The Coconut / Ang Niyog
The then Tayabas High School published The Coconut in 1928 with Filemon Juntereal, Sr. as the first editor. The publication came out twice a month in a four-page tabloid. The magazine came as the graduation issue. The first Filipino adviser was Mr. Gabriel Tuazon.
The Lucena City-based publication of the school whose name had evolved to Quezon Provincial (later, National) High School amassed numerous awards in local and national press conferences with Miss Marie Delicia T. Unson as adviser. In the 1977 National Secondary Schools Press Conference, The Coconut reaped a golden harvest when adjudged second best high school paper in the Philippines for Bracket B, breathing on the neck of Baguio's The Pine Tree, as The Coconut garnered the most number of medals overall while The Pine Tree got the slimmest of margins in the gold medal tally.
The silver medal finish was the second best in the history of The Coconut, next only to the gold medal the 1972 powerhouse staff steered by editor-in-chief Samuel Organo took home. But not even that 1972 feat produced as many group medals as the big haul of the 1977 edition, which had Miss Normita Atienza as co-adviser and Ricardo J. Cueto, Jr as editor-in-chief. That year, The Coconut and The Pine Tree so dominated the competitions they practically divided the top group honors just between them.
The publication celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2003 where previous and present staff writers and advisers joined together to party. Present in the celebration was writer Joseph Morong, now a GMA 7 reporter.
Currently, the adviser of The Coconut and Ang Niyog is Abie Pureza with co-adviser Maria Aluinda Puno also with Ramonito Elumbaring and Vanessa Ellaga.
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