The Big J and the UE Alumni Diamond Jubilee Grand Reunion

Photo shows University of the East (UE) alumnus and Philippines basketball living legend Robert “Big J” S. Jaworski (2nd from left), with his UE fellow alumni (from left) The Philippine Star Asst. Business Editor and Agri & Environment Editor Roman F. Floresca, Former Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Rodolfo G. Palattao, UE Marketing Department Executive Director Jesus T. Tanchanco Sr., UE Manila Chancellor Antonieta Fortuna-Ibe and UE Alumni Association Inc. (UEAAI) President Mercy L. Candelaria during the UEAAI-organized P. O. Domingo Golf Tournament, part of UE’s 62nd year Anniversary celebrations and UEAAI’s year-long activities. Culminating the UEAAI 2008 activities is the UEAAI Diamond Jubilee Grand Alumni Reunion, with the theme, “UE Alumni: Going Full Circle, Touching Lives” set on 5 p.m., Tuesday, December 16 at the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club. For details or for online membership registration and updating, please log on at the new UEAAI Web site: www.ue-alumni.net or at www.ue.edu.ph or call Josie or Aileen, UEAAI office, tel. nos.: 735-8557, 735-5471 to 82 loc 310.

Manila Mayor Lim and the UE Alumni Diamond Jubilee Grand Reunion

University of the East (UE) alumnus Vicente R. Ayllon, The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. Board Chairman and CEO, poses with UE Marketing Department Executive Director Jesus T. Tanchanco Sr., UE Alumni Association Inc. (UEAAI) President Mercy L. Candelaria and UEAAI Treasurer Josie Malanum during a meeting in preparation for the upcoming UEAAI Diamond Jubilee Grand Reunion. With the theme, “UE Alumni: Going Full Circle, Touching Lives”, the grand reunion is set at 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 16 at the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong City. For more details or for online membership registration and updating, please log on to the new UEAAI Web site: www.ue-alumni.net or at www.ue.edu.ph, or call Aileen, UE Alumni Office, tel. nos.: 735-8557, 735-5471 to 82 loc 310.

UE Knights’ Christmas Party, Fellowship Night on December 6

The UE Knights, Inc. will hold its 2008 Christmas Party and Fellowship Night at the Alegria Room, Casino Filipino, Manila Pavilion Hotel, Ma. Orosa St. , Ermita, Manila at 6 p.m., on Saturday, December 6, with the theme “Once a Knight Always a Knight”.

University of the East President Ester Albano-Garcia will be the guest of honor and speaker. Also invited are UE officials and UE Alumni Association Inc. officers.

The UE Knights, Inc. officers are enjoining their fellow UE Knights to join this celebration. The 2008-09 set of officers are: Atty. Danilo O. Mendez, National Commander; Eduardo R. Nicolas III, 1st Vice Commander; Gen. Enrique S. Atanacio, 2nd Vice Commander; Ronald M. Uychutin, 3rd Vice Commander; Cornelio L. Marcelino, National Adjutant; Atty. Lilito R. Perdido, National Treasurer; Col. Rodolfo G. Masiddo, Assistant National Treasurer; Gen. Lysias C. Cabusao, Business Manager; Gen. Arsenio M. Torres, National Auditor; Judge Augustus C. Diaz, Judge Advocate General; Gen. Roberto L. Calinisan, Press Relations Officer; Col. Renato S. Chan, Secretary General; Anthony U. Que, Chairman of the Board of Directors; Board Members: Col. Albino Sablayan Jr., Antonio A. Cua Jr., Luisito Padilla, Nicandro B. Marcelo and Napoleon E. Liong.

For details and inquiries, please call tel. nos.: 735-8557, 735-5471 loc. 310 (Aileen), loc. 378, 0919-3715787 (Mars); 313-0747, 734-9597 (Rene); 932-0305,

0917-8808785 (Tony); or log on to www.ueknights.com; www.ue.edu.ph

POD Cup Winners

The winners of the successful first P. O. Domingo Cup held at the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club’s (WWGCC) West Course last September 23 were announced by Tournament Director Roman F. Floresca during a simple awarding ceremony at the WWGCC’s West Grill. They are: Pag-Ibig Fund’s Joel Trinos, overall champion, earning him the privilege to have his name as the first to be inscribed on the P. O. Domingo Cup perpetual-symbolic trophy; Arnel Lagarejos, lowest gross and most no. of birdies; Luis Paredez, Class A category champion; Jeremy Parulan and Congressman Mauricio Domogan, 1st and 2nd runners-up; Greg Roja, Class B category champion; Rene Garcia and Ronnie Ortile, 1st and 2nd runners-up; Pete Corales, Class C category champion; Rene Aguas and Dr. Boy Villareal, 1st and 2nd runners-up.

Ladies’ division: Philippine Daily Inquirer Assistant Business Editor Corrie Narisma, champion; CSP International Commodities Corp. President Tess Concepcion, 1st runner-up. Fun holes winners: Pete Corales, nearest to the pin, 5 feet (hole # 11); Mon Mateo, most accurate drive (hole no. 5); Parulan, longest drive with 295 yards (hole no. 13).

Photo shows overall champion Trinos (with trophy) posing with (from left) Philippines’ basketball living legend, a member of the 60’s champion UE Red Warriors and former Senator Robert “Big J” Jaworski and UE executives – UE Manila Chancellor Antonieta F. Ibe, President Ester A. Garcia, Executive Vice President/Treasurer Carmelita G. Mateo and Marketing Department Executive Director and 2008 P. O. Domingo Cup Executive Committee Chair Jesus T. Tanchanco Sr.

Poster of PO Domingo cup

P. O. Domingo Cup Golf Tournament at Wack Wack

P. O. Domingo Cup Golf Tournament at Wack Wack

The “P. O. Domingo Cup” will be held at the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club on September 23, from 8 a.m. onwards. The golf tournament, named after the late P. O. (Panfilo) Domingo, Chairman of the Board and CEO of University of the East, UE Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center and the Allied Bank, as well as board member of several entities, was organized by his friends and business associates in banking, education, media and other institutions and golf buddies.
The golf tournament aims to raise funds for the “Dr. P. O. Domingo Scholarship Program” to enable intelligent but financially disadvantaged young Filipino students to pursue their college education and empower them to fulfill their dreams. This program will continue P.O.’s legacy of providing the youth with quality education, molding them as good leaders of society.
P. O., as his friends and business associates fondly called him, was distinguished in the banking community as the man behind the success of then government-owned Philippine National Bank (1972-1983). At PNB, he rose from the ranks to become its President. He efficiently steered PNB to become one of the largest, stable, profitable banks in Southeast Asia.
After retiring from PNB, he embarked into another field - the academe – to UE, his alma mater, as the Chairman of the Board and CEO and once, its President. Again, through his excellent financial acumen, he resuscitated the then financially-strapped UE to become one of the profitable, stable, robust learning institutions in the country nowadays, thus, reviving the grandeur and prestige that UE once reigned.
Chairman Domingo, both a sports backer and a player, was a low-key sportsman. Golf was his pastime. He is a regular in various putting greens nearby, playing with his closest golf buddies, friends and other business executives. Among his golf memberships are the Manila Golf and Country Club, Canlubang Golf and Country Club, Baguio Country Club, and the Country Club.
He was also an avid backer of the Philippine Tennis Association and regularly supported the Philippine Davis Cup Team. In the UE, he is the prime supporter of all its sport programs, especially of local and international competitions UE participates in.
He personally led all UE Pep Rallies wherein all UE athletes are gathered and presented to the UE community and are cheered by the community before competing.
Comprising the 2008 “P. O. Domingo Cup” Executive Committee are former Food Minister and NFA Administrator Jesus T. Tanchanco, Sr. - Chairman, former Secretary/Presidential Adviser on Taxation Atty. Fortunato “Forting” P. Aguas, former State Minister and Rizal Congressman Gilberto M. Duavit, and former Ambassador to the Holy See Howard Q. Dee – Members. Journalist Roman F. Floresca is Tournament Director while co-journalist Bobby T. Capco takes charge of the Publicity and Souvenir Program Committee. For more information, please call tel. nos. 735 5471 to 82 loc. 461 (Leo), loc. 310 (Aileen), loc. 438 (Josie).

UE’s outstanding grad Navor is TOSP national finalist

University of the East (UE) alumnus Richardson Navor was chosen to represent the National Capital Region at the annual 2008 Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP) Awards. He joins 30 national finalists in this year’s TOSP search.

A scholar of the UE-Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc., Navor graduated with a BS Accountancy degree, Magna Cum Laude from the UE Caloocan College of Business Administration. He was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Award, the College Distinguished Graduate Award and the Leadership Award for Men during UE’s 2008 Year-End Commencement Rites.

The TOSP National Awarding Ceremonies for the final ten awardees is on Thursday, July 17 at the Malacañang Palace with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as guest of honor.
Organized by the RFM Foundation, Inc. and RFM Corporation in cooperation with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., Commission on Higher Education, Rotary Club of Makati -Central and National Bookstore, Inc., the TOSP Awards Program is a fitting recognition of youths that demonstrated scholastic excellence and ideal leadership through active participation in worthwhile extra-curricular activities, community service and possessing good moral values

Accountancy Profession Award from the Institute for Solidarity in Asia

The Philippine Accountancy Profession as represented by the Board of Accountancy (BOA) and the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) was declared Public Governance System (PGS)-Compliant by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia, in ceremonies held March 26, 2008 at the Hotel Sofitel Manila. The recognition is conferred upon sectoral organizations pursuing a governance reform program as its contribution to national development.

In the picture are (from left): Dominador Barrion, PICPA Director; Lucila Tarriela, BOA Member; Elenita Cabrera, BOA Member; Eugene Mateo, BOA Chairman; Andres Cabuyadao, PICPA President; Sonia Golez, PICPA Committee on ISA Project Chairman; Antonieta Fortuna-Ibe, Former Chairperson, Professional Regulation Commission and now Chancellor, University of the East, who helped spearhead the project for the accountancy profession; and Redentor Roque, PICPA Vice President for Operations.

UEAAI to hold outreach project at the Boys Town

The UE Alumni Association Inc. (UEAAI) will give free medical check-up, dental services, legal consultations and art lessons during its outreach project at the Boys Town in Marikina on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Participating in this praiseworthy project are a team of faculty-dentists from the UE College of Dentistry led by their Dean, Dr. Brenda Dey, also the President of the UE Dental Alumni Association; UE Fine Arts Alumni Association President Ed Arcilla, UE College of Fine Arts College Secretary Lito de Guzman; lawyer and UEAAI PRO Commissioner Wilhelm Soriano of the Commission of Human Rights and members of the UE Law Alumni Association. UEAAI officers Mercy Candelaria (President), Jocelyn Malanum (Treasurer), Joymely Cua (Secretary), Norberto Rayupa (Auditor), Col. Renato Chan (Business Manager) and UE Marketing Department Executive Director Jesus Tanchanco Sr. (UEAAI Adviser); UE Knights brothers and other UE Alumni Association chapters’ officers will also be present.

Photo shows UEAAI officers discussing their upcoming Diamond Jubilee in December 2008, among other activities.

UE Caloocan mentor Legaspi’s award-winning film “Ambulancia” to compete at the 5th Naoussa ISFVF in Greece

UE College of Fine Arts faculty Richard Legaspi’s award-winning short film “Ambulancia” was chosen to compete at the 5th Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival (ISFVF) Competition at the Municipal Theater, City of Naoussa, Greece, on May 8 to 11.

Legaspi, director, producer and scriptwriter of several digital films, teaches advertising and painting at the UE Caloocan CFA, is a UECFA alumnus and a UE awardee for Exemplary Performance in Visual Arts. In Ambulancia, he gets able assistance from the film’s photography director Albert Banzon, assistant director Jules Katanyag, AD/producer/ editor Anna Isabelle Matutina, co-producer Eloisa Espino-Sanchez, production manager Seymour Barros-Sanchez, musical scorer Pam Miras, and production designers Grace Orbon, Sonja Completo, and Benay Reyes.

The Naoussa International Festival, considered as the most important digital cinema festival in Southeastern Europe and organized by the Arts and Culture ARTION civil company, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, the Greek Film Center, the Institute of Audiovisual Means, the Imathia Prefecture and Thessaloniki Cinema Museum, will exhibit more than 250 films from 50 countries, including the Philippines.

Since its first year the ARTION festival is deemed important by the international filmdom as it puts the directors and filmmakers in the center of attention, supporting their efforts through film market and workshops, at the same time, bringing them close to the spectators in active participation.

The Festival jury consists of: festival president George Tseberopoulos, film director Panos Koutras, actors Dinos Augoustidis, Kleon Gregoriadis, Giordano Petri of the Sofia Film Festival and Ivan Yurukov and Vasilis Terzopoulos, Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace representative. The following awards are at stake in the festival: Best Greek Short Film, Best International Short Film, Best Greek Experimental Film, Best International Experimental Film, Best Greek Animation, Best International Animation, the Naoussa Award and People's Choice Award.