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The inner court witnessed the yearly junior and senior prom nights.

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Quezon High Celebrates Centennial Year

http://ca.geocities.com/qphs100
http://us.geocities.com/qphs100  

By Bal Yujuico'68

TORONTO, CANADA

September 4, 2001

It will be a year- long celebration in Lucena City for Quezon Provincial/National High School's 100th year from its foundation.

The Executive Committee headed by  Fiscal Romeo Dato, also an alumnus and current principal Roman Salazar announced that the festivities will commence on October 1, 2001 culminating in a glittering banquet peppered with ceremonies and programs a year after at the Queen Marguerite ballroom in the outskirts of Lucena.    Former Congressman Danny Suarez , ’58 will host a dinner-dance at the Lucena Convention Center December 14, 2001.

A parade along the thoroughfares of Lucena on October 1st, 2001 will usher the start of this grand affair to drum up interest for graduates to participate.  Another grand parade slated on October 2nd 2002 will cap the grand reunion of graduates expected to attend from all over the Philippines and abroad.  Already hundreds of graduates in Europe, Canada, USA , Middle East, Australia  have expressed interest this early through various exchange of e-mails and  alumni website bulletin boards.

A separate booth at the school site will be encouraged  for each class year in order to foster camaraderie among former graduates for at least a week prior to October 2nd, 2002.

In, Toronto, Canada, a group of alumni spearheaded by Bal Yujuico ’68 and Bella Aman ’73 have organized a centennial bash fund-raising dinner dance to be held on July 20, 2002 at Thornhill Community Centre Banquet Hall in North Toronto.  “It will be a party all night long with a capacity of 550 attendees followed by excursion trips to Niagara Falls and possibly Montreal.” ,  the group organizers announced.  Pls refer to the icons “Invitation”  and “Contact Us”  on the above websites for further details such as map direction and other information.

The Quezon High centennial party in Toronto coincides with the week-long World Catholic Youth Rally  July 23-28, 2002  to be held in this city as declared by the Pope.  It will be attended by some 100,000 visitors from all over the world.  "We hope that youth delegates who are students or graduates of Quezon High can have some time with us here in Toronto, Canada to share this precious moment"  the organizers continued.  Invitation letters for visitor's visa purposes will be issued to interested graduates from abroad.

"We are deeply encouraged with the enthusiasm and cooperation demonstrated by former graduates and we are thankful to whatever help each of them  will provide towards the success of this event", expressed Mr. Dato in an overseas call.

The centennial Executive Committee will again meet on September 20, 2001 in Lucena to discuss further details of this grand reunion.   The Committee will provide an update  which will be posted  on this class 1968 website.

Communication links, a nostalgic tour of Quezon High campus and a forum icon for graduates are available in this site.  In a month's time, another independent website exclusive to the centennial celebration is being constructed by Toronto group in order to hasten electronic e-mails among graduates.

In another light, Quezon High already applied for sisterhood with any school in San Diego, California through the International Sister Cities Corporation.  "We received already a positive response and we are also prepared  for any  group meetings of former graduates of Quezon High in the USA and Canada in the coming months to explain our school's projects", Salazar noted in his communique to graduates.

"I am looking forward for this plan to push through and for the success of the 100th year celebration of Quezon National High School."  Salazar continued.