The Past Leaders of Quezon City: Rodriguez

THE ADELINA S. RODRIGUEZ ADMINISTRATION
April 1, 1976 – April 13, 1986

After Mayor Amoranto tendered his resignation on March 30, 1976, President Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos had chosen Adelina Rodriguez to take his place. On March 31, 1976, Rodriguez took her oath of office before the President.

Mayor Adelina Rodriguez is the wife of then governor of the province of Rizal, Isidro Rodriguez. She comes form an affluent Pampango family whose social standing is enviable. Her father, the late Eleuterio Santos, used to run several first class theaters in manila-the grand opera house, Plaza Theater and the Tivoli.

Quezon City, under the stewardship of Mayor Rodriguez, was able to catch up with the growing demands for development infrastructure, community service and the seven-point management program enunciated by the First Lady and Metro manila Governor Imelda Marcos. This program is intended to meet the immediate social needs of the metropolitan residents for health care, recreation, and leisure activities, cultural advancement and ecological balance.

Her vision was geared towards the improvement of underdeveloped streets and facilities designed to stave off decay and underdevelopment of communities. It also included installation of public faucets and artesian wells at depressed areas.


It was also during the administration of Rodriguez that Quezon City has fully managed to correct a three decade long historical anomaly concerning the absence of a fitting memorial to its founder Manuel Luis Molina Quezon.

The monument was unveiled on August 19, 1977 at Quezon City quadrangle. The monument was cast in bronze and stands 11 feet tall half twice the life size of Quezon on a 14-feet high marble pedestal. This unveiled in commemoration of the 99th birthday of Quezon.


excerpts from
http://www.qcpubliclibrary.org/qcmanuscript.php#rodriguez_administration