to William from David and his response

Greetings William.
Haven't been accessing your blog for a long time as I was very busy. It was my brother stewart who drew my attention to this picture of the boy scouts to see how many I could recall. Straight away I could figure Kok Poh and Hardev Singh and will take my time to figure out who the rest are.

A point of correction here William regarding Auyong Teik Yoon. He was still very much alive in 1960 when I was in Form 3. He passed away only in late 1965. I attended his funeral then. Will catch up with you later.

Regards,
David

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David,
Not heard from you for a long time. How are things? How did your attempt at your doctorate go?
I know, the blog has not had any life at all mainly because I have not had any contributions from anyone. I really thought, after the reunion the blog would pick up more energy. It is true only a few of our comrades have access to computers let alone the knowledge of using the damn thing. Some are just lazy.
I hope you can help me revive it.
It was a quick guess. I remember attending his funeral in Pagat Teras( is that what the place is called?). I could not have been to his funeral after 1960 because I left Kulim in late 1959. Too confusing.
Any way glad to hear from you again. Keep in touch. Your brother has give up and gone fishing.
Bill

Teddy C Dielenberg

Old Xavarian
Looking very prosperous and confident

Who is who?

Referring to the picture of all of us scouts taken outside St.Patricks in 1957 (compliments of William Dielenberg). Back row (L-R): Veerasamy, Teddy Dielenberg, ?,?,?,?, Tan Ooi Seng (lives in J Kelang Lama, opposite Kong Peng Cloth Merchants, cousin of Kee Chang), Kim Chooi (a surveyor who used to live opposite Kulim Cathay Cinema), Rockson Loo (married Lucy, brother-in-law of Allan Khee - they were in our '58 Reunion) and of course yours truly (gee, I'am kinda tiny!). Front row, can't recognize too many except Hardev Singh, Cheah Kok Poh (I think he just became a Queen's Scout!) and a dimunitive Hamid (in front of me) who is a brother of our teacher ?Ghaffur)
Double click on the photo to enlarge it

In the Centre: Rev. Bro. Bernard, Auyong Teik Yoon and William Dielenberg

This article was extraced from the Star

St Xavier’s marks a new chapter after 156 years

GEORGE TOWN: Next year will mark the end of an era for the La Salle Brothers’ public school administration in Malaysia when the last Brother principal in the country retires.

St Xavier’s Institution (SXI) here will see a government servant lead the institution for the first time in over 150 years when Brother Paul Ho, its 29th religious head, steps down in June.

“SXI was the first school in the nation to be administered and fully owned by the Brothers and it can be called the epicentre of spreading the La Salle vision of educating the young,” said Brother Director of Malaysia Anthony Rogers.

Although Brother Paul’s retirement would mark the end of the line of Brother headmasters in the country, Brother Anthony says it will not be the end of the Lasallian legacy.

“A long time ago, when people thought of the schools, they would always think about the Brothers but over the years, we have grown beyond that.

“There is now a whole La Salle family made up of every boy and girl who has studied in our schools along with the teachers, parents, staff and collaborators who have had ties with the schools.

“We’re handing over the baton and it’s a new paradigm which is formed with the same message by a community that knows what it means to be a Lasallian,” he said.

“Brother Paul’s incident is not new. Over the years, all our other schools have also been taken over by lay people.

“There is no real cause for concern as strong boards of governors have been formed to safeguard the traditions and it has been a long-standing promise by the Govern-ment to give us consultation in the appointing of heads in our schools,” Brother Anthony added.

“Since 1852 to 1965, the Brothers built 46 schools in Peninsular Malaysia and were also given 10 more in Sabah and Sarawak by the Bishop to administer,” he said.

On the future of the La Salle Brothers, Brother Anthony said there were many more good things to come.

“The Brothers’ initial priority was to set up a basic education system in the country and the Government has successfully taken over that responsibility.

“There are currently about 10 Brothers aged 40 to 60 who are still active in Malaysia and there has been a lot of thought about branching out into the setting up of private colleges or even universities.

“There is also an increasing number of children suffering from autism and providing education for children with special needs is also part of our plans,” he said.

Brother Paul, too, is positive about his impending retirement, and says the La Salle Brothers have achieved what they had set out to do.

“It’s okay. It’s moving and we have left our legacy.

“We hope that in whatever we have done, we have given the people what was expected. That is our yardstick of what a school should be.

“After all, we only came here to give education to the people of Malaysia and at the end of the day, we have done our job,” he said.

Man who revealed all that you need to know about CHINA

Home Introduction The Library Joseph Needham Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) Other Publications Staff and Researchers The Newsletter Seminars and workshops Research Opportunities	Joseph Needham 1900-1995 JOSEPH NEEDHAM will be remembered for his massive achievement embodied in the continuing Science and Civilisation in China series, the successive parts of which have been published by Cambridge University Press since 1954. This great work is planned as a history of science, technology and medicine in China, seen in its fullest social and intellectual context, and illuminated by a deep and sympathetic understanding of the cultures of both East and West. Through his writings he has radically changed the ways in which scholars and scientists evaluate both the history of Chinese culture, and the history of science medicine and technology understood as part of the common cultural heritage of the human race. He was undoubtedly the greatest Western sinologist of this century, and is probably the British historian best-known on a world scale. He has rightly been called "the Erasmus of the twentieth century". HE WAS BORN on December 9, 1900, as the only son of a Harley Street physician and a musically talented mother. After attending Oundle School he went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and read biochemistry. Caius College was to remain his academic home for the rest of his life; he was successively a research fellow, tutor, fellow and finally (1966-76) Master. For most of the first half of his life Needham was engaged in establishing himself as a chemical embryologist of distinction. The major works of this period are his Chemical Embryology (1931) and Biology and Morphogenesis (1942). But by the time this second book appeared he was already moving in the direction which was to lead him towards his life's work. IN THE MID 1930's he met three young Chinese researchers who had come to work in Cambridge. The interest these bright young people aroused moved him to begin learning Chinese, and when war broke out in Europe and the East it was this connection that led him to propose that he should be commissioned to establish a Sino-British Science Co-operation Office in Chongqing, to where the Chinese government had withdrawn in the face of the Japanese onslaught. During this time he was ideally placed to study what had been accomplished by the Chinese people in the field of science and technology over their long history. What he began to learn astonished him. It became clear (for instance) that printing, the magnetic compass and gunpowder weapons were all Chinese in origin, despite the puzzlement that Francis Bacon had expressed over their beginnings when in the seventeenth century he pointed to "the force and virtue and consequences of discoveries" (Novum Organon, Book 1, aphorism 129). AFTER THE WAR he worked with UNESCO in Paris for a while, but on his return to Cambridge he had already planned the years of work that lay ahead. He set out to answer a question that had been presenting itself to him ever more clearly for some time: why was it that despite the immense achievements of traditional China it had been in Europe and not in China that the scientific and industrial revolutions occurred? He approached Cambridge University Press with a proposal for a one-volume treatment of this subject, which they accepted, but as time went by this plan swelled to seven volumes, the fourth of which had to be split into three parts - and so it went on. Twenty-three parts in all have so far been published, and five more are still on the way. MOST OF THE EARLIER volumes were written in their entirety by Needham himself, but as time went by he gathered an international team of collaborators, to whom the completion of the project is now entrusted. As the project has broadened, so has the range of questions under investigation. It is now clear that no simple answer to Needham's original question will be possible. The quest has opened out into an investigation of the ways in which scientific and technical activity have been linked with the development of Chinese society over the last four millennia. ****************************************************	Photo Archive

Long lost friends

Ron and William
Anthony and William

Invaluable contacts -- Attendees of the reunion, 2008

REUNION – CONTACTS

Anthony KHOO Yew Fatt
11A Lorong Sentosa Tiga, Bukit Mertajam, 14000 Penang
Mobile 016-455 4775
DOB : 6-11-1941
AUYONG San Foong
25, Jalan Alama Jaya 3, Bukit Mertajam, 14000 Penang
Mobile : 016-474 2286
DOB : 28-2-1942
Alan S L KHEE
6, Jalan Nipah 5, Johor Baharu. Johor
Mobile : 016-773 1788 E-mail : nickancin@yahoo.com
DOB : 17-10-1942
Bosco CHOW
1645, Kulim Rd, Bukit Mertajam, 14000 Penang
Mobile : 012-552 97227
DOB : 19-05-1944
CHITRAVELU Vellakutty
Badenoch Estate, Kuala Ketil, Kedah
Mobile : 019-410 6452
DOB : 22-4-1944
CHEAH Eng Kean
42A, Jalan Raya, Lunas, 09500 Kedah
Mobile : O12-430 2070, Tel 04-484 4231
E-mail : ekcheah@gmail.com
DOB : 7-12-1943
CHEAH Kok Poh
610 Taman Kulim, Kedah
Mobile : 016-401 5994 Tel. 04-4904 186
DOB : 04-03-1939
CHONG Chok Kuan
289 Jalan SS2/2, Petaling Jaya, 47300 Selangor
Mobile : 012-297 9820 Tel 03-7875 6928
DOB : 11-12-1945
DARSHAN Singh
Lot 485. Padang Kulim, Kelang Lama, 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 012-410 0042 E-mail : singdarshan@gmail.com
DOB : 27-1-1944
GOH Chu Ting
3, Jalan TSI Templer Saujana, Rawang, 48000 Selangor
Mobile : 016-277 7433 Tel 03-4108 0130
E-mail : chuting@streamyx.com
DOB: 4-11- 1942


KARTAR Singh Chanan
22 Jalan Pegaga, Taman Chi Lung, Klang, 41200 Selangor
Mobile 016-696 2793 Tel 03-3371 0699
DOB : 11-6-1944

KHOR Boon Pin
15, Jalan 11/155B, Taman Esplanad, Bukit Jalil, 57000 Selangor
Mobile : 019-330 8668 Tel 03-8994 9122
DOB : 8-11-1943

13. KOW Ching Chuan

Mobile : 012-303 3903 Email : Malian@pd.jaring.my
DOB

LOH Yoon Choy
130, Jalan Sentosa, Bukit Mertajam, 14000 Penang
Tel 04-538 5326
DOB : 17-03-1942

LOH Kee Chang
3, Jalan Kedah, Klang
Mobile : 012-9118897
DOB :

LOW Chin Seong

Mobile : 019-318 8933
DOB :

LOO Yak Siew
70, Lorong Berlian 6
Mobile : 017-596 8923 Tel 04-495 1210
DOB : 24-05-1943

OOI Hwa Hin
319 Lorong Meranti Kuning, Taman Bersatu, Kulim, 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 012-983 2001 Tel: 04-490 1627
DOB : 14-4-1934

PHANG Yeow Wah
12, Kelang Sago, Kulim, 09000 Kedah
Tel 04-490 5359
DOB : 30-7-1942


Rockson LOO
29, Lorong Tambun Indah18, Taman Tambun Indah, Simpang Ampat
14100 Penang
Mobile : 019-418 4826
DOB : 30-10-1941


Ron HENG
6/16 Lakefield Place, Runcorn, Q’ld 4113 Australia
Mobile : 610488078507 Tel: (61) 733486880
E-mail : ronheng2003@yahoo.com
DOB: 14-2 1944

Santana DASS, Francis
E-9 Taman Keladi, Kulim 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 017-269 6499 Tel 04-495 8728
DOB : 27-12-1943

Stewart CHEW
14, Felton Ave, North Lake, 6163 W. Australia
Mobile : +61403538220 Tel +61893103282
E-mail : chewhg@iinet.net.au
DOB : 24-9-1943

K. SUBRAMANIAM
B-9 Taman Sulaiman, Kulim 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 012-4507794
DOB : 9-10-1943

TAN Eng Hoe
52, Taman Desa Impian, Kulim, 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 012-560 2489 E-mail : rickytao@live.com
DOB : 7-8-1947

TAN Siak Hock
13, Jalan Damai 10, Cheras
Mobile : 016-332 7178 Tel 03-9074 3588
E-mail : ginaliew@gmail.com
DOB : 17-12-1942

TANG Seah Jin
B-51, Taman Semangat, Sg. Petani, 08000 Kedah
Mobile : 017-428 0573 Tel 04-421 2552
DOB : 27-10-1940


Teddy DIELENBERG
Suite 18, Ixora Residence, Jalan Jenjarum, Petaling Jaya, 47400 Selangor
Mobile : 019-330 5418 Tel 03-7880 1489
E-mail : td@dynamed.com.my or td2233@streamyx.com
DOB : 7-1-1943

Wan Mokhtar Ramlee (Dave Li)
319, Taman Rakyat Mergong, Alor Star, 05150 Kedah
Mobile : 017-473 4384 Tel : 04-731 5882
E-mail : davidleemy@yahoo.com
DOB : 1-7-1942

William DIELENBERG
18, Maddock Place, ACT Australia
Tel +060262942328
E-mail : wdberg@optusnet.com.au
DOB : 19-7-1933

WONG Kwong Hun
474, Jalan Keranji 5/3, Taman Keranji, Kulim, 09000 Kedah
Mobile : 013-488 7766 Tel : 04-491 9837
DOB : 9-12-1937

A reply to MrSingh by Stewart Chew

Dear Singh,

My name is Stewart Chew (Huat Guan) and I used to live in 9 Jalan Raya, opposite the Kulim Printing Press.
I started schooling in St.Patricks and finished in 1958 at form 3 - I would certainly continue but we did not have the numbers to have a form 4. So I continued in Badlishah where I finished in 1960, did a couple of years of temporary teaching in Sekolah Kebangsaan in Junjong. I left Kulim in 1963 to study in Perth.
I have just retired after lecturing for 31 years in Curtin University. So, although I spend most of my life in Australia, I always love my home country, and especially enjoy coming home annually to Penang and Kulim.
I continue to have fond connections with family members, old classmates, colleagues and even ex students who have returned to Malaysia and Singapore.
I read your Kulim Blog with much interest. Thanks for bringing back those happy memories of St.Patricks.
I was in touch with another old Kulimnite of my vintage. Wan Mocktar Ramlee @ Dave Li Wanji regularly sends me his Kulim news in THEtree.
We just had a reunion for the form 3s of 1958! in Penang. It was a great response from many oldies including two teachers - William Dielenberg & Ooi Hwa Hin. Yes I remember
Johnny Too quite well, as he was my younger brother's form teacher. Apparently he was not well and could not join us. The late Mr. Lau Tuck Sung was my maths teacher. The late Auyong Teik Yoon was my headmaster and his son San Foong was my classmate.

Well, those were the days! Its amazing to realize how St.Patricks, which humbly started in 1933 and grew up to be the most successful school in South Kedah - thanks to the foresight of her founder Auyong Teik Yoon.
All of us were well nurtured at St.Patricks - we were well disciplined and received excellent education from a succession of very good teachers. We can gratefully look back and truly acknowledge that these foundational groundings that we received have much to do with our later professional success.

I wish all modern schools have these same attributes of our old school. Don't you agree that the present day school kids can do with a little bit more discipline and manners!

With kind regards.

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More photos from the reunion

THE TREE (9)

THEtree for those that had lived in Kulim once upon a time in the late 1950s and 1960s... from Dave, writing with nostalgia and lasting friendships. This is his letter to all that spent their teen years with him. Dave is now at, 319 Lrg.Putih 3, Taman Rakyat Mergong, 05150 ALOR SETAR.

August 2008

Dear Friends,

Re-igniting the flame of friendships could never have been better then meet, hugs and handshakes!!....AND that was what I did on the night of Aug 1, 2008 at The Northam - All Suite, in Penang (East N West, level 2). For me this is THE night of all nights; meeting friends that I have given up looking after half a century of separation. (Friends that I used to play around with in good old Kulim back in the late 50s and early 60s!). Definitely the night of Aug 01, 2008 will be fondly remembered for a long, long time to come - the night when the Form III boys class of '58 of the St.Patrick's school Kulim had their first ever reunion after 50 years!!. This first ever reunion was so successful. There should be more like it in two or three years to come. The organizers of this reunion would like to stay low-profile but to that particular friend and those who had come forward (especially the duo who flew in from Australia) to help in making this reunion a success, salute!! You done a fantastic job men!

Hey wait something not quite right here! I am not from St.Pat, so what am I doing there? Well in 1958 I too was in Form III at SBS not SPS but then in 1962 I became a teacher at St.Pat (Private) School and I was there for about 3 years before I left for another job. That's the very reason I was present in the celebration



Steve Tan Chor Ing responded to my last letter in an sms; Dave, thanks for your THEtree of July 2008. I see now you've got my seniors too from as far as Australia and their feedbacks on life in Kulim back then was really interesting indeed. I didn't know the movie theater was named Kim Wah. When I was a kid I used to play around that area with friends. It was then an empty lot of land there.

And Abd.Hamid Salleh in an e-mail from England wrote; Dear Dave, I am in Birmingham again and will be home Aug.11. I was in Alor Star before that and phoned you up but the call went unanswered. After returning to K.L from Alor Star I was taken ill again and the children thought I should come here to take it easy. It was fortunate that I could make the journey with kind help from folks I met along the way.
When I saw the picture of The Tree in all its glory, a lot of memories came flooding back ..... the padang was where soccer matches of importance were played there. One match between SBS and an estate team was abandoned when the crowd rushed in and attacked some players who had continually fouled the SBS players.
Well the match was abandoned but the result favored SBS. I came to learn later that some people were taken to court and fined lightly for assaulting players They, the estate team players deserved it although the authorities thought otherwise.
Sometimes one had to pay to watch matches. I remember a cloth barrier was erected around the padang when a Kulim Selection played against Taiping Prison. No money no see la!
Fun fairs were also held there. I remember a Ghazal band with beautiful "women" doing belly-dance on stage. And of course Hassan Putu Mayong the comedian, remember?.
Those were the days, ya Dave? I remember so many things because of The Tree.

Hamid buddy, I am really sorry about that call that went unanswered. I must have left my mobile phone at home and went off without it.I am sorry too to hear about your illness. I hope and pray that you get well soon.Thanks for sharing with us those things that you remember about life in Kulim back in the early 60s. All the things you mentioned are still on my mind too, I haven't forgotten them. Fun Fairs were the in-thing then and I remember our band (3 guitars and one drum), comprising of boys from Jalan Pancor, now Jalan Tengku Bendahara - The Supersonic also took part at a Fun Fair there. On other occasion, Some boys from Jalan Market and I ran a business at one of the Fun Fairs there too - a stall where we played songs on request for a small fee. it was such fun and easy then - what a life!!

Keep in touch to keep THEtree growing ever bigger and stronger...Peace! (The St.Pat 50 reunion at Penang gave me the opportunity to meet so many more of my contemporaries. THEtree will definitely be what we want it to be after this; i,e Bigger & Stronger.)

Friendships Forever!!





Dave Li Wanji (Real name: Wan Mokhtar Ramlee)
E-mail: davidleemy@yahoo.com – Mobile: 017-4734384, Hse: 04.7315882
Group’s Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tree2008

PS: Friends receiving THEtree via e-mail may proceed
to page 3 & 4 to see several photos / happenings at the St.Pat 50 reunion on 01.08.08.
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Class of 58, St Patrick, Kulim

Name the participants - if you can. (double click on the photo to enlarge it)

More

Mr and Mrs Kow Chin Chuan
Hurray!! More, more

The reunion held at Penang

Auyong San Fong
Hear yee, hear yee!! At the dinner party
Please help me identify these people,

More of the same

Lily, and Peggy
Makan kecil at the food court

The reunion ( sorry for being late)

Kok Poh, William, Teddy, Stewart
At the foyer of the hotel. You night be able to name the people present. It was a very successful reunion.

Day one-- Reunion

I had to rush back from Thailand
What will you have?

Reunion- Day One

Make up your mind- We are going to have makan kecil at the food court
Guys, Let me introduce my mate. Who can guess his name?

HOW DID IT GO?

Hai Guys! , I'am back.
It has been a long wait, I know.
As for me and my wife, we are glad to be back where the weather is cool and very comfortable.
Well, the energy put in by Teddy and Stewart over a whole year turned out to be an overwhelming success. No one ever thought the number of participants would reach a conservative total of thirty. It reached fifty to be exact. You could tell that everyone was pleased to be there to meet their long lost mates they sat in with in those early years. It was interesting to watch everyone trying very hard to guess who the other person was. And when the guessing game was over, without fail, it drew a loud and hearty roar of laughter. "Ah yah, You look so dfifferent lah. I thought you were someone else. How are you?
The amazement, the joy at the discovery, lasted the whole of the first evening. The questions of how are you and where have you been all these years and where are you now, kept repeating themselves.
I was, their teacher and one lovable fellow thought that I was one of his classmates. It drew a loud laughter when it was overheard by others nearby.
The makan at the hawker stalls across the road from the hotel was a good time for deepening the long lost companionship. They came from Australia, Singapore, Johore, Kuala Lumpur and the majority from Kulim, Bukit Mertajam and the neighbouring districts.
The dinner the next day drew a larger crowd when some of the wives turned up to share the joy of their husbands.
The man of the evening was Cheah Kok Poh who kept the 'class' alive with laughter.
More photos on the board and screen helped to give a better focus of the missing persons. The most popular of all that evening was Elvis who entertained us with a number of popular hits of the early years. He was great. I am sorry I forgot his name. ( will someone please click on comments at the bottom and add his name.)
We did not forget the ones who had left us for good and they included a number of their former teachers.
The party ended with a promise to get together again in two years time.
Three cheers for all those who turned up.
See you again hopefully.
Meantime, Bye, bye.

Official programme of the get together

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Thursday, 31st July 2008 From 2.00 pm catch up with the lost years at Hospitality Suites over drinks and finger food.

Then Dinner at 7.00 pm at Northam Beach Café (Penang’s
well known hawker food just walking distance opposite the Northam All Suite). It is easy, seat with whoever you want and most of all eat whatever you want. After which can still
catch up at the Hospitality Suites.

Friday, 1st August 2008 -- morning walk or
jog then meet up at 6.30 am at the Lobby and then on to
Gurney Drive, it will be interesting so much so that you may go just go for the extra. Then we will meet up at the St Patrick Old Boys ‘ Corner' for Breakfast between 7.30 to 10.30.am .We can stay there until they close shop for breakfast.

Lunch is ‘Free & Easy’ Go to the Hospitality Suite in the afternoon and participate in some interesting quiz and win a prize. It is going to be just fun testing your
memory of those early years.

The Reunion Dinner is a seat down 8 course Chinese dinner but before that we will have cocktails from 6.30 to 7.30
There will be presentations followed by dinner. After which
some can still eat, some can still drink and some can sing or dance And we will have some of those songs of those years, ( song sheets will be provided). Before we go
we will have a presentation called THE TREE, events and people of of those years. Good Night and farewells can still take place at the Hospitality Suite.

Saturday. 2nd August 2008 Meet 6.30 am, walk or jog Then 7.30 am gather for Breakfast then check out and Bye Bye.

01 . 08. 08

THIS CONFIRMS THAT YOU WILL BE JOINING THE
ST PATRICK’S SCHOOL REUNION DINNER



PROGRAM

6.30pm Cocktails

7.30 Dinner

9.330 Presentation NOW & THEN

9.45 Karaoke & Sing along

10.45 Shall we dance

11.30Presentation

THETREE

11.45 Farewell & Good Bye

12.00 a.m.


The Northam
ALL SUITE

PENANG

East & West
Level 2

	"Seven Blunders of the World" 1. Wealth without work 2. Pleasure without conscience 3. Knowledge without character 4. Commerce without morality 5. Science without humanity 6. Worship without sacrifice 7. Politics without principle —Mahatma Gandhi

Teddy and his wife, Lily

25 days to go

25 more days to go to St Patrick's School, Kulim, REUNION at Northam All Suite – Penang.

Don’t forget, to come in early so as to catch up with fellows you might not have met up with since those early years. (appro. 50 years ago)

Apart from the programs it is really something just to be able to recognize some of the fellows……. some have really, really, really changed.

Come casually dressed. If you like you may wear those old clothes - drain pipe pants etc., if you can still get into them.

See You soon. Bye for now

Teddy

Eat Green to live longer

Enzymes need to be a big part of any anti aging strategy. And that means that raw foods, especially fruits and vegetables, need to be an important part of your daily routine.

Best News for a long while

Dear Bill,
I hope you dont mind me calling you Bill since you are my super senior. We have a lot of information regarding the school. Started in 1-8-1933. Recently I acquired photo copies of documents from the La Salle Provincialate in PJ, Selangor.The school is officially opened in 1939 by Tunku Abdul Rahman(father of Malaysia) when he was the district officer in Kulim. Right now we are in the process of acquiring as much information as possible to upgrade the history of the school.During the dinner there will be slide show regarding the history of the school. Very important ? Will you be joining us?
rao


Thank you , Rao
Bill

Letter from Dave

Dear Teddy

Thank you very much for the unpdates on our reunion. Am glad to know that 50 are coming (may b more!!). 50 is a good number...we hve not met or seen or heard about ea other for 50 years and 50 are coming!!!! that's fantastic. Thanks to you Teddy! (ur hard work goin to pay off now..looks like it anyway).

Sorry that i juz couldnt make it for two nites for family reasons. Whatever this ONE reunion is what i am NOT goin to miss.

What you and the gang have in store for the members on the nite is allready fantastic and more then enuf i think. Too much stage n etc presentations would distract us from talking to each other and catching up for about half a century of our "time lost" with these frens that r turning up come 1st Aug 2008. For me personally...seeing you guys and talking abt the good old days are better then a 1,000 presentations......

Was in Kulim yesterday, passed by our old school (St.Patrick's) they hve painted the whole building orange (yuuuuckk!! what weird tastes these presnt administrations have!!!). There were abt 2 or 3 storey new blocks. The main building (facing the road) is beeing renovated....its windows are being replaced with large single glass sheets (may be they r goin to air-con the area). It is now Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St.Patrick, Kulim! - SMKSP,Kulim.

Well that's about all from me at this time. Thanks again for your reply. Pls snd my regards to all our frens..especially to William (if he stills remember me hehehe).

Dave

From William. Ahem !!!

You have to forgive me, I can't remember anyone by the name of Dave (good name no doubt) I am just dying to meet you and everyone. I was surprised to see the number 50- I will have to relearn all those names- If you see me with a pad all the time it is because I want more stories from you all and this blog is going to exist for more years to come for the interest of your families and friends of St Pat. Please send me more stories for publication on the blog no matter how brief the stories may be. Everything will be very relevant including -- how to fry koey teow ( reference to Stewart Chew's culinary skill). So don't disappoint me. What about your story, Dave?

William (Bill)

HI ! Patricians

Dear all Patricians,
I am Mohanarao. Ex-student - 1960 till 1968. At the moment I am the principal of St.Patrick Secondary School. This is the 75th anniversary of our school. At the school level we had/have a few programmes. On 27th January 2008, we had the inaugural general meeting for 'Persatuan Alumni SMK St Patrick". It was officially registered. We have produced a special button badge to commemorate the 75th celebration. The celebration was officaially launched on 17th of April. Covered in the Star. On that day 2 ex-students gave RM50000 to upgrade the school. Right now the renovation is going on to be in time for the main celebration on the 3rd of August. On that night we are planning a dinner in the school. I am appealing to all former Patricians to come forward to help me to regain the Patrician spirit and bring the school to its past glory. As part of the celebration, we plan to produce a commemorative school magazine bearing photograghs, information of yesteryears as well as small write-ups of ex-students of their days in school. Please contribute. Feel free to drop by at the school any time.
My contact:
email: mohanarao@hotmail.com
h/p: 0125643541
school: 04-4907503

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Reunion

THEtree for those that had lived in Kulim once upon a time in the late 1950s and 1960s... from Dave, writing with nostalgia and lasting friendships. This is his letter to all that spent their teen years with him. Dave is now at, 319 Lrg.Putih 3, Taman Rakyat Mergong, 05150 ALOR SETAR.
June 2008

Dear Friends,
What a wonderful feeling to hear from someone (on the phone), someone that I haven't heard of for about 43 years!!. Yes my friend, this month of June 2008 brought me yet another find. Thru the help of Steve (Tan C.Eng) I called my long lost friend (your friend too of course!) Loh Kee Chang, who in 1961 studied in the same class with me in form five at SBS and again between 1962 - 1964 we met as colleagues at the SPS Afternoon School as temporary school teachers. LKC also provided me a contact number of yet another long lost friend of mine. That friend incidentally lived in Padang Serai back in the 1950s and PS was also a town where I grew up in during my childhood and early teens before my parents shifted to Kulim in December of 57. That friend is Teddy Dielenberg.
Meanwhile on the 23 May 2008 Sim Boon Lee our friend in BM gave me a contact number of one of the SPS Kulim afternoon school teacher of late 1960s by the name of Cheong Cheng Poh. Although I do not know Mr.Cheong personally, but all the same very pleased to welcome him to THEtree. He too had at one time lived in Kulim in the 1960s. I called Cheong C.Poh and he sounded real happy and cheerful to talk to someone from Kulim of the 60s. Cheong C.Poh now lives in Penang.
I must thank both our friends here for nurturing THEtree and for keeping the flame of friendships and comradeships burning. THEtree is there fore truly the heartbeat of Kulim in the 60s!! Its clear now THEtree is growing.
I am glad to inform you that a grand reunion is in the making for St.Patrick's old boys, especially for Class of '58 but all other exPatricians, irrespective of year of graduation are most welcome. The person organizing this special get together is none other then Teddy himself. The information I gathered from the flyer are as follows (abbreviated):-

Venue: Northam Hall Suite, Penang
Dates: Check in 31st July 2008 - 1st night dinner 7 pm at Northam Beach Cafe -
hawker style. Do bring your Good Ladies as well, they will enjoy
the company.
1st August 2008 - 7.30 am - 10.30 am breakfast. Lunch is Free and Easy
on your own. Reunion Dinner is an 8 course, Chinese sit down dinner
at 8pm with activities of the reunion later.
2nd August 2008 - Breakfast at Old Boys Corner & check out.
Interested? please contact Mr. Teddy Dielenberg at mobile 019-3305418
or e-mail; td@dynamed.com.my
(NOTE: Names of joiners are to be submitted to Teddy by 1st July 2008).


Looks like I have come to the end of yet another interesting and nostalgic letter. I am sure I will have more things to share with you about our lives in Kulim once upon a time, meanwhile please don't be shy (or lazy) to write back or respond in what ever manner suitable for you. Your responses and replies are crucial to maintain or rather keep the fire of friendships between us burns ever brighter with the passing of each day.

Your Friend

Dave Li Wanji (Real name: Wan Mokhtar Ramlee)
E-mail: davidleemy@yahoo.com – Mobile: 017-4734384, Hse: 04.7315882
Group’s Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tree2008

Testimony to an endearing friendship

(THEtree is a mystery to me: read on. Bill)



THEtree for those that had lived in Kulim once upon a time in the late 1950s and 1960s... from Dave, writing with nostalgia and lasting friendships. This is his letter to all that spent their teen years with him. Dave is now at, 319 Lrg.Putih 3, Taman Rakyat Mergong, 05150 ALOR SETAR.


May 2008

Dear Friends,
Hi everyone!! how's life with you these days. I felt like a hundred years have passed by - it seemed such a long time that I didn't write you any letter - which actually I just missed the month of April 2008. The fact is I was in Kuala Lumpur for the whole of that month. As soon as I got back to Alor Star (where my home is, nothing can beat my old hometown - KULIM!!) the first thing that struck my mind was THEtree and all of you my friends; how I have neglected THEtree for over a month!! Hopefully I don't need to go out station anymore and thus could keep in touch with all of you under THEtree on a more regular basis - nurturing the friendships and rekindling the long lost comradeships!
I was back in my old hometown sometimes in March and what a wonderful feeling to have met (and hug) friends that I haven't met for the last 48 years!! I met Boon Lee and Steve (Tan Chor Ing). We chatted for quite a while (real nostalgic indeed.) as I was in a hurry to other destinations on the day we have to "postpone the meeting" but before I left I took a photo of the auspicious and rare occasion (moment like this is hard to find) for memory because memories are made of this! (Photographs I mean).
After I last wrote you (that is in March 2008), I was pleasantly surprised by a letter I retrieved (on 8 March) from my P.O.Box. It came from Kota Kinabalu and it was none other then our good friend Heng Ah Tee who wrote;

Dave,
Never in a million, do I expect a call from you, anyway thanks.
After going through THEtree there's a nice feeling over me. As I was tired after the "holiday" in Kulim, it act as a refreshing drink, it energized me.
I would like to congratulate you, to come up with such a wonderful idea "THEtree" you are one of those who do the extraordinary just to bring old friends connected and informed.
It will be a great pleasure to give any help if any of you folks intend to visit K.K. Just let me know in advance.
From "the land below the wind" - Thanks,
Heng Ah Tee.
Well that is warm and that's what friendships are all about; Heng Ah Tee's letter testifies to that fact.
My search for a long lost friend (Lim Yot Tee) a former colleague at the SPS (Private) back in 1963 ended with one phone call in March of this year. I finally find Lim Yot Tee our old friend and now that we are connected, LYT promised me that he will try to get me yet another colleague (Loh Kee Chang) contact number.
Looks like I have come to the end of yet another nostalgic letter. I am sure I will have more things to share with you about our lives in Kulim once upon a time, meanwhile please don't be shy (or lazy) to write back or respond in what ever manner suitable for you. Your responses and replies are crucial to maintain or rather keep the fire of friendships between us burns ever brighter with the passing of each day.


Your Friend



Dave Li Wanji (Real name: Wan Mokhtar Ramlee)
E-mail: davidleemy@yahoo.com – Mobile: 017-4734384, Hse: 04.7315882
Group’s Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tree2008

What are your thoughts?

Here are 3 ideas for your reunion. I did a little research and incorporated a shield with a cross. It's part of the Arch Diocese of Penang's crest. I couldnt find a logo or crest for St Patrick's School so I used the Arch Diocese's crest as inspiration. Also, it doesnt have a lot of detail because detail and small embroidery doesnt work well together. So I made things chunky to ensure the embroidered logo will look great. Trust me on this, I've won awards for digitizing emboidery.Let me know what you think.
Ivan

St Pat's Logo designed by Ivan Dielenberg, Teddy's Son

What do you think, guys?

At Long Last- starting to breathe again

I will leave you to work out, in your own mind, what the captions say.