Dumaguete City
Dumaguete City, the City of Gentle People, is
located in one of the bigger Islands of the
Visayas.
Dumaguete derived its name from the vernacular
word "dumaguit" which means "to snatch" because
pirates and Moros often swooped down on this
town to snatch women during the Spanish period.
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Silliman UniversitySilliman University was founded as
Silliman Institute, an elementary school, on 28 August 1901 by the
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA under
the terms of a $10,000 gift from Dr. Horace Brinsmade Silliman, a
philanthropist of Cohoes, New York. It won full recognition as a
university in 1938.
What started as a school with only 15
young boys and humble resources is now considered as among the
Philippines’ top institutions of higher learning. It is home to over
8,000 students from around the country and the globe.
The
62-hectare Silliman campus dotted with over 300 acacia trees and is
uniquely embraced in between views of the Cuernos de Negros mountains in
its background and the Visayan sea at its frontage. It is located in the
charming city of Dumaguete, dubbed “City of Gentle People,” an hour away
by plane from Manila and roughly five hours away by boat from Cebu.
(For
more information, visit: www.su.edu.ph )
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Silliman Hall
Silliman Hall is the oldest standing
American structure in the Philippines representative of “stick style”
architecture. It is the oldest building on campus, built in 1903. It
stood the test of time with its four-storey structure made of local
coral blocks and solid iron posts. The metal sheets used as ceiling were
taken from an old theater in New York. Imported timber from the US West
Coast made the rest of the upper floors.
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