Mr. David Cabello Martinez is the Outstanding FU Alumnus for 2004 in the field of Culture and Arts.

Danny, as he will be most remembered by his high school schoolmates at foundation, finished secondary school here in 1959. He got a second high school diploma when foundation University sent Danny to Washington state in the US as one of the first to AFS exchange in 1959.

Aside from being a legal researcher in California, he calls himself a 'self-employed writer and author'.

According to FU alumna Carmen Miraflor from Stanford University, Danny's recently-released book, A County of our own, is a powerful book in Philippine history and political science, a "must read" for pol sci and history majors. Ms. Miraflor stresses the "revisionist view" in Danny's thesis in the extensively-researched book that she says, merits" serious attention".

Danny is founding member of the US-based Defenders of the Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago (DILA), and chair of the board of directors of Bisaya Books Publishing Company.

Danny now resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Rosalind Edrial. They have three children who are all professionals: David, Douglas, and Dianne. He is represented here tonight by his brother businessman Francisco Francel, a law student here at the College of Law and Jurisprudence.

Mr. Susano Ong Sy is this year's Outstanding FU Alumnus in the field of Entrepreneurship/Business.

Sano, as fellow businessmen often call him, wears different hats, managing the Dumaguete Coconut Mill (DUCOMI) as resident manager, overseeing operations at the New Bian Yek Commercial Inc. as its vice president and setting the thrusts and directions of the Rural Bank of Sibulan-DCDB as its chairperson and president-director.

He also applies his business acumen in his other endeavor like the Rotary Club of Dumaguete South of which he is past president, the Rotarian Ting Matiao Foundation Inc. which he heads as president, and at the Holy Child Hospital and the Holy Cross High School where he sits as director. That's a long way from 1949 when Sano was studying here at Foundation University High School.

Sano is married to Valetina "Teena" Sun, with whom he has four children, who have all taken after their parents and helping manage the family enterprise: Danford, Annebeth, Katrina, and Marianne Mae.

Mr. Carmela Verez Rubio is FU's Oustanding Alumnus in Corporate Business Management/Banking.

People have noted Carmelo's humility and low-profile personality that even in his resume, he lists his profession simply as "bank employee". Carmelo is currently branch-manager of the Land Bank of the Philippines.

Soon after completing his academic training in the field of Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Accounting in 1980, Carmelo went to become Proof and Settling clerk for four years at the former Manila Bank. Then he became Savings & Current Account bookkeeper for another four years.

Then he decided to move on to Land Bank where he was clearing assistant . In two years, Carmelo was promoted acting branch head in Land Bank Guihulngan. Frm the north, he was assigned in the south in Bayawan City. For the next 11 years, Carmelo headed the LandBank branches in Bais City, Sagay , Sipalay, and San Carlos City in Negros Occidental. Osmena branh in Cebu City, and finally in Dumaguete where h e resides- a promotion at an two years.

Carmelo is 44 years old and single

Our very own vice president for Academic Affairs Dr. Ester Viliran-Tan is Foundation University's Outstanding Alumna in the field of Education.

As an elementary pupils at the East Central School, Ester was awed by t he motivational skills and teaching effectiveness of practice teachers coming from t h e College o f Education of then Foundation University.

Hoping she could be like them in t he future, she decided to enroll at the High School department of Foundation. Having graduated with honors in elementary, Ester was given an academic scholarship that she maintained for four years . Coming from a poor family, it was the yearly academic scholarship that held her finish high school. Even at that early age, she had realized that the only way to overtime poverty was to study hard and conscientiously.

In college at Silliman University, it was the annual academic scholarship that helped her finish her Bachelor of Business Administration degree major in Economics. After graduation in 174 . Ester found a job as assistant instructor here at the FU School of Business & Economics, headed hat time by her high school chemistry instructor Edgar Griño. When Dean Griño learned that Ester finished Economics as magna cum laude, he wasted no time in recruiting her.

As she like to reminisce, it was Dean Griño who mentored the young members of his faculty, and developed in the them an unconditional commitment to the teaching profession . This same commitment would characterized Ester's work at Foundation for the next 2 years 2004 marks her 30th year of service to Foundation University.

After only a year o f service here, the FU founder an d first President Dr. Vicent e G. Sinco noted Ester's potentials an d offered her a fully-funded study grant at the university of the Philippines in Diliman to earn her Master of Arts in Economics. AT 25, Ester finished her master's degree, and came back to serve Foundation as dean of the College of Art s & Sciences.

Before long, she completed two more degrees at Foundation: a Doctor Education and a Bachelor of Laws, and was promoted as vice president for Academic Affairs. As VPAA, Dr. Tan has always been goal-driven, ever leaves to chance success of any project she undertakes, and he helped several colleagues develop their respective organizational skills.

Dr. Tan was appointed by at Board of Trustees as acting President of FU in 2003, taking the reins from former President Leandro G. Sinco, someone whom she considers one of her greatest mentors.

Dr. Tan's most important contribution to FU is the accreditation of its collegiate programs with the Philippines Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges & Universities (PAASCU), and the Philippine association of Colleges & Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA), and the expansion of its course offerings.

Ester Tan is married to Rodolfo Tan. They have two children: Janice Jade and Jasper Jason. As a proud mother, she recalls how Janice Jade brought honor to Foundation University and Dumaguete City in 1996 when she won over 16 other regional finalists in the national quiz on the centenary of Jose Rizal's martyrdom.

Apo Island Barangay Capt. Mario Tabaniera Pascobello is this year's FU Outstanding Alumnus in Community Service, particularly for Environmental Advocacy.

Under his leadership since 1991, Mario heads the protection efforts and monitoring activities of the marine resources at Apo Island. In 1997, he initiated tourism-related livelihood opportunities for the women , and provided scholarships to deserving children through the Apo Community Development Association (APCODA).

Since then, Mario has been giving lectures, sharing the "secrets" in the establishment of marine reserves to coastal managers from close to 500 fishing villages all over the country, Indonesia, Vietnam and East Timor. Environmental advocates, officials of the US. Agency for international Development, foreign dignitaries, marine science students and their professors from the US and Japan, local and foreign journalists have flocked to this island across Dauin to study how the residents were able to make Apo Island the model for community-based coastal resources management.

This year, Mario went into another project to protect the sea turtles. He deployed out-of-school youth in Apo as beach guards to help monitor the activities of visiting snorkelers and scuba divers.

Mario's distinguished contribution to the local community of Apo island, off the coast of the own of Dauin, has not gone unnoticed, so that Apo island has been featured in many in fight magazines, newspapers abroad, TV documentaries.

As a sign of approval of the environmental conservation efforts of the people of Apo Island under Mario's leadership, the world-famous Shedd Aquarium in Chicago spent last year almost $50 million to build a replica of Apo Island, which now proudly stands as its main exhibit in the temperate zone of illinois.

Even while he was still a student at Foundation University where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 18989, Marion was already active in barangay affairs in Apo, especially in its quest for sustainable development of its highly -acclaimed marine resources.

As part of his commitment to environmental advocacy, he heads the Marine Management Committee of the Department of Environment & Natural Resources. Landscape & Seascape. He is President of the Hugpong Tagadumala sa Kadagatan sa bohol ug Mindanao Sea. HE is also national treasurer of the Panama, a small-scale fishers' group from around the Philippines.

Mario is married to Omolia Samson. They have three children: Karl Marx, Ma. Carla, and Marco Angelo.

Atty. Salvador Elezar Austria is this year's FU Outstanding Alumnus in the field of Government/Public Service.

He took his bachelor of Arts, his Bachelor f Science of Jurisprudence, and his Bachelor of Laws from Foundation University. As recipient of the Sen. Lorenzo G. Teves Law Scholarship grant until 1966, bador, as he was often called, was a consistent awardee of the Dean's Honor Pin, aside from being president of the Student Government, and the Best College Debater. He was also the gold medalist in Extemporaneous Speech during the Provincial PRISAA Meet in 1964. In 1966, Bador received the FU President's Pin given to the most outstanding student.

For the next 44 years, Atty. Austria was resident state auditor of the Government Service Insurance System, the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital, the Negros Oriental State University, and the Provincial public Works & Highways District office. He was also City auditor of Dumaguete City, Toledo City, Cebu City; and provincial auditor, then supervising state auditor for the province of Oriental Negros.

As a government employee through those years, Atty. Austria was awarded a scholarship to the University of the Philippines College of Public Administrator. He was also selected Most Outstanding Provincial Employee of Negros Oriental. Although retired from public service in 1996, Atty. Austria continues to teach here at Foundation at the College of Business, Economics & Accountancy and at the College of Law & Jurisprudence where they use his book Foundation of Negotiable Instruments that he co-authored with the student Affairs prefect of San Beda College Timoteo B. Aquino, his son-in-law.

Atty. Austria is married to Amparo Consing. They have four equally successful children: Dr. Ma. Antonia Austria, Dr. Ma. Elsa Bulado. Ma. Margaret Bernadette Aquino, and Roman Sergio.

Manuel Jose Mari S. Infante (BSC '79), manager, Landbank Cebu

Glenn Ligutom (HS '71)

Isabela L. Mahler (EdD '86), Region 7 director, Commission on Higher Education

Florita Baylon Mamhot (Acctg '79), Planning & Budget Office, Hose of Representatives

Vivian Olis Maquiling (AB '71; LLB '75), provincial adjudicator, Department of Agrarian Reform

Eufemia Belcina-Martinez (BSC '72), president, Belcina Jewelry Inc.

Atty. Luciano C. Maxino (LLB '54, MaEd '87, EdD '89)

Constancio R. Mendez (BSE '70), administrator, Demetrio L. Alviola Memorial High School

Eusebio Ong (BBA '72), proprietor, OK Pensionne House

Atty. Victor C. Patrimonio (LLB '69), Bais City prosecutor

PSupt. Julieto P. Roxas (Pol. Sci '70)

Filemon T. Siao (BSE '55)

Eduardo Sindiong (MBA), proprietor, Dumaguete Asian Printers

Prudencio Sirilan (AB '77)

Silvestre Sung (MBA '84), president, Negros Union Drug Corp.

Atty. Artemio M. Tadena (LLB '75) Jose T. Tale (HS), Malacanang Legal Affairs Office

Edgar Teves (LLB '85), former Vice Governor, Negros Oriental

Dr. Ma. Milagros C. Velez (LLB '84; EdD '90), assistant superintendent, Department of Education Division of Negros Oriental

Judge Winston Villegas (LLB '72) RTC Branch 43

Nehru Yurong (Pol. Sci '72),chief of Operation Monitoring Center, Department of National Defense