Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP)

prepare efficient workers in the different branches of Christian service, and ultimately for citizenship in the coming kingdom of God. Finster who reported that in 1916, I. F. Sevrens and their families had arrived to supervise the building of the Philippine Seventh-day Adventist Academy on a five-acre land located at Calle Luna, Pasay, Rizal now popularly known as Pasay City. The school formally opened on June 12, 1917 with 36 students among whom 12 were girls. The lone school building had its classrooms on the first floor and dormitory for the boys on the second floor. The girls stayed in an old mixed-material house which already stood on the land when the latter was bought at a cost of Php 6,500.00. In 1925, at the Spring Council of the Far Eastern Division, it was voted that the academy be authorized to carry fourteen grades, adding one grade each year towards 1927, and that the name be changed to Philippine Junior College. Elder W. B. Amundsen was elected principal in 1927 until the year 1931.