Named after the late mother of UE’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Lucio C. Tan, the Chua King Ha Galleries is a dream come true, as it finally provides the UE CFAD a genuine, permanent art and design space for constant showcasing of a wide variety and collection of works by its graduates and alumni as well as of faculty members and students.

The two-floor Galleries are located on the fifth floor of the Caloocan Campus’s main edifice, the Tan Yan Kee Academic Building—itself named after Chairman Tan’s father, and whose fourth and fifth floors have been the home of the former UE College of Fine Arts since 2005. To be exact, the Chua King Ha Galleries is a 675-square-meter expanse on the fifth floor and a 285-square-meter space on the mezzanine floor.

The overall design of the Chua King Ha Galleries is that of the art world-specific concept of the white cube. Credited to artist and critic Brian O’Doherty and dating back to 1976, the white cube is—per an essay by Elena Filipovic titled ‘The Global White Cube’—“an indelibly inscribed container. Far more than a physical, tectonic space (monochromatic walls delimiting a certain geometrical shape), the art world’s white cube circumscribes an attitude toward art, a mode of presentation, and an aura that confers a halo of inevitability, of fate, on whatever is displayed inside it.” UE Caloocan’s Chua King Ha Galleries is, in effect, the White Cube of CAMANAVA.

The Chua King Ha Galleries, which was initially conceived and initially constructed during the term of now former UE CFAD Dean Celino B. Santiago, with blueprints collaborated on with architect-CFAD Professor Art G. Barroca, is now a grand reality through UE Board of Trustees approval following the recommendation of UE Caloocan Chancellor Zosimo M. Battad and under the incumbent deanship of UE CFAD Dean Don S. Amorsolo.

The Galleries is four spaces in one—containing as it does a main gallery; a presentation gallery, a small gallery, and a hall of fame gallery.

To be exact, the Chua King Ha Main Gallery is where UE CFAD’s cultural workers will present their main cultural works. The Presentation Gallery, meanwhile, will be for music, literary and allied presentations.

For its part, the Small Gallery will be for visual arts and allied presentations, while the Hall of Fame Gallery is set for the presentation and permanent collection of works of art and design by UE arts and design alumni.

The Main Gallery also serves as the new home of the Caloocan Campus’s Lualhati statue, which had previously stood at the lobby of the Administration Building, and is the seat of the UE-Soka University Friendship Clock, which will also be unveiled during this Tuesday’s program.

Congratulations to the UE Caloocan and UE CFAD community on the realization and inauguration of the White Cube of CAMANAVA, the Chua King Ha Galleries!

Considered as one of UE CBA Manila’s legendary professors, the Hagonoy, Bulacan-based Dr. Robles had been with the University since 1999, teaching Human Behavior in Organization, Principles of Management in Organization, Principles of Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Administrative Management and Automation. He retired from teaching effective May 2020.

Born on May 1, 1955, Dr. Robles had earned his Bachelor of Science in Management degree from the University of Regina Carmeli (URC, now La Consolacion University-Malolos) in 1992. He also took his further studies in URC, earning his Master in Business Administration degree in 1999, and his Doctor of Business Administration degree in 2014.

A well-loved CBA Manila professor, tributes from Dr. Robles’ former students poured out upon the news of his passing. Students remember Dr. Robles as one of their wackiest and kindest professors. They describe his classes as lively, with the professor loving to crack jokes with them. They also fondly remember him calling them handsome or “ganda” during class. In return, the students also lovingly called Dr. Robles as “Sir Handsome.”

Rest in peace, Dr. Regino Robles. Thank you for all of your warrior teaching and care for countless Business Administration Warriors!

One such individual is accomplished UE graduate Vergel V. Vergel De Dios Jr., whose latest in a long line of feats is in having passed the pandemic-era Physician Licensure Examination conducted in November 2020.

He is one of 316 newly licensed doctors produced by UERMMMCI, collectively contributing to the Medical Center’s 94.05% passing rate and rank as the sixth top-performing school of the Nov. 2020 Philippine Physician Licensure Examination (PLE). Dr. Vergel De Dios Jr. had earned three distinctions when he graduated from UE Caloocan in April 2014: the degree of Bachelor of Arts, major in Communication Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from the UE College of Arts and Sciences-Caloocan in 2014; the College Distinguished Graduate Award; and the title of UE Caloocan Leadership Awardee for Men.

He was the first UE-Tan Yan Kee Foundation Inc. scholar of UE CAS Caloocan, and is the College’s first-ever graduate to earn the degree of Doctor of Medicine—an especially considerable achievement in that he was an arts major and not a science-related or allied health degree graduate.

As a UE Caloocan student, Dr. Vergel De Dios was the President of UE Caloocan’s Communication Arts Society (2013-2014) and was part of the team that organized both the Mr. and Ms. UE Caloocan 2014: Lindo Maravhiloso and the 1st Gawad Bagani sa Komunikasyon. After his graduation from UE in 2014, he worked at the ABS-CBN broadcasting company as a production assistant trainee for three months until he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor through UERMMMCI, where he enrolled in 2015.

As a UERMMMCI student, Dr. Vergel De Dios was Secretary-elect of the UERM Medicine Student Council (2016-2017) and one of the 2019 Class Councilors (2017-2018) while being active in other extracurricular activities. After earning his Doctor of Medicine degree from UERMMMCI in June 2019, he took his postgraduate internship at Veterans Memorial Medical Center from 2019 to 2020, and went on to be elected Vice President of the VMMC Postgraduate Interns’ Council.

Congratulations, CAS Caloocan Graduate turned Warrior Doctor! [Reporting by Prof. Jo-Ann Masungsong; visual by Ms. Rochelle Senaida] #WarriorAchiever #fUElingBrightFutures #TomorrowBeginsintheUUֱ��