asking for peace, high grades, prosperity
About 5,000 members of the Foundation University community celebrated this year’s Dal-uy Festival held at the waterfront along Rizal Boulevard, as they released to the sea their handmade lanterns bearing handwritten petitions for success in their academic and professional pursuits, and for world peace.
Dal-uy, a festival of hope adopted from the Japanese tradition, is celebrated every year by Foundation University as a culminating activity of its founding week of festivities. Foundationites, administrators, and faculty/staff, led by FU Chairman of the Board & President Victor Vicente “Dean” Sinco, prepare their personalized lanterns, and send them afloat in the open sea.
Dumaguete Mayor Felipe Remollo, one of the special guests of the event, also floated his own lantern with a message invoking for “world peace, clean government, and felicitations for President Sinco and Foundation University’s 75th year.”
Incidentally, the City of Dumaguete is also celebrating its 75th diamond jubilee founding anniversary this year.
In keeping with the University’s advocacy on the environment, all lanterns and their wooden platforms were collected by FU personnel after the event for purposes of recycling.
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Photo Caption: DAL-UY FESTIVAL. Thousands of lanterns are set afloat off Dumaguete’s Rizal Boulevard, which has become a tradition in the City initiated by Foundation University. The event on Aug. 31 commemorated its 75th anniversary since its founding in 1949, concluding in a fireworks display. The lanterns were later collected for recycling purposes. (FU photo)
