The Auditorium, just below City High, holds a lot of high school memories for many of us. It was here where we saw a lot of choral and dance practice, sat in hard round wooden chairs with pretzel-design iron backs, sweaty palms just before a performance, VIPs sitting in front. Because I had older siblings, I was quite young when we attended school functions there: I was usually nodding off to sleep when the performances and programs held in the evenings started. And I remember being carried out by my father since I was in deep sleep at the last number: those steps were all I recall of the school event.
This is a bit of history of the Auditorium: it was constructed and finished in 1943, and where the Queen of the Baguio Carnival, Miss Martina Salming, was crowned. She comes from the Carino-Carantes clan, and her escort was Dr. Hillary Klapp, a US-educated doctor of Igorot descent and family friend of the of the Carinos.
Do you have any photos of the Auditorium that you could contribute? Much appreciated.
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