Thank You Tita Cory

"For the first time in the history of the world, a civilian population has been called to defend the military."

-María Corazón Cojuangco-Aquino
(born María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco)
1933—2009

LOUISIANS' CALL TO PRAYER: THE FAST RECOVERY OF PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

JUNE 09 NURSING BOARD RESULT, SLU PLACES 2ND OVER ALL

MIRIEM PAULLE BELTRAN SORIANO 10th Place 84.60%

Well done SAINTS!!

2005 Filipino Role Model in Business & Management, Louisian

Antonio Villena
BS Psychology, AB Philosophy (Cum Laude)




MBA- De La Salle Graduate School of Business & Economics.
Member- American Management Association (AMA) in New York, U.S.A. in 1997.

PSV & Co. Partner, Louisian

BS Accountancy 1982
Board of Director- Association of Certified Public Accountant in Public Practice ( ACPAPP )

Atty. Malimban & Atty. Abuel, Louisians

Atty. Noel Malimban
BS Accountancy 1999
14 Place (May 2009 CPA Board Examinations)


(2006 Bar Top Notcher, UC)





Atty. Janet Abuel
BS Accountancy


(1998 Bar Top Notcher, UC)

2009 Justice Sotero Cabahug Day Medalist/ 2008 TOSP , Louisian

Adrian Louie Zambo Atonducan, AB Philosophy summa cum laude


Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP) 2008.

2009 Cabahug Medal for Academic Excellence Awards

A legacy that Justice Sotero B. Cabahug left to his beloved Mandauehanons is the conferment of the Cabahug Medal to the Mandauehanon who would graduate at the top of his class, with a rating of not less than 90 percent in the secondary, or special course from any school, institution, academy, college or unversity duly acknowledged by the government.

He offered to donate the gold medal through the Mandaue Council who formally accepted it and drafted rules to govern the selection. This was in 1923 and since then there have been 64 Cabahug medalists. There were years when there were no awardees and there was also a hiatus of 13 years after the 1994 awards.

NY Times Metropolitan Section Editor, Louisian

Ms. Cielo Buenaventura, AB Literature



Ms. Buenaventura had previously worked at New York Newsday, The Advocate of Stamford, Conn., and Malaya of Manila, Philippines. She holds a master's degree in public-affairs reporting from Ohio State University and a bachelor's degree in literature from St. Louis University in Baguio, Philippines.

RP Consul to Lithuania, Louisian

Mr.Rafael E Evangelista, Doctorate in Law (HC)



Mr. Evangelista received the BA in Law from Ateneo de Manila, MA in International Investment, Trade and Finance from Georgetown University, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Law by the St. Louis University in Baguio City.

Mr. Evangelista serves as President, Director, Trustee and Corporate Sevretary of numerous corporate and civic organizations, and is an author of many articles, speeches and papers.

JULY 16 QUAKE

photos from Dan De Guzman

Migrant Leader, Louisian

Ms. Flora Baniaga-Belinan
BA Social Work 1982

Igorot woman, mother, and migrant leader, Flora Baniaga-Belinan exemplifies Pinay power that is woven on the loom of the women’s struggle for empowerment, justice and equality.

Flora started as an organizer of the urban poor in Baguio City. Unemployed after graduation, she joined the Urban Poor Assistance Center upon the invitation of an activist uncle. Hence, the beginning of her social involvement.

Flora became very active in her engagements as a social worker. In the course of her organizing work, she immersed with the urban poor and was exposed to their gut issues as well as to the plight of other marginalized sectors. Eventually, she participated in various protest actions and other community activities. Then came her resolve to be part of the movement for social transformation at a time when the political and economic crisis in the country continued to worsen under the crumbling Marcos dictatorship.

Organizing changed many aspects of Flora’s life. In fact, it paved the way for her meeting with Paul Belinan, her husband of 25 years. Paul was also from Sagada but he only met Flora in Baguio. An advocate of workers’ rights, he has been working for the Cordillera Labor Center for quite a long time already.

Flora and her husband were committed to their social causes but it was hard for them to support the needs of their family from their limited income. Confronted with the urgent need to survive, Flora made the difficult decision of leaving her family to work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong for 12 years.

However, Flora unwaveringly pursued organizing work in Hong Kong. She founded and headed the Pinatud A Saleng Ti Umili (organization of domestic workers from Cordillera) even as she was still adjusting in the foreign land. She also served as an adviser to the Cordillera Alliance-Hong Kong.

Tirelessly, she gathered and organized fellow OFWs. They would maintain communication through the phone and meet at a common place every weekend. Amidst her preoccupation, she still found time to do volunteer work for a counseling institution for distressed OFWs.

Under the banner of Migrante International, Flora was at the forefront of various major advocacies and struggles for the rights and welfare of migrants, especially of women Filipino workers, in Hong Kong. Among these were the victorious campaigns between 1998 and 2003 to stop wage cuts and to scrap state exactions such as authentication fees. At present, together with Filipino migrant groups, she is vigorously campaigning for the scrapping of the new POEA Guidelines which seek to collect more fees and not to protect domestic workers.

Flora has always stood staunchly against violence perpetrated on women migrants including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, maltreatment, and trafficking. She is now taking the lead in the campaign for justice for OFW victims of violence and government criminal neglect.

While in Hong Kong, Flora also promoted indigenous peoples’ rights to land, life, and resources, firmly opposing policies and projects in the homefront that particularly cause the destruction of the environment and exploitation of women indigenous peoples and children.

In 2005, she returned home and founded the Migrante Chapter in Metro Baguio. Recently, she was elected deputy secretary-general for external affairs of GWP.

For her steadfast stance and commitment to promote and defend the rights and welfare of women migrant workers, she was nominated as one of the top three standard bearers of GWP, joining Mindanaoan educator Luz Ilagan and Rep. Liza Maza.

photo and text from Bulalat.com

TOP E-LEARNING CONSULTANT, LOUISIAN

Dr. Antonio E. Refre
BS Chemical Engineering 1964


Doctor in Applied Sciences (1976, KULeuven, Louvain, Belgium);

Master of Chemical Engineering (1970,KULeuven, Louvain, Belgium)

A self-trained ICT expert; an e-Learning Consultant/Developer at the different universities in the Philippines and at the IAEA, Vienna, Austria; a developer of computer applications for education and business; conducted seminar-workshops in Distance Learning, Knowledge Management, Computer Applications, Learning Management System, and in the fields of chemical and nuclear engineering; taught subjects in Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Communications, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, and an Educator since 1965.

FR. DAVE, DR. DAVE: LOUISIAN

Dr. Dave Dean Capuyao
AB Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude

Father Dave Dean Capucao received three diplomas after the defence last wednesday (June 10, 2009): a PhD from the Radboud University in Nijmegen-The Netherlands, an STD (Doctor of Sacred Theology) from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), and a PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain.

The title of his dissertation is: Religion and Ethnocentrism: an empirical-theological study of the effects of religious attitudes on the attitudes towards minorities among Catholics in the Netherlands.

photo and text from: Munting Nayon

Apart

SLU Giant Steps

by rhodyl from flicker slu

CCPG SLU UPDATE

The CCPG INDUCTION and ACQUAINTANCE PARTY is on its planning stage.

The management is asking everyone to keep in touch with them either through the friendster account, sms the provincial representatives, and/or visit the our office at SC-08.

CALLING ALL LOUISIANS, JOIN THE WHITE AND BLUE NETWORK

All Louisians are invited to join the WHITE and BLUE social network site


WHITE and BLUE is the official student publication of Saint Louis University.

THE BOY FROM SLU, THE MAN OF ART: KIDLAT TAHIMIK

Eric de Guia

a.k.a. Kidlat Tahimik

SLU Boy's Laboratory High School 1954- 1958

Speech Drama- University of the Philippines in Diliman (1958-1963)

Graduate Studies- Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

1. Winner, 1954 essay contest for "The Evils of Communism" at age 11

2. Chair, UP student council (1962)

3. Chair, International Student's Association, University of Pensylvannia (1966)

4. Founder AISEC Philippines (1968) which convened a board of advisers chaired by Sixto Roxas

5. Winner, Best Third World Film at Mannheim Filmfest (1983)

6. Artist-in-residence, East West Center (1984) in Hawaii

7. Professor in independent film production, San Francsico State University (1990)

8. President, a non-government organization dedicated to documenting indigenous wisdom

9. Guest lecturer at numerous film forums, universities, art happenings in Japan, US, Germany (1978 to the present)

10. Artist sector representative to the John Hay Advisory Council, which helped make an orderly turnover of Camp John Hay to private contractors for its reestablishment as a toruism center.

11. Contributor to the Sunday Weekend

12. Convenor of LIBHRTY (Limit Idiot Box Hours Thank You), a national awareness movement to guard against TV overdoes.

photo and text from HOMEGROWNART.NET

MT. PROVINCE GOVERNOR, LOUISIAN

Atty. Maximo B. Dalog
BS Education 1967
Bachelors of Law 1973



Mountain Province is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc and borders, clockwise from the south, Ifugao, Benguet, Ilocos Sur, Abra, Kalinga, and Isabela.

Mountain Province is the full name of the province and is sometimes incorrectly named just Mountain in some foreign references. The name is also incorrectly shortened by locals to Mt. Province, which in turn is read by native Anglophones as "Mount Province". The province is named that way because it is found in the Cordillera Central mountain range of north central Luzon.

Mountain Province was also the name of the historical province that included most of the current Cordillera provinces. This old province was established by the Americans in 1908 and was later split in 1966 into Mountain Province, Benguet, Kalinga-Apayao and Ifugao.

text from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Province

photo from http://www.lpp.gov.ph/GovernorsProfile/dalog.html

VIVA SLU GLEE CLUB

A clamor for performances from the SLU Glee Club reached the admin of this blog. Our research team reports that SLU GLEE CLUB has no scheduled performance.

We will post updates as soon as information becomes available.

Meanwhile, the team suggests to check this link for a selection of SLU Glee Club's past shows.

http://www.ouony.com/index.php?tag=SLU+Glee+Club

SLU'S OFFICIAL ENROLLMENT STAT

data from Buhay SLU July 09 Edition

figure is exclusive of the elementary and high school department

SLU SUSPENDS CLASSES

"Classes are suspended in all levels until July 18, 2009 and will resume on July 20."

from:
http://www.slu.edu.ph/index.jsp


no details given for the suspension of classes

LOUISIAN HEADS LIONS CLUB INT'L NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

Atty. Elmer Datuin
Bachelors of Law, 1984

Atty. Datuin is also the National Chairman of the Philippine Councilors League

SLU'S PERFORMACE DURING THE JUNE 2009 PHARMACY LICENSURE EXAMS

SLU'S PERFORMACE DURING THE JUNE 2009 SOCIAL WORKERS LICENSURE EXAMS

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