VMLP Prexy has Ivy Leagues’ Degrees

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan - While many elective officials in the Philippines have hardly finished their secondary education, the Vice Mayors' League of the Philippines – Pangasinan Chapter (VMLP-PC) president has his post graduate degrees from Ivy league schools abroad.

HONCHO. Vice Mayors' League of the Philippines – Pangasinan Chapter (VMLP-PC) President  Mark Stephen Mejia (extreme left) takes his oath of office for the VMLP-PC while his father Region -1 Medical Center Director Roland Mejia  (extreme right) looks. The young Mejia, a medical doctor, is a  newly elected vice mayor of landlocked Mangaldan town.

Ivy leagues means academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. Its members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.

“Tapos post graduate ako Oxford University, Harvard University, Wharton University, Stanford University,” new Mangaldan Vice Mayor Mark Stephen Mejia told Northern Watch Newspaper.

He finished his bachelor of science’s degree in biology, doctor of medicine that he took and passed the board examination for surgeon in the Philippines.

“Tapos my dalawa pa po akong dito sa France, tapos sa U.S sa Israel po ang emergency medicine po ako iyon iyang specialty ko,” this young second most powerful politician of this landlocked town disclosed.

He worked before on a one-peso a year consultancy in Region -1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City where his father, Dr. Roland Mejia, is the director.

Mejia said the VMLP office is located at Rufina in Binmaley, Pangasinan where he could be contacted by constituents and could entertain the problems of the members of the VMLP and Pangasinensis who need assistance.