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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
USA holds exhibit during Vision Awareness Week
By Ramel dela Cruz
AS PART of the "Vision Awareness Week" of the University of San Agustin (USA) from August 19 to 28, 2006, they held an exhibit dubbed as "Enduring Friendship" at the school's library.
The exhibit's purpose was to commemorate and celebrate the fifth centennial birth of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and a "remembrance of the Bill. No. 91 87 passed in the Philippine Senate last June 30, 2003 proclaiming the 30th of June of every year as a Filipino-Spanish Friendship Day" according to their program.
Legazpi was recognized to have offered friendship to Filipinos during his time and his policies showed that he was a humane statesman. Through this, a system of justice was established wherein the provinces were divided into towns with a subaltern chief from among the local populace.
The exhibit was divided into three parts. First was the Evangelization which showed transformation through spiritual experiences that was introduced by the missionaries under the inspiration of the Santo Niño."
Second was Government, which showed that by 1850, according to local writers and visitors, the country was enjoying flourishing economic civil and political status.
The third part was Agriculture, Commerce and Communication which showed the unfolding of the economic progress of the country from a self-sufficient economy of "slash-and-burn" cultivation of the land to the introduction new crops."
(September 5, 2006 issue)
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