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TERESITA BERMUDEZ-CHOA
GS ’54 AB ‘63
Much respected as a civic leader, she is
recognized both locally and
internationally for her invaluable work
in Soroptimist International and in the
Girl Guides/Girl Scouts movement, where
she has played many key leadership
roles, She continues to be a vocal
advocate for the environment and for the
arts, and for many years also devoted
her energies to strengthening the
Maryknoll alumni association.
JOSEFINA CRUZ-NATORI GS
’60 HS ‘64
Acknowledged to be the first Filipino to
succeed in the highly-competitive world
of international fashion, she has gained
for her NATORI women’s loungewear
tremendous global respect for both
creative design and marketing
excellence. Beyond her distinctive
entrepreneurial success, she continues
to pursue her advocacy for the greater
appreciation and fuller blossoming of
Philippine/Asian art and culture, as a
civic leader in the US and as an active
trustee in the international board of
the Asian Cultural Council.
ASUNCION DAVID-MARAMBA HS
‘51
She
has combined teaching, writing, editing
and social commentary in a seamless
40-year career that has contributed to
the growth of Philippine literature in
English; shaped the thinking and writing
of countless students; and enlightened
the reading public on numerous issues of
personal and social significance.
JOANNE DE ASIS-BENITEZ
BETTINA DE DIOS HS
‘77
An
architect and space planner for over 20
years, she has skillfully integrated
aesthetically pleasing and functional
designs with environmental harmony,
creating spaces that encourage social
interaction along with an active
appreciation of one’s natural
surroundings. Whether it is a township
masterplan, or an airport terminal, or
the Toddler Room and the Library Media
Center of Miriam College, her work
reflects her twin commitments to
promoting human well-being and to
preserving the beauty of the
environment.
ANNE MARIE NEPOMUCENO JACINTO GS
’68 HS ‘72
Choosing a life of quiet service as an
educator, she has focused for more that
two decades on “solid character
formation” and on creating opportunities
for personal achievement among young
women. Now dealing directly with the
plight of Manila’s underprivileged, as
Director of Punlaan School, she works
with poor young women in a unique
dual-training program that teaches them
the needed occupational skills; instills
the proper work values and attitudes;
and the places them in on-the-job
training and subsequent employment in
prestigious hotels and restaurants.
CELESTE LEGASPI-GALLARDO AB
‘71
Beyond her professional career as a
much-sought-after-singer, she has
pioneered in the promotion of original
Pilipino music (OPM) and has
successfully led in efforts to preserve
the musical legacy of pre-war Filipino
musical artists. She continues her
advocacy for OPM by strongly supporting
initiatives to create new musicals in
Pilipino and by building wider public
appreciation for, and pride in, talented
Filipino composers and singers.
MERCEDES LICHAUCO (Posthumous)
HS ’55 AB ‘60
A
shining example, of joyful courage, of
selfless and compassionate availability
to others, she triumphed over painful
and disabling polio to prove that
despite the most trying circumstances
life could still be valuable,
productive, beautiful. Working quietly
with others, she led a sustained
campaign to educate her immediate
community on the care of our
ecology-preserving our forests, managing
our waste, celebrating and giving thanks
for the gifts of nature and all living
things. An indefatigable charity and
parish worker, a gourmet cook, a quiet
catalyst for change.
MARGARITA MORAN-FLOIRENDO
AB ‘78
First known for her beauty and regal
bearing, she metamorphosed into an
earnest and effective champion for her
adopted home, Mindanao. She has helped
millions of televiewers to appreciate
the beauty and the challenges of
Mindanao, aynna@earthlink.netnd to
respect its cultural richness and
diversity, consequently eliciting a
stronger interest in contributing to its
economic growth and social harmony as an
integral part of the Philippines.
Lending her credibility and influence to
raise needed financial resources for
social development programs such as
Tabang Mindanao and habitat for
humanity, she also selflessly leads the
Miriam College diamond jubilee
fundraising effort.
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ELOISA NEPOMUCENO – FRANCISCO AB
‘65
She
has combined the seemingly diverse
strands of a colorful career (teaching
literature and Philippine culture,
training health professionals in eastern
health approaches, exploring and writing
on Philippine social contradictions,
studying deep ecology and spiritual
psychology) in the pathbreaking Center
for Health and Creative Arts (CHACRA).
Through the Center’s educational
programs and service facility, she
advocates natural and holistic health,
practical spirituality for everyday
life, body-mind healing, and creative
personal growth.
CRISTINA PARGAS – BAWAGAN GS
’68 HS ‘72
She
survived the physical trials and the
political oppression that came with
being a social activist during the
Martial Law years. Picking up the
pieces of her life after the tragic loss
of her husband at the hands of
government forces, she chose to
re-channel her commitment to the country
to the education of its future leaders.
For almost two decades now a teacher at
the Philippine Science High School, she
personally lives out, and imparts to her
students, the values of civic
responsibility, social justice, and
abiding concern for the poor, and the
power of a principled life.
IRMA PONCE ENRILE – POTENCIANO GS
’46 HS ‘51
An
accomplished concert singer, she has for
years supported young, struggling
musicians through personal scholarships
and professional mentoring. She has
provided similar personal support to the
formation and education of seminarians.
With her husband, she pioneered setting
up and managing a well-respected general
hospital which services one of Manila’s
most populous areas.
MELINDA QUINTOS – DE JESUS GS ’56
HS ‘60 AB ‘64
A
long-time media practitioner, she is
will-respected locally and
internationally as a writer, publisher,
columnist and media educator. She broke
new ground by focusing on the developing
of media itself through the Center for
Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR),
which she co-founded in 1989, and
continues to lead as its Executive
Director. Working with all major media
channels-print, broadcast, and film-she
has consistently sought to put media at
the service of democracy, through more
socially relevant reportage, development
–oriented training of media
practitioners, and higher standards of
media responsibility and
professionalism.
LOURDES SAULO-ADRIANO AB ‘76
An
economist with a heart for the poor and
marginalized. Worked in Mindanao for
five years to craft and lobby for
policy, institutional and infrastructure
reforms needed to spur Mindanao’s
growth. Her commitment to poverty
reduction now expanded to Central Asian
economies, as coordinator at ADB. As a
leading officer of Madre de Amor Hospice
Foundation, a Los Baños-based community
center for terminally-ill indigent
cancer patients, promotes the hospice
approach of holistic care (medical,
economic and spiritual) and seeks funds
to support the center’s operations.
CAROLYN UI AB ‘86
She
has lived out a personal commitment to
address the needs of the hearing
impaired in the country, starting after
graduation as a special education
teacher at the Southeast Asian Institute
for the Deaf (SAID) and moving up over
the years to become the SAID Executive
Director. Organizing other projects to
mainstream the deaf as respected and
productive members of society, she
mobilized deaf awareness celebrations
and “deaf camps”, and now trains many
others to become registered interpreters
for the deaf.
MARLA YOTOKO-CHORENGEL HS
’59 AB ‘63
Hers has been a strong, pioneering and
committed voice to encourage the writing
and publication of children’s books
produced by Filipino authors and
illustrators. More than thirty years
ago, she showed the way by personally
authoring a best-selling children’s
storybook soon after graduating from
college. Over the years, despite her
peripatetic life as a global citizen,
she continues the crusade for locally
produced children’s books that meet
world-class standards and reflect the
richness and values of our culture.
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