Friday, November 30, 2007 Sun.Star Pampanga lensman is new PPC prexy By Raymond Garcia
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Sun.Star Pampanga (SSP) chief photographer and veteran photojournalist Christopher "Chris" Navarro was elected unopposed for the presidency of the Pampanga Press Club (PPC), whose members are working for local and national media outfits.
It will be the second stint of Navarro as PPC president when he got the nod of his peers during the club's election held at the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) conference hall in this City last Tuesday evening.
Navarro, an international and national award winning photojournalist for 18 years who used to be a stringer of Reuters, Agence France Presse, correspondent of Philippine Star and Today, joined SSP in 2000.
He won as PPC president in 2004 and holds the distinction as the first and only PPC top officer who took his oath of office before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacañang.
"I will be returning as PPC president because I still have some unfinished projects such as PhilHealth cards, low cost housing units and the creation of cooperatives for our members," he said.
Navarro thanked his fellow officers and members as well as outgoing president Diosdado Pangilinan of DWRW.
A graduate of Mass Communication, major in Journalism at the Angeles University Foundation (AUF) in 1991, Navarro also became president of the Camp Olivas Press Corps.
Navarro's shining moment came when his human interest photo entitled "Break Time" was included in the top 10 winners of the internationally known Canon Asia Pacific Photo Contest (CAPC) 1991.
There were more than 8,000 participants, 3,000 of which came from the Philippines.
The PPC holds the distinction as the second oldest media club in the country, establish in 1948 it is even older the National Press Club (NPC).
Officers for 2008 are president Navarro; Vice President Rey Navales (SSP); secretary Peter Alagos (Business Week); treasurer Eric Jimenez (The Voice); auditor Ashley Manabat (Pampanga News); chairman of the board Deng Pangilinan (DWRW); and board of directors Jojo Due (Business Mirror), Noel Tulabot (SSP), Rendy Isip (Manila Standard Today), Tonette Orejas (Philippine Daily Inquirer), Rudy Abular (Peoples Journal) and Bernanrd Galang (Peoples Tonight).
Board of advisers are Lino Sanchez and Fred Roxas of Manila Builletin; Perry Pangan and Max Sangil of DWRW; Bert Basa, Hector Soto, Greg Sangil and Rizal Policarpio; Ram Mercado (SSP); Ding Cervantes (Philippine Star); and Abner San Pedro.
