Genesis

I am glad someone found my email address and started writing to me. That someone was Stewart Chew. He will be able to tell us all how he worked out that the email address he came across one of the comments I made on one of the articles, from the blog on Kulim, was mine. That was how it all started.
I am William Dielenberg. I was one of the twenty odd students who enrolled at St Patrick’s School , Kulim just after the war. I believe we were the first few students who went on from there to finish School Certificate either in BM High School or somewhere else. I hunger for the names of those who were with me and especially those who taught us. I Remember a few like Auyong Teik Yoon, Stephen Loo, Lim Thean Poh and a few of the De La Salle brothers who travelled daily from Penang to administer the school.
My leaving Certificate has it that I joined the school on the 13/01/47 and the class that I was admitted to was std 3. Date of leaving 21/01/52 and reason for leaving --to join BM High School to complete my school certificate. Remarks: (among other things) - a school prefect and a scout patrol leader. (can’t remember all that).
This gives me the impetus to search for more information and I hope this Blog will bring us closer and all the memories that we are looking for --- with your help of course.

Incidentally, I forgot to add that all the male Dielenbergs went through St Pats. in subsequent years. After I completed my School Certificate I joined St. Pats Afternoon as a temporary teacher. In 1953 I was selected to complete my TTC at Kirkby. On completion of the course I was posted back to St Pats where I remained till 1960 when I was transferred to De La Salle School Klang.