Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 2):
AUGUST 15, 1895
Asuncion Arriola-Perez (August 15, 1895 - 1967) was born in Gasan, Marinduque. She was the first Filipina to hold a cabinet rank as director of the Bureau of Public Welfare in 1941.
She joined Marking’s Guerrillas as colonel of the intelligence unit in World War II. After the war, she was Social Welfare commissioner and administrator, chairman of Pres. Elpidio Quirino’s President’s Action Committee on Social Amelioration, executive secretary of the Associated Charities of Manila and the Red Cross.
Perez wrote the book Love, Courtship and Marriage.
(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved
Photo credit: R. A. Uy
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