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On December 3, 1906, St. Scholastica's College was founded by five young German sisters - the first group of Benedictine sisters who came to the Philippines, headed then by Mother M. Ferdinanda Hoelzer, OSB. The site of the St. Scholastica’s College then was a small residential house surrounded by fishermen's huts in the fishing village of Tondo. There were then six paying students and 50 non-paying students or scholars. Today, 100 years after it started, thousands and thousands of Filipino women who have been trained and disciplined by the Benedictine sisters to give their |
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best to our Almighty God and to our country are reaping success, glory, and recognition. Today, more students than can be accommodated in St. Scholastica's College are applying for admission. A mute tribute of its high standards for academic excellence and its concern for social and moral values.
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Christmas eve of 1907, they moved to |
While there were only 58 students then in 1906 when St. Scholastica's College first opened, there are now 5,506 students presently enrolled at St. Scholastica's College in Manila. This figure is broken down as follows: 1,803 in the grade school; 1,357 in the high school; 128 in the night secondary school; 1,787 in college; 384 in the Institute for Catering Management and Hospitality Technology (I-CATHY); 47 in the Graduate School (figures are as of August 2007). One year after the first St. Scholastica's College opened in Moriones Street in Tondo, it moved to another place in |
San Marcelino Street in Manila where St. Theresa's College used to be and where Adamson University now stands. The school was then housed in an old military barracks.
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Seven years later in 1914, St. Scholastica again, moved to another site in Singalong Street. The land, about three hectares was then bought for the unbelievable amount of two cents per square meter. Unknown to many, the land in the Singalong area in 1914 was swampland. The school buildings of St. Scholastica's College during World War II were all destroyed. The reconstruction of the buildings started in 1946. It took more than nine years to rebuild the original St. Scholastica's College. |
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One of the most competitive departments of St. Scholastica's College is its Music Department. Its beginnings can be traced back to October 17, 1907 when Sister Baptista Battig started giving music lessons using a second-hand piano. Sister Baptista Battig came to the Philippines as a Benedictine sister on August 26, 1906. Before she took her Benedictine vows on February 8, 1906, she was known as Helene Battig, the beautiful concert pianist of Germany. She took up piano lessons under the famous Ludwig Deppe, who was a pupil of the world-famous Franz Liszt. Sister Battig became a Filipino citizen in 1938. Gauging from the past performance of the Music Department of St. Scholastica's College - Helene Battig, the beautiful lady who gave up the prestige and comforts of a good life in Germany to do mission work in the Philippines has truly enriched our culture. |
In 1985, St.
Scholastica's College put up the Women's
Studies Program which highlights the need for the
social transformation of women. Later this program
developed into the
Institute of Women's Studies,
an affiliate body
of St. Scholastica's College. This institute emphasizes the
importance of education and
research in resolving gender
issues. One laudable
project of this institute is the provision for outreach
programs to reach out to women who did not have the
opportunity to have formal education.
St. Scholastica’s College today
Service, particularly in educating the youth, was the original mission of St. Scholastica's College 100 years ago. Today this is still its mission. n
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