Snippets from 1970 - the class of Form 1A - Ipoh ACS
Back row – L to R:Teoh Chen Hone, Chan Weng Woh, Neoh Peng Huan, Yeong Siew Fai, xx, Kwa Ghee Ghee-?, Poon Pak Keen (d), Tuen Chee, Lim Beng Fook, Kong Yow Meng -?, Lim Soon Chee, Lee Hung Cheong, Kam Lup Seong, Lam Lip Keong, Leong Pak Cheong, Dutugamunu Kumara Bandara, Ooi Yew Hock, xx.
Middle row – L to R:
Tan Chee Keong, Chua Soon Huat, xx, xx, Tang Swee Tong, sx, xx, xx, Panchannathan-?, Syed Anwar Ali, Parameswaran, Lam Weng Chong, Yong Siew Fai-?, James Jeyaratnam, Tan Say Jim, Choy Khai Choon
Front row - L to R:
Koo Kong Khen, Eddy Cheah Hock Seng, Gunasegan-?, Leong Weng Foo, Wong Choong Meng, Chan Kah Cheong, Mr. Lee Chong Lay – Form Teacher, Alan Hor Yew Tuck, Peter Lai , Ho Peng Meng, Lee Seng Yap, Chan Choong Phooi, Chan Swee Loon
Snippets from 1970
It was perhaps the first introductory lesson in Japanese. He was our history teacher, an Indian man of about forty odd years, who always wore a faint smile on his face whenever you greeted him. He had a pair of spectacles with a slight tint.
I remember him writing some Japanese characters on the black board. He said that he learnt Japanese during the Occupation, and that was thirty five years ago from then. He was perhaps about 10 years old during the Occupation.
Thirty eight odd years have passed since then, and people of his generation would be into their mid seventies and the last of the generation who would have experienced the war years in Ipoh.
The form teacher Mr Lee Chong Lay was also our swimming master. He coached the school swimming team. In that year one of the school female swimmer, Ong May Leng, was awarded the Malaysia Sportswoman of the Year, and I remember he brought the trophy to class and showed it to us. Some of us tried to carry it and it was heavy being made entirely of pewter.
Though ACS was a boy’s school, May Leng was in her Form Six years, equivalent to the Junior College or the matriculation pre-university years. She was the star swimmer of the late sixties and early seventies years, and represented the country in international meets.
We were 13 years old, and not really as an adult yet. To us we would viewed the Six Formers with a sense of awe, as they had passed their MCE and got thro another major hurdle in the government examination in their Fifth Form years and were a step away from entering the university..
It was perhaps the first introductory lesson in Japanese. He was our history teacher, an Indian man of about forty odd years, who always wore a faint smile on his face whenever you greeted him. He had a pair of spectacles with a slight tint.
I remember him writing some Japanese characters on the black board. He said that he learnt Japanese during the Occupation, and that was thirty five years ago from then. He was perhaps about 10 years old during the Occupation.
Thirty eight odd years have passed since then, and people of his generation would be into their mid seventies and the last of the generation who would have experienced the war years in Ipoh.
The form teacher Mr Lee Chong Lay was also our swimming master. He coached the school swimming team. In that year one of the school female swimmer, Ong May Leng, was awarded the Malaysia Sportswoman of the Year, and I remember he brought the trophy to class and showed it to us. Some of us tried to carry it and it was heavy being made entirely of pewter.
Though ACS was a boy’s school, May Leng was in her Form Six years, equivalent to the Junior College or the matriculation pre-university years. She was the star swimmer of the late sixties and early seventies years, and represented the country in international meets.
We were 13 years old, and not really as an adult yet. To us we would viewed the Six Formers with a sense of awe, as they had passed their MCE and got thro another major hurdle in the government examination in their Fifth Form years and were a step away from entering the university..
ps:
- notes from ccp / updated 16Jun08
As for the picture of Form 1A posted in your blog, I can perhaps help with some names. Top row (4th from left) after Peng Huan, this should be Lee Yong Wai (not Yong Siew Fai whom you have named correctly in the next row next to Lam Weng Chong). Also on the top row, between Yong Wai and Ghee Kee, this Indian boy could be Panichelwan (or something to that effect). The Singh in the second row is either Karam Singh or Jaspal Singh. I am more inclined to Karam. And lastly in the front row between Eddy and Weng Fu should be Rajendran (and not Gunasegaran). Hope this helps
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