Dr Carmencita Quesada Fulgado
Signs DOD with Third UP President
New York. December 5, 2012 was a momentous event not just because of
Pag-ilaw, the official beginning of the Christmas celebrations at the
University of the Philippines. It was also the signing of the Deed of donation
which now combines previous scholarship funds signed by Dr. Carmencita C.
Quesada Fulgado since 2000 as National President of the UP Alumni in America.
Now, President of the UPAA-NY and UPAAA Historian, Dr. Fulgado launched her
second coffee table book of personal and family stories each page donated by fellow alumni friends, including non-Filipinos. She presented her a copy of Memories while the UP President gave her the UP Pin. With
her was her husband of 44 years, Leonardo T. Fulgado MD UST’65.
In 2008 for the UP Centennial Celebration,
Dr. Fulgado, appointed Commissioner Abroad, developed this concept of
soliciting stories, and for a tax-deductible donation the stories were edited and
published into an elegant hard-cover art designed 3.5 lb coffee table book to
be treasured as a legacy of donors. The
first was Memoirs of UP Alumni Abroad.
It’s sequel is a magnanimous one Memories…a
Legacy Gift of Filipinos and Friends.
Both publications brought $50,000 and signed
with UP Foundation, Inc. The endowment
fund uses only interest accrued by the fund to award eligible needy students,
now in the 7 independent units of the University, from Baguio to Mindanao. Dr.
Fulgado adds that “no longer do students
need to be in UP Diliman or Manila, they could be in any of the other five.”
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| Wishing all the Joy of Christmas |
UP
Foundation records show that Dr. Fulgado is the only UP graduate who has signed
Deed of Donation with three consecutive UP Presidents: with Pres Nemenzo in
2000, Pres Roman in 2006 and now with Pres Pascual. Her
“shepherding the flock from abroad” has already helped 19
students. With the additional $50,000
brought by Memories Project, the grand total , with accrued interest, after awards
made to the students, still has reached
$153,000. Now named UP Alumni, Quesada-Fulgado and Friends
Scholarship Fund, it aims to have at least one slot for each of the 7
units, eventually to include the constituent unit, UP Cebu Thereafter, Dr. Fulgado officially visited UP
Open U, UP Los Banos, UP Diliman and UP Manila in PGH, met with the Chancellors and their teams in Alumni
Relations/Affairs, presenting a copy of Memories for each campus, sharing with
them how her Give Back Mission as she calls it,
can be moved to another level. In
keeping with President Pascual’s goal of ONE U.P. and energized by the warm
reception she received from President Pascual and the Chancellors, she is
encouraged to do a Book Three with a
goal of 2015 publication.
Chancellors the units she was unable to visit due to time constraints will be
updated and together she plans to invite all to build TEAM ONE U.P. with the Chancellors
and/or their designees, thereby creating
a team of Managing Editors in the Philippines and abroad who would search
for donors for their stories, that of their family and friends, express their
gratitude, in praise and thanksgiving, and be published in a coffee table book
and at the same time helping needy scholars in completing their university
degree. Along with this altruism, still
tax-deductible for donors and sponsors.
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MEMORIES…a
Legacy Gift is available while supply lasts at $89 /per copy shipped FREE in
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