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Developing and staffing the program 71In the early days,before IRRl's powertillers were designedand built, theexperimental plotswere prepared withcarabaos. Ramos hiredlocal rice farmerswhenever needed. Inthis instance, 22 menwith their animals arepreparing the fields forIRRl's world collectionof rice in 1963.from assistant to field superintendent. In 1966, his title was changed to that ofassociate agronomist and farm superintendent.Ramos turned out to be an excellent selection. He handled the farm workerswell, gave full cooperation to the scientists in their field experimentation, andwas innovative. He designed and built IRRI’s first electric fence for rat control.By 1962, the work load had become so heavy that Ramos asked for anassistant. In response, IRRI hired Orlando D. Santos as assistant field superintendent.In 1967, Santos was promoted to associate farm superintendent.Ramos and Santos have continued to operate IRRI’s experimental fieldswell, and now administer the work on about 230 ha of land devoted to rice andrice-based cropping systems research.FOOD AND DORMITORY SERVICESThe original organizational scheme for IRRI included a training program foragricultural scientists and extension personnel working with rice. Obviously,housing and feeding facilities for the research scholars would be needed. IRRI
72 History of the International Rice Research Institutewould also have to employ secretarial staff and research assistants, many ofwhom would be unmarried and would require living accommodations in LosBaños, a community already overcrowded with students and faculty. Consequently,included among IRRI’s original structures was the cafeteria-dormitorybuilding.The decision was to hire a manager of Food and Dormitory Services and togive that person responsibility, also, for operating the guesthouse and forproviding assistance to the residents of the staff housing area with their dayto-dayproblems of obtaining household help, maintaining furnishings, andthe like.To find a suitable candidate, the assistance of Presentacion Perez, then headof the Department of Home Economics on the Quezon City campus of theUniversity of the Philippines, was sought. She strongly recommended RebeccaC. Pascual, one of her former students who had majored in food andnutrition and who had gone on to obtain her MS in institutional managementat Purdue University. In 1961, Pascual was administrative dietician at theJohns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.Pascual was interviewed by Parker of the Rockefeller Foundation, whoreported that she was well qualified for the post and had an interest inreturning to the Philippines. Offered the position of manager in June 1961, shereplied that she would accept if IRRI could wait until November for her arrival.When IRRI replied that someone was needed sooner than that to get theguesthouse in operation and to order the equipment and supplies for thecafeteria, Pascual suggested the hiring of Nenita Esguerra as an assistantmanager. Esguerra had worked in the Food Services Department at the JohnsHopkins Hospital along with Pascual but had returned to the Philippines.Esguerra was interviewed, was offered the post, and began work in August1961.Pascual and Esguerra did an outstanding job of organizing and operatingthe Food and Dormitory Services and the guesthouse. I recall that even whenI would ask for an official luncheon, banquet, or other dining service, on veryshort notice, it would be provided well and cheerfully.Because of budgetary restrictions and the rather modest income of thosewho used the facilities daily, the fare in the cafeteria had to be rather simple.Yet it also had to be varied in order to meet the requirements of the many ethnicgroups represented in the training program. Their dietary restrictions werealways a source of concern (no pork for the Muslims, no meat for the vegetarianHindus, no beef for even nonvegetarian Hindus). When the diners of thevarious persuasions as well as those merely accustomed to their own nationalfare voiced their needs, Pascual and her staff did their best to meet therequirements and to provide a satisfactory menu for the international group.This was not always accomplished without incident. For example, when A.Colin McClung, then the associate director and in charge of training and theoutreach international activities, was at his desk shortly after noon one day, arecently arrived Muslim research scholar from Malaysia appeared at his officedoor, walked in, plunked his loaded cafeteria tray on McClung’s desk and
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ContentsDedication viiAbout this pu
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PrefaceThe International Rice Resea
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CHAPTER 1An international institute
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