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2011, August 15.  Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc. - 60th Anniversary

Litho Offset.  Amstar Company, Inc.  Perf. 14

Se-tenant Blocks of 4, Sheets of 40 (4 x 10)

Se-tenant Blocks of Four  (42,000)

   7p   Bajada Campus Facade

   7p   Grade School & High School Buildings

   7p   Palma Gil & Mabutas Halls

   7p   Babak & Camudmud Campuses

 

 

 

Designers:  60th Anniversary Committee headed by Mark Anthony Ventura

Layout Artists:  Victorino Z. Serevo

Design Coordinators:  Dr. Ngo Tiong Tak,  Victorino Z. Serevo

 

First Day Covers:  Manila, Davao City

   

  

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Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc.  - 60th Anniversary

Every institution possesses a PAST which it fondly looks back to, a PRESENT which it carefully nurtures and develops and a FUTURE which it eagerly looks forward to.

Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc. is no exception.

In school year 1951-1952, the Religious of the Virgin Mary Sisters opened an annex of the Immaculate Conception College (now known as the University of the Immaculate Conception) at Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City. The annex was built upon the request of parents living at Sta. Ana District, and with permission from the local bishop since the school building was erected on a land owned by the Roman Catholic Apostolic Administrator of Davao. The ICC annex provided kindergarten, elementary, and secondary courses for boys and girls, but by school year 1955-1956, it became a separate school and was named the “Holy Cross Academy of Davao.”

In April 1956, the RVM Sisters informed the Most Reverend Clovis Thibault, PME, the first Apostolic Administrator and Bishop of Davao, about the RVM General Council’s decision to transfer the ownership of the school. This decision was executed through a Deed of Absolute Sale in which the RVM Congregation, represented by Superior General Mother Maria Catalina Dychitan, sold the school building including “all that goes with the functioning of a school” to the Roman Catholic Apostolic Administrator of Davao.

Bishop Thibault then asked the Foreign Mission Society of Quebec ( PME Fathers ) to maintain “Holy Cross Academy of Davao” and to establish an exclusive school for boys. A land lease agreement was subsequently made between PME Regional Superior, Rev. Fr. Lionel Labelle and Bishop Clovis Thibault had asked the PME Fathers to establish a technical and industrial school.

For many years, the high school department continued to be an exclusive school for boys. But, in school year 1985-1986, due to the persistent request of parents whose daughters were not allowed admission to the high school department, the school administration was finally convinced to change this policy and allowed the admission of female high school students.

To this day, the Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc. shares the PME motto: For us to live is to evangelize”, by participating in building basic ecclesial communities and by being a center of Catholic formation specially for the poor.  (http://www.hcdc.edu.ph/?page_id=66)

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