How appropriate
It was an event.
The Konrad Adanauer Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University has been renamed yesterday, Labor Day. It is now called the Asian Center for Journalism.
Big name.
Appropriately so. The Center has big dreams, such as teaching journalists across Asia principles such as media ethics.
A witty invocation by Channel News Asia journalist Karen Yap started the evening right. Succinct speeches followed. The Diamond Hotel was appropriately chi-chi. The food was nothing less than what’s expected of a 5-star hotel–divine.
I support wholeheartedly the name change. In the said event, gathered were the Center’s international faculty and some of the continent’s best journalists.
Undoubtedly, the night’s best moment was during the formal signing of documents formalizing the name change.
For the Konrad Adanauer Stiftung, there was its representative to Asia Wermer vom Busch. For the Ateneo, there was its current president, Fr. Bienvenido Nebres of the Society of Jesus.
As both bent down to sign the documents, the powerpoint presentation earlier played to introduce the event remained on.
And there, on Fr. nebres’ bald and shiny head, were the letters "ACFJ".
How appropriate.
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Photo of Fr. Nebres hopefully to be supplied by Professor Kim Kierans of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
