Benigno V. Aldana National High School, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan:

The School with  a  Series of Names

 

By: Rodrigo P. de Vera, Jr., EdD

Master Teacher I, Benigno V. Aldana National High School

Pozorrubio, Pangasinan

 

 

The name of Benigno V. Aldana National High  School (BVANHS), Pozorrubio, Pangasinan went through a series of changes.

In 1948, the “Junior” in the school’s name, Pozorrubio Junior High School, was already dropped. The Parliament Bill No. 1023 authored by former Assemblyman Roque R. de Guzman of Region 1 paved the school’s nationalization on November 12, 1982 by virtue of Batas Pambansa 252, thereby, it was renamed from Pozorrubio High School to Pozorrubio National High School.

By virtue of Batas Pambansa 807, Pozorrubio National High School was again renamed to Benigno V. Aldana National Memorial High School on April 27,1984. It was subsequently named in the honor of a prominent Pozorrubian, educator and Director of the Bureau of Public Schools, Benigno V. Aldana who was born on November 19, 1898 in Pozorrubio, Pangasinan. Prior to the passage of Batas Pambansa Blg. 252, the Bill was sponsored by former Congressman Tony Villas through the initiative of DECS Head Executive Assistant Lucio B. Fernandez. Behind the renaming of Pozorrubio National High School to Benigno V. Aldana National Memorial High School were to two equally distinguished Pozorrubians, namely, Dr. Florencio M. Buen, Provincial Schools Superintendent of Pangasinan, and Dr. MInda Cascolan Sutaria, Assistant Director, Bureau of Elementary Education.

Not long after, the word “Memorial” was dropped from Benigno V. Aldana National Memorial High School on August 12, 1994 under Sangguniang Bayan of Pozorrubio Resolution No. 103, s. 1994. Hence, the school’s name, Benigno V. Aldana National High School, remains until to this day.