San Pedro College was founded in 1956 by the Dominican Sisters of the Trinity from Quebec, Canada. It began as a school of nursing of the San Pedro Hospital, the first Catholic hospital in Mindanao, which the religious sisters have been operating since their arrival in 1948.Inspired by the Most Rev. Clovis Thibault, PME, then Bishop of Davao, the Dominican Sisters led by Sr. Pauline Guilmette, OP and Sr. Cecile Denise, OP, laid the foundation of the San Pedro Hospital School of Nursing. Bishop Thibault facilitated the acquisition of the land on which the school was built.All these years, SPC continues to evolve as a higher education institution with high credibility and esteemed reputation affirmed not only by the exemplary performance of its graduates in licensure examinations, awards and recognitions from the government and other reputable organizations and agencies but also through accreditation of programs by peers in the academe and the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines.In the hands of the current administrators of the college are the tasks of sustaining the growth and development of SPC as a highly credible higher education institution and the challenge of leading it to greater heights.Noveno/sept2016 (http://www.spcdavao.edu.ph/index.cfm?fa=site.history)
San Pedro College was founded in 1956 by the Dominican Sisters of the Trinity from Quebec, Canada. It began as a school of nursing of the San Pedro Hospital, the first Catholic hospital in Mindanao, which the religious sisters have been operating since their arrival in 1948.Inspired by the Most Rev. Clovis Thibault, PME, then Bishop of Davao, the Dominican Sisters led by Sr. Pauline Guilmette, OP and Sr. Cecile Denise, OP, laid the foundation of the San Pedro Hospital School of Nursing. Bishop Thibault facilitated the acquisition of the land on which the school was built.All these years, SPC continues to evolve as a higher education institution with high credibility and esteemed reputation affirmed not only by the exemplary performance of its graduates in licensure examinations, awards and recognitions from the government and other reputable organizations and agencies but also through accreditation of programs by peers in the academe and the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines.In the hands of the current administrators of the college are the tasks of sustaining the growth and development of SPC as a highly credible higher education institution and the challenge of leading it to greater heights.Noveno/sept2016 (http://www.spcdavao.edu.ph/index.cfm?fa=site.history)
San Pedro College was founded in 1956 by the Dominican Sisters of the Trinity from Quebec, Canada. It began as a school of nursing of the San Pedro Hospital, the first Catholic hospital in Mindanao, which the religious sisters have been operating since their arrival in 1948.Inspired by the Most Rev. Clovis Thibault, PME, then Bishop of Davao, the Dominican Sisters led by Sr. Pauline Guilmette, OP and Sr. Cecile Denise, OP, laid the foundation of the San Pedro Hospital School of Nursing. Bishop Thibault facilitated the acquisition of the land on which the school was built.All these years, SPC continues to evolve as a higher education institution with high credibility and esteemed reputation affirmed not only by the exemplary performance of its graduates in licensure examinations, awards and recognitions from the government and other reputable organizations and agencies but also through accreditation of programs by peers in the academe and the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines.In the hands of the current administrators of the college are the tasks of sustaining the growth and development of SPC as a highly credible higher education institution and the challenge of leading it to greater heights.Noveno/sept2016 (http://www.spcdavao.edu.ph/index.cfm?fa=site.history)