A 1984 Ten Outstanding Youth Leader of the Phillipines Awardee during the 2nd Ministers /Members of the Parliament-Youth Leader's Forum, SOC ANTHONY MA. DEL ROSARIO was acknowledge as the Outstanding Oro Jaycees- JJC Parliamentarian-Delegate to "Visit Jaycee Land, Don't Live There" in the early eighties.

"SOC " as his friends fondly call him was born in Salay, Misamis Oriental. His maternal ascendants(s) came from the Island of Camiguin in Mindanao: the paternal side from the Southern Tagalog and the Northern Luzon Regions. As a young boy, he worked as a bootblack and ice-candy vendor. A COCOFED scholar in his high school years who excelled in academic achievement as valedictorian, he became a recipient of several scholarship grants. He finished his Bachelor's of Degree in Industrial Education Major in Architecture (DMMMPSC) CUM LAUDE under the KB National Scholarship Program.

A UP graduate of the Consultancy Course for Cooperatives, UP-ISSI, Diliman, Quezon City, he represented the Republic of the Philippines to various international for a . Among these are: MICROSERV-CEO-POLICY FORUM (APRACA) in Bangkok, Thailand; Foreign Agri-Business Models/ National Agricultural Cooperative Federation(NACF) in Seoul, South Korea; International Labor Organization Asian Regional Conference on Employment Creation through Cooperatives and SMEs in Bangkok, Thailand; Marketing of Small and Medium Enterprises in China; Asian Productivity Organization (APO)- National Productivity Council (NPC) International Forum for SMEs, Accelarating Growth and Enhancing Competitveness in the Knowledge Economy in New Delhi, India.

get a loan now The author is a Rotary Club member of Cagayan De Oro, District No. 3870. A lecturer of the Camiguin Island Lodge No. 296, F & A.M., the Don Antonio T. Cosin Memorial Lodge No. 308 awardee him for his active and unselfish dedication to the Craft.

"I can personally vouch for his unblemished integrity and rectitude of conduct having the opportunity of working with him as Provincial Board Legislator, as Human Resource Officer and as Provincial Cooperative Development Officer during my entire stint as governor of Misamis Oriental. His record of good and sincere government service in the community displays his moral fitness as a dedicated servant leader. His exemplary leadership is buttressed by his very satisfactory record in the government employment and NGO work focusing more on the marginalized sector for almost two decades now".

The author today humbly serves as an Administrator of the Cooperative Development Authority, Office of the President, Republic of the Philippines.