06/07/2021
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DepEd-Schools Division Superintendent, Tagum City Division DR. JOSEPHINE L. FADUL is an alumna of Mati Community College with a degree of Bachelor of Secondary Education โ major in Mathematics class 1986.
Looking back at the time when MCC does not have its own site and building, it held its classes in the evening at the Mati National Comprehensive High School. This evening class was an opportune time for her being a working student, as a salesgirl during the day and as a student at night.
On her fourth year, she had to quit her work to be able to focus on her Practice Teaching. In order to sustain her needs in the most challenging and final stage of her college, she put up a small stall near the last gate of MCC to sell candies, pad papers and biscuits and even sell these goods while attending her evening classes.
Despite the deprivation while growing up, Dr. Fadul graduated with flying colors which she believes became her passport for winning a slot in a Graduate School Scholarship Program at the Center for Research and Communication, Pasig (now University of the Asia and the Pacific).
โIt was my Alma Mater which inspired me to see that thereโs more to life than that of my small community. MCC (during my college days) and DOSCST (during my stint as a professor) both helped me to be a friend, a child, a wife, a mother, an educator, a public servant trying to make great strides to maintain a balance and harmony of the hectic schedule and demands of home, of work, of social life and community. I am not who I am now had it not been because of MCC and DOSCST.โ
Her words of motivation to DOrSU Community: โDo not allow poverty to make you feel indifferent with life. โAt this point in my life, it taught me other dimensions that one does not need to have much money to rise and succeed. To be respected, to lead by good example, to be an inspiration, and to be happy is the true meaning of life.โ, Dr. Fadul concluded.