From UPZSAA Adviser Emeritus
Professor Augustus C. Mamaril
UPZS Batch 1962
Associate Professor 7 (With Tenure)
Institute of Biology, College of Sciences
University of the Philippines Diliman
Professor Augustus C. Mamaril
UPZS Batch 1962
Associate Professor 7 (With Tenure)
Institute of Biology, College of Sciences
University of the Philippines Diliman
We all remember ‘the first’ or ‘the first time’. In the 1960s, the first student organization we zoology majors joined was the UP Zoological Society. There were something like 50 or so members then. Except for Field Zoology, all zoology courses were held in the first floor of Pavilion 4. That place was tambayan too, sometimes even dining area.
What we UPZSers did those years―hayride on a truck, tree-planting, caroling at our teachers’ homes in December, induction wearing semi-formal, and yes, having crushes and falling in love―now look sedate and old-fashioned. Those crazy yesteryears held us together.
In 1977, UPZS took me in as faculty adviser. Having just returned from studying zooplankton in Canada, I had no idea what it was to be ‘adviser’. The officers and members were strangers to me yet they asked me to join the Sunday field trip to Batangas. It was a ‘first time’ which I shall never forget. It rained all-day so we stayed practically all the time inside the bus. We got stranded in Parañaque. Abbott Sabio, Roy Acuña, Dan Cervantes, and Renato Cruz kept on asking “Everybody happy?”
In spite of two more trips to other shores that took me away from the UPZS, they welcomed me back as adviser, and have been such until I leave UP for good in 2011. UPZS has made my life more exciting for almost 50 years. It was my ‘first’, it shall be my last.
What we UPZSers did those years―hayride on a truck, tree-planting, caroling at our teachers’ homes in December, induction wearing semi-formal, and yes, having crushes and falling in love―now look sedate and old-fashioned. Those crazy yesteryears held us together.
In 1977, UPZS took me in as faculty adviser. Having just returned from studying zooplankton in Canada, I had no idea what it was to be ‘adviser’. The officers and members were strangers to me yet they asked me to join the Sunday field trip to Batangas. It was a ‘first time’ which I shall never forget. It rained all-day so we stayed practically all the time inside the bus. We got stranded in Parañaque. Abbott Sabio, Roy Acuña, Dan Cervantes, and Renato Cruz kept on asking “Everybody happy?”
In spite of two more trips to other shores that took me away from the UPZS, they welcomed me back as adviser, and have been such until I leave UP for good in 2011. UPZS has made my life more exciting for almost 50 years. It was my ‘first’, it shall be my last.
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