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List of SNVI Graduates from 1951-1975
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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.
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