By Adie C. Pena [DLSC GS64, LSGH HS68, DLSU BSChE 73]

In 1956, the De La Salle Brothers of then De La Salle College Manila acquired a 6-hectare piece of land in the then undeveloped Green Hills area. Three years later (in July 1959), La Salle Green Hills opened its doors.

An article in a forty-four-year-old LSGH publication describes the beginnings of the fourth oldest La Salle school in the Philippines. "In 1959 the enrollment started with Prep, Grade One and Grade Two. The total number was a mere 178 boys taught by six teachers under the direction of Brother U. Alphonsus who had some thirty years of previous classroom experience. Then we were just another small school somewhere in the deserted, streetless, uninhabited (except by herds of carabaos) rolling hills near the then hardly used Highway 54. In the distance we could see our nearest neighbors the Army Camps, Camp Murphy and Camp Crame. A short two years later, cemented roads were being laid out. Gilmore Avenue became passable and the students identified themselves as the Rangers of Green Hills."