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OLIVIA M.
LAMASAN
COLL’84
Working her way up from TV production
assistant to multi-awarded screenwriter
and film director, she has produced work
that has garnered both critical acclaim
for its artistry, and viewers’
appreciation for its personal relevance
and compassion. She has chosen to
tackle complex and sensitive social
issues, like the plight of migrant
workers, exploitation of women, cultural
discrimination, and families in crisis;
in doing so, she has shown others in the
movie industry how to weave together
art, social concern, and insight into
excellent entertainment that uplifts the
spirit as well.
MARIA H. LIM-AYUYAO
GS’50
HS’54
An indefatigable
teacher and school administrator, she
has played key roles in building up Centro Escolar
University as the
respected academic institution it has
become. Extending herself to help
the larger Philippine educational
community, she has pioneered a
one-of-a kind program that prepares
young educational administrators
to become effective school presidents in
the future. She continues to
actively work for the improvement of
Philippine education through the
Adopt-a-School Program and
Mentoring-the-Mentors Program of the
Foundation for Worldwide People Power,
which she heads.
DIVINA H.
MACALINAO-EDRALIN
COLL’76
A complete educator, she has
successfully combined teaching,
research, consulting and publishing in
nearly fifteen years of work in both
academe and industry. She has been
recognized by De La Salle University as
one of its outstanding teachers in
business education, and by the different
trade unions, parish organizations and
schools she has helped as an effective
trainer and adviser.
CARMELITA S.
MANAHAN-TALUSAN
COLL’83
She chose the unusual
career of law enforcement as a customs
officer, and has gained commendations
for her technical competence as well as
her track record of foiling
criminal activities such as smuggling
and under-declaration. Her
leadership extended to the welfare of
her co-employees, when as national
coordinator of the BOC housing program,
she steered the program to complete 167
houses for poor employees of the Bureau
of Customs.
SR. CONSOLATA
MANDING, FSP
COLL’79
Already a religious sister before she
became a Miriam alumna, her commitment
to use mass media to convey the good
news of God’s love to more Filipinos
deepened with her studies and subsequent
work in print, radio, TV and cinema.
Moving from being a mass media
practitioner to becoming a media
educator as well, she founded the
Media
Literacy
School,
where she is both professor and
Directress.
MARIA ARLEEN
JOY OGAN
COLL’79
She began her career in social
development work in the
Philippines,
but found its fruition as a pioneering
development consultant in Cambodia.
Helping to rebuild the country and its
governance institutions, she worked
hand-in-hand with local NGO and
government leaders to craft policies,
establish programs, and build
implementing organizations that would
address critical social issues,
particularly issues of women’s rights,
gender and development, child
trafficking. Her success is
mirrored in the breakthroughs achieved
by the Cambodian leaders she has
assisted, as well as in the good work of
other Filipino consultants she has
mentored.
MA.
RESURRECCION PALMA-ALEJO
GS’75
HS’79
Values of service and excellence are
reflected in her work of more than two
decades at the Ateneo de Manila Grade
School. First as a classroom
teacher and then as an
administrator, she reinforced the focus
on value learning across all the primary
school subjects, and on the use of the
value chart system for students. Leading
the effort to re-introduce the
Class-Teacher scheme, she has shown that
student learning can improve
dramatically under such a scheme.
Going the extra mile, she unfailingly
volunteers part of her summer every year
to share her teaching skills with public
school teachers in far-flung areas of
Bukidnon.
EDNA VIDA
REYES-FROILAN
GS’68
HS’72
A multi-talented artist, she is best
known for her contributions to
Philippine dance as an acclaimed
ballerina, tireless dance company
director and experimental
choreographer. Less known but
equally important, under her tutelage
the outreach programs of Ballet
Philippines not only brought classical
ballet to the countryside but also
discovered homegrown talent which she
subsequently nurtured through dance
scholarships. Overcoming her own
self-doubts and other obstacles, she
broke new ground in choreography for
ballet, theater, opera and musicals.
She continues to influence the evolution
of dance in the country through her
workshops in dance techniques and
choreography.
STEPHANIE SAN
BUENAVENTURA
(posthumous) COLL’61
She was a much-loved professor in
various universities in the
US,
specializing in Asian American studies,
and a highly respected mentor to many
young researchers who were inspired by
her commitment to capture in scholarly
works the richness of Filipino-American
communities and other ethnic groups in
the
US.
Her groundbreaking research and her
leadership in developing research
methodologies have led to a greater
appreciation of Filipino-American
immigration and experience.
EDNA
TORIO-GONZALES
COLL’63
A true pioneer in
early childhood education in her native
province of Pangasinan, she personally built up a
school in Dagupan from scratch, and
persevered in leading it to be one of
the top fifty elementary and secondary
schools in the country. Not one to
sit on her laurels, she set up another
school in
San Carlos
which has similarly produced numerous
successful graduates. Her greatest pride
remains the achievements of the schools’
alumni, which includes being the largest
number of entrants to the Philippine
Science High School from the region.
EDITH
YOTOKO-VILLANUEVA
HS’66 COLL’70
Through a
distinguished career in public service
first as a local legislator, and then as
a congressional representative, she has
demonstrated that development-oriented
politics is possible. Through her
contributions to local and national
policy-making, and her leadership in
building NGOs and NGO networks in
western Visayas, she has strengthened
partnerships between the public sector
and civil society in that region.
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