UP @ 100! - ang galing mo!

The University of the Philippines

UP is currently celebrating its 100 years of existence in the academe.Last January 08, 2008, Tuesday, the whole UP System had a Centennial Kick-off held at UP Diliman.The motorcade started from UP Manila (which is the very first UP campus ever established) going to the Diliman campus.The 7 campuses were all present in the event.

(A sad thing for me! because I was not able to go,I'm doing my paperworks by that time :c..)

-a li'l info from my wiki friend^^-

Centennial Celebration

"On January 8, 2008, the University of the Philippines (UP) began its centennial celebration with 7 universities with 12 campuses offering 258 undergraduate and 438 graduate programs. It produced 7 of 14 presidents, 12 chief justices of the Supreme Court, 30 of 31 national scientists and 36 of 57 national artists, 250,000 UP alumni (15,000 doctors, 8,000 lawyers and 23,000 teachers).Fernando Javier, 100, of Baguio City, oldest UP alumnus (Civil Engineering from University of the Philippines, Manila, 1933), carried the 100-torch relay at the UP academic oval in Diliman, Quezon City; 99th torchbearer was Michael Reuben Dumlao, youngest, a 6-grader from the University of the Philippines Integrated School in U.P. Diliman; UP president Emerlinda Roman, first woman president, carried the 100th torch and ignited the centennial cauldron in the UP Oblation.Fernando Javier, born on June 18, 1908 on Padre Faura in Manila, led hundreds of “Isko’t Iska” (Iskolar ng Bayan) and he lit the "perpetual flame" on the centennial cauldron at Quezon Hall which initiated U.P.'s year-long centennial celebration.The cauldron features 3 pillars - 3 core values and 7 flowers - the constituent universities, to wit, UP Manila, UP Diliman (together with UP Pampanga, its extension campus), UP Los Baños, UP Baguio, UP Visayas, UP Mindanao, and UP Open University.Meanwhile, on January 9, 2008, an electrical overload burned a University of the Philippines, Diliman "condemned" dormitory at the Narra Residence Hall, corner of Quirino Street and Katipunan Avenue. No one was hurt."

Whoa,I'm really proud that I made part of this University.Not only for its name,but for its purpose to continue uplifting Philippine education, and to produce brilliant minds that will soon be national leaders, scientists, artists and professionals in their respective fields.

Congratulations UP! Sandaang Taon ng karunungan! Let's wait for another hundred years to come..