Taipei First Girls' High School

Taipei First Girls' High School
Location
No. 165, Sec. 1, Chongqing S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei, Taiwan 10045, R.O.C.
Information
Type	Public
Established	1904
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	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 a prestigious Taiwanese high school, located in Zhongzheng District within Taipei City, with only the top 1% of scorers on the Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students (國民中學學生基本學力測驗) receiving admission.

Overview

The school was founded in 1904 and named as Taipei State Taipei First Girls’ High School (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 (Chinese: 台灣省立台北第一女子中學) on December 12. 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 (Chinese: 光復樓), a three storey structure built by the Japanese government in 1933. Other buildings include Ming-De Building (Chinese: 明德樓, completed 1954), Zhong-Zheng Building (Chinese: 中正樓, completed 1977), the Library, the Activity Center (completed 1971), and Zhi-Shan Building (Chinese: 至善樓, completed 1993).

The school is famous for the traditions it maintains, including a uniform of green blouse and black skirt, carried over from air-raid days. An alumni T-shirt says "Green Shirt Legend" in Chinese on the right, "T.F.G." on the left, and on the back, an illustration of the campus, complete with students in green shirts.

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.

Notable alumni

Academia

• Lily Yeh Jan: Member, United States National Academy of Sciences. Academician, Academia Sinica. Professor, University of California, San Francisco.

• Jennie S. Hwang: First Chinese female member, United States National Academy of Engineering. Distinguished professor, Case Western Reserve University. President, H-Technologies Group, Inc.

• Teresa H. Meng: Second Chinese female member (after Jennie S. Hwang), United States National Academy of Engineering. Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Founder and director, Atheros. IEEE Fellow.

• Wen-hsin Yeh: Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, University of California, Berkeley.

• Yeh Nai-chang: The first and the sole female professor of physics, California Institute of Technology.

• Jen Sheen: Professor of Genetics, Harvard University. Academician, Academia Sinica.

• 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 National 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.

• You-Hua Chu: Chair professor of astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Lin Li-chiung: First Asian female principal staff scientist, GE. Principal investigator of physics, National Taiwan University.

• Anne Chao: Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Member, International Statistical Institute. Professor of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University. Chair Professor of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University. Taiwan National Chair Professor.

• Chung-pei Ma: Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley. Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award recipient.

• Mei-Chi Shaw: Professor of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame.

• Eunice L. Lau: Principal investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.

• Louise T. Chow: Former Senior Scientist with tenure, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Discoverer of RNA splicing and alternative RNA processing.

• 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.

• Judy S. Lu: Head, Collection Services, Asian Division, Library of Congress.

• 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.

• Lucie Cheng: Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles. Former director, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA. Founding Director, Center for Pacific Rim Studies, UCLA.

• Helen Lee: Principal Investigator of Haematology, University of Cambridge. Former principal staff scientist, Abbott Laboratories. European Women of Achievement Award recipient.

• Jean Y.J. Wang: Principal investigator, Medical Center, University of California, San Diego.

• Frances Yao: Chair professor of the department of computer science at the City University of Hong Kong. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Jane Lin: Principal investigator of pathology, New York Medical College. (Married to artist Ang Lee.)

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.

• Tri-Rung Yew: Deputy Division Director, Central R&D, United Microelectronics Corporation. Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Department, National Tsing Hua University.

• Sheueling Chang-Shantz: Distinguished Engineer, cryptographer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

• Alice Hsin: CEO, Linx Communications, Inc. Former principal staff scientist, AT&T.

• Chiam Wu: Group Vice President of Applied Materials and Vice Chairwoman of Applied Materials Taiwan. Vice President of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, responsible for worldwide customer service.

• Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.

Politics and Military

• Annette Lu: First female Vice president of the Republic of China.

• Chai Huei-jen: Major General of the Republic of China Army. Former associate professor, National Defense Medical Center.

• Ch'ih Yu-lan: Major General of the Republic of China Army.

• Peng Feng-chih: Grand Justice of the Republic of China.

• Wang Ching-feng: Minister of Justice of the Republic of China. Notable Taiwanese lawyer.

• Bonnie Peng: Minister of National Communication Commission of the Republic of China. Professor, Department of Journalism, National Chengchi University.

• Wang Ju-Hsuan: Minister, Council for Labor Affairs of the Republic of China. Notable Taiwanese lawyer.

• Liu Chu-chi: Minister of Examination of the Republic of China. Professor of Law, Fu Jen Catholic University.

• Isabelle Cheng: Intelligence agent for the National Security Bureau of Taiwan.

• Lee Yong-ping: Former legislator. Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner.

• Hedy Chang: Former mayor and alderwoman, Morgan Hill, California.

• Wang Li-chih: First Asian alderwoman, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Commerce

• Joanna Chien Lei: The first and the sole Asian female deputy CEO, American Broadcasting Company. Legislator of Taiwan.

• 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.

• Lu Yu-min: Managing director, Estée Lauder Companies Taiwan.

• Yao Li-hsien: Managing director, Philips Taiwan.

• Christine Chow Ma: Former head of legal department at Mega Financial Holding Company. First lady of the Republic of China, wife of President Ma Ying-Jeou.

Arts and 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.

• Chu Tien-hsin: Notable Taiwanese author.

• Qiu Miaojin: Notable Taiwanese lesbian author.

• Ping Lu: Notable Chinese novel, essay, poem, commentary, and theater play author. Penname of Lu Ping.

• Fanny Ying-Yi Liao: Interior, industrial, fashion, branding designer. Top prize recipient, 2003 Milan Ermenegildo Zegna Design Award. Former medical doctor.

• Selina Jen: Singer. Member of the Taiwanese girl-band S.H.E..

Sports

• Shu-Ju Chi: Olympic bronze medalist in taekwondo, 2000 Sydney.

Others

• Chiang Hsiao-chang: Daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo.

• Chen Hsing-yu: Dentist. Daughter of Chen Shui-bian.

Alumni association

• Taiwan Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Northern California Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Southern California Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Greater Washington Area Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Midwest Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Houston Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Atalanta Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Greater New York Area Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School
• Japan Alumni Association of Taipei First Girls' High School

See also

• Education in the Republic of China
• List of schools in Taiwan
• High School

External links

• Official website (Chinese)
• Official website (English)