You Don’t Have To Be A Superman To Be Great-Duarte
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Every person, in his own way, has a kind of greatness in himself unique with other individuals. You don’t have to be a superman to be great, guest speaker Dr. Jude Alteveros Duarte of the Southern Leyte State University Sogod main campus told the 92 STI graduating students during the 10th STI’s commencement Exercises held at the city gymnasium during the recent Thursday night.
In his less than two-hour inspirational speech before the audience also composed of STI staff,parents,friends and relatives of the graduating students, he mentioned great men who at the start were unknown individuals but later became great men. This include actor Jacky Chan, Abraham Lincolm,Winston Churchill, Alexander The Great, American Inventor Thomas Alba Edison and our very own pound-for-pound boxing icon Emmanuel “Manny” Catedral Pacquiao.From a mere amateur boxer, he gradually rises to become the world’s first Filipino boxer to conquer ten boxing divisions in his career. His coming fight on May 8, 2011 with Shane Mosley at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA would determine how great he is in the field of sports’ self-punishing profession.Pacquiao's childhood struggle against poverty and the two stages he has treaded in life from rags to riches is alive and the best model story of success.
He disclosed that all of the great men he mentioned have experienced series of failures in their lives, yet they did not give up. But with patience and determination, they continue to push and push until they have reached their goals for success. He also implied that all of the great men he has mentioned have one thing in common: they have possessed the virtue of being positive in attitude and outlook in life.
Duarte also informed the graduates that they are lucky because they are now in an era of modern technological emergence which changed entirely the methodology of humankind’s workforce. Before the advent of modern science and technology, he said, man’s works were commonly done manually. It makes man’s way of working things more easy and distant communication and transactions with the outside world is just a call and click away.Thus,making distant nations shrink and become more closer to each other, leading to the coined phrase like ‘global community” or “global village”, he stressed.
Distribution of diplomas to the graduates for the 19 DIT(Diploma in Information Technology),10 CET(Computer and Electronics Technology), 41 HRS (Hospitality and Restaurant Services), 18 PESFA(Private Education Students Fund Assistance) scholars and 4 Octoberian graduates(IT and HRS) was led by STI-Maasin President and Chief Executive Officer Nestor Sy,Sr. and assisted by Faculty Head Hilario Mobe,School Administrator Effie Naida Sy-Visaya,TESDA Director Rolando Juanillo and Dr. Jude Duarte.
The STI President and CEO has also handed over special and academic awards to 10 students-graduates of IT and 12 HRS graduates.
Class Valedictorian Raphael Alexander Plasabas, CIT graduate in his valedictory short speech thanked first of all his parents for their moral and financial support. He also expressed his thanks to his classmates for their camaraderie and friendship during their years of schooling as well as the moral support of his friends and relatives.
However, the honored valedictorian chose not to reveal his strategic plan or scheme on how he could get a job with his IT skill.
Earlier, the STI CEO also handed over plaque of appreciations to SLSU’s Dr. Duarte and TESDA Director Juanillo.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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