SLU: From Small Beginnings Comes a Great University

Saint Louis University was not Saint Louis University before. Actually, it was just a small room. A small room that allows the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae missionaries to inform and to share their charisma and their missionary vision to the young Filipino men and women.

Mandated by the Vatican to Christianize the northern part of the Phillipines, the CICM missionaries decided to come in the country and to follow the Vatican's order. They arrived here in the Philippines by the year 1907 and settled in Baguio because of its proximity to both Manila and the mountain province of Benguet beyond the Cordillera mountain range, that was home to numerous indigenous tribes. But only in 1911 did Fr. Séraphin Devesse started a one-room elementary school for 10 Cordilleran boys and named it the Saint Louis School . And in 1915, St. Louis school has expanded by opening it's second branch and improved into a vocational and trade school. In 1952, the school came to a new light through the rise of the institution of Saint Louis College having 75 students enrolled. This was part of the efforts made by Fr. Rafael Desmedt and Bishop William Brasseur. Saint Louis College soon became Saint Louis University in 1963.

Saint Louis University was not the only school built by these CICM missionaries. They also run the Saint Louis School of Mandaue, Saint Mary's University in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Saint Louis College in San Fernando, La Union, and the Saint Louis College in Tuguegarao, in the Cagayan valley, thus covering a major part of Northern Luzon with outstanding educational institutions.

Through a century of outstanding service of quality education, the Saint Louis University has produced more than a thousand impressive fruits who brought major developments to Baguio up to the mountain ranges of the provinces of Benguet.

The continuous growth and development of the institution was made through the guidance of the following Rectors or Presidents:

1952-1954 Gerard Decaestecker

1954-1962 Albert Van Overbeke

1962-1964 Gerard Linssen

1964-1976 Paul Zwaenepoel

1976-1983 Ghisleen De Vos

1983-1996 Joseph Van den Daelen

1996–2005 Paul Van Parijs

2005–present Jessie M. Hechanova 

Now, SLU not only offers secondary education such as Elementary and High School but now has nine colleges offering graduate and undergraduate programs . The different Colleges are now known as Schools which was just effective on June 2010. The campus is divided into 3 major groups:

1. Saint Louis University- Laboratory Elementary School

A school that offers quality education for children entering Kindergarten up to Grade 6.

 

2. Saint Louis University- Laboratory High School

A school that offers quality education for those teenagers who graduated from Elementary and enters the second level of their education. The school aims to produce children who will be ready to face the reality of life and to prepare the students for their college degrees after they graduate.

 

3. Saint Louis University

A school that offers quality education through major subjects. The school aims to guide its students to the direction they have to take for their future. Major colleges that it offers are:

• School of Accountancy and Business Management - SABM
  (College of Accountancy and Commerce)
• School of Computing and Information Sciences - SCIS
  (College of Information and Computing Sciences)
• School of Engineering and Architecture - SEA
  (College of Engineering and Architecture)
• School of Humanities - SoH
  (College of Human Sciences)
• School of Law - SoL
  (College of Law)
• School of Medicine - SoM
  (College of Medicine)
• School of Natural Sciences - SNS
  (College of Natural Sciences)
• School of Nursing - SoN
  (College of Nursing)
• School of Teacher Education - STE
  (College of Education)
  

SLU also brought its name to good glory through the competitions the students participate on. Many competitions outside the school are joined by different students. They simply show that Louisians also have great potentials, talent, and intelligence that is used to make SLU and Baguio proud.

SLU has developed in all its aspects. From small beginnings, now here comes our great and mighty...SLU!

 

 

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There's No Place Like HOME - No Place Like SLU-LHS

Have you ever found the right place for you? Where you feel comfortable? Where you find happiness? And where you find content? Just exactly like a happy home? Well, I just did.

You know, when I was in my pre-school years, I really fear to go to school. My mom had to bring me right before my classroom two hours before my class starts. Especially, in the first day. Even if its still dark outside and nobody can be seen walking around, we have to be there. She is a teacher. So during those times, she mostly have classes that start before or exactly the time I also start my class. So she needs probably an hour to use just trying to convince me to go and enter my class then she has to give me sometime to stop crying so that I would not look stupid in class. So when I'm finally convinced and am ready to go to class, she would bring me to my teacher and talk to her about something and then she would let go of my hand. And that's when I start to cry again. But she only uses sometime to make me stop crying. Not as long as the first one. But its good to know that this attitude of mine gradually decreases through the years.

So, you'd probably think I hate school, huh? Well, I don't. I go home with a happy smile in my face and a lot of stories to tell about how wonderful my day was.

Now, as I am in High School, I learned to love more my lifestyle. That is because my lifestyle includes going to school.

My school serves as my second home. It has even my second family on it. How could that not be possible if I am in school for almost 10 hours a day in 5 days a week in 10 months. It really eats up more than half of the time I have. I do most of my stuffs that are connected to school. But I don't forget my responsibilities at home. My family is always my priority. That's the main reason why I go to school. I aim to attain a good life for them.

Saint Louis University-Laboratory High School has given me many many advantages that I can use for my life. It feeds me up with the knowledge I need to have. It embraces me with all the values I need to enhance. And it carves my way to my own future. My school is simply not like any other schools. It is an extraordinary transformative school that I have ever wanted.

Every faculty, every staff, and every student is a teacher to me. They play a part in teaching me different aspects for living. For every incident that I encounter in school, I always gain new values to live up. For every occasion that occurs in school, I learn to value every single day of my life. For every success I achieve, I always tap myself with humility. And for every failure I had, I build up the strength and courage I have.

My school is certainly like a home. It gives me comfort, knowing that my friends, the people who I can lean one are in there. It gives me guidance, knowing that my teachers would always act like a parent to his/her students. It gives me support, knowing that they will always believe in what I can do. And it gives me love, knowing that every student is valuable to the school.

Whatever you say or do, you can never change the fact that SLU-LHS is certainly a home, a school that gives you the commons of a home.

SLU LHS is my school, my home. The place where my world evolves. :)

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To SLU: Happy Centennial! From: Me

Saint Louis University is now one of the country’s most valued and respected school. It is one of the leading institutions not only here in Baguio City but all around the Philippines. SLU is regarded as the “Light of the North” because it has played a very important role in the development of not only the Cordilleran region but of its surrounding towns and provinces too. It just started from small beginnings but now, it is a very large university. Literally, it has more or less 20,000 students in its campus. It has gradually increased in population of students and faculties as it continually attracts students and scholars from different places nationwide and around the globe through its excellent reputation of education. 

 

It is with great pride that I am included in this institution. It is an important part of me as a growing Louisian. It served as my backbone through out the years. It is just right that I value and celebrate the upcoming SLU Centennial.

 

Yes, that’s right; SLU will soon celebrate its Centennial. It will surely be a historical celebration in the history of SLU. 

 

SLU Centennial will be celebrated in a year. This is termed as the Centennial Year. It will commerce on December 2010 and lasting up to December 2011. Many activities were already planned by the faculties and staff of SLU. Many preparations had been made and is continually being made. Just recently, the school’s president, Fr. Jessie Hechanova, started the countdown to the day that will start the Centennial Year. 

 

The SLU Centennial is an important event in the lives of the students. I, as a student can’t honestly do much for it. Probably, only by celebrating it is the best thing I can do. 

 

But by this simple blog, I want to show my great gratitude and respect to SLU. And to it’s upcoming Centennial. I want that the whole world would know how my school grew and is growing through the power of the Lousians and the trust they offer to the school, that through these things, Saint Louis University would be a stronger institution. I want them to know that through SLU, we, the Lousians, would be able to change the world. 

 

For the past one-hundred years, SLU brought out approximately about a thousand products of its valued education who is now, at present, some of the people who develops and improves the status of the world we live in. The school continually offers valued education to its students. SLU aims to develop students as well as faculty and staff imbued with the institution's core values of competence, creativity, social involvement and Christian spirit.

See how wonderful SLU is? 

 

I bet, that that is just the start of the development of SLU. There would be a lot more of improvements that could happen. 

 

We know that SLU's Centennial would signal a new start for developments. Every part of the world would certainly know about my school, SLU. There would be a lot more of Centennials to come. SLU would never just die out because they know that they are important to the lives of the Filipinos. 

 

Though SLU is not as popularly known as Ateneo, De la Salle, or The University of the Philippines , I still can't see no difference in any of these schools (except, of course, of the value of the tuition fee). As so you know, they all offer quality education and a good reputation for its students. So if you ever think that SLU is worse than any of the other schools, then you are wrong... It's not just because it is my school, but that is how I see it. I'm sure, if you try to enter my school, you'd probably understand me and agree with me too. 

 

I am very proud to say that my school has reached a hundred years and has stayed strong all through out. This just shows how SLU has grown so much. And would still move on with the future with greater aims and higher heights.

Congratulations to SLU on its Centennial! 

 

We believe in SLU, AND SO WILL YOU.

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