24 Facts About Dulce Saguisag

Dulce Saguisag served as the secretary-general of the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines.

Dulce Saguisag was the wife of a former Filipino Senator Rene Dulce Saguisag, who was in office from 1987 to 1992.

Dulce Saguisag was born Dulce Maramba Quintans on September 5,1944.

Dulce Saguisag is a descendant of Senator Daniel Maramba from Pangasinan.

Dulce Saguisag received a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of the Philippines Diliman and placed third in the country in the 1964 National Board Examination for Social Workers.

Dulce Saguisag initially began her career as in 1964 at the Social Welfare Administration, which is called the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Dulce Saguisag held a position of senior social worker at the SWA until 1965, when she became a supervising social worker and community center director.

Dulce Saguisag left the Philippines for the United States in 1967 after winning a grant by the US State Department to observe social work in the country.

Dulce Saguisag was recruited by the John F Kennedy War on Poverty program while in the United States.

Dulce Saguisag won a scholarship to Boston College where she received a master's degree in social work, with an emphasis on community organization and social planning, in 1969.

Dulce Saguisag met her future husband, Rene Saguisag, a student at Harvard Law School, while studying at Boston College.

Dulce Saguisag's hobbies included collecting angel and Santa Claus figurines and ballroom dancing with her husband.

Dulce Saguisag took a job with the Department of Social Welfare and Development in 1971.

Dulce Saguisag worked as a social welfare program specialist at the department before being promoted to assistant director of the Bureau of Family and Child Welfare.

Dulce Saguisag left her position with the bureau in order to become dual director of human resources development and director of management training at the Development Academy of the Philippines in 1976.

Dulce Saguisag left to take a new position, this time for an organization outside of the Filipino government.

Dulce Saguisag was serving as Mondragon's vice chairperson and deputy chief executive officer at the time of her departure.

Dulce Saguisag was appointed Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development by President Joseph Estrada in October 2000.

Dulce Saguisag accepted the Secretary position despite the objections of her husband, Rene Dulce Saguisag.

Dulce Saguisag became one of eleven of Estrada's cabinet members who withdrew support for the embattled President on January 19,2001.

Dulce Saguisag was killed in a serious car accident on November 8,2007, on Osmena Highway in Makati, while on their way home to Palanan from one of their usual late-night ballroom dancing sessions at Byke's Cafe along Chino Roces Avenue.

All four were rushed to Ospital ng Makati 2 in Bel-Air, where Dulce Saguisag was pronounced dead from her injuries.

The Toyota that Ducle Saguisag was riding in, which was travelling on Pasay Road, was struck by a dump truck at the corner of the Osmena Highway in Makati at about 2 AM The dump truck had reportedly been speeding when it ran a traffic light and struck the left side of the Saguisags' van, killing Dulce.

Dulce Saguisag was buried in the Garden of Reverence section of the Manila Memorial Park cemetery in Paranaque.