60 Years of Greatness

St. Bridget School is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a pillar of the community, providing quality education grounded in Catholic values. Join us in honoring this milestone and celebrating the legacy of the school.

BY ERICK AGUILAR & FRANCES MARGARETH IBARLIN

St. Bridget School of Buhi, which was founded in 1963, has won praise for its effective educational program, which is based on Christian principles and values and is supported by modern resources. The institution has demonstrated its value as the first school constructed on the municipality, starting with its establishment as an all-girls Catholic school and then evolving into a school that serves both sexes in 1974. For both young men and women of Buhi, the establishment of the school created a wealth of chances. And during the past 60 years, it has been successful in developing experts from a range of industries, including law, medicine, and even politics.

After three completion ceremonies and the school’s entrusting rites from the Religious of the Good Shepherd (RGS), St. Bridget School of Buhi was handed over to the Archdiocese of Caceres in 2013. By 2018, the RGS Sisters were given a send-off and tribute program. From that time, Rev. Fr. Eugene Lubigan, the school’s director, has been in charge of it with the assistance of the school’s principal, Rev. Fr. Roy Guerina. Many advancements and improvements have been accomplished since the historic transition between the Religious of the Good Shepherd and the Archdiocese of Caceres. With the aforementioned changeover, the school has taken steps to increase the pupils’ faith and academic focus. The administration has declared plans to create a Senior High School Department by the con- clusion of the academic year 2019–2020 in conjunction with the adaptation of the Senior High School curriculum. Regrettably, the COVID-19 virus caused the school’s once-solid wall of achievement to crack. Many students have chosen to quit the school for a variety of reasons, including financial difficulties, as a result of the decline in jobs and the closing of some businesses. Yet, the school persisted and has continued, meeting the academic demands of the surviving pupils. And the school has finally finished building the new Senior High School Building and welcomed the first group of students to use the newly constructed infrastructure after two years of community lockdown. Consequently, the Senior High School Department at St. Bridget School has also started its Work Immersion program, with Batch ‘23 serving as its pioneers. The institution is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. 60 years of unwavering development, success, blessings, and accomplishments. This historic turning point is undoubtedly one for the books. Even though the school hasn’t yet accomplished much since the pandemic, it still has a good reputation and deserves praise. And there are still years to make history. The academic institution’s waning achievements will live on in history and the thoughts and hearts of the expanding Bridgetine populace forever. Praesens nihil est sine praeterito, praesens tamen praeteritum ostendit profectum–the present is nothing without the past, yet the past shows the progress of the present.