Amado Yuzon

I **Amado Yuzon y Magcalas** metung yang wátas a Kapampángan, mibait ya qng Maquiapo, Guagua, Pampanga, Filipínas, quetang a-30 ning Agostu, 1906 caring kapiasawahang Felipe Yuzon at ing dating Isabel Magcalas. Atin yang capatad a maglagyung Felix M. Yuzon.

## Talambie

Cayabe ning bugtung na mung capatad a Felix, inari neng Amado M. Yuzon ing pamagaral primarya at elementarya caring escuelang pampublico qng queyang balen. Migyari yang segundanyu qng Pampanga High School qng capitolio ning San Fernando quetang 1925.

Caring matagumpeng caclasi qng secondaria qng clasing cuarenta'y-unung (41) estudiante ila ri Dr. Clemente Calma - Kilalang PHS Alumnus Awardee queng Medical Surgery; Nicomedes Isip, Administrador caring escuelang pampublico at propesor qng education; Prudente Punsalang, Administrador caring escuelang pampublico; Jose Tiongco, propesor queng colegio; Gregorio Fernandez, artista at director qng pelicula; at Silvestre Punsalan, abogado, poeta, talasulat, presidenti ning Philippine National Bank, acting provincial governor, at tesurero ning Partido Liberal quetang decada 60.

Bilang pamangilala caring pambihirang apirusta ning Poeta Laureado Amado M. Yuzon queng larangan ning panyulat at cawatasan, ginawad ne ing Golden Jubilee Award for Literature ning queyang escuelang secondaria, ing Pampanga High School queng carelang Golden Jubilee Celebration iniang 1962. Ing pang-academiang carera nang Diputado Amado M. Yuzon casing-galing ne ning queyang ayabut queng panyulat. Dacal ya ayaring cursu, cabilang ding Master of Arts (summa cum laude); Master of Science in Business Administration (summa cum laude); Ll.M (cum laude), at Litt. D. a queyang inari qng London, England. Meging miembru ne ning Philippine Bar manibat 1939, at meging dating propesor qng Far Eastern University at Quezon College - ing meguing Manuel L. Quezon University qng Menila.

Kilala mabilug a yatu qng queyang gelingan queng panyulat, editor ya y Amado M. Yuzon queng "Ing Catuliran" (The Right) at "La Libertad" (Freedom), pati na ning metung a magazine pampoesia - Laurel Leaves, a ating circulation mabilug a yatu.

Deng titulu ning Poeta Laureado Amado M. Yuzon papakit da ing queyang pambihirang kapirustan queng larangan ning pamamoesia queng Ingles at Kapampangan. Ya ing panimunang poeta ning Far Eastern University quetang panaun ning queyang pamag-colegio cambe ning titulung Poeta Laureado at dacal ya simbut a pang-mumunang premio qng pamag-oratorio at debate. 

Bilang anac ning Guagua, Pampanga, ing Diputado Amado M. Yuzon nipresenta ne 
ing mumunang distritu ning Pampanga qng Congresu iniang 1946-49. Misulat yang
dacal a municalang meging batas at meguing kapaki-pakinabangan caring calulu at talapagobra.

Y Congressman Amado M. Yuzon meging "First" ya caring queraclan ding dacal nang importanting apirusta:

• First President for Life ning cabud mu World Poet Laureates Association a ating miembrumanibat caring otsentang (80) bansa mabilug a yatu. 

• First and only poet ibat qng from Asia a miproclamang Honorary Continental Poet Laureate of Asia iniang 1965at qng South America iniang 1966 caring autoridad ning Republic of Bolivia. 

• Ing cabud mu mabieng poetang mesambitla bilang "Sir Galahad of Parnassus" ning World Society International qng Illinois,USA at qng India. 

• Ing cabud mu Poeta mabilug a yatu a micoronan Honorary International Poet Laureate apulung (10) beses - qng Colorado, Texas,South Dakota, New York, Liberia, Pakistan, Austria, Rome (makatadua) at England.  

• First official Poet Laureate ning Far Eastern University iniang 1934-1936. 
• First Poet Laureate of a regional language a guewa ning Provincial Board Resolution bilang Poet Laureateat King of Crissotan cabang bie. Ing Pampanga Provincial Board inapprova ne ing resolution iniang 1963.  

• First Poet Laureate of the Philippines a mengurona caring Miss Philippines titleholders.Ing Presidenti ning Philippines pinili ne bilang Cultural Envoy iniang 1965.  

• First and only verse-translator ning Iloko national epic - "Ti Panagbiag Ni Lam-Ang" queng English - 1954. 
• First National Moderator of Peasants and Labor organizations - The Philippine United Peasantsand Labor Organizations - 1948.  

• First to advocate for the appointments of Poets Laureate and/or Poets in Residence in Senatorial Regions,Congressional Districts, Provinces. Cities and Municipalities, and also by language or dialect 
- (Rotary Speech in 1964 at Malolos, Bulacan which was distributed nationwide).  

• First Acting National Commissioner of Culture - 1965-1966. 
• First Filipino delegate to the Biennales Internnationales de Poesie in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium in 1965. 
• First Filipino entry and member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of the British"Dictionary of International Biography, London, England, 1966.  

• First Filipino, Asian and man to create world, regional, national, state and language poet laureateships in the world.  

• The first, at cabud mung Filipino, a migrepresenta bilang Foreign Chancellor,Consul Delegado, or Foreign Representative ding pang-cabilugan-yatung academia at universidades;
- Republic of the Philippines, Spain, Mexico, Ecuador, Italy, California, Sweden, England, 
Pakistan and Hongkong.  

• The first Filipino to become Ambassador of the Orthodox Catholic Church to the Philippinesand the Orient, as appointed by Patriarch Claudius I.  

• First unseated congressman-elect who was allowed to address the Congressand defend himself for 15 minutes.  

• The first congressman a miyarap queng Magna Carta of Labor Bill after World War II, 1948.  

• The first ex-congressman to make a presidential nomination speech with Secretary Sotero Baluyutfor Senator Gil Puyat on the spot at the 1957 National Party Convention.  

• The first Filipino to introduce Shakespearean joust (Balagtasan in English),Oxford style, at the Far Eastern University in 1934.  

• The first to introduce the Philippines evening dress, black pants and *[[bárû]]*, in Manila in 1934.  

• The First Filipino to conduct a world translation contest of Dr. Jose P. Rizal's poem,"Postrer Adios," in 1966.  

• First Filipino to be crowned "Poet Laureate of the World" in the Philippines,World Congress of Poets, August 30, 1969.  

• First Filipino to write poetry covering more than six hundred years of Philippine history,exalting major heroes and historical landmarks in his book, "The Citizen's Poems".  

• The first Filipino, the first Asian and first man to be recommended for the Nobel Prize awardfor Peace and Literature four times in the history of the Nobel Prizes.  

• The first Filipino to invest four presidents (Carlos P. Garcia, Diosdado P. Macapagal andFerdinand E. Marcos) with poet laureateships.  

• The first to get a National Poetry Day Proclamation from then President Diosdado Macapagal,October 15, 1965.  

• The first to get a World Poetry Week Proclamation - last week of August fromMayor Antonio J. Villegas of Manila, August 26, 1969.  

• First Filipino who has proclaimed and crowned regional poets laureate in the country,including Mayor Villegas in Tagalog, Ambassador Proceso E. Sebastian of the North, 
Fr. Dr. Isidoro D. Dino of Ilokandia, Former Congressman Mauro Verzoza of the Cagayan Valley, 
Dr. Dominador S. La Madrid in English, Hon. Belarmino P. Navarro, Sergio Navarro, Jr., 
Jose Gallardo, Armando P. Baluyut in Pampanga.  

Bilang metung a matagumpeng mangangalakal, y Atty. Amado M. Yuzon meguing General Manager ne ning Mabuhay Products, Inc. iniang 1962 at talapamala o director ding miyaliwang companiang pang-commercio at industria.

Y Congressman Amado M. Yuzon mekapaquiasawa ya queng dating Oliva A. Reyes, anac di Pablo Reyes at Teodora Almario Reyes ning San Nicolas, Floridablanca, Pampanga. Ing karelang pamiasawa mibiyayan yang atlung anac a lalaki a meging ngan prominenti caring kare-karelang propesyun. Ing peka-pangane, Amado, Jr., Certified Public Accountant ya a meging connectadu queng Foreign Department ning Central Bank of the Philippines, at caibat meging Chief Accountant ning maragul a cumpania qng Oakland, California. Ing pangadua, Benjamin, Mechanical Engineer yang maka-basi Hercules, California at tinuki caring bakas ning kilala-mabilug-a-yatung Tata bilang Poet Laureado at president cabang-bie ning World Poet Laureates Association. Ing bungsu, Romeo, migyari yang maki-honors qng University of the Philippines at qng Far Eastern University, Manila. Y Romeo metung yang talapamala qng China Banking Corporation.

Ing Congressman Amado M. Yuzon meangu ya bie quetang January 17, 1979 at milibing ya qng pam-pamilyang cutcutan da qng Guagua, Pampanga

## Ding kayang kinudta
Misulat yang colleccion a basultu (narrative verses) a mipamagatang "Salitang Paca-Versu" (1933) at linikas no ring mangaulagang obra di Shakespeare, Omar Khayyam, Tagore, Eurpides, Sophocles, Hugo, Sappho, Poe, Longfellow, Rizal at aliwa pa. Menicua yang pang-mabilug-a-yatung pangakilala queng pangayabe na queng "Who's Who in America" ketang 1956. Mipayabe ya murin qng "International Who's Who in Poetry" at "The Authors and Writers Who's Who" a pareung qng London, England. Sinulat ne ing "Citizen's Poems", inapruban ning gubyernu bilang pampublicu at pam-pribadung materiales para careng kapat-a-gradu anggang secondariang magaral. Ing "Central Luzon Affair" pemarangalan ne bilang pekamagaling a poeta ning 1957 at quinoronan neng Poeta Laureado ning Pilipinas iniang 1959. Misulat ya, migdeclama at memoesia caring apat a Pilipino at atlung Europeanung salita. Peparangalan ne bilang "Most Outstanding Man of Letters of the Philippines" quetang 1962 ning Press, Radio and Television Society of the Philippines.