Silliman University is THE best performing school in the country in the latest Certified Public Accountants Board Examination.
TOP PERFORMING SCHOOLS:
1. SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY (Dumaguete City), 95.45%
2. UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES (Diliman), 91.18%
3. UNIVERSITY OF STO. TOMAS (Manila), 85.71%
4. UNIVERSITY OF ST. LA SALLE (Bacolod City), 80.00%
NATIONAL PASSING AVERAGE:
25.18%[br]
Posted on: October 27, 2005, 11:36:32 AM_________________________________________________H ere are some online tambayans to all Sillimanians.
www.sillimanians.com - friendster like website
www.sillimanavenue.com - newest forum
www.su.edu.ph - official silliman university website[br]
Posted on: November 04, 2005, 07:46:53 AM_________________________________________________
Sillimanian Inventor to be Featured in a Book on 50 Successful Filipino Entrepreneurs.
Engr. Bonifacio Comandante, a post-graduate marine biology student at Silliman University
who invented waterless fish transport technology and which now has a company named BUHI, has been invited by Presidential Consultant on Entrepreneurship and RFM Corp. President Jose Concepcion III to be
one of 50 successful Filipino entrepreneurs to be featured in a book.
The book, “NeGOsyo: Inspiring Stories of 50 Successful Filipino Entrepreneurs”, will feature top entrepreneurs in the country, including Tony Tan Caktiong of Jollibee, Socorro Ramos of National Bookstore, Jay Aldeguer of Islands Souvenirs, Pacita Juan of Figaro Coffee, and families such as the Ayalas, Gokongweis, Lopezes and the Lorenzos. The book is part of Mr. Concepcion’s “Believe & Inspire” project.
With the publication of the book, Mr. Concepcion hopes to inspire Filipinos and the culture of enterprise nationwide by sharing the life stories and case studies of 50 entrepreneurial role models. Their stories are aimed at injecting hope and determination in the nation, in the light of the economic and political problems of the country.
The book will be produced in two formats: a limited coffee table edition and a paper back edition. Proceeds will be donated to the non-profit Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship Foundation, for works to improve the local entrepreneurship education. Highly-respected ABS-CBN Publishing Group has been commissioned to provide editorial services.[br]
Posted on: November 04, 2005, 07:49:59 AM_________________________________________________
SU ROTC Cadet Ranks 2nd in Nat’l Speech Contest.
A member of the Corps of Sponsors of the SU Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
won second place in the 6th Philippine Army National Speech Contest held September 17 at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
Mass Communication freshman, Kenneth Christie Generoso, was the lone representative from Region VII in the competition sponsored by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. She went up against 12 other contestants from other regions in the country.
“Let not youth be wasted on the world. We have the capability to succeed our leaders. Let us aim to be better, if possible, to be much better than our present breed of leaders,” Generoso stressed in her speech.
According to Generoso, her speech cites the “importance of the ROTC in holistically empowering the youth.” [br]
Posted on: November 04, 2005, 07:52:39 AM_________________________________________________
SU Professors Win CHED Awards.
Two Silliman professors will be awarded on October 7 by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) after they were adjudged winners in Region VI and VII (Negros) of the CHED 2005 REPUBLICA for Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.
Sociology professor, Enrique G. Oracion will be awarded for his paper, The Dynamics of Stakeholder Participation in Marine Protected Area Development: A Case Study in Batangas, Philippines, and Biology professor, Renee B. Paalan for her paper, Responses of the Mammalian Fauna of Southwestern Negros Island, Philippines to Fragmentation of the Tropical Rainforest.[br]
Posted on: November 04, 2005, 07:55:13 AM_________________________________________________
Novel by Alumnus Wins National Book Award.
Dr. Leoncio P. Deriada, former professor and Chairperson of the SU English Department, won the National Book Award for his novel, People on Guerero Street. The National Book Award is an annual award given by the Manila Critics Circle.
Dr. Deriada received the Juan C. Laya Prize for the Novel in English, along with a cash prize of P20,000. He shared the award with another winner for the same citation, Ms Azucena Grajo Uranza for her novel, Women of Tammuz.
Presently a full professor of comparative literature at UP in the Visayas in Miag-ao, Iloilo, Dr. Deriada has published eight books and edited eight literary anthologies. He writes in English, Pilipino, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a and Cebuano. Dr. Deriada earned his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Silliman.[br]
Posted on: November 04, 2005, 07:56:29 AM_________________________________________________
SU prexy given
honorary degree
Silliman University president
Dr. Agustin Pulido was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (School Administration) by the Central Philippine University in Iloilo City during the first semester Commencement Exercises where he was speaker Sunday.
The conferral recognizes Pulido for his consistent pursuit of "excellence in every academic leadership" and for his sharing of "administrative skills, management capability and precious time in many and varied civic, academic and religious organizations, thereby, creating a very effective impact and indelible impression on the community and academic institutions, here and abroad," among others.
Before taking on the presidency at Silliman in 1996, Pulido served as president of CPU for 25 years.
He graduated from Silliman in 1953, with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, magna cum laude. He took his graduate studies in Chemistry at the University of the Philippines, and obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Indiana University in 1961.
He took up teaching and administrative posts at UP Diliman and UP Iloilo, rising from the ranks of instructor to professor, to department chairman and to dean.
Pulido has also received various awards and distinctions in the field of education, including being listed in the International Who's Who in Education in 1981, the Outstanding Sillimanian Award in Science Education in 1971, and the Distinguished Centralian Award in Education in 1996.[br]
Posted on: November 05, 2005, 04:24:54 PM_________________________________________________
GREAT SILLIMANIANS
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CARLOS P. GARCIA
Fourth President
Third Philippine Republic
March 17, 1957 - December 30, 1961
"Only those can remain free who are worthy of it. Freedom must be constantly deserved."
A native of Bohol, Carlos P. Garcia was born on November 4, 1896. He grew up with politics in his blood. His father served as a municipal mayor for four terms. He studied in Cebu Provincial High School,
Silliman University and Philippine Law School. He earned his degree in 1923.
He was famous for his poetry in Bohol where he earned the nickname "Prince of Visayan Poets."
It was in 1925 that he started his political career. He was elected provincial governor for two terms, 1931 and 1940 respectively; became a member of the congress in 1946; elected three times into the senate for three consecutive terms from 1941 to 1953, and was appointed as a cabinet member by President Ramon Magsaysay for four years concurrently serving as vice-president. He assumed the presidency after Magsaysay's death.
During his administration, he acted on the Bohlen Serrano Agreement which states the shortening of the US Bases lease of 99 years into 25 years and renewable after every five years. He also exercised the Filipino First Policy of which he was known for. This policy heavily favored the Filipino businessmen in contrast to foreign investors. He was also responsible for the retail trade which greatly affected the Chinese businessmen in the country.[br]
Posted on: November 05, 2005, 04:29:33 PM_________________________________________________
Graduate Student is Delegate to UN Youth Summit.
An MS Environmental Policy and Advocacy student at Silliman University was selected
as one of the delegates to the United Nations International Youth Summit on Climate Change from November 23 to December 11 in Montreal, Quebec.
Razcel Salvarita holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Silliman. He is an active environmental advocate, artist, and student journalist, with his most recent campaign involving the Twin Lakes.
Salvarita hit the newspapers when he marched the streets of Dumaguete half-naked, protesting the alleged move to decrease the area of protected forest cover at Lake Balinsasayao. [br]
Posted on: November 12, 2005, 03:14:36 AM_________________________________________________
Silliman Tops CPA Board Examination.
The College of Business Administration remains to have
one of the top Accountancy Programs in the country, after garnering a passing rate of
95.45 percent against a national passing average of
25.18 percent in the recent CPA Board Examinations. According to the results,
Silliman has the highest passing rate in the country.
Congratulations to our new Certified Public Accountants!
Amiscaray, Gshelia Marie
Beltran, Irene Lee
Bermil, Christine
Calumpang, Rogelio Vicente
Capilla, Jeanilyn Grace
De Mc Cuttac, Corine Jane
Dela Peña, Maria Fulgenda
Geromo, Conan Louis
Gitamondoc, Joy Myrn
Infante, April
Jaro, Ryanith
Lorico, Jennilene
Matia-ong, Lucille
Pactol, Zyldjyh
Sarabia, Maria Lourdes
Sumael, Febby Mae
Taguba, Vanessa
Taup, Liwayway Limaya
Tenorio, Albrain
Uy, Frances Stephanie
Yu, Jonah Jane[br]
Posted on: November 12, 2005, 08:39:23 AM_________________________________________________
Short and 'low budget' films
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In a scene from "Afternoon Delight," Jorge Sebastian Ponce de Leon (left) and Graciano Jose Pal frown after greeting a grumpy old woman while playing basketball on a street in Amigo Subdivision. The short film by Prof. Jonah Lim of the School of Communication was shortlisted for screening at the Raetihi Film Festival in New Zealand.
Winning the Best Foreign Film in San Francisco, California did not entail a huge budget for Jonah Lim,
a film and audio-visual communication professor of the Silliman University School of Communication, in Dumaguete City, Oriental Negros.
"Low-budget" seems to be a key factor in most of his over 25 short films. To avoid having to pay talent fees for his class project in grad school in 2000, he included his parents - both retirees and now in their 70s -- in the cast for a short film Social Cancer. That time, the Lims were conveniently based in Orange County, California where Chapman University is located.
"I was always looking for ways where I would keep the budget at a minimum," Jonah recalls with a smile.
But "low budget" does not necessarily mean poor quality, as evidenced by his films that have been so far cited in international filmfests, or screened for international audiences in Toronto, California, Burma; for national audiences like the Cultural Center of the Philippines, GMA 7, IBC 13, for the local SkyCable, and various schools in Dumaguete City.
Late last year, the same film
Kaibigan was screened as a nominee for Best Feature Film in the Sabaoth International Film Fest in Milan, Italy. Silliman University partially funded Lim's trip to Milan.
Another short film,
Afternoon Delight, was an official selection in last year's Raetihi Film Fest in New Zealand, and in the Eksperimento Film & Video Festival in Manila. It was about a woman who realized that the people she hated were the same ones who ended up helping her.
His grad school project Social Cancer was also the 2002 Eksperimento official selection.
Lim's master's thesis at Chapman University,
Rescue in F Minor got the Jury Citation for Short Fiction during the 2001 Eksperimento Film & Video Fest, and was in the official selection of the 2001 Cinemanila International Filmfest. It was about a man who accidentally killed his younger brother and then recovered with the help of a physically-abused boy.
"The various awards and citations only make me want to create more," said Lim. And because the Dumaguete lifestyle seems hiyang to this Manila-born and Manila-bred filmmaker who abhors the rat-race, he said he will continue to produce more films on the side, while teaching eager mass communication students the ropes of film-making.
A full-length (1.5 hours) feature film is now on the drawing board, for which he plans to continue to experiment with non-mainstream, non-studio production.
"I will continue to work on universal themes of human relationships, the family, positive values which I believe are attractive to cross-cultural audiences," Lim said.
He also plans to continue to conduct workshops for organizations, and help them with their film and video projects through documentaries or narratives.
"I'd be happy to know that my students in class, or the participants in my workshops, will have learned from me enough to be able to effectively apply the basics of film and video production," the independent filmmaker said.
For starters last year,
Pagkatapos ng Ulan, a short film created and directed at Silliman by his TV Production student Fel Brillantes, won the Grand Jury Prize during the 4th Eksperimento Filmfest.*IFP
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