MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 397, November 30, 1976 ]

CREATING THE SPECIAL RIZAL DAY CELEBRATION COMMITTEE

I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law and in order to ensure the successful celebration throughout the Philippines of this year’s death anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal on December 30, 1976, do hereby create a special committee to take charge of all arrangements for the activities composed of the following:

Education & Culture Undersecretary  Narciso Albarracin - Chairman
Presidential Assistants on Legal Affairs  Ronaldo B. Zamora - Vice-Chairman
Supreme Court Associate Justice  Claudio Teehankee (Supreme Commander, Knights of Rizal) - Member
Supreme Court Associate Justice  Cecilia Muñoz Palma (President, Civic Assembly of Women of the Philippines) - Member
Public Works & Communications Undersecretary  Aber Canlas - Member
National Defense Undersecretary  Jose Crisol - Member
Local Governments & Community Development Undersecretary  Salvador Socrates - Member
Tourism Undersecretary  Gregorio Araneta II - Member
Budget Deputy Commissioner Juan Agcaoili - Member
Mayor Ramon D. Bagatsing, Manila - Member
National Historical Commission Chairman  Esteban de Ocampo - Member
Director Gregorio Cendeña of National Media Production Center - Member
Director Larry Cruz,  Bureau of National-Foreign Information - Member
National Parks Development Committee Vice-Chairman  Teodoro F. Valencia - Member
Presidential Protocol Officer  Cristobal Osoteo - Member-Secretary

The Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman and, for the purpose of discharging its functions, may create such sub-committees as may be necessary.

The Committee is hereby authorized to call any department, bureaus, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government, including government-owned or controlled corporations, for such assistance as it may need in discharging its duties and functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant


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