Finding lessons and friendships at work

The person who perhaps inspired me most in Ateneo is none other than my boss and good friend Sir Rene San Andres who many people fondly call Sir RSA. In my 15-year stay in the Ateneo, he is one with whom I've had a most meaningful interaction.

We’ve known each other for 15 years now and we’ve worked together from the very beginning of my Ateneo journey. All through these years, we’ve shared many experiences of happy memories as well as our fair share of challenges.

Every day we learn something from each other through our work together. It was under his guidance that I have gotten to where I am today. He constantly challenges me and the rest of the office, and even the students, to do our best in everything that we do.

It is also through his leadership by example that I have come to see this job that I do as a vocation, as a service to the University and the Ateneo Community. Indeed I have found a home here, as well as people like Sir Rene whom I admire and look up to and whom I can call family.

Ms. Tonette E. Delica is a Student Affairs Officer at the ADSA office in the Loyola Schools of ADMU.