Alumni Updates

Aug
28

Alumni Update August 24 – 30, 2020

Dumaguete Alumni Chapter Honors Dr. Laura Hibbard on her 51st Death Anniversary  A memorial service commemorating the 51st Death Anniversary of Dr. Laura Crooks Hibbard was recently held last August 24, 2020, at the newly opened Dr. Laura Hibbard Heritage Room at the second floor of the historic Silliman Hall. The memorial service honoring Dr. […]

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Aug
25

Alumni Update (August 17 – 23, 2020)

Silliman Celebrates Life of 13 Personnel in Heritage Builders Wall  Silliman University (SU) honors 13 former faculty and staff who have already passed on as their names will be inscribed in the Heritage Builders Wall in a special ceremony on August 26, 2020, at 3 P.M. at the Silliman Hall. The event will be live-streamed […]

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Aug
06

Alumni Update August 3 – 7, 2020

Silliman Alum receives US Dept. of Education grant Silliman Alumna and former president of the Aloha Chapter Silliman University Alumni Association (ACSUAA), Eva Rose Washburn-Repollo, recently received a prestigious $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The short-term seminar grant from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program will support Washburn-Repollo’s research into the […]

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Jul
24

Alumni Update July 20 – 24, 2020

Virtual Parada Sillimaniana The Silliman University Alumni and External Affairs Office in celebration of Silliman’s 119th Founders Day is inviting all reunioning High School batches 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2010, school organizations, alumni chapters here and abroad, and other Silliman groups to join and register with the Alumni Affairs for the […]

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Jul
17

Alumni Update July 13 – 19, 2020

Sillimanians in Africa recently organized the Silliman University Bond of Africa (SUBA), an alumni chapter to help draw together Silliman African alumni. The SUBA chapter officers are: Walid Zoobi – president (BBA 1994) of Ghana, West Africa; Loveline Muma Frinwie – vice president (MA Peace Studies 2019) of Cameroon, West Africa; Suleiman Ibrahim Salad – […]

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Jul
10

Alumni Update July 6 – 12, 2020

The Silliman Alumni Association, Inc. (SAAI) Dumaguete Chapter gave recognition to the Silliman University Institute of Environment & Marine Sciences (SUIEMS) and Mr. Leo G. Mamicpic as this year’s KINAIYAHAN AWARDEES at a ceremony held last July 4, 2020, at the historic Silliman Hall. It has always been a tradition of the Dumaguete Alumni Chapter […]

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Jul
03

Alumni Update June 29 – July 5, 2020

Sillimanian Gets U.S. Navy Commander Promotion  Silliman alumnus, Edwin Somera Mananquil was recently promoted to the rank of Commander in the United States Navy effective June 1, 2020. In a Facebook thread, Mananquil expressed his elation, “I am so blessed and humbled on this promotion. I still cannot believe that I joined as an E-1 […]

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Jun
26

Alumni Update June 22 – 28, 2020

SU Alumni Chapter of San Diego and Metro Manila Donate PPE’s for Frontliners In response to the campaign to support and protect Silliman University Medical Center frontliners against Covid 19, the Silliman University Alumni and Friends at San Diego (SUA&F@San Diego) recently donated 1,000 US Dollars’ worth of PPE’s (Personal Protection Equipment) in a simple […]

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Jun
19

Alumni Update June 8 – 14, 2020

We celebrate the life of Silliman alumnus Dr. Benjamin R. Butuyan an active and generous member of the Silliman University International Chicago Chapter Inc. Dr. Butuyan took up Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Silliman and graduated in 1962. We share with you Homer Butuyan’s eulogy of his father. Dr. Benjamin Raciles Butuyan went home […]

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Jun
09

Alumni Update June 1 – 7, 2020

In preparation for Silliman University’s  119th Founders Day celebration, the Alumni and External Affairs Office would like to invite reunioning classes, school organizations, alumni chapters, and other Silliman groups to join and register with the Alumni Affairs for the Alumni Virtual Parada Sillimaniana. Let us not be dampened by the health crisis our world is […]

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