Filipina from Davao First Filipina West Point Graduate

// April 14th, 2007

A young Filipina graduated at Westpoint. This news tells us that Filipinos can make it anywhere in the world. That we have the ability to fulfill our goals just like any other human being on this earth.

Davao Lass Makes History as First Filipina West Point Graduate
Christy Isis “Ice” Achanzar, a 24-year-old woman from Davao City, makes history as the first Filipina to graduate at the prestigious US military school West Point Academy. “Joining the military had been a lifelong dream for the young woman who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the University of the Immaculate Conception in Davao,” the Inquirer says in its profile of Achanzar.