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Ateneo pays tribute to
CenPEG chair
The
Ateneo de Manila University will honor Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera with
a concert entitled, “Pagpupugay” (tribute) on September
22, 6 p.m., at the Escaler Hall, SEC. The concert is organized by
the Ateneo’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in honor
of Lumbera and three other prominent figures who walked the grounds
of the university in the 1960s, namely, Rolando Tinio, Nicanor Tiongson,
and Jose Lacaba.
The
announcement said, “Tinio, Lumbera, Tiongson, and Lacaba became
and have remained four of the more distinguished faculty members
and alumni of Ateneo. All four are also recipients of the Gawad
Tanglaw ng Lahi.”
Lumbera,
current Chair of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance
(CenPEG), is also an emeritus professor of the University of the
Philippines where Tiongson also became Dean of its College of Mass
Communication.
Lumbera,
2006 National Artist for Literature, was in the headlines last week
after a Navy intelligence recruit was caught by security guards
stalking the former’s residence in Quezon City. The recruit,
Cpl. Hannibal Guerrero, was on an official “test mission”
along with two military agents who were able to escape.
The
incident triggered protests prompting Defense Secretary Gilbert
Teodoro to order an investigation.
Lumbera,
now 77, led protests by national artists and groups against the
repeorted interference by the presidential office in declaring arts
awardees who were not qualified and did not pass through the legal
process of selection.
Lumbera,
a prizewinning nationalist poet, critic, and dramatist, also received
the Ramon Magsaysay award for journalism in 1993. The
national artist received his PhD in Comparative Literature from
the Indiana University in 1967 and also taught at Ateneo, De La
Salle University, and University of Sto. Tomas. (CenPEG)
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