Councilor Peter Fianza wants grand city
hi centennial
An ordinance filed by councilor Peter
Fianza want that June 16, 1916 be instituted as foundation day of Baguio City
National High School. Theordinance, if approved will grant a P70,000 annual city
subsidy starting next year to said school for its celebration of its foundation
day and P100,000 in 2016 when it turns 100 years old.
Section 3 of the proposed ordinance
states that: “Following the approval of this ordinance, the city shall
immediately work out the recognition and marking of the school as a historical
school.”
In filing the resolution, Fianza took
note of efforts to establish that BCNHS was indeed founded on June 16, 1916.
It was BCHS (no national yet) Class of
1956 and member of the MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS Alumni Association Edward Tipton who
sought that further research was needed to establish the real foundation day of
the school.
NHC acting executive director Emelita
Almosara in her letter to Tipton dated Dec. 14, 2010 pointed out among others,
that: “a provincial high school was organized in Baguio, with three teachers,
and offering both industrial and agricultural subjects.”
She added that a “general course high
school called Mountain and Richard Harris was its principal in 1927-1927. The general-course
high school is different from the normal school; from the trade school, and
from the agricultural and farm schools.”
Another source, Almosara cited was that
the “Baguio Trade School was the old name of the Mountain Province High School.
It had an annex or extension in Trinidad Valley, the Trinidad Agricultural
School, which could be confirmed by the 1902 report saying agricultural courses
were offered in the high school in Baguio.
She added that in 1956 Larry Wilson said
that the “first secondary school in Baguio was the normal school founded in
1916, later named Mt. Province High School,....”
NHC executive director signed a
certification on Sept. 27 last year that says: “Three important events
transpired in 1916; the first year of the secondary course or high school level
was established; a normal course was added and the Trinidad Agricultural School
was established in La Trinidad as its extension school. The secondary or high
school level and normal curriculum of the school, therefore, officialy started
in 1916, marking 1916 as the foundation of the high school.”
With the certification, BCNHS principal
wrote the City Council, through Fianza, requesting the it should recognize June
16, 1916 as the school’s foundation day.
She added that “while the NHC
certification provided only the year (1916) as marking the foundatyion of the
school, with the opening of classes being normally int he month of June, it
will not be difficult to conclude that the Baguio City National High School was
founded in June of 1916,..”
Posted by Pigeon Lobien, Facebook. 21 November 2012
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