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11 to 12 (senior high school) , city =

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, country = Philippines , zipcode = 1408 , address = Branches Ext. GSIS Village, Sangandaan , campus = Urban , pushpin_map = Manila , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Metro Manila , coordinates = , pushpin_label = Ismael Mathay Sr. High School (IMSHS) , students = 4,261 (as of SY 2021 - 2022)
Approx. 4,000 - 7,000; formerly known as referred to as "Villagers and Pioneers"; now called as "Ismaelians" , publication = ''The IMSHS Progress (Ramil Jhon P. Magno, adviser)'', formerly "The Village Bounty" (English)
''Sandigan (Bernardita T. Moron, tagapayo)'' (Filipino) , colors = , student_union = ''IMSHS Supreme Student Government (SSG)'' , type =

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, affiliations = Division of City Schools - Quezon City,

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situated in

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and more popularly known as the IMSHS, or simply, Mathay. The students and alumni are dubbed the "Ismaelians". The Village Bounty is the high school official publication formed in 1971 by the pioneer students, but all of a sudden, there are two present publications in the IMSHS and it is called in the English Journalism is The IMSHS Progress, and for the Filipino Journalism is Sandigan.

History

In 1971 parents in GSIS Village, Project 8,

petitioned for a high school within the village so that their children would not have to travel into the city for school. Later that year the city government approved the refurbishment of the second floor of the GSIS Village public market (''

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'') to form an eight-room school, the GSIS Village High School. The GSIS Village High School was originally headed by Regina I. Novales (1971–73). She was replaced by Jose V. Aguilar with the title of division supervisor-in-charge in 1974. In 1976, the ''palengke'' and the school with it were gutted by a blaze. While Ismael A. Mathay Jr. was Mayor of Quezon City (1992-2001), the GSIS Village High School was renamed after his late father, lawyer Ismael Mathay Sr.

Ismael Mathay Sr.

Ismael Mathay Sr. was a Filipino

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. In 1944, he was appointed by

Sergio Osmeña Sergio Osmeña Sr. (, ; 9 September 1878 – 19 October 1961) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He was vice president under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden ...

, second President of the

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as Commissioner of Budget and Finance for the War Cabinet (1944–45) and later as Secretary of the Budget (1945–46). In the 1960s, Ismael Mathay Sr. held a position of auditor general, board director, and general manager of the National Marketing Corporation. He studied law and was admitted to the Philippine Bar on 16 January 1925.

Levels

Grades 7 to 12

References

External links

The Ismael Mathay Sr. (GSIS Village) High School alumni link
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