The UPAA Baguio-Northern Luzon chapter, under the auspices of its previous Board of Director President Lilia R. Bautista, was commended by the Rotary Club Summer Capital on April 8, 2024 in Baguio City. Receiving the APO KAKADWA Award from the Rotary Club Summer Capital, the former board of directors of the UPAA Baguio-Northern Luzon Chapter was recognized for consistent public service rendered to Baguio and Northern Luzon
Community from covering the years of 2021 – 2022.

The former board of the UPAA Baguio -Northern Luzon Chapter has worked closely with Rotary Club Summer Capital in providing vitamins and medicines for UP Baguio students, faculty, and non-teaching staff in 2021, donating baking equipment for indigent women of Baguio, giving PPE suits to health frontliners of Baguio General Hospital are only a few among the many philanthropic projects of this previous UPAA Chapter board of directors.

To date, former directors of the UPAA Baguio- Northern Luzon chapter now compose the core members of the UP Baguio Alumni Volunteers and Friends (UPBAVF), a loosely organized group who continue to serve the university and the larger community. Among its ongoing projects: Food For Thought – a project that provides free nutritious meals for selected indigent undergraduate students; Legal Aid which was conducted last year for free legal advice and notarization services for the university and the public; and the recent financial donation for the renovation and refurbishing of student offices and hallway at the Alumni Center, UP Baguio.

Former Board of Directors of the UPAA Baguio-Northern Luzon Chapter are: Ms. Lilia Bautista, Atty. Yzanne Merced, Judge Isagani Calderon, Atty. John Ray Libiran, Ms. Monalie Sta. Cruz-Romero, Mr. Benny Alhambra, and Rep. Marquez Go -ex-officio. Current President of UPAA Baguio-Northern Luzon Chapter is Dr. Mario Imson.