Stacy Danika Alcantara,  a  graduate of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, topped the Foreign Service Examinations of the Department of Foreign Affairs recently, a press release from the school said.

Alcantara, who obtained her degree in Mass Communication, summa cum laude, in 2009, leads this year’s passers of only 30, the press release also said.

The FSO is one of the toughest examinations administered to those aspiring to become diplomats. It is composed of five stages, and is completed within one year. The number of passers represents less than 10 percent of its total applicants.

Alcantara served as president of the Student Government in 2008 to 2009, and was a champion debater and public speaker. A prolific writer, she was one of the few youth leaders worldwide accepted as a contributing blogger for the World Bank. In 2009, she was awarded as one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines, the press release also said.

She now joins the list of Sillimanian diplomats, Antonio Villamor, former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who is an incoming member of the SU Board of Trustees, and currently the president of the Silliman Alumni Association Inc., and MacArthus Corsino, former Ambassador to Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, the press release added.*

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