Some people are born different. Others will want to make a difference. Jose “Dodong” Gullas was born of well-to-do parents. He didn’t need to work as hard to have a comfortable life. Yet he tried his ...
Traditions die hard in the arts. In the Philippines, this becomes especially true when one scans through the great names that local art has produced. Take for instance the name of Amorsolo vis-a-vis ...
Filomeno “Dodong” Avanceña Bautista Jr. was 14 and a second year high school student when the war broke out between Japan and the United States on Dec. 8, 1941. At Misamis Oriental High School that ...
It is an honor to give a eulogy for Dodong. In truth, I had written my eulogy — call it a eulogy for the living — which BusinessWorld published on Oct. 7, 2024. I wrote it upon learning about Dodong’s ...
FORMER UP PRESIDENT FRANCISCO NEMENZO, JR. “Dodong Nemenzo has been confined at the ICU. Are you aware of it?” That was the first thing that my 94-year-old mother worriedly told me when I visited her ...