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UST Literary Society
HISTORY
Established in 1984, the UST LITERARY SOCIETY is one of the academic organizations of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Santo Tomas. In its twenty years of existence, the society has concerned itself with bringing together all the students majoring in Literature so as to advance their scholarly welfare through meaningful projects as well as to help spread better appreciation of Literature and to correct misconceptions that our chosen field of study is confined solely to books.
Through full cooperation and active participation, with support from the Arts and Letters Faculty and student body, the society shall continue to impress upon its members the mark of eternal tradition instilling faith in their own potentials breaking barriers, reaping triumphs, and believing that the power to instigate bigger and better changes in contributing for a better society is in their hands.
OBJECTIVES
In its twenty years' tradition of excellence, ingenuity and craft, the UST LITERARY SOCIETY was founded with the goal of bringing together all its students in the advancement of their scholarly welfare by initializing meaningful projects, informative symposiums and other social/academic-related activities which encourages camaraderie among its members whilst inspiring each other to better appreciate the course.
RECENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS
- Lecture by Marianne Villanueva, an expat from US, on her book, 'A Mother's Daughter,' was delivered last June 2006
- Lecture by Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera on contemporary Philippine literature was delivered last March 2006
- Booklaunching of Eros Atalia that ws held last January 2006
- Verso poetry reading in coordination with UST CCWS was held at the UST Museum last December 2005
- Lecture by Zamora Linmark, a Fulbright Scholar from Hawaii was delivered last July 2005
- Lecture by a U.S.-based writer Joel Tan on his recently published book was delivered last July 2005
UST LitSoc is now planning to hold a storytelling session fro streetchildren in Tondo, Manila. Another upcoming project is a creative writing lecture for some inmates of Muntinlupa Bilibid Prison.
Current Officers
President: Mary Arabaca
Vice-President: Kim Navarro
Secretary: Madeleine Cordero
Treasurer: Paolo Tenchavez
Auditor: April Jasmin
P.R.O.: Marie Villarosa
Adviser: Mr. Ferdinand Lopez
Contact details:
Email address: ust_litsoc@yahoo.com
Address:
c/o The Flame
Ground Floor, St. Raymund's Bldg., UST, España, Manila
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