History Week Celebrated

By Steffi Dawn C. Ilagan

In line with the National History Week Celebration, the Department of History initiated a week-long campus-based celebration from Sept. 15-21, 2011 with the theme: “Pag-alala sa Nakaraan, Pagsulong sa Kinabukasan”. 

The main event of the celebration was the Histolympiad, a quiz show, which was categorized into: Inter-class and Inter-school. The inter-class category was participated by students taking up History 1, 3, and 5 while the inter-school category was participated by seven different secondary schools in the city namely: St.Peter's College, Iligan City East High School, Iligan Capitol College, Integrated Developmental School, Iligan City National High School, Tomas Cabili National High School, and Suarez National High School. Histolympiad was categorized into three levels; Philippine History, Asian History, and World History. 

In the inter-class division, the first and second places were garnered by the two classes of Ms. Marjorie Joy Almario, and the 3rd place was garnered by the class of Ms. Xandelyn Reyes. In the inter-school division, Teams no. 1, 2, 3 of the Integrated Developmental School made it to the top 3 and Team no. 2 emerged as the champion. The said quiz show was covered and televised by ABS-CBN. 

Other events included a Photo Exhibit which focused on the different periods of Philippine History; Larong Lahi; History Got Talent; Society Histolympiad; and Kumbira.

Prior to the celebration of the History week, a Forum on the Rights of the Indigenous People was also conducted. and the guest speakers were Ms. Beverly Longid from the Cordillera and Higaonon Chieftain Jamorito Guaynon who talked about the Victims of Militarization: A Mother and Son Story.