Ms Edna Quiballo, the chief librarian of the Carlos P. Romulo Memorial Library and Museum, invited me to visit to see the books I donated last January. My students and I dropped by last July and spent the morning with the staff. The books were covered in plastic and were shelved. I shipped 6 more balikbayan boxes last June. My brother Florante will sort them out and hand them over to the library.
Perhaps it was a coincidence that the library in Tarlac City, my hometown is named after Carlos P.Romulo, the president of the University of the Philippines when I was a law student there in the early 1960s. I received the Romulo Gold Medal for winning the Extemporaneous Speech Contest in UP in 1963.
Very kind gift…the gift 0f knowledge through reading!
Perhaps someone will volunteer to translate to braille for those who are blind. If you suggested it, that would be very nice as well.
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