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The 1960 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public
Service RESPONSE of Ronald Holland
Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies
31 August 1960 Manila, Philippines
We received with utmost surprise the telegram announcing the honor of the Ramon
Magsaysay award. We feel quite undeserving of this award personally, but accept it very
gratefully on behalf of the whole hospital staff, as it is a tribute to the efforts, under
the guidance of God, of a team of men and women, both past and present, Pakistani and
British, American and from other nations, who have been welded together into a unity in a
common purpose of service for those in need.
It is also a very great privilege to be able to come here and see your lovely country
and to pay tribute to the late President Magsaysay, whose courage and determined devotion
to the ordinary people of the country is reflected also in the unobtrusive lives of many
people throughout Asia, whose names will perhaps never be known to the outside world, but
whose qualities and value have been so rightly emphasized by the awards given in his
memory. These many thousands we are proud and happy to represent today and to identify
ourselves with them in the tasks that lie ahead in the knowledge that all our work that is
inspired and upheld by God will resound to His Glory.
