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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