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UST Quadricentennial Celebration - Line Up of Activities #ust

• Swatch, the Swiss watch company, will design and manufacture a special UST Quadricentennial watch;

• Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will issue special commemorative bills and coins, while the post office will issue special commemorative stamps;

• Declaration of the eight decade-old Main Building as a national heritage landmark on Jan. 25, 2010, followed by the mounting of a marker on January 28 at the España gate;

•The holding of an exhibit on the legacy of UST at the Unesco central headquarters in Paris;

• The “world’s longest living rosary” to be participated in by the entire Thomasian community on Feb. 11, 2010 Oct 2010, good for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records;

• Three-day Thomasian Global Trade Expo led by Thomasian tycoons such as Jollibee Foods Corp. president Tony Caktiong, and Mercury Drug president Vivian Que-Ascona in July 2010;

• An exhibition of the University’s collection of rare books and significant historical documents, including academic records of national heroes Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini, during the “Lumina Pandit” international exhibit at the Miguel de Benavides Central Library, June 17, 2010 to Jan. 30, 2011;

• Inauguration of the UST alumni center, to be housed in the renovated old UST Gym, an Art Deco structure and the country’s first school gym, on Dec. 19, 2010. The center will also serve as a hotel for visiting alumni. The UST swimming pool, the country’s first Olympic-size swimming pool, will also be renovated with its tiles changed so as to form the UST seal that could be seen from the air.

• A parade from Rizal Park to UST on Jan. 27, 2011, followed by the unveiling of the “Tetra Global” monument, designed and executed by internationally renowned Thomasian sculptor Ramon Orlina and modelled by Thomasian hearthrob Piolo Pascual and beauty queen Charlene Gonzales, at the quadricentennial park in the evening;

• Wreath-lying rites honoring UST founder Benavides on Feb. 11, 2011 in Intramuros, where the original UST campus was located;

• UST’s hosting of the conference of the International Council of Universities of St. Thomas Aquinas;

• The launching of the UST coffee-table book as the 400th title of the “400 Books at 400” project;

• World premiere of the grand opera on the life of Benavides;

• Rosarium procession in honor of Our Lady of La Naval in September 2011;

• Inauguration of the state-of-the art UST sports complex in December 2011.

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