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            Mabini College was founded in Iriga, Camarines Sur, now Iriga City as Camarines Sur Institute with an enrolment of only twelve (12) students.  The founder, the late Miguel R. Ibana  Mabini College was founded in Iriga, Camarines Sur, now Iriga City as Camarines Sur Institute with an enrolment of only twelve (12) students.  The founder, the late Miguel R. Ibana and his students were aptly called �Mr. Ibana and his twelve disciples.� From this humble beginning, fate had made it, so that it grows to encounter almost all insurmountable difficulties that only sheer determination, perseverance and untold sacrifices could overcome.  Its triumph over the test and vicissitudes of time is now a gain say� a monumental contribution to education in Camarines Norte.

            The Monroe Educational Survey Commission, which appraised the condition of the private schools in 1928, found most private schools over the island to be hopelessly substandard.  As a consequence, a vigorous purge of undesirable private schools was instituted and 38% were closed.  Surviving this purge were only two private schools in the Bicol Region, one of these two was Camarines Sur Institute.  During the ensuing years, this school gained prestige as the biggest private school in the Bicol Region under a new name, Apolinario Mabini Institute.  

            While this school in Iriga was at its zenith, the World War II broke out and they did not spare the school from destruction.  Its building were ruined, the books burned, school equipment were looted that at the end of the war, it had to start from scratch.  Capitalizing on its pre war name, the school was preferred and patronized by students in that area.  The incidental increase in enrolment poised many problems to the school.  But its founder was equal to the task that in a brief period of two years, he started to establish a higher standard than many other private schools in the region that by 1948, it became the leading private school in Bicol.  The following year, despite its growing enrolment and prestige in Iriga, the late founder and his inspiring and self sacrificing wife, Mrs. Flora Avila-Ibana, decided to transfer the school to Daet, Camarines Norte to serve their native province for the remaining years of their lives.

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