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unusual facts about Zóbel


Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium, Zobel, 1854, is a fungus genus belonging to the family Dematiaceae.


Andrés Soriano

It is also interesting to note that the first president of the Third Republic (Philippines), Manuel Roxas, descended from Dońa Margarita's uncle Antonio Roxas who migrated to Capiz to set up a plant making alcohol out of palm, and therefore Congressman Dinggoy and his father Senator Gerry Roxas are close relatives of the Roxas-Ayala-Zobel-Soriano clan.

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

Zobel has been a consistent top performer in academic contests such the Metrobank-Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines-Department of Education Math Challenge, the Discovery Channel Whiz Quiz Contest, numerous AMA Computer University Information Technology Contests, and the Inter-school Computer Science QuizBits Contest of the Philippine Science High School, among others.

Alvin Aguilar (HS '91) - President and Founder of the Universal Reality Combat Championships (URCC), Martial artist, Member Tau Gamma Phi De La Salle Zobel

Fernando Zobel de Ayala

Mr. Zóbel is married to Catherine Silverio (daughter of former PBA coach Dante Silverio).

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo

When he returned to Manila, Zobel started in having interest in Chinese and Japanese art and took up calligraphy classes until 1960.

Hacienda Luisita

Americans brought the centrifugal-based machinery which doubled the production of the estate and therefore did not require the cane to be loaded onto a truck to Laguna to be squeezed in the haciendas there, including those of the Roxas and Zóbel families.

Hiller B. Zobel

Hiller B. Zobel (born 1932) is an Associate Justice (retired) of the Superior Court of Massachusetts and author or coauthor of several books on various legal topics, including the Boston Massacre and John Adams.

Jaime Zobel de Ayala

2008, Hero of Philanthropy, Forbes magazine, special issue Asia magazine initiated this recognition, including four Filipinos: Jaime Zobel de Ayala, John Gokongwei, Ramon del Rosario Jr., and Oscar Lopez.

Joseph Zobel

While La Rue Cases-Nègres is Zobel's most renowned work, the author started his writing career in 1942 during World War Two with Diab-la (a tentative English title could be "The Devil's Garden"), a socially conscious novel similar to Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew (published a year or more later).

Joseph Zobel (April 26, 1915, in Martinique – June 18, 2006 in Alès, France) is the author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront.

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel

After receiving her B.S.F.S. in History and Diplomacy from Georgetown University, where she was both a member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and recipient of the Lorenze Tsosie Native American Scholarship, Zobel earned an M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut—the school from which both her mother, Jayne Fawcett, and great-aunt, Dr. Gladys Tantaquidgeon, received degrees.

Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business

Many of its alumni have distinguished themselves as assuming top-level positions in the academe, business and industry, and government, such as Jose Diokno, Alberto Romulo, and Enrique Zobel.

Zobel Junior Archers

In the spirit of De La Salle Philippines's "One La Salle"(all 18-La Salle campuses in the Philippines are under De La Salle Philippines. Inc. headed by Brother Armin Luistro FSC who is also concurrently the President of De La Salle University-Manila), the La Salle Greenies are currently CSB's juniors reps in the NCAA while the Zobel Junior Archers are DLSU's juniors reps in the UAAP.

Zobel Roxas Street

Zobel Roxas and other streets in the area (e.g, Jacobo, Consuelo, Don Pedro and Ayala Streets) were named for the Zobel de Ayala family who developed middle class subdivisions in those areas of Singalong and San Andres in the 1930s.


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