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Founders Month Opens with Banig at Mani The Filipino and Foreign Languages Department organized the first activity that kicked off the celebration of Silliman University’s 108th Founders Month. Banig at Mani featured first year Education majors in an oratorical and a comical skit competition on August 1 at the Hibbard Hall. A second version of Banig at Mani will be conducted later this month. This time, Filipino 13 students, who come from different disciplines, will showcase their talents through sayawit and other Filipino dances. The activity is dubbed Banig at Mani as the audience is made to watch on mats and offered peanuts to munch on. Silliman’s Founders Day is a major event in Dumaguete City. Alumni return to the University from different parts of the country and the world to rekindle memories of campus life and walk through developments on campus. Among the highlights of this year’s Founders Day, with the theme "Living in Justice, Mercy and Humility with God" (click here to access the Founders Day Calendar) are the Parada Sillimaniana on August 27 and the Sunrise Service and Outstanding Sillimanian Awards Convocation on August 28. Silliman
University was founded on August 28, 1901 by Presbyterian missionaries
headed by Dr. Sutherland Hibbard and wife, Laura (click
here to read about Silliman’s history). Members of the Silliman University community held a vigil and a memorial service as a tribute to the late former Philippine President Corazon Aquino. The service took place on August 5 at the Silliman University Church. It happened at the same hour the remains of President Aquino were scheduled to leave the Manila Cathedral for interment at the Manila Memorial Park. To pay their last respects, the staff of the school paper the Weekly Sillimanian released a special issue with the paper’s name in yellow in the masthead. Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Betsy Joy Tan, in her welcome remarks, said, “…we gather as one Silliman community, as one Dumaguete community, as one Filipino nation in giving tribute to a great lady whose remarkable deeds kept her close to our hearts.” “We know though that more than democracy, she gave us a renewed hope that came with it a challenge to keep watch on government and ensure that our basic human rights and the fundamental freedoms continue to be protected and promoted,” she added. University Pastor Rev. Noel Villalba regarded the late President as “a great Filipino, one who has shown a great understanding of what a Christian is supposed to be.” He proceeded by reading excerpts of a speech delivered by the late former President on September 13, 2005, after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo admitted poor judgment in the “Hello Garci” controversy. The meditation was led by Divinity School professor Dr. Noriel Capulong. In his meditation, Dr. Capulong described President Aquino’s influence on the Filipino people. “Her courage, simplicity, humility, sincerity, wisdom and unflinching faith in God easily had their effect on a people desperately longing and looking for a leader who could inspire them and unite them with a vision and passion for change and renewal in our country.” Speaking of her death, Dr. Capulong said: “She faced death without fear but only with faith and trust. In her life she has already conquered the paralyzing power of death. This is the challenge of her life and faith to us all who grieve and admire even from a distance.” He ended his meditation with a scripture reading. “Cory’s life may therefore exemplify well what was expressed by the Apostle Paul in our other text in Romans 14:7-9: ‘We do not live to ourselves, we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end, Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.’” [
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Home ] Director of the Instruction Dr. Earl Jude Cleope was a panelist on the topic “Higher Education in Southeast Asia” in a conference in the United States. The 2009 Overseas Association for College Admission Counseling (OACAC) Summer Conference was held July 15 to 19 at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Cleope discussed the Philippine educational system, including the accreditation processes. He also shared how Asians perceive higher education in the United States as being of high quality, and gave out practical tips to American counselors on how best to do recruitment in the Philippines. Gathered in the conference were primary and secondary school counselors, overseas advisers, independent counselors, college admission and financial aid officers, enrollment managers, and representatives of organizations engaged in guiding students through the secondary to higher education transition process. Dr. Cleope is concurrently adviser at the satellite advising center of the Philippine-American Educational Foundation hosted at the Robert B. and Metta J. Silliman Library. [
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Home ] Four students of the High School Department of the School of Basic Education brought honor to Silliman University when they each won medals in the 2009 National Swimming Championship at Trace University, Los Baños, Laguna. The four students are: James Oscar Gravador (gold -- 200 m butterfly, bronze --100 m butterfly), Sheena Rose Leduna (silver -- 100 m backstroke, bronze -- 50 m backstroke), Ana Daniela Paraiso (silver -- 800 m freestyle, bronze -- 400 m freestyle), and Ian Gil Colipapa (bronze -- 1500 m freestyle). [ Back to top ] | ||||
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