Background
Sison, Dolores Hernandez was born on October 2, 1919 in Manila. Daughter of Jaime and Anita (Jaucian) Hernandez.
philanthropist Filipina educator
Sison, Dolores Hernandez was born on October 2, 1919 in Manila. Daughter of Jaime and Anita (Jaucian) Hernandez.
Bachelor cum laude, Philippine Women's University, 1940. Bachelor of Science in Education cum laude, Philippine Women's University, 1941. Doctor of Education (honorary), Philippine Women's University, 1977.
Master of Arts in Administration of Higher Education, Columbia University, 1952.
She also acted as a goodwill ambassadress and diplomat during her years in the Batasang Pambasa (Interim National Legislature) (1978-1984) while she was designated as the Minister of Tourism. During her tenure as woman president of the University of Nueva Caceres, she held the distinction of being the third woman to become a university president in the entire Philippines. Doctor Dolores Hernandez Sison must have been really meant to be a woman for all seasons.
While at the PWU she was president of the student council in high school and college and editor of the PhilWomenian and PWU annual.
Her crowning glory as a student was her being chosen the Intercollegiate Girl of the college Editors gild of the Philippines, considered then as now as the true epitome of beauty and brains. |When it became imminent that the stewardship of University of North Carolina was to fall squarely on her shoulders she took up M.A in Administration of Higher Education at Columbia university in New York City.
On March 25, 1977 the PWU conferred upon her the degree of Doctor of Education, Honoris Causa. What has so endeared Mistress
Sison to people? An old hand at the University of North Carolina curly puts it this way.
She is articulate, brilliant, beautiful and most important, she routinely comes up with a sound discretion on every issue. She was Philippine delegate to the 33rd and 34th United Nations General Assembly in 1978 and 1979 and to the world Tourism Organization Conferences in India in 1983. Mexico, 1982; Italy, 1981.
Manila, 1980.
And Spain 1979. In Seoul, of Korea she was guest speaker in June, 1982 at the Asian Women Parliamentarian Seminar. Despite her tremendous workload, she always has time for people, Foreign twenty years she was member for the Board of Governors of the Philippines National Red Cross, a prolonged dedicated involvement in humanitarian work that earned her in 192 the Gold Humanitarian Service Cross, the highest Red Cross Award for volunteer service excellence.
Deeply religious, she was a member of the Association of our Lady of Penafrancia and Cristian Maturity Formation Seminar and adviser of the Mother Butler"s Mission Guild her in Camarines Sur.
Married Antonio Moran Sison, June 1, 1941 (deceased November 1990). Children: Antonio Junior, Daisy, Eduardo, Dolores.