Behind the gate to the school to the right of the school entrance.

Statue

A bronze bust statue mounted a top a pedestal with a brass inscribed plaque attached to the front.

The bust remembers the Philippine hero Brigadier General Vicente Lim, a 1914 Philippine Graduate of West Point, who commanded the 41st Philippine Infantry Division that fought at the Battle of Mount Samat during the Battle of Bataan. After Bataan, General Lim was part of the Bataan “Death March”; survived imprisonment; served in the Guerrilla forces and was executed by the enemy in 1944. He is remembered on the Wall of the Missing, Manila American Memorial and Cemetery.

The text on the plaque under the Bust is in Tagalog and reads:

HENERAL VICENTE P. LIM

(1888 - 1944)

IPINGANAK SA CALAMBA, LAGUNA NOONG IKA-24

NG PEBRERO 1888. ISANG KAWAL, MAKABAYAN, ISA SA

MGA NAGTATAG NG BOY SCOUTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

AT UNANG PILIPINONG NAGTAPOS SA U.S. MILITARY

ACADEMY SA WESTPOINT, NEW YORK.

NAMUNONG HENERAL NG IKA-41 DIBISYON NG

IMPANTERIYA NOONG 1941. IPINAGTANGGOL ANG

NOO'Y BUROL NG CAPOT BILANG HULING LINYA

NG DEPENSA LABAN SA IMPERYALISTANG

HAPONES NAHULI AT IBINILANGGO SA

KUTANG SANTIAGO AT PAGKARAAN AY

BINARIL SA SEMENTERYO NG INTSIK

NOONG 1944.

PAGKARAANG MAMATAY, PINAGKALOOBAN NG

MARAMING PARANGAL. ISA NA DITO ANG PAGGAWAD

NG RANGGONG HENERAL NA MAY TATLONG

BITUIN. ANG PAMAYANANG ITO AY IPINANGALAN

SA KANYA.

English translation:

GENERAL VICENTE P. LIM

(1888 - 1944)

BORN IN CALAMBA, LAGUNA, ON THE 24TH

OF FEBRUARY 1888. A SOLDIER, PATRIOT, ONE OF

FOUNDERS OF BOY SCOUTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

AND THE FIRST FILIPINO TO GRADUATE IN THE U.S. MILITARY

ACADEMY AT WESTPOINT, NEW YORK.

COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 41ST DIVISION OF

INFANTRY IN 1941. DEFENDED THE

FORMER CAPOT HILL AS THE LAST LINE

OF DEFENSE AGAINST THE JAPANESE

IMPERIALISTS, CAPTURED AND WAS A PRISONER AT

THE SANTIAGO CAMP AND AFTER, WAS

SHOT IN THE CHINESE CEMETERY

IN 1944.

AFTER DEATH, WAS GRANTED WITH

MANY AWARDS. ONE OF THESE

IS THE AWARD OF THE RANK OF GENERAL WITH THREE

STARS. THIS COMMUNITY IS NAMED

AFTER HIM.