330:"You are all mountaineers and I am a mountaineer, so we will understand each other. We don't know much about giving commencement addresses and much less about oratory. In our little corner of the Philippine Islands, we shall have just a plain straight talk this morning... We should try to help and encourage each other. We are only very few with the advantage of education so we cannot afford to be kicking each other or biting each other. But if we stick together and pull together, we can do much to improve ourselves and help our people."
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280:, which was becoming the new regional centre of the American colonial outpost in northern Luzon. In 1906, he entered the Easter School, an all-boys private school established by the American missionaries, with fellow Bontoc students. Clapp was taught how to become "a good Christian and good patriot." As a student, he excelled in his studies, showing characteristics of perseverance and intelligence. He was chosen by the Episcopal missions to study abroad and to prepare him for becoming a priest.
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314:. He interned in St. Luke's Hospital in Manila. In 1922, he returned to his hometown of Bontoc, where he was married to a nurse and had children. In 1924, he became a resident physician at the Bontoc General Hospital. There, he was appointed district officer serving for 13 years. Within the local community, he became a prominent leader due to his Western education and connection to colonial officials.
250:. In the late 1890s, when the Philippines was ceded by Spain to the United States, Protestantism started to take roots in northern Luzon highlands with the arrival American missionaries. It was in this context that he became one of the first Protestant converts among the Bontoc people.
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Note: The eight Bontoc students recorded were Hilary P. Clapp, Clement Irving, Saturnino
Moldero, Anacleto Galo, Narciso Cariño, Edward Muket, Stanley Kalingan, Henry Anamot, James Amok, Francis Padsing, Benjamin Pelew and Charles Pucay. The rest of the boys were not identified.
347:. He then became the first Igorot governor of Mountain Province. From late 1944 to early 1945, U.S. forces went on a campaign to regain control of the archipelago. Meanwhile, Filipino resistance was concentrated in the mountains. As governor, Clapp worked secretly with the
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Early black-and-white image of Pit-a-pit as a long-haired naked boy beside an image of him as an adult in a suit with a skimmer hat was widely circulated during the
American colonial regime. They first appeared in the 1914 book
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268:, or cap, woven of line rattan fibers, ornamented with dog-teeth and horse hair plumes, on the back of his long, flowing black hair.” He was later adopted by the priest and gave him the name Hilary Clapp.
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Ontario. He displayed skills in learning languages and competitive sports. However, he didn't find interested in ordained ministry. In 1910, Bishop Brent brought him back to the Philippines.
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Clayton Clapp, an Episcopalian priest who volunteered to be a missionary to the Philippines. Upon arrival in Manila in 1901, the priest was sent by
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American missionaries in hiding in order to protect his people. But, he was still labeled by some as a collaborator and traitor.
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Marshall, Alison (January 2016). "Hilary Pit-a-pit Clapp (1894-1945): From "wild" igorot
Filipino boy to christianized doctor".
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broke, Dr. Clapp was offered the governorship under the civilian government reorganized by the
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basin in the mountainous region of the Cordillera, during the
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509:"Easter College - A brief history"
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570:Baguio Bulletin, May 8, 1931
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355:Portrayals
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