Recipients of 2018 Addu University Awards bared

The Ateneo de Davao University is proud to honor this year’s recipients of the University Awards.

The Drs. Jess and Trining de la Paz Award is conferred on Talikala, Inc., a non-government organization freeing Davao City’s prostituted women and girls from exploitation. This award is named after doctors Jess and Trining de la Paz, who dedicated their lives to the service of others.

Receiving the Archbishop Clovis Thibault Award is the Missionaries of Charity, a congregation of sisters that serves the poor and the sick in the margins of the city. Named after the Most. Rev. Clovis Thibault, PME, first Prelate-Ordinary of Davao, first Bishop of Davao, and first Archbishop of Davao, this award is given to priests, nuns, and other clergypersons for their outstanding service to the Church.

The Fr. Theodore Daigler Award for Mindanao Culture and Arts is given to Ms. Tita Lacambra-Ayala, esteemed poet and visual artist who has helped shape contemporary Davao literature and arts chiefly through the Road Map series. This award is named after Fr. Theodore Daigler, the first rector of the university and a known lover of the arts.

This year’s conferee of the honorary doctor rate honoris causa will be announced on a separate date.

These awards and honors will be presented to the awardees during the university’s annual commencement exercises on April 7, 2018. The call for nominations for the 2019 Ateneo de Davao University Awards will be released in June 2018.