PACQUIAO DOCTORATE CONFERMENT ON FEB 18
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 28 Jan 2009
Cebu City -- Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao will be formally conferred an honorary doctorate degree at the Southwestern University (SWU) here on Feb. 18, this was learned during a meeting to finalize the details of the conferment with SWU officials led by its chairman Andrew Aznar, its president Dr. Eldigario Gonzales, its treasurer Victor Sierra and this writer.
A news conference will be held on Friday, January 30 to formally announce the event. Pacquiao friend and confidante Rex 'Wakee' Salud will represent Pacquiao during the press conference.
The Soutwestern University is the only university in the Philippines which has instituted a degree in physical education and thus, according Gonzales, is most qualified to award the degree to Pacquiao. The award itself, Doctor of Human Kenetics, Honoris Causa, went to a process and has finally been approved by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and its chairman Emmanuel Y. Angeles, will do the actual conferment to the Filipino boxing star.
The conferment, according to Gonzales, will be a solemn affair with the presidents of different universities in the country and well-known personalities in the academe will be invited to grace the event. As a protocol, all the previous personalities who had been recipients of a doctorate degree from the university will be invited, added Gonzales.
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