A HIGH SCHOOL THAT HAVE HAD MANY OTHER NAMES

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A HIGH SCHOOL THAT HAVE HAD MANY OTHER NAMES
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When the school was first opened in 1946, after the end of World War
II, the school was called the "Gapan Municipal High School". In 1952,
the school's name was changed to "Nueva Ecija South High School".
Between 1952 and 1982, the school's official name became the "Gapan
Provincial High School". In 1982, the school became known as the
"Gapan National High School". In 1984, the school assumed its current
name, the "Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School".

The school's alumni, thus, naturally identifies with an alma mater
with multiple names; some with the Gapan Municipal High School, others
with the Nueva Ecija South High School, others with the Gapan National
High School, and many others with the Juan R. Liwag Memorial High
School. The point is, the school's alumni does not identify,
psychologically, with an alma mater that has a different name from the
one when he was in high school. Consequently, the alumni's
identification with one alma mater is naturally fractured.

It is thus a challenge to bring together the school's alumni - who
graduated from the same school facility but whose school name was
different during the time that he/she was attending the same - to
identify as one.
It is a challenging, but not an impossible, task. The alumni must
recognize, psychologically, the division that has developed; the
alumni must want to to negate those divisions; the alumni must want to
be part of A common school alumni association; and the alumni must act
towards that goal.