2006 - Anita Agustin

Anita Agustin, Class 1953

Culture and the Arts

Ms. Anita Agustin is an outstanding alumnus of Rizal High School who significantly contributed to the advancement of culture and the arts and thus promoting well-rounded human development as an essential component of our nation’s progress. She has engaged in cultural heritage promotion and preservation through her various work of arts and advocacies in creating awareness in young minds and teachers the love for arts.

Ms. Anita Agustin served various schools as elementary school teacher from her tender age of 19. she started her teaching career at the Pateros Elementary School and ended up in Paloma Elementary School and Alvin Dunn Elementary School in the United States. In all her teaching stints, she pursued the advocacy to teach the children as well as the teachers to love arts and instill in their minds that involving in arts is not an expensive activity. In 1961, she was selected as one of the six teacher-scholars to study Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines for one year, sponsored by the Department of Education and the Shell Company of the Philippines.

She sponsored an art exhibit in the Provincial Capitol of Rizal participated by more than 300 students and 150 teachers using scrap materials such as used labels of canned goods, cigarette foils, dried leaves, twigs etc. the idea is to re-cycle materials so they will be turned into pleasing materials. She also launched a one-woman art exhibit at the penthouse of the Metrobank in Makati City.

She has been Art Supervisor and Coordinator in the Division of Rizal, and has lectured in various art gatherings all over the country. When in the United States, she never tires of teaching our local culture and arts as she taught her foreign students Filipino arts and dances. She was also into bilingual education. Ms. Agustin graduated from Pateros Elementary School in 1949 and in the Rizal High School in 1953. She finished her Bachelor in Elementary Education at the Philippine Normal College in 1958. In 1965, she was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation and Recognition by the PNC Alumni Association for her valuable, meritorious and outstanding service in the Division of Rizal.

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