MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ PROCLAMATION NO. 393, March 7, 1957 ]
DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM MARCH 11 TO 17, 1957, AS TECHNOLOGY WEEK AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE OBSERVANCE THEREOF
WHEREAS, technological knowledge in the Philippines can be effectively advanced through effective media and instrumentalities for the dissemination of new discoveries, techniques, and procedures; and
WHEREAS, the Industrialization and Economic Development Program of the Government will depend largely upon technological knowledge and skill;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from March 11 to 17, 1957, as Technology Week, to be observed throughout the country, particularly in schools, colleges, universities, technological institutions and societies, with fitting ceremonies.1âшphi1
The following are hereby designated members of a Committee which is hereby created to take charge of the observance of Technology Week.
The Chairman, National Economic Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Chairman |
The President, Philippine Council of Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Vice-Chairman |
The Secretary of Public Works and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The Secretary of Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The Secretary of Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The Chairman, National Science Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The President, Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
The Director of Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Member |
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 7th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary
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