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- THE TOURISTS All this augurs well for better and increased student services. MAJOR FELIX SAVELLON Dr. Felix Savellon has been called back to the Army for an eight-month tour of duty. He is a Major in the Medical Corps. Father Rector, in a letter to Dr. S?.vellon, said: “Although you... would be difficult to replace, the University willingly releases you... In these days filled with communist threats of war, we must give priority to such order as this calling you back to active service... HEFTA TOURISTS Thirty-two women, including five teachers, from the Home Economics Department went on a four-day educational tour of Negros during the second week of August. Visiting Dumaguete, Bacolod, San Carlos, Toboso, Fabrica, Calatrava, and Victorias, the touring HEFTA (Home PRESENTATION OF SPONSORS Economics Future Teachers’ Association) members and their instructors were met and feted like visiting dignitaries by municipal and school officials, student associations, USC alumni, and friends there. But greeted by a barrage of midterm exams as soon as they arrived, they found no time to reminisce on their happy trip and probably wished education consisted entirely of educational tours. PRESENTATION OF SPONSORS A parade and review for the presentation of sponsors for 1961 was held by the USC ROTC at the Abellana High School grounds in the morning of September 27. Heading the list of sponsors were: Cdtte. Col. Teresita Lastrilla, corps sponsor; Cdtte. Lt. Col. Lina Abalon, corps sweetheart; and Cdttes. Lt. Col. Luz Relampagos and Belen Napules, battalion sponsors. A sponsors’ ball was also held on the same day, in the evening, at the III MA Officers’ Club. PLACEMENT BUREAU The newly enlarged Student Services Office under Rev. Lawrence Bunzel has plunged into several ambitious projects, among which the opening of a Placement Bureau is by far the most ambitious and most promising. The Bureau’s aim is to make it easier for our students and alumni to find jobs outside the University. Already a comprehensive survey to gather data concerning the working potentiality of the student body has begun. Students have been ask to fill out the requisite forms in their classes. On the work opportunity side, the Student Services Office has made contacts with some business establishments in the city. I wish I also would be called back to service in the American Army.” (Fr. Rector has been an Air Force Chaplain with the rank of Captain.) THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY Intent on awakening the “photographic sensibility” of the University’s population, Editor Rey Yap organized a Camera club whose avowed aim is “to promote photography as an art.” Starting with about fifteen enthusiasts, the club hopes to enlarge membership as soon as it undertakes enough projects to catch the attention of the lethargic and the photographically insensible. RECTOR-FACULTY DAY Friday, September 8 (which is the Foundation Day of the Society of the Divine Word), the University again celebrated the traditional Rector-Faculty Day. ATTY. BUGARIN Page 22 THE CAROLINIAN The schedule for the Day was: 6:30 a.m.—Mass, USC Chapel 7:00 a.m.—Breakfast, Archbishop Reyes Hall 9:00 a.m.—Pass-in-Review, Abellana National School Grounds 7:00 p.m.—Reception and Dinner Dance (native costumes were strictly required), Chinese Chamber of Commerce. ORGANIZATION HEADS When the final returns were in, the following found themselves heading the University’s major organizations: !>(:«* Dr. Concepcion Rodil, Faculty Club President; Dr. Jesus Yap, Alumni Association President; Reynaldo Yap, Carolinian Editor; Manuel Go, Student Council President; Arnulfo King, ROTC Corps Commander; Roberto Fruto, SCA President. FACULTY-STUDENT ACQUAINTANCE PARTY The first faculty-student acquaintance celebration opened with a bang Sunday, August 20, at 3:00 p.m. and ended at 7:00 p.m. The celebration consisted of a program, games, contests, a bonfire, a merienda-cena, all of which took place on the USC grounds gaily decorated with nipa huts and bunches of sugar cane at the sides, hundreds of fluttering little flags and “puso” hung on ropes that traversed the grounds, and two pigs roasting on a pit in the center. Many of the participants themselves lent the local color: they came in local Scholars MISS VARELA costumes, the men in barong tagalog, the women in patadiong. Proposed by the faculty club, and jointly undertaken with the Student Council, it was designed to forge closer ties between students and teachers by bringing them together on a social basis. During the celebration, the minimum of formalities and distinctions between A SMALL SECTION OF THE CROWD AT THE FACULTY-STUDENT ACQUAINTANCE PARTY teacher and student were observed, and conduct was guided only by considerations of mutual respect and friendship. Though confessedly the celebration fell a little short of the goal, it was nevertheless a giant step in the right direction. Atty. Catalino Doronio and Miss Juliet Villaluz were the chairmen of the faculty and student panels, respectively. FATHERS AND FACULTY MEMBERS ABROAD Fr. Rudolf Rahman is in Honolulu, attending the Tenth Pacific Science Congress. He left in the last week of August by Pan-Am jet for a three-week round of conferences with the Science Congress and the East-West Center, RUSH WORK ON FACULTY BUILDING As of this writing, work on the faculty building is going on day and night, in two shifts. Work starts at seven a.m. and end at twelve p.m. Night work, however, will stop upon completion of the basement, the first of nine storeys, when the technical problems that make it necessary shall have been eliminated. which sponsored his travel. Atty. Expedito Bugarin and Miss Lourdes Varela have left for the United States on Fulbright-Smith Mundt scholarships. Atty. Bugarin will study international relations at Georgetown U; Miss Varela will study the teaching of English as a second language at Michigan U. Dr. Wilhelm Bruehl is expected to leave anytime now for Germany. He will advise the German government on local conditions which must be taken into account in the setting up of the millionpeso chemical pilot plant to be entrusted to the University by the German government. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1961 Page 23