David Sutherland Hibbard

Dr. David Sutherland Hibbard was an American Presbyterian missionary who went to the Philippines to establish, Silliman University, the first American and Protestant school in the country after the Spanish-American war.

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• There were fifteen boys that first morning. The equipment consisted of four desks about ten feet long, two tables and two chairs, a few McGuffey’s Readers, a few geographies, arithmetics and ninth-grade grammars. I was President; Mrs. Hibbard was the faculty.
  • A comment he made half a century later after the school's founding

• What is it that Silliman University wears under your necktie that is your heart but which shines forth on your face? … they are Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control .. these are fruits of the Spirit …they are what Silliman wants you to wear in your hearts.
  • A statement he made before an audience in 1952