Interview with Onofre R. “Pagsi” Pagsanghan on October 8, 2002 at Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Excerpt: Onofre R. “Pagsi” Pagsanghan is a well-loved, multi-awarded teacher in his alma mater, the Ateneo High School, where he has been teaching English and Filipino since he graduated college in 1951. Pagsi founded the Ateneo High School Dramatics Society in 1956, which was renamed Dulaang Sibol...

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Main Author: Maramara, Missy
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol8/iss2/6
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1282/viewcontent/PAHA_208.2_206_20Interview_20__20Maramara.pdf
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary:Excerpt: Onofre R. “Pagsi” Pagsanghan is a well-loved, multi-awarded teacher in his alma mater, the Ateneo High School, where he has been teaching English and Filipino since he graduated college in 1951. Pagsi founded the Ateneo High School Dramatics Society in 1956, which was renamed Dulaang Sibol in 1966. As both a teacher-formator and a cultural icon, Pagsi has won numerous awards since the 1960s, among them the prestigious Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Filipinos Award for Teachers in 1985, the first year the awards were ever given. More recently he has received awards like the Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez For Outstanding Educator in Literature from Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (2002), Bayaning Gurong Pilipino Award from the ABS-CBN Foundation (2003), and the Natatanging Gawad Buhay (Life Achievement Award) from Philstage (2015).