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Gleaning from the Archives of the Pensionado Story

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Ilustrados in Madrid, c.1890; Standing clockwise from left: Vicente Francisco, Cajigas, José Abreu, Mariano Abella, Dominador Gómez, Francisco Tongio Liongson, Flaviano Cordecruz, a Tuazon from Malabon, Alejandro Yance de Lara, Lauro Dimayuga, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Gregorio Aguilera, José Rizal, José Alejandrino, Baldomero Roxas, Moises Salvador, Modesto Reyes, Gaudencio Juanengo, Pablo Rianzares Bautista; Seated from left: Dr. Santamaria, Candido Morada, Damaso Ponce, Ariston Bautista, Pedro Serrano Lactao, and Teodoro Sandiko
This group of pensionados belong to the class chosen in 1904. It is a smaller class than the 100 chosen in 1903. For the first time women were included in the class. This group picture is not complete. There are 29 pensionados in the picture but other records listed 39. Where are the other ten? William A. Sutherland, the New Mexico educator who started the program, is standing on the right, third row. I assume the lady on his right is Mrs. Minnie Sutherland. The other American couple in the third row is unidentified.
This is the class of 1903, the first group of pensionados who left Manila on Oct. 9, 1903. They all attended high schools in California. This picture was taken in Santa Barbara, California the summer of 1904, before they left to work in the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair. In the fall they would scatter to perhaps as many as a dozen American Universities and colleges to start their American education. The man with the #1 on his jacket is Dr. William A. Sutherland. The lady on his right may have been Mrs. Minnie Sutherland.