Ateneo Women Host International Justice Forum U.S. Amb-at-Large on War Crimes Issues to Speak In 2010, The Women of Ateneo was honored to host a landmark lecture on “The Legacy of International Courts and Tribunals”, by one of its founding members, Ms. Mayee Bringas-Warren, (of Ateneo de Manila,  College Class of 1977.)  Ms. Warren is currently Chief of Legal Operations with the Office of the Prosecutor in the Special Court of Sierra Leone (Freetown and The Hague) and for nearly a decade has served in similar capacities with the International Criminal Court (The Hague) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha). This year, The Women of the Ateneo is again privileged to... »

MAGIS: A SESQUICENTENNIAL PROGRAM of the School of Humanities in partnership with The Women of Ateneo (TWA), the Ateneo School Parents Council  (ASPAC) and ABS-CBN Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 7:00P.M Henry Lee Irwin Theater, Ateneo de Manila University MAGIS is a two-hour cultural evening gala that aspires to capture the scope of the contributions of the University to Philippine art and life in the humanities:  literature, theatre,  music,  film/television,  and other art forms. Culture and history are seamlessly woven into the Great Narrative of the Ateneo humanities tradition that has influenced major movements and events in our lives as a nation,  from the 1880s until the present. With the sponsorship... »

The PSYCHIC Phenomena is not of the extraordinary. It is the power that resides deep inside the recesses of the brain…waiting for us to tap and use to help us become who we are. Each and everyone have this so-called “intuition” or sixth sense. Each one of us experience this day by day, applying what we see or feel in our lives. So,  am I special than all the others? Nah! We are all the same. We are all children of one God who live and breathe in this material existence called the Earth. The only difference between me and you is that I had taken advantage of this special gift... »

Seated: Christine Matriano (PR Manager-TeleTech), Yvonne Yuchengco, Mel Vance (VP Operations-TeleTech), Fr. Ben Nebres, S.J. (AdMU President), Irma Cecilio, AJ Maralit (Novaliches Site Director- TeleTech) Standing: Rommel Latinazo of RCBC, Shankee Sanciangco-Miranda, Bess Claudio-Umali, Nicole Paterno, Gay Domingo, Lia Pison-dela Cruz (ACELT Exec. Dir)), Marlu Vilches (AdMU English Dept. Chair), Maan Tolentino, Jennie Ty, Honeybee Hubahib, Monie Hechanova, Ditas Borromeo, Tang Antonio-Singson, Dinggay Espiritu, Aggie Angeles, Mitchie Lugtu-Castaneda and Nena Legaspi-Rosales.   The Women of Ateneo and the Ateneo de Manila University hosted a thanksgiving dinner for the officials of TeleTech for suporting and partnering with the Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching (ACELT). TeleTech is an international call center company and... »

  Reprinting this October 2006 article: Beloved Jesuit Fr Joseph Galdon SJ's 77th birthday last September 24 was doubly special as The Women of Ateneo (TWA) and the Fr Galdon Club (FGC) organized a tribute in his honor. Through announcements made in the Ateneo community, email, personal invitations, and a TV plug aired on Solar Entertainment's channels, TWA and FGC were able to gather a sizeable crowd at the Manny Pangilinan Room, Room 201 of the PLDT-CTC Building in the Ateneo de Manila Loyola Heights Campus. Friends,  fellow Jesuits,  former students,  colleagues,  former staff members,  Prayer Days for Coeds participants,  alumnae,  alumni, and couples married by Fr Galdon - they were all... »

Reprinting article written last Dec 2005. It was a night of celebration and fond memories as The Women of Ateneo (TWA) hosted a dinner for Lady Eagles, champion of the 68th UAAP Women's Basketball division, November 17, Thursday at the Greenhills West Clubhouse in San Juan. Members and officials of the Lady Eagles Champion Team and Team B, administrators headed by Ateneo President Rev. Father Bienvinido Nebres, SJ, who was the guest speaker, TWA representatives, alumnae, members of Ateneo College Class 1977 and Ateneo College Class 1980, former members of the Ateneo women's sports teams, and some members of the men's basketball team (in the mid-1970s), families, friends and supporters of the Lady... »

I am reprinting only part of this interesting article lest the blog author gets mad :)  Our very own Lizza Nakpil was also interviewed here.   photo from "Bleacher's Brew" “Pare… chicks!” It sounds so tacky today, but 34 years ago, the buzz at the start of the school year wasn’t if you were in the “terror” professor’s class, but the new eye candy that sashayed down the corridor. After one hundred fourteen years, the Ateneo De Manila, all-male enclave of Jesuit pride finally opened its hallowed doors to the female of the species thereby changing the university forever. Fr. Bienvenido Nebres who was the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences tells of a... »