Saint Michael's High School, Inc. (Gandara)
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| St. Michael's High School, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
Adela Heights 6706 Philippines | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Motto | Journeying Together in One Faith and Mission |
| Established | 1962 |
| President | PTA President (interim) |
| Enrollment | (7-12) |
St. Michael's High School is a private Catholic junior/senior high school located in Gandara, Samar, Philippines.
St. Michael's teaches grades 7 through 12 and has an enrollment of approximately 220 students. The school has a president/principal structure and is overseen by a board of trustees from the Parents and Teachers Association (PTA). The school operates on a semester schedule.
St. Michael's campus is located inside the pueblo or poblacion, corner San Roque Street and Filadelfo T. Diaz Streets, it has gates on both streets since San Roque Street is a service road going in to the Town of Matuguinao. Adjacent structure is the Parish Church of Saint Michael's Archangel.
History[edit]
From 1663 to 1768, Bangajon was administered by a priest from the Catbalogan Cabeccera Residencia who had the multiple duties of administering also the Tinago (Tarangnan) and sometimes the Hibatang (now Calbayog) visitas. In 1663, Moro pirates reached the village of Bangajon. After ransacking the village, they burned it. But the Jesuits missionaries were undaunted. They rebuilt the village and built a church made of stone and roofed with zinc and partly with nipa. It measured “26 fathoms (stones) in length wall thickness, 9 fathoms (stones) in width , 4 ½ fathoms (stones) in height” (about 48 meters in length, 16.5 m. in width and 4.5 m. in height). The church was dedicated to St. Michael de Archangel. They also built a convento of the same materials and two parochial schools (one for boys and another for girls) and a casa real of wood.
After the fire in 1876, a tribunal and an escuela were also constructed under the direction of Fr. Geronimo Asenjo. They also continued with the education of the people, especially the children. The older residents of Gandara remember that the first book they used in the school was the Katon Cristiana. Graduation from school was simple. Any pupil who could recite the contents of the whole book from memory was graduated. Then they writer sent to the barrios to teach the Katon Christiana.
In 1901, the town principalia held a session extraordinaria on April 14, 1901 and passed an Act to build a new town and to transfer its location to the sitio of Dumalo-ong (present-day site of Gandara). When peace finally came to Samar in 1902, the people went about the reconstruction of the town and the church. Religious activities were resumed. Gandaranhons celebrated their first fiesta with their new Mayor on September 29, 1903 after years of war.
Franciscan missionaries returned to Gandara in 1910 after the new Diocese of Calbayog was established. Franciscan priests assigned to Gandara from 1910 to 1926 were Fr. Juan Vicente Carmona, O.F.M., Fr. Roman Perez, O.F.M. and Fr. Victoriano Ranera. O.F.M. Early in the sixties, Msgr. Ponciano Figueroa, then parish priest of Gandara, together with the mayor, Mayor Ramon Diaz, established the St. Michael High School, the first and only Catholic school in the town.
Facilities[edit]
- School Library
- Athletic and Convergence Ground
References[edit]
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