January 18, 1986
Mr. Luis D. Beltran
PERSONAL

Dear Mr. Beltran:

Having been away since Christmas, I have spent the weekend reviewing the newspapers of the last three weeks. I caught a factual inaccuracy in one of your columns and I am taking the liberty of calling your attention to it.

In "Experience for sale" (Dec. 27, 1985), you allude to Minister Jaime Laya this way:

Well, there’s this Central Bank Governor model, which can also double as an
Education Minister. It is experienced in running the Central Bank and the
Education Ministry too. It has degrees in Harvard and other international
schools and is also adept at restoring ruined cities ....." In fact, Dr. Laya did not get his doctorate at Harvard but at Stanford (the same school that gave us Jolly Benitez).

As for the degrees from "other international schools," Dr. Laya earned a master’s degree at Georgia Tech, whose school song is quite descriptive of how Dr. Laya must look (if not actually feel) after so many years of serving the Marcos government. The school song goes, "I’m a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech."

Best regards.

JUAN P. ANTILLON