The PAFT LOGO STORY
The PAFT LOGO STORY
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“New products through Food Technology” is a most appropriate theme to explain the meaning of the therefore unexplained PAFT SEAL. Look more closely now into the seal, note the details, then search for the meaning of the symbolic model. The PAFT logo had been painstakingly designed by one of the PAFT pioneers, Miss Marietta Deniega, the artist of the sixties. Through her leadership a PAFT Seal Committee mulled over the symbolism for the field of food technology. Together, they came to the conclusion that through advances in science and properly harnessed machines, man can be in control of nature. For the Food Technologist, nature meant food crops and harnessing applied research, development, production, quality control, packaging and distribution of food products. The crops could be in the form of meat, fish, poultry, dairy, cereals, root crops, fruits and vegetables. Thus, it was that for the PAFT Seal, some of these food products are shown inside a large flask signifying man’s capacity to be in control of such commodities through the advances of science and technology.
Equipped with some wealth of knowledge and skills, the food technologist can harness food crops to the extent of large-scale industrial production. This is exemplified by the building, behind the flask with a flowing smoke implying continuity of activities.
Thanks to scientific knowledge and machines, food crops can now be efficiently harnessed by well-trained food technologists. In this regard the people may look forward to a group of professionals who can provide services to the Philippines and the rest of the world in the drive for food self-sufficiency. This symbolized by the globe atop the flask and the factory.
Initially the PAFT was organized as a professional group, which hoped to encourage awareness of the need for scientific approaches to food manufacture. Twelve (12) food technology graduates from the University of the Philippines (UP) headed by the founding President Ms. Miflora M. MInoza (now Dr. M.M. Gatchalian) worked together toward the formation of PAFT. In late 1960, with the advice and support of Mr. Peregrino Quinitio and Prof. Matilde Guzman, the initiator of the technology curriculum at the UP Diliman, the PAFT started its mission. The constitution was ratified in December 1961 under the chairmanship of Ms. Eleuteria Matanguihan (now Ms. E. Boner). Through the leadership of the Chapter President, Dr. M. M. Gatchalian, and the strong support of the officers and members of the organization, a quarterly seminar was organized to give attention and eventual acceptance of the food technologists in the Philippines’ food industry. The PAFT logo was also designed and executed by Ms. Marietta Deniega. Through the year of the 60s, PAFT slowly pursued its activities under the leadership of Ms. Emma Bautista (now Ms. E. Laguio), 1962-63 and Ms. Feliciana Cruz (now Ms. F. Sillona), 1963-64. It was in 1964-66, during the 2-year term of Dr. Sonia Y. de Leon, the first (1965) and second (1966) PAFT Convention was held. The Civil Service Examination for Food Technologists was held during the term of Dr. de Leon.
Prof. Matilde Guzman, the mother of Philippine Food Technologists headed the Association in 1966-67. She succeeded in increasing the financial resources of PAFT through industrial members and affiliated the Association with the Institute of Food Technologist (Chicago, USA). It was also during this time the move to incorporate the PAFT was advocated. During the 2-year term of Dr. Ignacio Pablo (1967-68) then the Dean of the Institute of Food Science and Nutrition of the Philippine Women’s University, the workshop feature was introduced in the 4th and 5th Annual Convention Programs. The PAFT presidency in 1967-70 was transferred for the first time from an academician to a businessman-industrialist, Mr. Anthony Lao. He activated several PAFT committees to properly organize the planning and implementation of the 6th Annual Convention.
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