CLARK FREEPORT — Dr. Irineo G. Alvaro Jr. has been elected as the 14th president of Wesleyan University-Philippines. The official notification of his election was relayed in a letter dated Oct. 17 signed by Atty. Jess Stanley Avila, corporate secretary and attested by Atty. Juanito R. Carlos Jr., chairman of the board of trustees.
His investiture is set on Dec. 1, 8 a.m. at the WU-P chapel.
An advocate of the development of Clark for the benefit of the outlying communities even at the time it was a US Air Force Base, Alvaro serves as one of the pillars of the Clark Investors and Locators Association with past and present interests in the hotel and tourism industry and corporate social responsibility.
This, celebrated in a write-up accompanying his choice as 2017 Man of the Year of Punto! Central Luzon:
“NO PERSONAGE in contemporary politics and business hereabouts has invested as much personal stake in Clark as Dr. Irineo “Bong” Alvaro.
In Clark’s American past, Alvaro was a young working student soon catapulted to the top leadership of the Filipino Civilian Employees Association that championed the cause of labor rights and won for the local hires working conditions, salaries
and benefits that their off-base counterparts, aye, Philippine labor itself, could only dream of.
In Clark’s freeport present, Alvaro is a blue-chip investor, upping the ante in the hotel and resort industry, priming Clark as premier destination area of what he called the three Rs – rest, recreation and recuperation…”
Wesleyan University-Philippines is a private, sectarian, and non-profit higher education institution run by the United Methodist Church in Cabanatuan City. Founded in 1946 as the Philippine Wesleyan College, it is named after John Wesley, the founder of the Methodism Movement in the Church of England. Punto News Team
