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Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno is the University of
the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA)’s Most Distinguished
Alumnus this centennial year.
Chief Justice Puno obtained his
Bachelor of Science in Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws degrees
from UP in 1962. He served as editor-in-chief of The Philippine
Collegian.
The UPAA will formally name him
Most Distinguished Alumnus at the UP General Alumni-Faculty
Homecoming and Reunion at the Araneta Coliseum on June 21.
A day before the awarding
ceremony, the UP Alumni Council will hold a meeting at Ang Bahay ng
Alumni on the UP Campus in Diliman where Chief Justice Puno will
deliver a 20-minute talk on his reflections on the homecoming theme
“UP Alumni: Excellence, Leadership and Service in the Next 100
Years.”
Chief Justice Puno who bested
other distinguished UP alumni will be joined by 45 other awardees
whom the UPAA have judged to have excelled in their fields.
Supreme Court Justice Conchita
Carpio Morales and Court of Appeals Justice Magdangal M. de Leon are
awardees for Championing Justice in the Judiciary.
The family of the late retired
presiding justice of the Court of Appeals, Romeo A. Brawner, who was
the acting chairman of the Commission on Elections at the time of
his recent death, will receive a posthumous award also for
Championing Justice.
UP Centennial Awards
One of the highlights of the
centennial celebrations is the awarding of the 2008 Parangal
Centennial (UP Centennial Awards), which will begin at 6 p.m. on
June 16, 2008, Monday, at the UP Theater (beside the Carillon) in
Diliman, Quezon City, after a reception at 4 p.m.
At this formal ceremony, the
University will pay tribute to the following: (1) all former UP
presidents who helped to shape the University into the secular and
people-oriented academic institution that is known as the premier
university of the country today; and (2) all the national artists
and national scientists whose works have contributed significantly
to the building of the Filipino nation.
That 34 out of the 40 national
artists and 30 out of the 31 national scientists today
graduated/studied at UP and/or spent their whole professional life
teaching and researching at UP shows how the university has played a
major role in shaping Philippine society.
A citation and a centennial
medallion designed by National Artist and former Fine Arts Dean
Napoleon Abueva will be handed to each honoree (or honoree’s
family) by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman.
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