Location: Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental (Region VII)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Building, University
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1966
Installed by: National Historical Commission (NHC)
Marker text:
SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY
ORIGINALLY AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDED IN 1901 BY DR. AND MRS. DAVID S. HIBBARD UNDER THE TERMS OF A GIFT BY PHILANTHROPIST, DR. HORACE B. SILLIMAN, IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A COLLEGE IN 1910 AND A UNIVERSITY IN 1938. ITS BUILDINGS WERE OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE FORCES FROM 1942 TO 1945. IT WAS REOPENED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE FIRST FILIPINO PRESIDENT, DR. LEOPOLDO T. RUIZ, WAS ELECTED IN 1952.
