The Ateneo de Tuguegarao was a former Jesuit College in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines. It was established in 1938 as the Cagayan Valley Atheneum and was renamed Ateneo de Tuguegarao in 1945 after control of the school was handed over to the Society of Jesus. (1945 is the recognized establishment date as a Jesuit school).
In 1938, Filipinos who identified the title "Ateneo" with a Jesuit school and who knew the Latin parent, if not the mea...
more
The Ateneo de Tuguegarao was a former Jesuit College in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines. It was established in 1938 as the Cagayan Valley Atheneum and was renamed Ateneo de Tuguegarao in 1945 after control of the school was handed over to the Society of Jesus. (1945 is the recognized establishment date as a Jesuit school).
In 1938, Filipinos who identified the title "Ateneo" with a Jesuit school and who knew the Latin parent, if not the meaning, of the word, were surprised and even disturbed that a new school was opening in Northern Luzon under the title of Cagayan Valley Atheneum -- not conducted by the Jesuits.
The Cagayan Valley Atheneum was founded by the Most Reverend Constancio Jurgens, C.I.C.M., bishop of Tuguegarao. From its foundation in 1938 until the war, it was housed in ample buildings adjoining the Cathedral of Tuguegarao. The buildings were destroyed by the Philippine Commonwealth forces against the Japanese in 1945 and the school reopened in a temporary structure...
less
