History

THE SAN PEDRO COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

The genesis of San Pedro College of Business Administration cannot be told without advertising to the life of a man – Mr. Cheng Eng Teng. His was a story of adventures and guts, of patience and perseverance, of hard and rugged existence as a fisherman in the stormy seas of Mercedes near Daet, Camarines Norte in Bicol Province. For years he plodded on, eking out a living without ever enjoying the benefit of a formal education. Mr. Cheng used to recall vividly this hard life which was a continuation of the various jobs he held being a vendor and an errand boy in Manila, Quezon, and other places in Luzon.

Ever watchful of better opportunities, Mr. Cheng’s venturesome spirit finally lured him away from Bicol and led him to San Pedro, then a sleepy agricultural town of the Laguna Province. In the time-honored Chinese tradition of heaping the fruits of honesty and hard work, the man carried on and managed to inch his way up economically through sheer austere living and hard-earned savings.

Gradually, his roots took hold in San Pedro. He witnessed the government build a resettlement site for indigent families at Barrio San Jose, Carmona, Cavite, the western border of San Pedro, and watched with excitement and expectation the construction of a railroad line at the site.

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Soon, commuter trains began to service the locality and along with this increased accessibility, industries and commerce of every description began moving into the area. The once rustic setting of San Pedro then underwent the inevitable holistic evolution: increase in population resulted into a broader and more extensive socio-economic base leading the way to the expansion of infrastructures and more housing for the people.

With grateful heart, Mr. Cheng was an able, willing and dynamic participant in the social evolution that took hold of his town. As time passed, his roots dug deeper and grew stronger along with the steeliness of his...