MLQU 60^th Anniversary
Office of the Alumni Affairs

Dear Colleague:

Our dear Alma Mater will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in the 2007.

We intend to make it a grandiose affair with you as participant. One of the main events will be awarding of the Most Outstanding Alumnus/Alumna for each year from 1947 to 2007. The search is now on, we need your active participation in this project, so please submit the name of your nominee for your year together with his/her resume. Your early response is requested for the screening of the candidates. Make this a red-letter day in your calendar. Attend with your families and renew acquaintances with former classmates and professors, reliving fond memories of school years past and to feel young once again.

Should you be interested in participating in the homecoming, please fill let us know, --- your early reply will aid us in finalizing our plans and preparations for the event. For further inquiries you may reach us at telephone number 734-01-21 up to 24 (local 112). Ask for our program coordinator, Ms. Loida R. Sta. Maria through the Office of the Alumni Affairs.

As a final note, I would like to appeal to all the alumni both young, and old, at home and abroad for your active participation in the projects of the Alumni Association. More than monetary contributions, it is your presence in our affairs that will energize and vitalize us, creating a truly dynamic MLQ Alumni Association, that will better serve the interests of the University’s graduates. Your time and participation is a way for us to give something back to our Alma Mater, considering what our Alma Mater has given to us.

Thank you once again.

Sincerely,
LAURA C. SUNICO
Director
 

Fax No. 733-79-76
Website: www.mlqu.edu.ph/alumni
lauracruzsunico@yahoo.com
Alumni Association Metro bank Account #: 082-3-082-50829-6 (Metro Bank, Recto)
 

Born in Calumpit, Bulacan, Obet is proud of his humble beginnings. He is the eldest son of the late Barangay Captain and Municipal Councilor Juan T. Pagdanganan Jr., a carpenter-farmer, Rosalina Mamangon Pagadanganan, a market vendor.

Secretary Pagdanganan finished his elementary and high school education as Valedictorian. He is obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from MLQU School of Engineering in 1968. He also has an MBA from DE La Salle University (1981) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from MLQU (1990). He has been awarded as outstanding alumnus by the schools he attended. In 1995, he has honored with a doctorate in Education Management, Honoris Causa by the Bulacan State University.

Before serving the government, Obet was a top Executive Unilever PRC, occupying senior management positions in technical and marketing divisions. He was also a professional lecturer at the MLQU School of Engineering, The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, the De La Salle University Graduates School of Business and Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Obet was a Governor of Bulacan for 12 years, starting as an OIC Governor after the Edsa revolution in 1986. In the 1998 local election, He became the only Governor of Bulacan ever elected unopposed. Thereafter, he was re-elected twice the landslide margin. Championing local autonomy he served as National President of the League of the Provinces for 3 terms, and founding chairman of the League of Leagues, the forerunner of the Union of Local Authority of the Philippines (ULAP).

He was previously served as the Presidential Adviser of the Cooperatives, Chairman of the Cooperative Department Authority (CDA), Secretary of Agrarian Reform and Secretary of Tourism.

Obet was also a National President of the Boy Scout of the Philippines for two terms and presently a member of the BSP National Executive Board. An Active Rotarian, He was a Charter President of Rotary Club Calumpit and a Director-Elect of the Rotary Club of Manila. He is also fourth degree Knights of Columbus.

Obet is happily married to the former Susan Oblefias of Sariaya, Quezon, herself a Chemical Engineer and scouter. They have children Maria Rossana Sicat, en expatriate marketing director of multi-national company in Vietnam, and Roberto Raymond, an Entrepreneur. They now have three grandchildren.

Many regard Secretary Pagdanganan as the father of Modern Cooperativism for promoting equitable national progress through cooperativeness. Today, inspired by his crusade to make quality medicines available, accessible, and affordable, especially to poor Filipinos, not a few are calling him “Mr. Botika.”

Resume of SEDFREY A. ORDOÑEZ

Academe:
Bachelor of Laws, 1948; Master of Laws, 1954
Doctor of Laws, (Hon.) Araullo University, 1987
Doctor of Public Administration, (Hon.) Polytechnic University of the Philippines, 1990
Doctor of Humanities, (Hon.) Mindanao State University, 1991
Doctor of Laws, (Hon.) Manuel L. Quezon University, 1999
Vice Chairman, Advisory Council, Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1967 to present

Government Service:
Elected Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1971
Solicitor General, 1986
Secretary of Justice, 1987-1990
Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, New York City, 1990-1992
Chairman, Commission on Human Rights, 1992-1995
Chairman, Construction Industry Arbitration Commission, 1999, Re-appointed for 6 years until 2012

International Human Rights Advocacy:
Member, Advisory Council of Jurists, 1999 for 6 years, re-elected in 2006 for another 6 years in the National Association of Human Rights Institutions, Asia-Pacific Region.

Alternation Dispute Resolution:
Chairman, Philippines Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. - 1999 to present.

Bio-data of Justice ISAGANI A. CRUZ JUSTICE ISAGANI A. CRUZ was born in Manila on October 11, 1924, to Vicente G. Cruz, after whom that street in Sampaloc is named, and Aurora Anzures. His early schooling was at the Legarda Elementary School and the Mapa High School. He finished his pre-law and freshman law years at the University of the Philippines, then transferred to the MLQ School of Law, where he graduated cum laude in 1951. He placed eighth in the bar examinations for that year with a rating of 90.15%. He served as legal consultant of the Philippine panel that negotiated the commercial treaty with Japan in 1961. He was also legal adviser of the Philippine delegations to the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Denmark in 1964, and to the Asian Parliamentarians’ Union Conference in Japan in 1968, Cambodia in 1970, Indonesia in 1971, and Australia in the same year.

In 1966 he was appointed Chairman of the Code Commission that later drafted the basis of the Child and Youth Welfare Code. He resigned in 1972 to join Laurel Law Offices as senior partner specialized in Constitutional Law and International Law.

Justice Cruz was dean of the Lyceum School of Law from 1962 to 1968 and taught later as full professor and/or bar reviewer in the law colleges of UP, Ateneo, San Beda, UE, UST, FEU, and others. He now lectures for the UP Law Center and the Philippine Judicial Academy. He is the author of widely used textbooks, to wit, Philippine Political Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, and International Law Reviewer, and many legal treatises.

Justice Cruz was appointed to the Supreme Court on April 16, 1986, one of the five members chosen directly from the bar and of the six law deans drafted from the academe. At the time of his retirement in 1994, he was the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of its First Division. He was also Chairman of the Senate Electoral Tribunal and, earlier, of the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal.

Chief Justice Enrique M. Fernando said of Justice Cruz that “his interest in writings other than legal undoubtedly contributes to his polished and elegant opinions.” Chief Justice Claudio Teehankee called him “the lyricist of the Court.” Chief Justice Andres R. Narvasa spoke of him thus:

“Hand in hand with possessing a rare gift of language and a felicity of style, Justice Cruz is also an incisive thinker and logician, as many lawyers who have orally argued before the Court have discovered, often to their discomfiture.”

“These qualities, added to an uncompromising rectitude and, withal, an understanding of human frailty that would temper the harshness of the law with compassion wherever possible, make him the complete jurist.”

The resolution unanimously adopted by the Supreme Court on his retirement read in part:

“Some of the more important and powerful statements on constitutional rights of Mr. Justice Cruz are embodied in the dissents he has written. Time will tell us which of those dissents will become the prevailing rule... Whether we joined in his dissents or not, we are all indebted to Justice Cruz for the clarity of his vision and the learning and passion with which he conveyed that vision.”

Justice Cruz was selected Outstanding Manilan for 1995 in the field of law. In 1997, he was the St. Thomas More lecturer at the UST, the Jorge Bocobo lecturer at the UP and the 50^th anniversary lecturer at the MLQ University. He has received many awards from, among others, the Supreme Court, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Senate and House of Representatives Electoral Tribunals, the Supreme Court Lawyers Association, the San Beda College, the MLQ Alumni Association, the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters, the Far Eastern University, the Mapa High School Alumni Association, and the National Centennial Commission.

He was conferred the award of the Most Outstanding Alumnus of MLQU for the year 2003.

Launched in 2000 was Res Gestae: A Brief History of the Supreme Court, which he wrote with his daughter Cynthia, who also edited a collection of his Decisions and Dissents. He is also the author of Separate Opinion and co-author of Correct Choice of Words, Idiomatic Expressions, and Essentials of English Grammar, parts of a laguage series for lawyers.

Justice Cruz is now dean of the Perpetual Help College of Law and held the Jose P. Laurel Chair on Constitutional Law at the Lyceum of the Philippines. He writes a week-end column in the Inquirer entitled Separate Opinion and is Of counsel for one of his three son's law firms.

Justice Cruz is the holder of the degree of Doctor of Laws(honoris causa) from the MLQ University.

He is married to Salvacion Lopez. They have six children, namely, Cesar, Claro, Celso, Carlo, Isagani, Jr., and Cynthia.

Certificate of award: Royal Institute of Business Management	Philippine Federation of Professional Associations

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TRIBUTE TO PROF. TOMAS C. ONGOCO

By:

Dr. Alejandro R. Roces
National Artist for Literature
(Published in his column “Roses and Thorns ”dated
September 6, 2005, Philippine Star)

Two months ago, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts converted my collection of cockfighting stories into comic strips. There I came across an old colleague from the Earthsavers Movement – Prof. Tomas C. Ongoco and he gave me two of his recently published tagalog modernized Tagalog translations of Jose Rizal’s two novels – Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. And to my pleasant surprise he also handed me his Filipino translation of the zarzuela version of my stories Something to Crow About. This was the version that was serialized in Radio Balintataw, DZRH under the title of Bagay na Maititilaok.

We have been highly impressed with Ongoco’s contributions not only to national language, but to language in general. Some 20 years ago, he initiated the use of the word “garbology” to mean the study of garbage which is one of our major problems today.

His versions of Rizal’s two novels will be great help to teachers and students because they contain a study help so that readers can have an understanding of the socio-political of the country during Rizal’s time plus a full appreciation of Rizal’s total life works.

On November 22, Ongoco is again launching another book. This time the book is an anthology of his 25 environment poems. It is titled Ambon Sa Tagtuyot, Summer Drizzle. It links Mother Earth to love of country and pride in our indigenous culture. Eight of the poems are about nationalism. One of them is titled “Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika.” There is also a special section of Tagalog translations of Spanish and English poems.

August was National Language Month. So this column is really a belated tribute to Prof. Tomas C. Ongoco on national language month. He has certainly contributed a lot to Tagalog literature. As stated earlier, he did a rendition of my short stories in cockfighting in Tagalog and gave it the fitting title of Bagay na Maititilaok. It is an excellent translation of the English expression “Something to Crow About”. I am amazed at the number of people who have commended me on my short stories after it was presented on radio in Tagalog. Obviously, there are much, much more radio listeners than readers.

(Prof. Tomas C. Ongoco)