RESTORING ICONIC MONUMENT
LOOK: Employees of the Manila City Engineering Office are seen restoring a dilapidated monument of Dr. Maria Paz Mendoza-Guazon, regarded as a woman of many firsts, on Monday, 15 July 2024. It is located along the center island where the NLEX-SLEX connector project in Pandacan is located. Dr. Guazon was the first woman graduate of UP College of Medicine, founder of the National League of Filipino Women, and first woman to be appointed to the UP Board of Regents. Moreover, she was the first Filipina recipient of the Zobel Prize in 1930 for her work "Notas de Viaje"; founder and first president of the Philippine Association of University Women; and the first managing editor of the journal, The Woman's World. | via King Rodriguez
