La Salle Academy (Philippines)
La Salle Academy is a private Catholic La Sallian basic education institution run by the Philippine District of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. It was founded in 1958. It is the first of the third generation of La Salle schools founded by the De La Salle Brothers in the country, namely: La Salle Green Hills in Mandaluyong (1959), Saint Joseph School-La Salle in Bacolod (1960), and De La Salle Lipa in Lipa City (1962). History The La Salle presence in northern Mindanao came to be with the invitation of Msgr. Patrick Cronin of the Prelature of Ozamis to take over St. Columban's Academy in Iligan City. This was the same school that used to be the Woodrow Wilson Junior College of the late forties and early fifties. When the first group of Brothers under Br. Crescentius Richard arrived in Iligan, the school was located in downtown Iligan, a stone's throw from the cathedral. Its faculty then included veteran educators Rosario Tsukimata (an affiliated Member of the Brothers), Pedro Generalao (founding Principal of Iligan City High School), Felicito Rugay (founding Director-Principal of Andres Soriano Memorial School, Lutopan, Cebu and Tranquilino