10 Silliman masscom alumni to receive Golden Jubilee Awards
Ten outstanding alumni of the Silliman College of Mass Communication will receive professional achievement awards tomorrow on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the first college of journalism (now mass communication) outside Metro Manila.
The awardees were announced by Silliman College of Mass Communication dean Rose Baseleres and MassCom Alumni Association president Antonio Remollo. The awardees are Nilo Paurom, Philippine Daily
Inquirer city editor, for distinguished professional achievement in print journalism; Emmanuel Dejaresco, Negros Chronicle publisher-editor, for entrepreneurship in community journalism; Carla Gomez,
Visayan Daily Star editor, for community journalism; Alex Rey Pal, People’s Television Network officer-in-charge, for public broadcasting;
Ed Dames, DTC Promos Inc. chair and CEO, for advertising-events marketing; Maria Zenaida Sarabia- Panol, Middle Tennessee State University College of Media associate dean and professor, for academe (communication research and education); Marissa Dames, DTC Promos Inc. president and COO, for media entrepreneurship in advertising-public relations;
Yolanda de Guzman, US embassy information specialist, for communication management; Andrea Trinidad Echavez, communication specialist, for advocacy communication; and Adolfo Beltran, Cornerstone University ABTS academic affairs director, for communication management.
The judges for the Golden Jubilee Awards were: Florangel Braid, president emeritus, Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication; Alice Villadolid, former New York Times correspondent and assistant press secretary of President Cory Aquino; Betty McCann, former VP for programs at Hongkong-based United Board for Christian Higher Education and former acting president of Silliman University; Ramon Tuazon, president of Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication and secretary-general of Asian Media Information Centre (AMIC); and Domini Torrevillas, Outstanding Sillimanian awardee (1980) and Philippine
STAR columnist. The awards convenor was Dr. Crispin Maslog, founder of the Silliman University school of journalism, and author of books on communication.