Article: Roosevelt College; The right school for the right start.(Schools Colleges and Universities)

Roosevelt College was born in 1945 as Roosevelt Memorial High School along the busy J.P. Rizal Street in Barrio San Roque, Marikina, then a part of Rizal province. Popular education was limited to the "Katon Kristiyano" and to the primary and elementary grades available in a few barrio schools. A few affluent families would easily send their children to high school and college in Manila while those who have less would take trips to and from Rizal High School. Mayor Wenceslao C. dela Paz, pre-war town executive of the late 20as foresaw that the town will not remain agricultural for long. It was his obsession to let the young go beyond grade school and learn something more ...

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