When former president Emmanuel V. Soriano passed away last April 22, I found myself grieving, in the sense of missing a close friend. The grief lingers even today. Yet the strange thing is that our paths had not crossed in a major way. In the years he was president, from 1979 to 1981, I had already graduated from University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman and was doing my master's in the United States. During the years I taught at UP, which extends to this day, and some 20 years as an administrator, including as UP Diliman's chancellor for six years, we never had official meetings or consultations together.

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