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SCHOOL INAUGURATION SPEECH
Atty. Gay Marie Francisco
Vice President for Administration
Tanauan, Batangas
To the President and Chairman of First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities, Saturnino G. Belen
To the Vice President for Academics and Research, Dr. Lalaine V. Manalo
To the Vice President for University Press of First Asia, Danny B. Malabonga
Tothe Vice President for Student Life and Student Services, Ma. Rosario B. Cesario
Chairman and the members of the Board of Trustees, Distinguished Panelists, Excellences, Colleagues, Friends and Students, Good Afternoon!
On behalf of our students and Faculty, it is a great honor and personal pleasure to welcome you here on First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities’ Presidential Inaugural. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. Your presence here is not only in joyous celebration of the occasion but also for some important issues.
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
This can be such a moment.
I would like to thank all my worthy opponents in the recently completed presidential election. Every one of you helped define and make stronger our institution in our own little ways. Because of you, First Asians had real choices. Because of you, First Asians felt free to exercise their sovereign, will. Thank you all.
I thank Saturnino G. Belenfor his service to our nation -- (applause) -- as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
In the discharge of these duties my guide will be the institution , which I this day swear to "preserve, protect, and defend all the school issues." For the interpretation of that instrument I shall look to the decisions of the judicial tribunals established by its authority and to the practice of the school under the earlier Presidents, who had so large a share in its formation.