Amado S. Tolentino Jr.
I have to confess I was “starstruck” in the beginning in the company of my 1971 Constitutional Convention colleagues-former Presidents, senators, congressmen, justices, ambassadors, University of the Philippines bigwigs, fiery student leaders, missionaries, priests and a nun, labor and peasant leaders, indigenous peoples’ representatives, topnotch professionals, business elite and celebrities I only saw and read about in newspapers. Gradually, I eased to the situation and became on first-name basis with everyone except with the very elderly delegates.