2017 ECE BOARD EXAMS

“TOUGH times never last but tough people do.”

This was how the sixth top placer in the October 2017 Electronics Engineering (ECE) board examination from Colegio de Dagupan (CdD) summed up his experience when he received P75,000 cash gift from his alma mater.

Ronnie Gee Alfonso, who graduated cum laude at CdD, received the incentive during a testimonial dinner held on Dec. 1 at the Leisure Coast Resort, Dagupan City.

Alfonso who hails from Malasiqui town got a 90.70 rating in the ECE board exam.

Alfonso, accompanied by his family, receives his cash reward from CdD President Arzadon and wife Loreta, school executive vice president.

In his acceptance speech, Alfonso narrated his sacrifices, both in financial concerns and in dealing with the rigors of his course and the review.

CdD President Voltaire Arzadon said the P75,000 cash gift is in keeping with the school’s tradition of granting incentives to its board passers who make it to top 10.

CdD is the only college in Region 1 that produced a topnotcher in this year’s board exams.

During The PUNCH interview, Alfonso said he was overwhelmed by the generosity of the Arzadons (Voltaire and wife Loreta) to topnotchers like him.

“It’s like an early Christmas and birthday gift,” Ronnie, who is turning 22 on Dec. 21, said, but added that he is giving his cash gift to his parents to thank them for their sacrifices sending him and his three other siblings to college despite their financial challenges.

Ronnie is the youngest in a brood of four who are now all professionals – two are certified public accountants and two are licensed engineers. Their parents, Perla and Nicolas, used to work in a textile company in another province returned to Malasiqui when the company closed shop.

Exulted in his success and his fellow board passers in different board exams who were also honored during the testimonial dinner, Alfonso declared, “We have won a good fight”.

Earlier, CdD had also given Ralley Paragas, the number one topnotcher in the October 2015 Certified Public Account licensure examination P200,000 cash and a brand new car in a testimonial dinner for his feat. CdD has made it a policy to reward graduates who make it to top ten in in any government board examination.

Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez, Malasiqui Mayor Noel Anthony Geslani and his vice mayor, Armand Domantay, congratulated Alfonso for bringing pride and honor to Pangasinan and for placing CdD in the map of topnotchers’ producer. (Eva Visperas)

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