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The St. Scholastica's
Archives-Museum will be housed in
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Last September, St. Scholastica's College launched an ambitious
program to celebrate its 100 years in the Philippines, beginning
with the lowering of a commemorative time capsule. The actual
commemoration will be held in December 2006, a hundred years since
five German nuns arrived in the Philippines to open a school,
which is now known as St. Scholastica's College. Fortunately for
the multi talented and musical young Filipinas, two more sisters
followed the next year, one of whom, Sister Baptista Battig, was a
former concert pianist. She
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with the introduction of
formal musical education in the Philippines. The school started
with an enrollment of eight paying
students and 50 more at the free school
in Tondo. Today, St. Scholastica's College, which boasts such
distinguished alumnae as dermatologist Dra. Lita Reyes, Florist
Toni Parsons, and former President Corazon Aquino, has an
enrollment of over 6,000 students and a network of schools across
the Philippines, 140 in all, located in 19 different communities.
The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, who founded the
college, are presently in charge of 12 schools with an enrollment
of 30,000 students, one hospital, a spiritual center, an
ecological farm, and a shelter for abused women and children.
As
a permanent celebration of St. Scholastica's 100th year, the
decision was made to create a museum in a former residence across
the street from the college. Architect Augusto Villalon designed
an archives-museum which will contain papers and artifacts from
the school's 100 year history.
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The archives museum, which will be opened
to the public in December 2006, will chronicle the 100 years
of St. Scholastica's history in the Philippines and contain
the publications and compositions created by its students.
The upper floor of the building will be the special
archives-museum of the college. Another section is devoted to
the music collection donated by alumnae and faculty of the
college of music. |
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Artist's sketch of the
interior of the archives-museum |
A
living, working museum, the St. Scholastica Museum will conduct
educational programs to foster such subjects clear to its teaching
agenda, as ecology, justice, and peace. It is hoped by the
alumnae who are working on the project that the archives-museum
will serve as an anchor for the present and future generations of
Scholasticans as they seek to preserve the traditions of the
Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing. The museum will
contain the archives of St. Scholastica's College, the archives of
the Missionary Benedictine Sisters, library of books written by
St. Scholastica's alumnae, a paper conservation, a laboratory, and
a cafè and boutique on the first floor. To contact the
Archives-Museum Project Committee, call St. Scholastica's priory
at 2360 Leon Guinto St. in Malate, Manila with telephone numbers,
536-6350 or 524-7686 local 119. n
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