Jun 5, 2007 0
Filipino To Address Harvard Law Graduation
I came across this blog entry in several Multiply group blogs about Pinoys, OFWs and the Philippines, unfortunately it was unclear if this was taken from another source or the blogger personally wrote this article. Anyways, the father of this young lawyer, is known to me having met him in several instances for consultation– Sonnie
A FILIPINO lawyer taking up his LLM or master’s degree in law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will deliver the school’s commencement address on June 7.
Oscar Franklin Barcelona Tan, a graduate of UP Law Class 2005 will address about 700 graduates. He is an associate, on study leave, at the ACCRA law office.
His father, lawyer Edmundo L. Tan of the Tan Acut & Lopez Law firm, had no comment on Franklin’s selection by a select committee, but said, “I will be there in Harvard on June 7 to congratulate personally my son and to share the moment with him.”
His mother, Dr. Jesusa Barcelona Tan, is a dermatology consultant at the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Sampaloc, head of the photo-dermatology unit, and former chair of the Department of Dermatology at the Jose R.Reyes Medical Center of the Department of Health.
In his draft speech, Oscar urges his 700 fellow graduates to transcend narrow nationalism. “My friends and this includes our American classmates who will soon lead the world’s lone superpower let us transcend our individual nationalities and affirm that we are citizens of the world,” he says.
