WHEREAS, the Parent Teachers Association of the Batangas
School of Fisheries in the Municipality of Nasugbu, Batangas, have
strongly recommended the renaming of the school to the Apolinario R.
Apacible School of Fisheries;
WHEREAS, it is the earnest desire of the people in the
service area of the school to perpetuate the memory of the late
Congressman Apolinario R. Apacible, whose dedicated concern for public
education made possible the establishment of the school in 1956;
WHEREAS, the most fitting and proper way to acknowledge such
a debt of gratitude is for the school to be named after him and thus
keep his memory alive;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippine, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do
hereby order and decree: