excellent mentoring, believing that his provinciano students would help him propel the school to the top.
He believed that money should never get in the way of one’s desire for education. “Study and work hard,” he would always remind us. And he would also say, “You can help me build the school. Someday, we will be one big happy family.” He made good on his promise like a decent man would. TIP became the employer of many of its students right after their schooling, some even before they received their college diploma.
TIP 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.
In the early ’90s, as luck would have it, most of the Dean’s provinciano students and staff who had emigrated to the United States found each other again in Los Angeles, California. We felt we had never left TIP and each other, the camaraderie resurfaced naturally and the TIPians
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