October 17, 2022, was the official groundbreaking of a new plaza soon to rise in the University of the Philippines’ (UP) Diliman campus, spearheaded by the UP Sigma Delta Phi (SDP) Sorority Alumnae Association in cooperation with the UP Office of the President. The new plaza will feature a modern sculpture titled “Tagapag-Ugnay,” designed […]
“All the world’s a stage,” wrote William Shakespeare. And UP Fine Arts alumna Celia Diaz Laurel was a woman who successfully fulfilled her many roles on that stage: thespian, theater production designer, painter, writer, philanthropist, arts advocate, mentor, and wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend.
She drew her final curtain on 12 July 2021. She was 93.
Ms. Ana Patricia Non, originator of the Maginhawa Community Pantry, will speak on community pantries as part of the bayanihan spirit in the UPAA’s upcoming “e-Kapihan ng Bayan sa UP”.
Prof. Flor-Agbayani was one of the UP pioneers who made the exodus from the 10-hectare campus on Padre Faura St. to the new UP campus in Diliman. Following a fire that razed one of the houses in Area 2—houses on campus were made of sawali at the time—UP President Bienvenido Gonzalez asked Prof. Agbayani how UP could help the residents. She replied, “Sir, permanent housing.”
The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.
