he best way to predict the future is to create it,” said Dr. Alan Kay, former director of research at Apple Computer, who conceived of laptops and graphical interfaces years before they were realized. A visionary like Kay, TIP chairman Demetrio A. Quirino Jr. (Dean Quirino to most of us) is the “most preferred mentor” of a U.S.-based alumni association called TIPians International. During the pioneering days of TIP, he had infused into his students the Kay principle of taking the future into one’s hands with sheer hard work. A technological school founded in 1962, TIP was a learning institution like no other. The school was regarded as a trailblazer that provided professional technological education for countless provinciano students from far-flung places—poor, ambitious and exemplary students whose dreams were bigger than their pockets. Dean Quirino gave them scholarships and
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