SOUTHERN NUEVA VIZCAYA INSTITUTE
High school on top
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List of SNVI
Graduates from 1951-1975
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Felicidad Gumiran Domingo-Dupax School Teacher(1914-2002)
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S. N. V. I...... Realizing the urgent
need to provide secondary education to the needy but deserving youth of Dupax,
concerned leaders of the community met to consider the feasibility of
establishing a community high school in the area. Because of the considerable
distance between Dupax poblacion and its barrios, particularly Malasin, the
center of population in the municipality and also the existence of turbulent
Binay River in between, the idea of a single high school was discarded.
Instead, two private schools were founded, the St Mary of the poblacion and the
SNVI of Malasin. A group of leaders which included Mayor Servillano Palugod and
Capt Sinforoso Dugay of Ineangan, Messrs, Federico Rumbaua, Alejo Francia,
Raymundo Cabading of Malasin, Atty. Hilario Bullacer, Mr, Aurelio Balut of
Lamo, to mention few incorporated themselves into the Southern Nueva Vizcaya
Institute and secured the legal assistance of the late Congressman Constancio
Padilla. The permit to operate the high school for the school year 1949-1950
was granted by the Dept of Education and the colorful and notable career of
SNVI was launched. A non-resident director-principal after which it was offered
to Engr Virgilio Palugod, BSE, headed the first two years of the school. Engr
Palugod accepted the offer premised on the condition that he managed the school
on a non-profit, no-dividend basis.
He believed that
a school of that type should exist only for the benefit of the residents and
should be used for not for commercial purposes. He also stipulated that every
single peso net income of the school should be plowed back to further improve
the school facilities and up-grade the teaching force. In 1963, the academic
phase of the institution was placed on the very capable and dedicated hand of
Mr. Feliciano Parucha, retaining Engr. Palugod as director.
From
its humble beginnings of a rented house near the town hall, to a modest
4-classroom building atop a small hill, the SNVI has progressed to its present
multi-buildings on its half hectare campus site,
Its administrative and
teaching staff of five in 1951 has grown to its present (this was in 1976) 17
man force and this year 700 students population is far fry from the original
100.
At the end of this school year l975, the SNVI will have graduated
1,422 students coming from families of the community whose principal source of
income is from the soil. Truly, SNVI has been a potent factor that has enabled
a lot of promising youth to attain considerable success and promise of a better
life. We have doctors, lawyers, accountants and teacher aplenty; nurses and
midwives, all SNVI alumni are found here and abroad. Several engineers are now
with responsible positions in the government and private firms. And we even
have alumni who are themselves children of alumni and are now successful
professional here and abroad. After all, a half-century is a long, long time.
Over half of my classmates have left Nueva Vizcaya and made their marks. Where
ever they are the knowledge they acquired are high because the school is really
on top of the hill.
SNVI
now is under new management, owned by Engr. Briccio A. Baccay and Mrs. Norma M.
Baccay. Let us help to keep the high tradition.
The Graduates of SNVI from 1951-1975
Send me the list of class beyond 1975 so we can post it here.
Nestor Palugod Enriquez, phix7@yahoo.com
