Beyond the call of service

Teaching in BPSU is more demanding than ever. With its annual increase of student population, the university's faculty members are now devoting longer time for instructional preparations and other related matters inside the classroom. It is obvious that majority of the faculty are not engaging in other expected duties like research and extension because of the heavy load of work in instruction alone. Mrs. Bernadeth Gabor, a Food Technology Instructor proves otherwise.

Mrs. Gabor is now in the frontline of extension services in the name of the university and for the sheer love for service to underprivileged communities. Recently, during the 2008 commencement exercises of the Main Campus, she was awarded the Most Outstanding Faculty of the Year—an award given to faculty members who have delivered exemplary performance and have done things beyond the call of service.
A mother of two children and pregnant with the third, it never crossed her mind to stop conducting community services in places as far as Dinalupihan to teach people with livelihood and entrepreneurial activities. In fact, she sometimes brings her children to those places to have them expose in what she’s doing. Mrs. Gabor, who attended high school and college in BPSU, dreamt of the university giving more of what it has to offer to the most underprivileged communities through the commitment of more faculty to engage in extension work.
Surely, Mrs. Gabor has proved that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do something significant outside your classroom; it only needs a burning passion to be of service and the courage to sacrifice.