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Rustica Carpio: 2014 PMPC Ulirang Artista Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Respected legendary actress Dr. RUSTICA CARPIO will be honored as the Nora Aunor Ulirang Artista Lifetime Achievement Award recipient during the 3oth PMPC Star Awards for Movies happening On March 9 at Solaire-Manila. Dr. Carpio first gained international notice when as a college student she became the youngest member and singer of the First Filipino Entertainment Troupe sent by the Philippine government to wartorn Korea in the winter of 1951 to bring Christmas cheers to the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) and other United Nations armies. It was then that a battle ground was named "Rustie Hill" after her and was adopted in the war maps of Korea. In film and TV, Carpio is a familiar and much acclaimed character actress. She first appeared in Ishmael Bernal’s Nunal sa Tubig(1976). This would soon be followed with more than 50 other films in her more than 30 years in the industry. Eleven of these movies were directed by Bernal, earning her the reputation in the industry as a Bernal favorite.
Dr. Carpio has also distinguished herself as academician, stage actress, writer, and translator. She is a respected authority in drama and theater. An alumna of the former Philippine College of Commerce (now Polytechnic University of the Philippines ) where she finished Associate in Commercial Science with honor, she holds an A. B. major in English, magna cum laude, from Manuel L. Quezon University; M. A. in Education, major in Speech Education, from New York University, USA, as Fulbright grantee and International House scholar; and a Ph. D. major in Literature, meritissimus, from the University of Santo Tomas. She was a Unesco fellow in Dramatic Arts at the National School of Drama and Asian Theatre Institute in India. In 1983, she was leader, director, and principal actress in Sining Silanganan Drama Group’s performance tour of the People’s Republic of China, and in 1984, she was in Russia for work-experience in theater. Thrice a dean (Student Affairs at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the City of Manila), College of Languages and Mass Communications at PUP, and later of the Graduate School also at PUP), Dr. Carpio has represented the Philippines in international conferences. To her credit are over two hundred fifty (250) articles, critiques, reviews, poems, plays, and short stories published here and abroad, and over a dozen books on literature, speech, and communication. Dr. Carpio is a recepient of over 50 national and international honors and awards which include: One of the Ten Outstanding Women of the Philippines for 1968 from Federacion Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA Phil.) for invaluable achievements in the field of performing arts. She was also cited in The World Who’s of Women, Vol. 6, 1982 published in England by International Biographical Centre.
Dr. Carpio has been lecturer at PUP, UST, and FEU. She was consultant in Arts and Culture at PUP and is Executive Director of the President's Committee on Culture at FEU. On personal note, I first met Dr. Carpio in 1989 as student at PLM then taking up AB English. She was one of the university’s esteemed professors who has molded many of us, Mapans (V. Mapa High School batch 79 who went to PLM) for who we are today. I had the chance to be a professor myself like Dr. Carpio at the Technological Institute of the Philippines after college. Nursing some heartaches in my chosen profession back then, I would be consulting Dr. Carpio right at her office in PUP. Nine years later, we crossed paths again on my wedding day – this time as one of my principal sponsors.
Thank you, Dr. Carpio, for unselfishly sharing your time, wisdom and expertise with us, your students. Thank you for sharing your God-given talents as performing artist of stage-film-television. The PMPC award may have come quite late considering your enormous talents and contribution in showbiz industry. But for sure, it is all worth it and most deserved. Congratulations and more power!

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