PRESS RELEASE: DHVTSU REMEMBERS DON HONORIO VENTURA’S 127th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY ON THE 50th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF DHVMSAT CONVERSION THE Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University (DHVTSU) in Bacolor, Pampanga, will commemorate on July 30, 2014, the 127th birth anniversary of Honorio Ventura y Tizon as part of its celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the conversion of the old Pampanga School of Arts and Trade (PSAT) into the Don Honorio Ventura Memorial School of Arts and Trade in 1964. The commemorative program will be held at the DHVTSU Hostel at 8:30 in the morning, with Ms. Lillian M. Lising-Borromeo, a relative of the Ventura Clan as guest of honor. DHVTSU President,Dr. Enrique G. Baking will lead the event and is expected to make an important announcement on the prospects of the state university. Dr. Baking remarks: “Don Honorio is indeed a paragon of genuine public service and dedicated philanthropy whose legacy should be preserved and told to future Capampañgans and Bacoloreños.” Don Honorio Ventura y Tizon was born on July 30, 1887 in Bacolor, Pampanga, to Balbino Ventura and Juana Tizon. His father Balbino belonged to the old rich and landed class and was engaged in the prosperous Pampanga sugar industry. He was the youngest and only male of four siblings. He studied for three years at Ateneo de Manila and transferred later to Colegio de San Juan de Letran to complete his pre-law course. For his professional studies, he completed his licentiate in Law and Jurisprudence at the Universidad de Santo Tomas.He pursued further studies in Spain and earned a doctorate degree in Jurisprudence. Ventura joined the field of politics in his early twenties. He joined the Nationalist Party in 1907 and ran for representative of the 2nd District of Pampanga but lost by twenty one votes to a fellow Bacoloreño, Judge Jose Gutierrez y David. He was appointed as acting governor of Pampanga in 1914, succeeding another famous local politician, Governor Francisco Liongson(also from Bacolor.) Governor Honorio T. Ventura proved himself to be an effective provincial governor and accomplished a lot for his constituencies. The people of Pampanga elected him overwhelmingly in the next election, and further in 1919. His sterling leadershipqualities and unselfish dedication to his government duties, easily made him a favorite son of Pampanga. In 1921, Governor Honorio T. Ventura resigned as provincial governor of Pampanga to accept the position of Chief of the Executive Bureau of the Department of Interior and later as Secretary of the Interior in place of Atty. Felipe Agoncillo when he resigned from the position. Secretary Honorio T. Ventura served in that position for more than eight years under Governor General Leonard Wood and other American governor-generals in the Philippines. He acted as Governor General of the Philippines when Governor Wood left for the United States of America for medical treatment and when Vice Governor General George F. Butte was on vacation in Asia. Owing to his PRO stand on the heated public exchanges on the Hare-Hawes Cutting Law, he had to resign from office in 1933. During the PRO and ANTI campaign for the acceptance of the Hare-Hawes Cutting Law, Secretary of the Interior HonorioT. Ventura led the PRO’s and Secretary of Public Works SoteroBaluyut(from San Fernando) together with the then leading politician Manuel L. Quezon were the leaders of the ANTI’s. When Ventura left his office, one commentator wrote that “he entered public office with a shirt, left it without wearing one” if only to demonstrate how different Ventura was from the rest of the public servants of his time. After leaving public service, he devoted his time and resources to philanthropy thereby compromising his financial standing. As a kind and generous philanthropist for thirty-four years, he sponsored the education of more than fifty bright and financially challenged Capampañgan students. Some of his scholars became prominent lawyers, judges, government officials, educators, engineers, medical doctors and veterinary medicine doctors, among them, Dr. Emilio P. Cortez, a medical doctor, a lawyer and a politician and Atty. Diosdado P. Macapagal, a poet laureate, a stage actor, bar topnotcher and politician. President Diosdado P. Macapagalwho became the first president of the Republic of the Philippines. Indeed Ventura entered politics as a very wealthy man and left politics as a poor man because he did not take advantage of his government positions. He died on September 3, 1940. At Ventura’s funeral President Manuel L. Quezon eulogized Secretary Honorio Ventura moved everybodyto tearsas he revealed that he personally apologized to Secretary Ventura and that the kind man forgave President Quezon before Secretary Ventura died. On June 12, 1964 , President Macapagal signed Republic Act No. 1381 into law thereby effectively converting the old Pampanga School of Arts and Trades, recorded as the oldest trade school in the Far East, into the Don Honorio Ventura Memorial School of Arts and Trades (DHVMSAT). It was eventually further converted into Don Honorio Ventura College of Arts and Trades (DHVCAT) in 1978, and Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University(DHVTSU) in 2009. “Don Honorio , while having lived only for 53 years, is an exemplary model for those of us in the public service and for the people of Pampanga and Bacolor as well, he is good example in these trying times,” remarks Nestor R. Galura, Chair of the DHVTSU Center for Capampañgan Culture and the Arts, who oversees the preparations for the event. -LORD FRANCIS D. MUSNI for the Center for Capampañgan Culture and the Arts, DHVTSU
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:12:47 +0000
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