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Tag: Butch Dalisay

Remembering Bulwagang Rizal: Summoning a Sanctuary from the Ashes

December 23, 2024 by Lara Mendizabal

  The year is 2007. The late afternoon sun penetrates the glass windows of Bulwagang Rizal’s Gallery 1, uncovering different angles and textures of a Parts Bagani painting sprawled across a wall—lush, green rainforest under a vast, vermillion sky; along the trees, a procession of silhouettes of armed revolutionaries. A few steps from the painting, […]

Beloved writer and professor Butch Dalisay retires after 35 years of service

January 22, 2019 by Arlyn VCD Palisoc Romualdo

“Keep the liberal spirit alive, maintain harmony between all branches of our University administration, and take care of the UP Institute of Creative Writing (ICW).”

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1915

UP would continue expanding under Villamor’s watch, with the Conservatory of Music; the University High School; the College of Education; and, the Junior College in Cebu City added under his watch

1909

The School of Fine Arts (1909), the College of Liberal Arts (1909), the College of Veterinary Medicine (1910), the College of Engineering (1910), the College of Agriculture (1906, in Los Baños, Laguna) follow to form the initial core of the newly established UP.

1905

The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.

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