Rev. Dr. Juan Ancheta, a true bloodied Centralian who was conferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities last September, has established a new kind of endowment recently. 

This time it is an endowment fund amounting to $7,000.00 for the maintenance of the Celis-Ancheta Building. It is expected that the amount will generate enough interest earnings to take care of the outside painting and other minor maintenance work without dipping into the initial capital. Hence, the principal amount will be self sustaining. 

The Anchetas have been known for their passion for service and generosity in helping church-related institutions in the Philippines.  

Social work alumni shine in nat'l confab 

 
CPU publications officer and concurrent PASWI-Iloilo prexy Edwin Lariza receives the plaque from Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the awarding ceremony at the Manila Midtown Hotel. 

The CPU Social work alumni have all the reasons to be jubilant in the result of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Philippine Association of Social Workers, Inc. (PASWI) held at the Manila Midtown Hotel on November 18-20, 1998. 

An alumnus was named outstanding social worker, another one was elected to the National Board for 1999-2000, and their local chapter in Iloilo bagged the 1998 Best Chapter Award, besting 71 other chapters nationwide. 

Victor S. Salmon, BSSW ’73, received the outstanding social worker award in the field of Corrections. A senior Probation and Parole Officer in Region VI, Salmon has humanized the management of corrections for probationers, parolees and pardonees by introducing livelihood projects for clients including their families, conducting leadership and organizing clients into an association known as the Guild of United Guimarasnon for Melioration and Assistance, Inc. 

Edwin I. Lariza, BSSW ’89, was elected as Board of Directors in a hotly contested election which capped the Golden Anniversary Celebration of social workers. Lariza, who heads PASWI-Iloilo, was the only new comer who made it in the national election. 

The other alumni who serve as officers in the local chapter are Evangeline Ramos, treasurer; Lulu Magbanua, ass’t. treasurer; Victor Salmon, auditor; Nina Joy Tañada, Concepcion Juaneza, Adelfa Canones,board members. 
 
 

Dr. Lemuel Equiña, wife Dr. Diadem Pearl Sonza and daughter Nisseth are back after four years stint in Germany. Dr. Equina assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Religion and Ethics upon his return. 

It will be recalled that Dr. Equiña went on study leave in 1994 after six years of service as faculty of the College of Theology and the Department of Religion and Ethics while serving as part time pastor of the Community Christian Church. His scholarship program granted him the privilege to bring his family to Germany where he finished his Ph. D in Systematic Theology at the University of Regensburg. 

Equiña, AB Religion ’82 cum laude, M. Div ’88, was recipient of the highest award ever given to a graduating student- the Alton Bigelow (Alma Mater) Award. His wife, Diadem Pearl, BS Bio cum laude graduate, was also an awardee of the same distinction. 

Sulit family establishes Memorial Scholarship Fund 

With the desire to perpetuate the name, qualities and character of Atty. Abelardo P. Sulit in the memory of his fellow alumni especially the law graduates of CPU, the Sulit family  recently established a Memorial Scholarship Fund  in the College of Law. 

The  formal signing of the Memorandum of Agreement was done at the Rose Memorial Auditorium on December 17, 1998 with Mrs. Asuncion B. Sulit and Dr. Juanito M. Acanto representing the Sulit family and the university, respectively. The event coincided with the University Christmas Party Celebration. 

A seed money amounting to $3,500.00 was turned over by Mrs. Sulit to President Acanto during the ceremony. As inscribed in the agreement, only the interest earnings of the principal amount shall be awarded as scholarship benefits to who may be chosen by the College of Law Scholarship Committee. The beneficiary, on the other hand, shall commit in writing that as soon as he/she graduates and/or becomes able financially, the same shall contribute to the Atty. Abelardo P. Sulit Memorial Scholarship Fund an amount equivalent to what was spent for him from the said fund. 

As part of the agreement, CPU will also hold a convocation or forum in the University to remember the life and ideals of Atty. Abelardo P. Sulit once a year on the occasion of his birthday on September 15 or on a near convenient date. 

 
Mrs. Sulit turns over the seed money for the Atty. Abelardo P. Sulit Memorial Scholarship Fund to President Acanto.