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.