SFA-AGR-295-08

AMBASSADOR ENDAYA ADDRESSES THE 2008 UST STUDENT AWARDS

30 April 2008 - Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Ricardo M. Endaya was the guest speaker in the 2008 UST Student Awards Day held on 14 March at the Education Auditorium.  Seventy two individual students and 42 student groups were recognized for their outstanding academic and co-curricular performance for academic year 2007-2008.

In his address, Ambassador Endaya extolled the students to “work to be able to help others.”  He assisted Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., Rector, in giving the Benavides Award to students with excellent performance in regional, national, or international competitions, conferences, or congresses.

Ambassador Endaya and Justice Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez of the Supreme Court of the Philippines were two of UST’s alumni who graced the awarding ceremony.

Ambassador Endaya graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Letters with a degree in AB Political Science in 1977.  He obtained his degree in law from the UST Faculty of Civil Law in 1981.  While he was a student, he was Managing Editor of the Law Review from 1979 to 1981, and was the contributing editor of the Varsitarian, the official student publication of UST, from 1980 to 1981. He also taught at the UST Graduate School in 1985.  He was the country's Charge d'Affaires to Kuwait from December 2005 until February 2006 when he was designated Philippine Ambassador.

Justice Gutierrez exemplifies the woman who reached the apex of her career while balancing time between family and work.  She graduated from the UST Faculty of Civil Law in 1960. Due to her exemplary performance as a jurist while raising three children who all became topnotch lawyers like herself, she was chosen to assist the Rector in giving the Quezon Leadership awards.

Timothy L. Tang Lee Say, a Biology major and Rector's awardee from the College of Science with an average grade of 1.09, led this year's batch of awardees.

UST, through the Office of the Secretary General,  annually confers the following awards to its outstanding students: the Rector's Academic Award, Pope Leo XIII Community Development Award, Quezon Leadership Award, Benavides Outstanding Achievement Award, the St. Dominic de Guzman Award, and the St. Thomas Aquinas Award. END

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