Senior high school in QC to be named after writer Nick Joaquin

June 7, 2018

A senior high school in Quezon City to be named after National Artist Nick Joaquin will be established,  the Quezon City local government said in a press release Thursday.

Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista has signed an ordinance establishing the Nick M. Joaquin Senior High School within the campus of Toro Hills Elementary School in Barangay Bahay Toro.

City Ordinance 2663-2018, introduced by Councilor Julienne Alyson Rae Medalla, said it aims to provide senior high school students more facilities suitable for their chosen tracks in academic and technical-vocational livelihood.

Nick M. Joaquin Senior High School will initially offer the following courses: Academic tracks: accountancy, business and management strand, humanities and social sciences strand, and general academic strand; and technical-vocational livelihood tracks: animation/technical drafting strands.

City Council Resolution No. 3, Series of 2017 had mandated the new senior high school shall be named after the late National Artist for Literature Nick M. Joaquin in recognition of his significant contribution to Philippine literature and journalism.

Nick Joaquin, a journalist and one of the best Philippine short story writers in English, was named National Artist in 1976 and won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts in 1996.

Joaquin, then editor of the weekly Philippine Graphic, died in 2004, at the age of 87. DMS