Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation, Inc. (LSJFI) www.liceodesanjacinto.foundation
Licean, the official college student publication of Liceo de San Jacinto, is now being released. Students get their individual copies as they receive their modules on the scheduled dates. The release started since April 22, 2021.
Because of the bad weather last April 19, the scheduled 19, 20 and 21 distribution of modules is moved to 21 and on! The students are advised to update from their respective advisers.
The result of the entrance examination for second semester, A.Y. 2020-2021, is now posted at the campus of LSJFI!
Maam Moya, as she is usually called in the campus, served as a school principal of various educational institutions such as Bartolabac Elementary School, Calipat-an Elementary School, San Jacinto Central School, and San Fernando Central School.
This was followed by a 4- year stint as Officer-in-Charge of Mobo Elementary School and Batuan Elementary School. As a district supervisor of public school, she further developed amongst the schools within San Jacinto, Masbate a commitment to excellence in teaching, more community engagement; and catalyzed more collaborations among educators and all different schools. In conjunction with her many duties associated with her day job, she was also appointed as Vice President of LSJFI since 2003, a position she held until recently. Besides this, she was also a college professor at the Education Department of the school.
A lifelong educator with an unwavering passion, even retirement in DepEd could not stop her from continuing the outstanding work she started being an educator and a leader. She comes to presidency after serving Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation, Incorporated for 17 years.
Dr. Moya assumes office this February 2021.
Dr. Penelope B. Bagobe On Leadership and LSJFi
She is not a boss that you follow around, but a leader you’ll look up to. Penelope B. Bagobe, Ed. D., is the fifth president of Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation Incorporated. She was inducted into the position on October 12, 2013. While interviewing her for this article, we realized that there’s more to her than what her titles say; her experiences speak as much.
Ma’am Bagobe became a part of the school in 1981 as a college instructor when Bachelor of Arts in Political Science was first offered in LSJFI. Back then, she told us, they were only paid 11 pesos per hour. The school wasn’t popular. The enrollment was very meager. It lacked facilities, too. It was a tough time, to say, but the school got by.
Fast-forward to 2006, she became the dean of the College of Education. Then, appointed by the board of trustees in 2013, she succeeded Atty. Isidro Merillo as the school’s president. According to her, she didn’t encounter hardships in her term as president because she went down to the level of her co-workers (colleagues) and never considered herself as a boss but as a leader. One of her unforgettable experiences while being in the position was when the CHED (Commission on Higher Education) personnel went to Liceo. She was handling four programs for the College of Education. We can only imagine the pressure she was in. The president described LSJFI’s nature as “very dynamic.” “It has grown a lot,” she said. “Before, the enrollees only ranged from 300 to 400, but now it’s over 1600… It had been successfully groomed.” How does she envision the school in the future? “It will still rise,” she replied with a smile. When asked on what she feels about descending from the position she had held for almost 8 years, she said that she’s happy and that she will pass everything she knows to her successor, Dr. Monina S. Moya. She expects the future runners of Liceo de San Jacinto Foundation Incorporated to continue what she had done. “Consider yourself as a leader, not a boss,” she advises. “Lead people, know how to sell, know how to tell and know how to participate.” [Wise words, madam.] She also addressed the current situation during the conversation. She remains positive and expressed good opinions on the COVID vaccines that are released all over the world. “Just pray,” she addressed the students who are braving academic difficulties despite the pandemic. “Trust that together we will have a normal life after this.”
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
Batuan: February 15, 2021
San Fernando: February 16, 2021
Monreal: February: 17-18, 2021
San Jacinto: February 19-20, 2021
ENROLMENT
March 8-26, 2021
April 5-8, 2021 Resumption of enrolment after holy week
For all incoming freshmen, entrance examination will be done in LSJFI campus.
For more information, please contact the following:
Registrar, Mr.Aljon L. Espenilla, 09175079445
Coordinator for Student Affairs Services, Mr. Faustus Caesar B. Bagobe, 09213478320, 09071417489
or
visit our website www.liceodesanjacinto.foundation
FLORDELIZA DILAO, fondly known as Tia Ineng, passed away last night 11/08/2020 after watching the 9-pm mass on TV in the house of her nieces and nephews in Masbate City.
She was my teacher in Literature and English when I was in high school at Liceo De San Jacinto. She was the one who introduced me to poems like The Raven, The Christmas Carol, Invictus, Annabel Lee and many more. I would not have known William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, and Dylan Thomas at an early age without her. She encouraged me to read, read and read so that when I reached my second year I was already consuming loads and loads of books, mostly novels that centered on court trials thanks to my cousin Atty. Jojo Moya who passed on to me his Perry Mason discards. My interests later on expanded to include astronomy, politics, history, economics, etc.
She continued to teach and later on became Liceo’s Registrar, a position she occupied until her retirement 3 years ago. She was strict, meticulous, detailed, and thorough — characteristics that served her well in the discharge of her responsibilities. Her integrity, honesty and incorruptibility were renowned.
Her family is now making the necessary arrangements with the authorities for the transfer of Tia Ineng’s remains to our hometown, San Jacinto.
Tia Ineng, I will miss our animated conversations whenever I visit San Jacinto. I thank you for loving me. In God’s bosom, you may now eternally rest!
The Technical-Vocational (Techvoc) Department of Liceo De San Jacinto is currently and actively going on with its TESDA Training on Computer System Servicing NC (National Certificate) II. With twenty slots made available to students from different barangays and municipalities even as far as Monreal, Masbate, the training is intensive, covering 280 hours within over one month that started on September 22, 2020 and to end on November 6, 2020.
As early as the declaration of the General Community Quarantine (GCQ), LSJ Techvoc head, Ana Flores Poblete, had been preoccupied visiting barangays on her awareness drive. The barangay captains themselves facilitated her house-to-house campaigns to encourage enrollees.