Alumni Updates (November 20–26, 2017)
 Lexandrea Dela Cerna, a 4th year Civil Engineering student at Silliman was crowned Miss Dumaguete 2017 in front of an audience-packed Macias Sports Complex, Wednesday evening, November 22, 2017. Dela Cerna, a 2014 Silliman High School alumna, won over 9 other candidates and received seven special awards: best in talent, most photogenic, best in evening gown, best in swimwear, best speaker, and best in production number.
Other Sillimanian students who won in the pageant were: Elisse Ann Dolleton (first runner-up), third year in Medicine who also won the highest Smart texters award; Nastassja Marie Amigo (fourth runner-up) a Senior High School student.
The 2017 Miss Dumaguete Pageant judges was chaired by Bb. Pilipinas 2010 and Miss Universe 2010 4th Runner-up Venus Raj. The other member of the board of judges were: popular Cebuano fashion designer Harley Ruedas, PDI columnist and businesswoman Audrey Tan-Zubiri, and PBA star and team manager for Purefoods Alvin Patrimonio.
The Artista Sillimaniana, a group of Speech and Theater Arts alumni and students from Silliman, is staging a dinner-show, Home is where The heart is: A Christmas Special, on December 9, 2017, 6:30pm, The Havranek Place, 102 Valencia Estates, Legarda Street, Balugo Valencia. This dinner-show fundraiser will showcase the varied talents of the group. Proceeds of the show will be in support of the rehabilitation of the °Ç¸çºÚÁÏ Woodward Little Theater. For tickets to the show, you may call 09157000206.
