a grant. I could not contain my happiness and tears flowed down from my laughing eyes as I hugged my parents who were sending me off to Manila at the bus station. Dean Quirino also instantly recognized my typing and other abilities. He gave me a job in the school as clerk and later as chief of the records section in the registrar’s office while still enrolled as a student. After graduation, I became the assistant registrar and an instructor in the College of Engineering and Architecture for three years. The school and my education there also gave me the opportunity to serve my country for 16 years in the military service (as a major in the Armed Forces of the Philippines) before I finally immigrated to the U.S. I thank God for all these blessings and Dean Quirino. I could not be what I am today without the Technological Institute of the Philippines and the kindness of Chairman Quirino.
Francisco Aquino – TIP, BS Civil Engineering 1966
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His Grading System Was Objective and Transparent
My father saw the newspaper ad that said the Guzman Institute of Technology was offering full scholarships, including free board and lodging, through an examination process. This appealed to me. I qualified by finishing first in the scholarship examination. I first met Dean Demetrio A. Quirino Jr. after the exam and he greeted my father and me. He gave me my nickname (Rene), which I liked. I think it was because he did not want to call me by my first name, Quirino, which happened to be his own family name. I felt at that moment that I could become one of his pet students. But that was not the reason
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