The 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service

RESPONSE of  Tee Tee Luce
Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies
31 August 1959 Manila, Philippines

I am greatly honored to receive the Award, together with Reverend Father JOAQUIN VILALLONGA, S.J., for Public Service. Please kindly accept my heartfelt gratitude.

I feel very unhappy to be unable to accept your kind invitation to come to Manila. I myself am not quite fit, my husband is away and two members of my staff are down with bad attacks of flu and are weak and miserable. Now many boys are having high temperatures, one after another. Besides, I have several difficult boys in the Home and I must be here. Please kindly forgive me.

U LAW YONE knows the Home very well. I have requested him to represent me at the ceremonies.