PROCLAMATION NO. 64, September 11, 1954

[ PROCLAMATION NO. 64, September 11, 1954 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 15, 1954, TO SEPTEMBER 15, 1955, AS THE LITERACY YEAR AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR LITERACY

In order to make the Philippines a completely functionally literate nation, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from September 15, 1954, to September 15, 1955, as the Literacy Year and create a committee to take charge of the national campaign for literacy. The committee shall be composed of the following:

All Heads of the Executive Departments of the Government

Technical Consultants

Chancellor Segundo Infantado

Co-Chairman

Dean Conrado Benitez

Co-Chairman

The Chief, Adult Education Division, Bureau of Public School

Co-Chairman

Dean Isidoro Panlasigui

Co-Chairman

Mrs. Flora E. Diaz Catapusan

Co-Chairman

Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson

Co-Chairman

All representatives of various institutions and organizations and others interested whose signatures appear on the enclosure of the memorandum of the National Literacy Campaign Delegation

Members

I hereby call upon all government and private offices, public and private schools, professional organizations, cultural, religious, civic and service clubs, the press and the radio to lend their cooperation and assistance in making the national campaign for’ literacy successful.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO

Executive Secretary

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