Tag: January 17, 2003

Tomasino Siya

KILALA ang Jollibee Foods Corporation bilang pinakamalaking fast food chain sa bansa. Malaki ang naging kontribusyon nito sa pag-angat ng food industry ng Pilipinas. Alam ba ninyong Tomasino ang may-ari ng kumpanyang ito?

Nagtapos si Tony Tan Caktiong sa Faculty of Engineering noong 1975 ng B.S. Chemical Engineering. Ayon sa Thomasian Engineer, opisyal na pahayagan ng pakultad, hindi gaanong aktibo si Caktiong sa kanyang pag-aaral at pagsali sa mga organisasyon.

Fr. Braulio Peña, O.P. was regent of the Faculty of Civil Law for more than two decades. I came to the Faculty in 1975 to teach, and he was already there.

HE WAS very hard-working and it cost him his life.

Last Dec. 15, Faculty of Civil Law regent Fr. Braulio Peña, O.P. died of cancer of the stomach’s lymphatic system at the UST Hospital (USTH) after a five-month battle with the dreaded disease. He was 62.

Faculty of Arts and Letters regent Fr. Lucio Gutierrez, O.P said Fr. Peña’s disease was only discovered toward the end of July. Father Peña was later hospitalized in September.

VICE-PRESIDENT Teofisto Guingona stressed the importance of education and involvement in sports and the arts during his lecture “Youth for Peace” at the Medicine auditorium last Dec. 12.

According to Guingona, a well-educated individual contributes to peace and order when he is busy with worthwhile activities.

UNIVERSITY RECTOR Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. emphasized love with wonder as the foundation of the Filipino family in his sermon during the Paskuhan 2002 last Dec. 19 at the UST grandstand.

According to Fr. Lana, wonders and surprises in a family are keys to unity and a stronger relationship.

“A family that does not thrive on wonders and love hardly survives. If it loses its aspect of surprise, it is doomed to failure. Relationships simply turn to boring connections,” he said.

FATHER Rector Tamerlane Lana, O.P. announced the University’s plan to make “radical changes” in preparation for the University’s quadricentennial celebration during the launching of the Thomasian Media Circle (TMC) last Dec. 12 at the Faculty Civil Law lobby.

THE FACULTY of Arts and Letters (Artlets) has proposed the creation of an institute for its Journalism and Communication Arts (CA) programs.

According to Artlets Dean Dr. Armando de Jesus, the institute would still be under the Faculty but might spin off to another school later. The same set-up is now observed in the College of Commerce, which has the Institute of Accountancy.

THE UNIVERSITY has come up with a new waste segregation scheme in connection with its Clean and Green Campaign.

In the guidelines released by the Office of the Secretary-General, separate trash cans will be provided for paper, plastics, aluminum cans, glass bottles, dry cell batteries, and styrofoam in each college or department.

Paper must also be classified as white or colored paper, illustration board, carbon paper or newsprint before disposal.

STUDENTS can now use their digital IDs to verify their grades and check their accounts with the University.

According to UST Computer Center (USTCC) director Fr. Winston Cabading, O.P., the University had wanted to show students the utility of the digital ID. Moreover, the added features of the ID would make paperwork easier for the University’s employees.

The new feature was added because transcripts are the most frequently requested records by students.

Crisp, and tentatively,

the hours snap one after the other

like a file of tensed strings.

White song lifts from his fingers

skittering spider-like across the ivories

as the figurines shudder

to the resonance of certainty.

Flutter of eye, twitch of lip—

a finger trips on a misplaced key.

He cringes,

and each entranced corner

gasps like a child

when suddenly

the lights have went out.