the socio-political of
the country during Rizal’s time plus a full appreciation of Rizal’s total life
works.
On November 22, Ongoco is again launching another book. This time
the book is an anthology of his 25 environment poems. It is titled Ambon Sa
Tagtuyot, Summer Drizzle. It links Mother Earth to love of country and pride in
our indigenous culture. Eight of the poems are about nationalism. One of them is
titled “Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika.” There is also a special section
of Tagalog translations of Spanish and English poems.
August was National
Language Month. So this column is really a belated tribute to Prof. Tomas C.
Ongoco on national language month. He has certainly contributed a lot to Tagalog
literature. As stated earlier, he did a rendition of my short stories in
cockfighting in Tagalog and gave it the fitting title of Bagay na Maititilaok.
It is an excellent translation of the English expression “Something to Crow
About”. I am amazed at the number of people who have commended me on my short
stories after it was presented on radio in Tagalog. Obviously, there are much,
much more radio listeners than readers.
ikaw at ako,
sa ating
mundo
Ikaw nga ay ikaw
At ako ay ako….
Tadhana ko’y
akin
Tadhana mo’y iyo.
Hindi kita babaguhin
Di mo ako
mababago.
‘pagkat and tama sa akin
baka di tama sa iyo.
Kaya
turuan mo ako’t
Turuan ka’y gagawin ko…
Ngunit ating
pagbabago’y
Nasa akin, nasa iyo-
Ikaw sa ikaw mo’t
Ako sa akin
ko.
Sa kaibhan nati’y
Magkaisa tyo
Sa ganito gumaganda
Ang
mundo mo’t and mundo ko….
Sa ganito gumaganda
And mundo ko’t mundo
mo. |
 (Prof. Tomas C.
Ongoco)
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