GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III was one of the recipients of this year’s Haribon Awards given by the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) in a ceremony held June 21 at the Manila Hotel.

He joined Pulitzer awardee and veteran journalist Manuel Mogato and Commission on Elections Chairperson George Erwin Garcia in the awards given by the country’s first and only chartered and autonomous university funded by a city government.

The Haribon award, which was given for the first time to 65 outstanding alumni, is the highest alumni award by the PLM and its alumni association.

Among the governor’s outstanding achievements are the establishment of two local colleges in Pangasinan – the University of Eastern Pangasinan (UEP) in Binalonan and the Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) in the capital town Lingayen.

Notable Haribon awardees include Pangasinan veteran journalist, author, educator, and former National Press Club President Alfredo Gabot; lawyer, journalist and industrialist Carlos Moran Sison; PLM Regent Wilma Valle Galvante; former Ambassador Constancio Vingno Jr.; former United Nations Representative Richard Prado; Dr. Reynaldo Imperial; Dr. Lucas Riel Bersamin Jr., and Dr. Sybil Jade Pena of the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders. (PIMRO/RFR)

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