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)
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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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