Location: Philippine School for the Deaf, 2620 F.B. Harrison Street, Pasay City
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1961
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND
(1907)
PIONEER SCHOOL FOR THE HANDICAPPED IN THE PHILIPPINES. PLANNED BY DR. DAVID P. BARROWS, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION; ORGANIZED BY MISS DELIA DELIGHT RICE, PRINCIPAL TEACHER (1907–1923). IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE CITY OF MANILA WHERE IT REMAINED UNTIL IT WAS TRANSFERRED TO ITS PRESENT SITE IN PASAY CITY, JUNE 1923.