The Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity, with its significant contribution to the rich history of the country’s premier law school, is one with the UP Law community in celebration of the UP College of Law’s Centennial. The Fraternity, which was established in 1939 at the UP College of Law and which has since then counted among its members several former deans of the College and countless of its most distinguished alumni, joined the UP Law community last January 11 in kicking off the esteemed institution’s centennial year.
After a fellowship lunch, resident members and alumni of the Fraternity troop to Malcolm Theater to witness the University’s conferment of the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa upon one of the Fraternity’s most outstanding exemplars, former Chief Justice and current member of the UP Board of Regents Reynato Puno.
Brod Reynato Puno, who joined the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity in 1959, delivered the first of the UP College of Law Centennial Lectures after the conferment rites. In his speech, the former Chief Justice underscored the need for constitutional reform reigniting the long-standing national debate on the need for charter change.
To cap the historic day off, the Alphans celebrated another achievement of one their brothers, Brod Roan Libarios at a restaurant in Quezon City. Himself an alumni of the UP College of Law, former Agusan del Norte Congressman and Vice Governor Roan Libarios was recently elected as President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. His election to the leadership position of the country’s foremost bar association signaled the end of the leadership vacuum resulting from the 2009’s hotly contested IBP elections.
written by: Aeron Halos
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