Changhua Girls' Senior High School
# Changhua Girls' Senior High School

The National Changhua Girls’ Senior High School (CHGSH; Chinese: 國立彰化女子高級中學), founded in April 1919, is a high school in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan. There are 45 classes with 1,900 students and 140 faculty members.

## Principals of the school

### Japanese Colonial Period

Since 1919, six Japanese were assigned as principals of the school.

### Since World War II

Since 1945, the school has been led by fourteen principals and all of them have been women, except the present principal, Kong Jian-Kuo.

* Chou Ze Lan (丑澤蘭 December 1945~May 1946)
* Huang Jun (黃 濬 June 1946~February 1947)
* Huang Fu Gui (皇甫珪 March 1947~June 1950)
* Lin Shi Ge (林詩閣 July 1950~August 1950)
* Fu Xiao Fong (傅曉峰 August 1950~January 1953)
* Wu Zi Wo (吳子我 February 1953~February 1956)
* Huang Dong Sheng (黃東生 February 1956~June 1957)
* Ye Shu Ren (葉淑仁 June 1957~June 1959)
* Shen Ya Li (沈雅利 June 1959~August 1966)
* Jing Sheng Ran (景生然 August 1966~September 1968)
* Bu Qing Kui (卜慶葵 September 1968~August 1979)
* Xie Yu Ying (謝玉英 August 1979~January 1992)
* He Yu Qing (賀玉琴 February 1992~January 1998)
* Chen Yue Qiong (陳月瓊 February 1998~January 2000)
* Xiao Hui Lan (蕭惠蘭 February 2000~July 2004)
* Kong Jian-Kuo (孔建國 August 2004~July 2012)
* Cheng Yao-Chung Ph.D.(鄭曜忠 August 2012~present)

## Information

* The school has had many names, becoming the National Changhua Girls' Senior High School in 2000.
* To promote the creed of "learning in serving," students, teachers, alumnae and parents are encouraged to do volunteer services.
* School clubs include a marching band and honor guard clubs. School has speech contestants in Chinese, English, and Taiwanese who attend speech contests.
* The school's foreign language courses are taught by foreign teachers. Educational tours to Japan are held every year.
* The school's alumnae are scattered throughout Taiwan and overseas, and there is an alumnae association.

## Facilities

* The school boasts a natural environment with green trees. The school makes efforts to plant vegetation and beautify the campus. There are "Blackies" (Malay night herons) on the campus.
* The school was chosen as the model school of environmental protection by Taiwan's Department of Environmental Protection.
* The school has a library with a Video On Demand (VOD) system, set up to facilitate students’ learning at any time and to provide special programs as well as movies every month.
* The school dormitory can accommodate 500 students.

## Annual events

### October

* College visits for the second graders
* Target practice for the second graders in Cheng-Kung Hill
* The performance of school band and honor guards in Double Ten Day

### December

* Anniversary celebrations and sports meet

### January

* Year-end banquet

### May

* School Carnival, held biennially

### June

* The exhibition of students’ clubs
* Graduation

## Visits to and from Japan

### 2004

* In May, 71 teachers and students visited Hashimoto High School in Wakayama Prefecture and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School in the Fukuoka Prefecture.

### 2005

* In January, the Director of Education Committee of Japan, visited Changhwa Girls’ Senior High.
* In May, 114 teachers and students from the school visited Himeji Nishi Senior High School in Hyōgo Prefecture and Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School.
* In August, ten staff who were principal, teachers, and students' parents visited Changhwa.
* For five days in September, principal Kong went to Japan for the Educational Communication Conference. On September 9, principal Kong visited Matsumoto Agatagaoka high school in Nagano Prefecture.

### 2006

* In May, 155 teachers and students visited the Director of Education Committee of Japan and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School and Seishoukai High School.

### 2007

* In May, 153 teachers and students visited Himeji Nishi Senior High School in Hyōgo Prefecture.
* In December, two officials from Japan National Tourism Organization and one official of Educational Bureau visited.

### 2008

* In May, an official from Japan National Tourism Organization's publicity department came to visit. That same month, 190 teachers and students visited Hashimoto High School and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School.

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## Notable alumni

* Liu Ts'ui-jung, historian
