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Far
Eastern
University
was
founded
in
November
1934
when
the
Far
Eastern
College
and
the
Institute
of
Accounts,
Business
and
Finance
(IABF)
merged.Far
Eastern
College,
founded
in
1919
by
Dr.
Vicente
K.
Fabella
(first
Filipino
CPA
and
father
of
Armand
V.
Fabella
former
secretary
of
education),
had
been
a
liberal
arts
college
in
Quiapo;
the
IABF
had
been
established
(originally
under
the
name
Institute
of
Accountancy)
by
Dr.
Francisco
T.
Dalupan
Sr.
with
co-founders
Dr.
Hermenegildo
Balbino
Tantoco
Reyes,
AB,
BSEE,
Ll.B
(future
university
president)
and
Dr.
Nicanor
B.
Reyes
Sr.,
head
of
the
Department
of
Economics
of
the
University
of
the
Philippines,
with
a
number
of
other
prominent
educators
in
1928.IABF
had
been
originally
predominately
used
by
night
students,
and
the
new
university,
which
was
supported
by
the
tuition
provided
by
its
students
rather
than
government
grants.
In
the
early
1930s,
FEU
was
housed
in
a
converted
tobacco
factory
La
Oriente
Fabrica
de
Tabacos
y
Compania)
(boundary
of
Quiapo
and
Sampaloc
district
lots)
already
present
on
the
four
hectare
(nearly
10
acre)
through
property
lot
owned
by
Sulucan
Hill
subdivision.
Due
to
the
widening
of
the
street
that
became
Quezon
Blvd.,
the
original
building
designed
and
built
by
Architect
Pablo
Antonio
Sr.
(National
Artist
for
Architecture)
was
demolished
and
had
to
be
rebuilt
on
a
bigger
scale
on
what
is
the
present
campus
of
FEU.
During
World
War
II,
the
campus
was
occupied
by
the
Imperial
Japanese
Army
as
their
base.
The
main
building
sustained
bullet
damage
and
the
three
other
buildings
(Girls
High,
Boys
High
and
the
old
Technology
Building)
was
not
damaged.In
1934
the
Institute
of
Law
was
founded,
and
two
years
later,
the
Institute
of
Technology,
with
Fransisco
Santana,
as
its
first
dean.
In
April
1938,
the
FEU
Junior
College
was
opened
in
Lingayen,
Pangasinan.
Dr.
Nicanor
Reyes
Sr.
was
the
first
founding
president
of
the
University,
which
spent
its
early
years
establishing
several
of
its
institutes,
including
those
of
Law
and
Technology.
Dr.
Reyes
Sr.
commissioned
Architect
Pablo
S.
Antonio
Sr.
a
brother
in
law
and
husband
of
his
sister
Marina
del
Rosario
Reyes-Antonio,
who
would
later
be
titled
as
National
Artist
under
the
National
Artist
of
the
Philippines
awards,
to
construct
the
main
building
for
the
school.
In
1939,
the
Nicanor
B.
Reyes
Sr.
Hall,
which
would
later
house
the
main
library
at
third
level
and
Institute
of
Accounts,
Business
and
Finance,
opened.
Two
other
buildings
by
Antonio,
the
Girls’
High
School
Building
and
Boys
High
School
Building,
followed
in
1940
and
1941,by
which
year
FEU
had
10,000
registered
students,
with
an
international
student
population
of
400.Dr.
Nicanor
B.
Reyes
Sr.
having
been
killed
during
the
Japanese
occupation,
Atty./Dr.
Hermenegildo
Balbino
Reyes
was
appointed
the
second
president
of
the
University
when
it
reopened
in
1945.
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