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Bishop Brent's Baguio school: The first 75 years |  | Author: James J Halsema
Publisher: Brent School
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4,973,722
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 247
ASIN: B0006ESS4A
Publication Date: 1988
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Bishop Brent's Baguio School March 12, 2009
C. Corum
Bishop Brent's Baguio School: the first 75 Years by James J. Halsema
"Congratulations. Sympathy. God guide you." read part of the telegram announcing Brent's appointment as the first Missionary Bishop of the Philippines. Charles Henry Brent may have been surprised and daunted by the appointment, but as he arrived in Manila, in late August, 1902, he wrote in his diary, "Home!" For him, the Philippines would be home for the next 15 years.
Brent believed strongly that "education was the business of the church." Brent had heard about Baguio and he dreamed of setting up a school for Igorot children and another for children of Americans who worked in the Philippines. Easter school had priority and that school was established in 1906 with Samuel Drury, who would later become Head of St. Paul's School, appointed Headmaster. Then, on land donated by William Cameron Forbes, soon to replace Taft as Governor of the Philippines, Brent was able to plan for a second school.
Remson Ogilby, a classics teacher at Groton School, and an ordained minister, was hired to be Headmaster, and a second Groton teacher, Guy Ayrault, was "lent" to the Baguio school by Groton's founding Head, Endicott Peabody. For the next few years, Groton provided faculty for the fledgling Baguio School and a model for Bishop Brent's school. The schedule included daily chapel, vigorous activity beginning with calisthenics and unheated showers before breakfast, rigorous studies, formal evening meals, and sports in the afternoons. The first year, with a promised enrollment of 12 boys, classes were scheduled to begin November 7th. However, when as a result of typhoons roads to Baguio were washed out, the new school opened in Manila. It was not until January that Ogilby and Ayrault would bring their 12 students to Baguio.
The school was particularly Bishop Brent's, for in the absence of church sponsorship, Brent would raise funds for building projects and even salaries on his furloughs to the States. He joined in the active life of the school, accompanying the boys and their teachers on the Northern Hike, a two week, 250 mile walk to the mission in Bontoc and return; and in the spiritual life, writing a school hymn and four school prayers. He remained actively engaged in the life of the school until 1918, when he left the Philippines to become head chaplain to the Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
James Julius Halsema, who attended Brent Baguio from 1926 to 1936, and who was during the 1940's, a trustee, has written a carefully researched history of Brent School, using excerpts from letters, personal recollections, and early photographs. The school is fortunate to have in its chosen chronicler, a veteran journalist, a fine historian and engaging writer with an eye for lively detail. Bishop Brent's Baguio School is in this centennial year, or in any other year, well worth reading. James Halsema has also written a biography of his father, E.J.Halsema: Colonial Engineer, who came to the Philippines in 1903 and would become Baguio's mayor, whose personal story is tightly woven with the threads of American and Philippine history.
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