This is a bridge page to some of the many anecdotes, stories and sagas about DWU and its colorful existence. If you find this interesting and you have stories you would like to share, feel free to send them to me at f_vilches@yahoo.com and I will publish them on this site. It will be interesting to hear from all -- students, parents, administrators, especially the SVD fathers who were assigned in DWU.

THE SAGA OF THE DWU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (By: Sammy Yap)

In 1976, I was appointed Chairman of the MBA Department of the Graduate School of Divine Word University (DWU) in Tacloban. By adapting the Harvard University case study method, which I learned from the Asian Institute of Management, the MBA course in DWU zoomed in enrolment from a mere 10 students in 1976, to around 300 students starting 1978. We had very lively and fruitful case discussions in the MBA classes, and I looked forward to these sessions, despite an 8-hour workload earlier in the day as VP Finance and Administration of DWU. read more...