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Caloy with the PRC officials after receiving the award.

Carlos “Caloy” Tomboc (21st BCT ’67) is this year’s recipient of the Professional Forester Award by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). The awards ceremony was held on June 22, 2007. Caloy is currently the Director of the Philippine Textile Research Institute.

Bert (left, sitting) poses with BINHI Foundation officers and farmers and small-scale miners of Sipalay, Negros Occidental after the hydraulic ram technology training. Shown in the middle are two ram pumps fabricated by the participants.

Roberto “Bert” Alaban Jr. (Batch ‘79) conducted a technology- transfer training on hydraulic ram pump to a group of farmers and small-scale miners last June 16-17 in Sipalay, Negros Occidental under the sponsorship of BINHI Foundation, a local NGO/PO. The attendees were former workers of the now-defunct Maricalum Mining and Philex Mines, who have turned to farming and small-scale gold panning after the cessation of commercial mining in the area. The hydraulic ram technology will enable the participants to lift water to their hillside farms and gold processing workshops absolutely fuel-free. Since many of them are also skilled machinists and welders, they are now planning to locally fabricate the pumps as another form of livelihood. Read more on hydraulic ram technology in the Marketplace page.

Eric

Ericson “Eric” Jacinto (First Quarter Storm ’78) has been appointed by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education as member of the Task Force on Agriculture Education for Benchmarking of Higher Education Program for 2007. Eric is the National Planning and Logistics Manager of Poultry Live Operations at San Miguel Food, Inc. in Laguna.

Rod

Rodrigo “Rod” Fuentes (Montreal ’76) was selected as the Executive Director of the newly created ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity. He also received the Special Achievement Award in the 2007 Alumni Homecoming of the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, College of Forestry and Natural Resources (UPLB-CFNR).

Lino

In April 2007, the UP Varrons International, under the leadership of Catalino “Lino” Blanche (21st BCT ’67), has donated $1,500.00 to the UPLB-CFNR Alumni Association.

Ayds

Aida “Ayds” B. Lapis (Dirty Dozen ’67) is the recipient of 2006 Outstanding Professional Forester Award in the field of Forestry by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) during its 33nd Anniversary and Awarding Ceremony held at the Manila Hotel Fiesta Pavilion on June 22, 2006. Ayds is a Supervising Science Research Specialist at the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau, Department of the Environment and Natural Resources.

Pola

Flora “Pola” Credo-de Guzman (Interaksyon ’75) was featured in an August 29, 2004 Inquirer.NET article about the Seed Bank at the International Rice Research Institute and the important role that Pola is playing in this endeavor. The article, entitled “Keepers of the Secrets of Rice,” was written by Linda Bolido for the Philippine Inquirer Online. The same article also appeared in the “Movers and Shakers” section of the August 24 issue of Sunday Inquirer Magazine. You can read the whole article from the INQ archive by clicking this link, or you can download the pdf file here.

Last Updated on October 12, 2016 by Tudla_Admin