Established in 1961, the East Barrigada Elementary School was renamed the Pedro Camacho Lujan Elementary School by Public Law 9-221, enacted on 1 August 1968. In 1972, the school was formally dedicated in his honor.
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Maria Arceo Ulloa (1898 – 1968), a teacher and school administrator, was born in the village of Hagåtña, Guam on 25 December 1898 to Vicente Iglesias Arceo and Antonia Manglona Camacho. She was the eldest of nine children.
Luis Palomo Untalan Middle School, more commonly known as Untalan Middle School, was established in 1958 as Barrigada Junior High School. It was renamed in honor of the Guam teacher after a public law was passed and enacted on 22 October 1978.
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Carlos Lizama Taitano Elementary School was first established in 1958 as the Sinajana Elementary School. On 27 September 1970, the school was formally dedicated as the Carlos Lizama Taitano Elementary School, more commonly known as CL Taitano Elementary School.
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Established in 1965, the Barrigada Elementary School was renamed the Baltazar P. Carbullido Elementary School, commonly referred to as BP Carbullido Elementary. Guam Public Law 08-82 was enacted on 14 January 1966, to honor the public servant and civic leader.
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Agueda Iglesias Johnston (1892 – 1977) was an educator, civic leader, patriot and a woman of great internal strength and fortitude. Her commitment to education earned her place in the history books as one of Guam’s foremost educators.
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Antonio Carbullido Yamashita (1930 – 1992) was the middle child of thirteen born to Felicita and Raymundo Yamashita. He was born 13 September 1930 in his first home village of Piti. He attended Guam public schools and graduated from George Washington High School in 1951.
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Following World War II, the people of Guam faced not only the looming reconstruction of community structures and homes, but also institutional and cultural change. For Guam’s children some of the most significant transformations affected their daily lives — specifically, what and where students would learn, and who taught them at school.
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In 1985, 96 years after his birth on 5 August 1889, in the capital city of Laoag in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines, Nieves Mariano Flores was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international fraternity of professional educators, Phi Delta Kappa, for devoting more than 20 years of his life to education.
Since Governor Richard P. Leary, US Navy, issued General Order No. 12 on 22 January 1900—the development of public education in Guam — administrative policy and leadership of the Department of Education was rife with inconsistency and, at times, encouraged student absenteeism. Two primary reasons for this inconsistency were the lack of qualified teachers of English and adequate funding from island coffers and the US Congress.
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