Executive Order No. 61 (1913)
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU.
MANILA, August 18, 1918.
EXECUTIVE ORDER :
No. 61.
With deepest sorrow I announce the death of Frank R. White, Director of Education of the Government of the Philippine Islands, at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila at noon on August 17, 1913.
Mr. White was born on June 8, 1875, at Milburn, Ill. He was a student in Bellevue College, Nebraska, from 1893 to 1895, and received the degree of bachelor of philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1900. After leaving the uni-versity, he was appointed inspector of the charitable in-stitutions of the city of Chicago for the Associated Charities of Chicago. He was one of the pioneers in the Philippine service, arriving on May 15, 1901, as a teacher in the Bu-reau of Education. On October 1, 1901, he was appointed deputy division superintendent in the Province of Tarlac; on November 1, 1902, division superintendent in the same province; on March 7, 1903, assistant to the General Super-intendent of Education; on August 18, 1906, Second As-sistant Director of Education, and on November 28, 1909, he was made Director of Education.
The services of Mr. White to the Philippine people and the Philippine Government have been singularly efficient, faithful, and unselfish. The educational system of the Phil-ippines has. been developed under his management in high degree. The youth of this land owe to his memory a debt of gratitude which should inspire them to their best efforts.
In sorrowing testimony of the loss which has befallen the service, I direct that the flag on the building occupied by the Bureau of Education be placed at half staff for thirty days, and that the flags on all other Government build-ings and offices be placed at half staff on the day of the funeral from sunrise to sunset; that the building of the Bureau of Education and office of the deceased be draped in mourning; that the Bureau of Education be closed during the day of the funeral, and that all other bureaus and offices be closing during the hour of the funeral. ;
The funeral services will be held in the Marble Hall at the Ayuntamiento at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, August 19.
W. CAMERON FORBES, Governor-General.