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Lakan Dula High School is a public learning institution located along Juan Luna St. in Tondo, Manila. The school was named after Lakan Dula (1503-1589), Manila’s last chieftain (lakan) before it was totally subjugated by the Spanish colonizers. Founded in 1962, LDHS is under the direct supervision of the Division of City Schools-Manila (District II), which in turn is under the Department of Education.
LDHS’s neighbors include Torres High School, Jose P. Laurel High School, Sergio Osmeña High School, Nolasco High School, Gregorio Perfecto High School, Tondo High School, T. Paez Integrated School, and a number of elementary schools.
Our batch began its first year in 1974 at the school’s Tiaoqui Annex, a stone’s throwaway from its current campus. Who Tiaoqui was remains anybody’s guess. What we remember is that its small plot of land was host to a two-story wooden building, with about 10 classrooms reserved for new students from various primary schools in Tondo, nearby Caloocan and elsewhere. Ours was one of the last batches – if not the last – that would use this rented campus before it was finally returned to its owner and converted into what is now a commercial area.
About a kilometer away was LDHS’s main campus, situated in front of St. Joseph School, where we spent our last three years in high school. Until 1976 a decrepit building used for our vocational and home economics subjects stood at the corner of Juan Luna and Pampanga streets. It was also in the same period when Ventura Annex, a relatively vast expanse of land, was acquired by the city government and was used for our CAT and YDT classes.
The original main campus in Gagalangin was also a rickety two-story-wooden-building affair, with a row of quonset rooms built beside it to accommodate the school’s growing population. At the right side of the entrance stood another wooden structure that housed the administration, the library, the canteen, and the toilet.
Looking back now, it is indeed surreal that t