Retired PHL Ambassador Ruperto Dizon to receive service award

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, through Secretary Albert del Rosario, will confer on retired Ambassador Ruperto M. Dizon, a Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his service as former Philippine ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan.

 

The award will be handed to Dizon by New York Consul General Mario L. de Leon, Jr., on behalf of del Rosario, in a ceremony at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 27.

 

As ambassador to Jordan from 1997 to 2005, King Abdullah, conferred on Dizon the Order of Independence, First Class, in recognition of his outstanding service in fostering and advancing friendly and mutually beneficial bilateral relations between the Philippines and the host nation.

 

Much earlier as Philippine Charge d’Affaires in Buenos Aires, Argentina with concurrent jurisdiction over Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in 1978-1986, the Argentine Government through then President Raul Alfonsin, conferred on Dizon the highest Argentine decoration given “exclusively to those, who, in the exercise of their functions, are deserving of the high honor and recognition of the Argentine people.”

 

It is called the Order of Liberator General Jose de San Martin.

 

Dizon is also a recipient of the Distinguished Pampangueno in Government Service award from his native province of Pampanga.

 

It may be recalled that Dizon, while a consul in New York in the mid-80s, organized and presided over the first ever Philippine Independence parade (in 1990) along Madison Avenue under a Philippine Independence Day committee, then supervised by the Philippine Consulate General.

 

“New York was a most rewarding consular assignment and experience, whereby we could deal with all types of people, and where we have been able to develop, maintain to this day, and cherish many a great and beautiful personal friendships,” said Dizon about his former assignment.

 

The retired ambassador is now living in Florida with his wife, Linda Dizon, Ph.D.

 

They have four grown up children. - Filipino Reporter