Ethel Soliven Timbol
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Ethel Soliven Timbol is a respected journalist and lifestyle editor at the Manila Bulletin, published in the Philippines.
She finished High School at St. Theresa's College in Manila. After two years of College, she left to study at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York, USA. majoring in English and Child Psychology.
She joined the Manila Bulletin in 1964, handling the police beat at the Western Police District, which at that time included then patrolman, now Philippine Senator Alfredo Lim. Aside from her reportorial beat, she was tapped to edit the Youth section, "The Page for the Young at Heart."
She has also been assigned to the beats covering the Department of Education, Trade and Industry, and the Commission on Elections, often meriting front page stories in the tumultuous '60s and '70s.
In 1976, she was appointed editor of the "Life & Leisure" and "Sunday Leisure" sections of the same newspaper. Apart from her editorial duties, she is a respected columnist, writing the twice weekly society column "Pacesetters," and the once weekly "Consumers' Observation Post," a consumer advocacy column, which she started with Deedee Sytangco.
In 1991, she received a special citation from the Manila Rotary Club for her consumer advocacy work.
Since 2003, her eldest son, Alex Timbol, an economist and entrepreneur, writes selected columns in "Consumers' Observation Post."
She is the youngest sister of journalist Maximo V. Soliven.
[edit] Quotes:
When asked about the difference between young people today and young people before, she replied: "The young people before called me Ethel, today they call me Ma'am."
"I always mean what I say when I say it. That may change later."
[edit] Trivia
The original caricature for her Pacesetters column included a cigarette in a long stemmed holder. When she stopped smoking in 1995, she asked that the cigarette be removed from the caricature.
The Life and Leisure and Sunday Leisure sections of Ms. Ethel generate the most advertising revenue for the newspaper.
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