Taipei First Girls' High School

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Coordinates: 25°2′13.69″N 121°30′50.86″E / 25.0371361, 121.5141278

Taipei First Girls' High School
Location
No. 165, Sec. 1, Chungching S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei, Taiwan 10045, R.O.C.
Information
Type Public
Campus Urban
Color(s) Green
Established 1904
Homepage (zh) (en)
Entrance to the school.
Entrance to the school.

Taipei First Girls' High School (臺北市立第一女子高級中學) is a prestigious Taiwanese high school, located in Zhongzheng District within Taipei City.

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[edit] Overview

The school was founded in 1904 and named as Taipei State Taipei First Girls’ High School (traditional Chinese: 台北州立台北第一高等女學校) during Japan's colonial period. After the retrocession of Taiwan in 1945, the name was changed to Taiwan Provincial Taipei First Girls’ High School (traditional Chinese: 台灣省立台北第一女子中學) on December 12th. In 1967 it was renamed to Taipei Municipal First Girls’ Senior High School due to Taipei City becoming a municipality. With its history stretching back over one hundred years, the school has had over 60,000 students. Currently, the school operates seventy eight classes and has over 3,000 students.

The school's campus measures roughly 26,000 sq. metres, with a total of six main buildings - the oldest being Guang-Fu Building (traditional Chinese: 光復樓), a three storey structure built by the Japanese government in 1933. Other buildings include Ming-De Building (traditional Chinese: 明德樓, completed 1954), Zhong-Zheng Building (traditional Chinese: 中正樓, completed 1977), the Library, the Activity Center (completed 1971), and Zhi-Shan Building (traditional Chinese: 至善樓, completed 1993).

[edit] Features

Over the past few decades the school has endeavored to modernize its facilities. In 1971 a sports and assembly hall was constructed. In 1993 a new building was completed; Zhi-Chan. This five-story building has a large observatory located on the roof with several telescopes therein. Within the Zhong-Zheng building are IT facilities together with abundant reading materials, audio-visual headsets and Internet access.

The school also possesses an auditorium, conference rooms, a heated indoor swimming pool and a subterranean parking lot.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Academia

  • Connie J.Chang-Hasnain: John R. Whinnery Chair professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences department, University of California, Berkeley. Chair, nanoscale science and engineering graduate group, University of California, Berkeley. Director, Center for Optoelectronic Nanostructured SemiconductoR Technologies (CONSRT). Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and IEE.
  • Jean Chen Shih: Chair Professor, Distinguish Scholar, United States National Academy of Sciences. Vice chair, International Brain Research Committee, United States Naitonal Academy of Sciences. Boyd and Elsie Welin Professor of Molecular Pharma, Chancellor's professor, University of Southern California. Academician, Academia Sinica.
  • Ru-Chih Chow Huang: Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University. Academician, Academia Sinica. Outstanding Asian-American Scientist Award recipient.
  • Lin Li-chiung: First Asian female principal staff scientist, GE. Principal investigator of physics, National Taiwan University.
  • Chung-pei Ma: Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley. Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award recipient.
  • Feng Yen: Executive committee member, International Federation of Child Welfare. Chair professor of social work, National Taiwan University. Dean, National Taiwan University.
  • Chih Lin I: Professor of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University. Vice President and R&D Director, Advanced Wireless Technologies Communications Technologies Group, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited. Former Director of Wireless & Access Technologies, AT&T IP Architecture.
  • Chuang Chuang Tsai: Professor of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University. Former principal staff scientist, Xerox.
  • Christina Y. Liu: Chair professor, Department of Finance and Graduate Institute of Finance, National Taiwan University. Former Legislator.
  • Pi-Twan Huang: Minister, Council for Cultural Affairs. Director of Department of Higher Education. President, Tainan National University of the Arts.

[edit] Industry

  • Nancy T. Chang: Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Tanox,Inc.
  • Mei-June Liao: Divisional Vice President, HEMISPHERx Biopharma.
  • Marr Chang-Chi: Legislator of the Republic of China. Research Director, Applied Materials Co. Vice President, CDE Engineering Co.
  • Wang Po-hsia: Vice president, IBM Taiwan Corporation.
  • Chen Jin-chuan: Co-founder, General Sciences Corp. Former research fellow, NASA.
  • JoMei Chang: President and Co-founder, Viria Technology Inc. Co-founder, Teknekron Software Systems. Former principal staff scientist, AT&T.
  • Alice Hsin: CEO, Linx Communications, Inc. Former principal staff scientist, AT&T.

[edit] Politics and Military

  • Peng Feng-chih: Grand Justice of the Republic of China.
  • Wang Ching-feng: Minister of Justice of the Republic of China. Notable Taiwanese lawyer.
  • Isabelle Cheng: Intelligence agent for the National Security Bureau of Taiwan.
  • Lee Yong-ping: Former legislator. Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner.

[edit] Commerce

  • Li Wen-chih: CEO, A Plus International Inc.
  • Tzung Tsai-yi: Former Minister of Economy Affairs of the Republic of China. Former CEO, China Airlines.
  • Rebecca Kuei: Head of sales and business development at Google Taiwan.
  • Rose Tsou: Yahoo! Inc's senior vice president in Asia. Former managing director of Yahoo! Taiwan.
  • Huang Ching-wen: Chairwoman, Pacific Sogo Department Store. Former TV anchor. Former vice president in charge of enterprise evelopment under the FarEastern Group's retail business. Classmate of Lee Yong-ping.
  • Chung Chin: First chairwoman, Pacific Sogo Department Store. Former head of the Government Information Office. Former Minister without Portfolio.
  • Peiti Tung: Former COO & Executive Vice President, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc..
  • Lena Sun: Vice President, Trustworthy Mortgage Corp..
  • Yi Liu: Managing director, B&Q Taiwan.

[edit] Literature

  • Sanmao: Chinese novelist and travel writer. Penname of the celebrated Taiwanese author Chen Ping.
  • Ouyang Tzu: Penname of Hong Zhihui. Notable Taiwanese novelist and literary critic.
  • Ping Lu: Notable Chinese novel, essay, poem, commentary, and theater play author. Penname of Lu Ping.

[edit] Others

  • Fanny Ying-Yi Liao: Interior, industrial, fashion, branding designer. Top prize recipient, 2003 Milan Ermenegildo Zegna Design Award. Former medical doctor.
  • Christine Chow Ma: Head, legal department, Mega Financial Holding Company. In waiting-First lady of the Republic of China, wife of President-elect Ma Ying-Jeou.
  • Jane Lin: Principal investigator of pathology, New York Medical College. Wife of Ang Lee.

[edit] Alumni association

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