The 2019 Special Academic Convocation
Seven remarkable individuals will be honored at the 2019 Traditional University Awards of the Ateneo de Manila University on September 10.
To be held at the Hyundai Hall of Arete in the Ateneo’s Loyola Heights campus in Quezon City, the annual awards are given to individuals who best embody the values of the university.
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Yohei Sasakawa
Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa
Sasakawa has devoted more than forty years of his life to the elimination of leprosy in the world as well as the discrimination that leprosy patients endure even after they are cured. Among the beneficiaries of his humanitarian work was the Philippines’ former leper colony in Culion, Palawan. He is the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and the Government of Japan’s Goodwill Ambassador for the Human Rights of Persons Affected by Leprosy. Sasakawa has had a leadership role in The Nippon Foundation since 1981 and has been its Chairman since 2005. The foundation has been Ateneo de Manila’s partner in programs such as the University for Peace and the Asian Public Intellectuals.
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Amando M. Tetangco, Jr
Lux-in-Domino Award
The only governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to serve, with untarnished integrity, two six-year terms, Tetangco (AB Economics 1973) has garnered multiple international awards for his management of the country’s financial system, thus contributing to its economic stability and growth, which directly and indirectly benefited all Filipinos. In an effort to include marginalized sectors which have long been unserved or underserved by conventional financial service providers, he spearheaded the Philippine National Strategy for Financial Inclusion which brought together fifteen government agencies and as many private sector associations to work together to provide a broader base of Filipinos greater access to financial services.
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Bishop Pablo Virgilio S. David DD
Bukas Palad Award
A theologian and bible exegete with a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Bp David’s pastoral ministry, first as Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga in 2006–2015 then as Bishop of Kalookan, has been marked by his compassion and love for the poor and others in the fringes of society. His courage in speaking out against the evil of injustice and violence perpetrated against fellow Filipinos manifests his commitment as an ambassador for Christ, a shepherd to his flock and a church minister of reconciliation, the bearer of the Good News of God’s infinite love, mercy and compassion.
AVP ON BISHOP PABLO VIRGILIO S. DAVID, DD |
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Fortunato T. de la Peña
Government Service Award
Secretary de la Peña started his career in the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 1982 while also teaching at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He served both institutions in various capacities before he was appointed Secretary of DOST in 2016, as well as other national and international science and technology organizations. He is an advocate of research, e-governance and digital access to government services. He is a respected science administrator and is one of the frontrunners of the National Science and Technology Plan 2002–2020, which set the national policy framework and direction of science and technology in the country.
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Gloria Laureana SP Rosales
Ozanam Award (posthumous)
By establishing seven schools, one in Luzon and six in Mindanao, including the CHED-certified Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro City, Mrs. Rosales left an invaluable legacy of education to Mindanao, a region that has been underserved by administrations past and present. Before her death in 2009, Mrs. Rosales was well-known in the region for her philanthropy. Her support of marginalized groups such as working students, Muslim women, rural villagers, drug users, unwed mothers and street children, as well as men and women of faith regardless of religious belief, reflect a life deeply rooted in love for God and His people.
AVP ON GLORA LAUREANA SP ROSALES CITATION OF GLORA LAUREANA SP ROSALES RESPONSE OF DR. FE R. JUAREZ ON BEHALF OF HER MOTHER, MRS. GLORIA LAUREANA ROSALES |
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Rebecca N Tañada
Parangal Lingkod Sambayanan
Ms Karen Tañada has been involved in the country’s social movements since her college days in the 1970s, having been an activist during the martial law period. Her unstinting and unceasing work in peace-building and the advancement of women’s issues defines her career and her commitment to social development and public service. She is the executive director of the Gaston Z Ortigas Peace Institute, one of the founding convenors of the Coalition for Peace, and a member of the Third Party Monitoring Team which assesses the implementation of all agreements between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Danilo E. Dalena
Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi
A visual artist who worked as a political cartoonist for the Free Press and Asia Philippine Leader after graduating from the University of Sto Tomas in 1965, Dalena used his art to depict the social realities of his time and environment. Influenced both by social realism and impressionism, Dalena’s paintings, drawings and sculpture depict everyday scenes in Quiapo, Cubao and Pakil, in the jai-alai, beer houses and churches. Through his art, he draws attention to what is often considered peripheral and ordinary in our society and makes them central and extraordinary.
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2019 SPECIAL ACADEMIC CONVOCATION PROGRAMME (DOWNLOADABLE)
Welcome Address of University President Fr. Jose Ramon T. Villarin, SJ
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