Taipei First Girls' High School

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Taipei First Girls High School

Established	1904
School type	Public
Location	No. 165, Sec. 1, Chungching S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei, Taiwan 10045, R.O.C.
Campus	Urban
School colors	Green
Website	(zh) (en)

Entrance to the school.

Taipei First Girls' High School(臺北市立第一女子高級中學) is one of the best Taiwanese girls high school located in Zhongzheng District within Taipei City.

1 Overview
2 Features
3 Famous alumni
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Overview

The school was founded in 1904 and named as "Taipei State Taipei First Girls’ High School" during Japan's colonial period. After the retrocession of Taiwan in 1945, the name was changed to “Taiwan Provincial Taipei First Girls’ High School” 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 Gaung-Fu, a three storey structure built by the Taiwanese government in 1933. Other buildings include Ming-De (completed 1954), Zhong-Zheng Building (completed 1977), the Library, the Activity Center (completed 1971), and Zhi-Shan Building (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-storey 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] Famous alumni

Annette Lu: First female vice president of Republic of China.
Lily Yeh Jan: Member, National Academy of Sciences. Academician, Academia Sinica. Professor, University of California, San Francisco.
Jennie S. Hwang: First Chinese female member, National Academy of Engineering. Distinguished professor, Case Western Reserve University. President, H-Technologies Group, Inc.
Ru-Chih Chow Huang: Academician, Academia Sinica. Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
Jean Chen Shih: Academician, Academia Sinica. Chancellor's professor, University of Southern California.
Yeh Nai-chang : The first and the sole female professor of physics, California Institute of Technology.
Connie J.Chang-Hasnain: 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.
You-Hua Chu: Chair professor of astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nancy T. Chang: Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Tanox,Inc.
Chen Hsing-yu: Dentist. Daughter of Chen Shui-bian.
Hedy Chang: Former mayor and alderwoman, City of Morgan Hill, California, USA.
Wang Li-chih: First Asian alderwoman,Copenhagen,Denmark.
Joanna Chien Lei: Legislator of Taiwan. First Asian female deputy CEO, American Broadcasting Network CO.
JoMei Chang: President and Co-founder, Viria Technology Inc. Co-founder, Teknekron Software Systems.