CATBALOGAN, Samar
– A New Schools Division
Superintendent has assumed post at the Department of Education’s Samar
Division Wednesday, June 21, following the reassignment of Mr. Teotimo
Orbeso in Tacloban City to head the City’s Schools Division.
Dr. Niña J. Villalon
officially assumed office as the new Schools Division Superintendent
during the turn-over ceremony attended by DepEd Assistant Regional
Director Atty. Alberto Escobarte and Samar Congressmen Reynaldo S. Uy
(1st district) and Catalino Figueroa (2nd district).
Dr. Villalon, in her
acceptance speech, stressed her primary commitment to understand, love
and serve the people of the area where she is currently assigned.
She likewise vowed to
“put others” in her agenda above herself and not to be
possession-conscious but “serve the people out of love” while
performing her duty as a public servant.
The new DepEd Division
Superintendent, who hails from Oras,
Eastern Samar,
noted that her greatest test in her present assignment is on how to
work with the people and on how to establish linkage with government
officials in
Samar.
Dr. Villalon served as
the City Schools Division Superintendent in Maasin City before her
assignment in Samar. She was credited for the successful
implementation of the City’s health and nutrition program in her stint
there as Schools Division Superintendent.
Meanwhile, Congressman
Uy appealed to Dr. Villalon to exert efforts to totally stop the
asking of money from teacher applicants by some officials in the
division office and in preventing teachers from engaging in partisan
politics during elections.
Uy cited the case in
Pagsanghan town where the number of voters had been jacked up from
4,000 to 7,000 with the alleged collusion between the district
supervisor and other school officials.
