Friday, April 04, 2008

LS confers Awards for Leadership and Service 2008

Friday, April 04, 2008
Cross-posted from the AdMU website:



The Loyola Schools Awards for Leadership and Service 2008, which aims to give distinction to individuals and groups that embody the ideals of service to the community and exemplary performance in their own fields, was held on March 10, 2008 at the Colayco Hall roofdeck, Manuel V Pangilinan Center for Student Leadership, Ateneo Loyola Heights campus.

Four other awards were given during the event, namely, the Ateneo Socio-Civic Engagement for National Development (ASCEND), the Council of Organizations of the Ateneo (COA) Awards, Guidon-Moro Lorenzo Awards for Sports, and Ambrosio Padilla Award.

For the Leadership and Service Awards, Clark Jefferson N. Cue (4 BS ME), president of the COA, was named Most Outstanding Individual. Cue is also the class valedictorian of this year’s batch of graduates.

The Ateneo Management Engineering Association’s (MEA) SLATE Magazine, meanwhile, was awarded Most Outstanding Project. SLATE is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) magazine of MEA.

Last but not least was Alay ni Ignacio (ANI), which was named Most Outstanding Student Group.

A special citation was given to Impok at Ugnayan para sa mga Kababayang Nasalanta (IMPUKAN) for their social responsiveness and creativity in disaster Management.

The ASCEND Awards, which honor exemplary students from the different Schools who successfully merge the need for the development of personal competencies with the commitment to be of service to the larger community, recognized the following students:

Kenneth Albert G. Chua (4 AB MEC), Nikka Regina O. Del Rosario (4 AB MEC), Pauline Nicole J. Lazaro (4 AB MEC), Jose Maria Angel P. Machuca (4 AB MEC), Dexter Patrick U. Ong (4 AB MEC), and Angelo Antonio S. Torres (4 AB MEC) for their project titled “Documentation and Evaluation: Sitio Manabayucan Project.”

Hannah Paula S. Atun (4 AB IS) for her project “Patak ng Pag-Asa: A Screenplay and
Film Based on a Study of Participatory Governance among Filipinos in a
Rural Community, Facilitated by NGO Intervention”

The following students, meanwhile, were given special citations:

Timothy James L. Yusun (4 BS MA): “Landslide Dynamics: A Computational
Study Using Cellular Automata and the Minimization Algorithm”

Theodora Krystynna C. Cuaso (4 BS PSY); Ma. Katherine T. Lee Chuy (4 BS
PSY); and Charlotte Averill Y. Tan (4 BS PSY): “Filipino Group
Processes, Loan Accountability and Success Level among Microfinance
Groups”

The COA Awards, which recognizes individual leaders and organizations that exemplify the Ignatian ideals of service to others, excellence in their work and unity and collaboration with other organizations in the Ateneo Community, awarded the following:

Organization of the Year: Management Economics Organization (MEcO)

Leader of the Year: Queen Alandy Dy (4 BS MIS), president of the Ateneo Junior Marketing Organization)

The Guidon-Moro Lorenzo Awards for Sports, named after Luis "Moro" Lorenzo, recognize deserving male and female student-athletes who have shown passion, utmost dedication and excellence in their sport, named Patrick F. Ozaeta (MBA) and Christopher John A. Tiu (5 BSM AMF) as Sportsman of the Year. Cassandra Noel G. Tioseco (MBA), meanwhile, was named Sportswoman of the Year.

The Ambrosio Padilla Award, which recognizes student-athletes who exemplify the Ateneo ideal of 'mens sana in corpora sano' - a sound mind in a sound body - was given to Riva Maria M. Galvez Tan (4 BS CTM).


Acknowledgment: Miguel Martin R. Vilchez, office of the Associate Dean for Student Affairs (ADSA)

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