Quezon National High School (QNHS) is a public secondary science high school located at Brgy. Iyam, Lucena City, Philippines with more than 11,000 enrolleess from first year to fourth year, placing it as the 2nd Most Populated School in the country.
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Tayabas High School (now Quezon National High School) was founded in October 1902 when Aubrey Boyles, a Thomasite, organized a school in a convent of Lucena on the Northern side of Saint Ferdinand Parish Church (now Lucena Cathedral). Fifty students were exposed to the English language with nineteen American teachers. The increase in student population on March 1, 1903 made Henry Balch the new principal. A strong typhoon destroyed the convent on September 26, 1905 that forced the school to be transferred to a building at Granja Street.
A two-storey building was built on June 6, 1906. Since then, a number of principals have stood at the helm of the school. When Japanese atrocities reached Atimonan, Quezon on December 23, 1941, students, despite the turmoil, 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 (ruined by a fire) became the Provincial Hospital.
Classess were transferred to the Tong Ho School Building in 1944. The formal liberation of Tayabas Province on April 4, 1945 after which classess 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 students graduated, girls in Balintawak and boys in Barong Tagalog on July 28, 1945. President Manuel Roxas signed Republic Act No. 14 on September 7, 1946 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.
Progress brings about change and change brings forth numerous problems and problems brings QNHS to the frontline - where an adage works - "there is no gain without pain in the service of educating people".
Every Filipino youth shall enjoy a better quality of life due to access to quality secondary education, good moral life, economic stability, relevant cultural values, competitive work skills, strong sense of national identity and successful adjustment to rapid changing environment.
The school aims to produce students who are both academically inclined and substantially trained in the basic work skills making them globally competitive and value-oriented through relevant and responsive curriculum.
The then Tayabas High School published The Coconut in 1928 with Filemon Juntereal, Sr. as the first editor. The publication came out twice a month in a four-page tabloid. The magazine came as the graduation issue. The first Filipino adviser was Mr. Gabriel Tuazon.
The Lucena City-based publication of the school whose name had evolved to Quezon Provincial (later, National) High School amassed numerous awards in local and national press conferences with Miss Marie Delicia T. Unson as adviser. In the 1977 National Secondary Schools Press Conference, The Coconut reaped a golden harvest when adjudged second best high school paper in the Philippines for Bracket B, breathing on the neck of Baguio's The Pine Tree, as The Coconut garnered the most number of medals overall while The Pine Tree got the slimmest of margins in the gold medal tally.
The silver medal finish was the second best in the history of The Coconut, next only to the gold medal the 1972 powerhouse staff steered by editor-in-chief Samuel Organo took home. But not even that 1972 feat produced as many group medals as the big haul of the 1977 edition, which had Miss Normita Atienza as co-adviser and Ricardo J. Cueto, Jr as editor-in-chief. That year, The Coconut and The Pine Tree so dominated the competitions they practically divided the top group honors just between them.
The publication celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2003 where previous and present staff writers and advisers joined together to party. Present in the celebration was writer Joseph Morong, now a GMA 7 reporter.
Hear the call of Alma Mater
Bidding us to be together
Let her name stand forever
Symbol bright of shining luster
Hear the ardent call of duty
Give her loyalty eternal
Show your courage, everybody
Hail and cheer the Quezon High
Altogether, win the battle of our dear old Alma Mater
Altogether, we will conquer all the foes of Quezon High
Most of the contents were acquired from QNHS Student HandBook (2006 Revised Edition)