Manimtim, Joyce Marisse

BSn-IVB

QUEZON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Quezon National High School is a public secondary science high school located in Brgy. Iyam,
Lucena City. It is one of the oldest public schools and considered second most populated school in the
Philippines with greater than 11,000 enrollees from Grade 7 to Grade 10. This institution provides
curriculum-based excellent education to produce graduates who are both academically trained in the
basic working skills making them globally competitive.

Quezon National High School is formerly known by the names Tayabas High School and Quezon
Provincial High School. It was started October 1902 where Quezon National High School was established
by Aubrey Boyles initially housed fifty students who studied the English language under the supervision
of American teachers who were sent by the U.S. government during the American colonial period. They
were Charlie Anderson, Wesley Refo, Olive Anderson, Albert Searle, William Cantrel
Nell Searle, Eugene Carslon, Alice Shipley, Mabel Carlso, Lula Shipley, Mary Coleman, Leonard Stever,
Wilma Davies, Margaret Taylor, Alice Franklin, Russel Taylor, Blanche Hall, Agnes Van Winkle, Robert
Hall, Harold Van Winkle, Grace Hawley, Hazel Wood, Guy Hawley, Jennie Wright, Albert Haynes
Mabel Zuigg, Reulah Kane, Robert Zuigg and lastly, Vinda Orata.
Manimtim, Joyce Marisse
BSn-IVB

Classes were first held at St. Ferdinand Parish Church (now known as St. Ferdinand Cathedral)
until a typhoon destroyed it in 1905. On March 1, 1903, Henry Balch was made as a new principal
because of the increase in student population. While September 26, 1905, there was a strong typhoon
destroyed the 5th convent which constrained that school to be transferred to a building at Granja Street.

It was then moved to a two-storey building (built on June 6, 1906) in Granja Street where classes
were conducted until the early years of the Japanese occupation. Japanese atrocities reached Atimonan,
Quezon on December 23, 1941. Despite the turmoil, students continued to flock to Tayabas High School
and all of them were automatically promoted. After a year, classes resumed at the Lucena Elementary
School (now Lucena West) for girls and at the Trade school for boys. The Gabaldon Building became the
Provincial Hospital.

In 1944, classes were transferred to the Tong Ho School Building and the formal liberation of
Tayabas Province was on April 4, 1945 after which classes opened at Lucena Catholic Hall (now Maryhill
College Building).

In June 1945, the high school was relocated at the Tayabas Provincial Capitol (now Quezon
Provincial Capitol) and the court of First Instance Building, whereby fifty-four student graduated, girls
wore Balintawak and boys wore Barong Tagalog on July 28, 1945. President Manuel Roxas signed
Republic Act No. 14 on September 7, 1946 which renamed the province of Tayabas to Quezon thus,
Tayabas High School became Quezon Provincial High School.

The Batas Pambansa no. 1820 renamed Quezon Provincial High School as Quezon National High
School with Dr. Cesar Villariba as the author

Presently housing an approximate 11,000 students from all over Quezon and other neighboring
provinces, Quezon National High School has maintained a reputation for being the premiere secondary
school, not only in Lucena City, but in the whole province as well as shown by its long list of alumni who
have made names for themselves in the different professions they chose.