Bishop Tagle to graduates:
“Be like your founder”

Ruthless, jobless, mindless, futureless, rootless, voiceless – this was how Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle described globalization in his commencement speech delivered in the morning of March 21, at the Philippine International Convention Center’s Plenary Hall.

“You are graduating on a great day, but you are not graduating in the best of times [but] the times will be a little better, if you will make the decision never to forget the poor, never to stop relating humanely, and never being superficial.”

Bishop Tagle was this year’s commencement speaker,before graduates from the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Science, Education, Technology, Law Enforcement, Administration and Public Safety, and the Graduate School of Education, Arts and Sciences.

Graduates belonging to the Graduate School of Business, College of Business Administration, and College of International Hospitality Management attended the afternoon rites. Hon. Secretary Jose D. Lina, Jr. of the Department of Interior and Local Government delivered the afternoon commencement address.

In effect, the bishop told DLSU-D graduates to emulate their founder, Saint John Baptiste De La Salle.
“What good is education if it does not uplift the soul to what is noble, sublime, and worthy? Let La Salle graduates be distinguished by their depth, by their nobility, by their sublimity and the heights and depths of what is human….” the bishop said.

A total of 1,790 students were conferred undergraduate degrees, while 27 graduate students, some of whom are DLSU-D faculty, received their graduate degrees.

Among the DLSU-D faculty recognized in the March 21 rites were Edgar Tibayan (Doctor of Education Major in Educational Management), With the Highest Distinction; and Joy Parohinog (Master of Arts in Education Major in Guidance and Counseling), With Distinction.

The following DLSU-D faculty also received their graduate degrees: Segismundo Añonuevo and Joy Alvi Arañas (Master of Arts in Education Major in Guidance and Counseling); Leah Guerra (Master in Business Administration); Merilyn Peñalosa, Lorna Salcedo, and Marilyn Virata (Master of Arts in Filipino); Cherry Cuevas and Myra Nicart (Master of Science in Biology); Teofredo Tisbe (Doctor of Education Major in Educational Management).

Meanwhile, the following undergraduate students were also recognized: Therese Danielle Bejosa (Bachelor of Secondary Education), Cum Laude; Suzette Maliksi (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology), Honorable Mention; and Meynard Sibayan (Bachelor of Science in Biology) Honorable Mention.

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