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MOP, Bk 10, v.5, pt.2, 129

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 315, December 06, 1971 ]

CREATING AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF COMMEMORATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF BATAAN AND THE FALL OF CORREGIDOR



WHEREAS, the Fall of Bataan and the Fall of Corregidor are historic milestones in our nationhood;

WHEREAS, it is deemed fitting and proper to commemorate these historic events with appropriate activities and/or ceremonies in order to impress our people as well as the rest of the world of the efforts and sacrifices of those who fought and died during the crucial struggle for freedom and democracy, and of the transcending significance of such struggle in our national undertakings and aspirations;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby constitute and create an Executive Committee to formulate plans and devise ways and means for the successful execution of appropriate activities and/or ceremonies for the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan and the Fall of Corregidor. The Committee shall be composed of the following:

Secretary David Consunji
Department of Public Works and Communications

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Chairman

Asst. Exec. Sec. Roberto V. Reyes
Office of the President

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Co-Chairman

General Romeo Espino
Armed Forces of the Philippines

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Vice-Chairman

Chairman Teodoro Peña
Foreign Trade Zone Authority

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Member

Commissioner Gregorio Araneta
Board of Travel & Tourist Industry

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Member

Administrator Mario Reyes
Department of Commerce & Industry

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Member

Colonel Simeon Medalla
Veterans Federation of the Philippines

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Member

Acting Commr. Jacob Tagorda
Bureau of Public Highways

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Member

Director Alejandro Deleña
Bureau of Public Works

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Member

Mr. Esteban Cabanos
Philippine Veterans Bank

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Member

Colonel Epifanio Reymundo
Civil Aeronautics Administration

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Member

Colonel Manuel A. Acosta
National Shrines Commission

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Member

The Committee is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need, and to create such committee, sub-committee or staffs as may be necessary.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary
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