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24 JUNE 2011
VP BINAY TO ALUMNI: HELP U.P. YIELD MORE PATRIOTIC SCHOLARS
Vice President Jejomar C. Binay has called on his fellow University of the Philippines alumni awardees to take a proactive stance in helping the University produce more Filipino scholars committed to serving the country.
"As awardees, it becomes our solemn duty to do whatever it is within our individual and collective capacities to raise the State University's standards to the summit of universal excellence," Binay said during a special dinner for awardees hosted by UP President Alfredo Pascual.
The Vice President noted that UP alumni could help the University "continue to produce an endless and a more abundant stream of Filipino scholars and patriots worthy of the highest aspirations and hopes of our people and country."
Binay has been chosen as the UP Alumni Association's (UPAA) Most Distinguished Alumus for 2011. The Vice President is set to accept his award on June 25, Saturday, at the Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman.
Binay will be joined by fellow awardees Jose "Pitoy" Moreno, who is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award along with Dr. Baldomero Olivera., who discovered a snail toxin that is a thousand more times more powerful than morphine and renowned painter Araceli-Limcaco Dans and UP artist-in-residence Corazon Generoso-Iñigo among others.
"Henceforth, we shall no longer be judged only for what we used to be, but as the new symbols of excellence of the UP Alumni Association," Binay said to the awardees.
"Like it or not, we have just gained a new office, without having sought or aspired for it. And we must submit ourselves to the closest scrutiny of our peers, whom we do not even see," he added.
According to the UPAA, the Distinguished Alumni Awards are conferred on alumni who have contributed exceptionally to their chosen fields and whose actions have benefitted the society and have brought honor to the State University, their communities and their country.
This year's awardees have been chosen based on their contributions in public service and good governance, poverty alleviation and human development, peace and social cohesion, gender equality and women empowerment, community empowerment, environmental conservation and sustainable development, entrepreneurship and employment creation, institutional or corporate social responsibility, culture and the arts, science and technology and education and health.
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