EXCLUSIVE REPORT from Filipino Celebrity Headlines Examiner, HOLLYWOOD, California – Sitirring up what could now be regarded as the badly-needed spark to ignite the extinguished fire of activism, Congressman Manny Pacquiao may somehow inspire law students and even professionals on how he rose from the ranks in the manner of his” self-styled revolutionary concept from within”: an inspirational story.
His speech, “Lessons from the Eagle”, will thrill Silliman University alumni this August 26, 10 a.m. on Thursday, at the Luce Auditorium in Dumaguete City, Philippines.
FACTS ABOUT SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY
1. In a country where secular state universities and privately-run Catholic universities dominate, Silliman University stands alone among the best universities in the Philippines for being the one started by Protestant Americans as a private institution of higher learning.
2. Silliman University?s campus is a major landmark in the city of Dumaguete and its acacia-lined streets and with buildings having a colonial American architecture.
3. Founded on August 28, 1901, it is the first Protestant school in the Philippines and is the oldest American university in Asia (the University of the Philippines was to be founded 7 years later).
4. Silliman University was also the first educational institution to be granted university status outside of Manila in 1938.
5. Silliman University University was named after Horace Brinsmade Silliman, a New Yorker philanthropist and Presbyterian layman who bequeathed $10,000 to start the former elementary school.
