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      Writer, poet, playwright, and former humanities professor Virginia Reyes Moreno passed away on Aug. 14. She was 98.

      Known to her peers as “the high priestess” and “the empress dowager of Philippine poetry,” Moreno was a faculty member of the then UP College of Arts and Sciences in the late 1950s.  In 1959, she co-founded the UP Department of Humanities, now the UP Department of Art Studies.

      As chairperson of the now defunct UP President’s Council on the Arts, Moreno founded the UP Film Center in 1976 and served as its director until her retirement in 1989. In 2003, the UP Film Center was merged with the UP College of Mass Communication Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication to become the UP Film Institute.

      From 1970 to 1982, she was a consistent member of the UP President’s Council on the Arts, either as chair, vice chair, or consultative board member.

      Known nationally and internationally for her literary works, Moreno was the author of the play “Straw Patriot” (1956).  Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez translated this into Filipino in 1967 as “Bayaning Huwad