Proclamation No. 64, s. 1954

MALACAÑANG
RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PHILIPPINES
Manila

Proclamation No. 64

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 15, 1954, TO SEPTEMBER 15, 1955, AS THE LITERACY YEAR AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR LITERACY

In order to make the Philippines a completely functionally literate nation, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from September 15, 1954, to September 15, 1955, as the Literacy Year and create a committee to take charge of the national campaign for literacy. The committee shall be composed of the following:

All Heads of the Executive Departments of the Government	Technical Consultants
Chancellor Segundo Infantado	Co-Chairman
Dean Conrado Benitez	Co-Chairman
The Chief, Adult Education Division, Bureau of Public School	Co-Chairman
Dean Isidoro Panlasigui	Co-Chairman
Mrs. Flora E. Diaz Catapusan	Co-Chairman
Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson	Co-Chairman
All representatives of various institutions and organizations and others interested whose signatures appear on the enclosure of the memorandum of the National Literacy Campaign Delegation	Members

I hereby call upon all government and private offices, public and private schools, professional organizations, cultural, religious, civic and service clubs, the press and the radio to lend their cooperation and assistance in making the national campaign for’ literacy successful.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary