Tag: February 6, 2009

AFTER four decades of teaching languages, long-time professor Rogelio Obusan bid the University good bye last month at the age of 70.

Obusan had an aneurysm last Dec. 18 while on a break at the Arts and Letters faculty room.

Obusan’s colleagues paid tribute to him in a necrological mass at the Santisimo Rosario Parish last Dec. 21.

“He was never boastful and ostentatious. Being with him was like being in a sea of calmness. I never saw him with a disturbed face,” Artlets dean, Prof. Armando de Jesus said in his eulogy.

OVERSEAS Filipinos are now in 239 countries around the globe and have sent more than P340 billion in remittances, but unemployment remains high, data from a new publication by UST researchers showed.

The Philippine Migration and Development Statistical Almanac launched last month revealed a number of trends and showed the relationships between “overseas migration and demography, overseas migration and domestic employment conditions, and migration, poverty, and income.”

UPHOLDING cinema as a tool for meaningful expressions of life, the Varsitarian, the 81-year-old official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, will be holding Cinevita Film Festival 2009 on February 26 and 27 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium, UST, España, Manila.

PROSPECTS for the evangelization of China appear to have improved with the Chinese translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica by Taiwanese priest-scholars.

The development was announced by UST Rector Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP in his homily during the High Mass at the UST Santisimo Rosario Parish Church last January 27 to celebrate the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron of UST and declared by the Universal Church as the patron of all Catholic schools.