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of Philippine Veterinary Medicine for his various achievements. Read the book Memories of Victor Buencamino reviewed by Rev. Miguel A. Bernad, S.J. in the Kinaadman II: 206-207 (1980).
It is interesting to note here that Victor Buencamino, Sr. later married Dolores R. Arguelles, the sixth daughter of Tomas F. Arguelles and Carmen Reyes. The latter was Emilio’s first cousin since her father was the older brother of Emilio’s mother, Ciriaca Arguelles Quisumbing. See Fernandez-Arguelles Genealogy in author’s files.
2 See the old notes of Carlos C. Quisumbing regarding her and her seven brothers in Arguelles-Quisumbing Genealogy, unpaginated in author’s files.
3See Sections 1 and 3 (a) and (b) of the said Act entitled “An Act establishing the Department of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands…” in Public Laws Passed by the Philippine Commission, Acts 1 to 449, from September, 1900 to August, 1902 (Manila: Hartford Beaumont, 1914), Vol. 1, pp. 99-100; Teodoro Agoncillo and Maria Guerrero, History of the Filipino People ( 5th ed.; Quezon City: R.P. Garcia Publishing Company, 1977), pp. 339.
4”The Quisumbing Clan: Recollections of Carlos Corrales Quisumbing
(1910-1996),” p.1b in author’s files. Hereafter cited as “ The Quisumbing Clan”.
This particular material was narrated by his father, Emilio A. Quisumbing, to Carlos C. Quisumbing, the eldest of six surviving children, whose memories were reformatted from the original manuscript of the latter by his nephew, Alberto Ricardo Quisumbing, the second son of Manuel V. and Gertrudis F. Quisumbing.
5For additional information about her, see ibid., p. 2a. Also see Fernandez-Arguelles Genealogy in author’s files.
Ibid.; a certified true copy of his graduation in 1900 from this college signed by Rey R. Reyes, College Registrar, in author’s possession. Cf. this school with Liceo de Manila according to K. Munden in his Report on Government Pensionados, Appendix III, Item # 75 OK, Interior Department Archives, U.S. National Archives, Washington, D.C. in author’s files. Also see Kenneth Munden, Los Pensionados: The Story of the Education of Philippine Government Students in the United States, 1903-l943 (Washington: The National Archives, 1943), Note 84, p. 75.
8Agoncillo and Guerrero, loc. cit.
9Bureau of Public Schools, Service Manual (Manila: Bureau of Public Schools, 1963), p. 1.
10Teodoro Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People (8th ed., Quezon City:
Garote ch Publishing, 1990), p. 372.
Munden, op. cit., pp. 10-14.
12See Section 2 of Act No. 854 entitled “An Act providing for the education the Filipino students in the United States and appropriating for such purpose the sum of seventy-two thousand dollars, in money of the United States, “ Official Gazette 1 (52): 645 (September 2, 1903); the book review Filipinos in America: A Journey of Faith written by Rev. Miguel A. Bernad, S.J. in the Kinaadman XXVI: 190 (2004); ibid. 13See Section 3 of the said Act, loc. cit.; Munden, op. cit., p. 15. 14See Section 5 of the said Act, loc. cit.
15See Section 1 of the said Act, loc. cit.; Munden, op. cit., note 23, p. 71 for the text of the telegram sent by Gov. William H. Taft to the Division Superintendents of Schools or the Provincial Governor.
16See Sections 1 and 2 of the said Act, loc. cit.; Munden, op. cit., pp. 14-15. 17See Section 2 of the said Act, loc. cit. 18See the certified true copy of his graduation from the Colegio de San Juan de Letran signed by Rey R. Reyes, Registrar, in author’s possession. According to the Schurman Commission, the only official institution for secondary education was this college administered by the Dominicans. See Munden, op. cit., p. 7. 19 Ibid., Note 84, p. 75.
20See Section 4 of
the said Act, loc. cit.; ibid.
21Ibid., pp. 15, 24.
As to his successors, see ibid., p. 25. For details of an
agent’s
duties, see ibid., pp. 25-29.
22Ibid., pp. 15-16.
23Agoncillo and Guerrero, op.
cit., pp. 424, 346. As to the number of pensionados from 1903 to 1914, see
Munden, op. cit., p. 24.
24Ibid., pp. 33-34. For the number
of appointees in the different offices and bureaus of the government, see
ibid., pp. 34-35.
25Ibid.,
pp. 36-38. .
26Ibid., pp. 43-44 and Note 107, p. 77.
27Ibid, pp.
46-47, 49 and 52. See the title page of these two publications in ibid.,
pp.
51 and 53.
28Ibid., pp. 54-56.
29Ibid., pp. 58, 61.
30Ibid., p. 59.
31Two students missed the trip for the following reasons: one under quarantine and one in his delay in coming to Manila on time. See note 32 in ibid., p. 71.
32Ibid., p. 16.
33Aside from him, his three younger brothers, Francisco, Eduardo and Norberto later followed his footsteps as government scholars to the United States for advanced studies. See “The Quisumbing Clan,” p. 2b; Arguelles-Quisumbing Genealogy in author’s files. In this second source, Manuel was also a government scholar for medicine in the United States. See ibid. For their individual biographies, read them below.
Francisco obtained both B Agriculture in
1914 and MS in 1918 from the University of the Philippines.
He received his second MS from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in chemistry
from Columbia University after defending his dissertation entitled “Comparative
Study of Conditions affecting the Determination of reducing sugars by Fehling
Solution” preserved by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia
University, 212-854-5153. He was a recipient of the University Medal in 1929.
Office of UP Alumni Relations, UP Alumni Directory (Diliman, Quezon City: UP
Press, l970), p. 898; reply of Jennifer Ulrich, Associate Archivist of Columbia
University to Chuchi L. Constantino dated April 29, 2005 by e-mail.
He became famous for his two formulas:
(1) the Quisumbing paste whose round glass container was retrieved in the old
Spanish well at Fort San Pedro, Cebu City, during the 1973 USC Archaeological
Excavation and whose factory was then located at Escolta, Manila as shown in
this container noted by this writer as a member of the Excavation
