The following article by is Neni Sta. Romana Cruz. This is part of the book BEHIND THE WALLS: LIFE OF CONVENT GIRLS, a collection of personal essays by graduates of Philippine Convent Schools. The collection includes writings by Gemma Cruz, Imelda Nicolas, Herminia Menez Coben, and others.
For more information about the book, visit https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/behind-the-walls/ . The online store of the publisher Anvil Philippines may have a few copies.
GROWING UP ST. SCHOLASTICAN
by Neni Sta. Romana Cruz
copyright 2005 and 2023 by Neni Sta Romana Cruz
Because my mother and her four sisters had all studied at St. Scholastica’s College in their girlhood, I too, like the rest of my female first cousins, had to study there, if I was deemed to be brought up with the proper trappings of respectability.
