Thanks to Brother Fuan Wah and Brother Boo Hock who made the precise reports on Clobs6567’ 40th
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1. By Brother Khoo Boo Hock , December 11, 2007
Clobs6567,
Yes! It turned out to be an amazing, wonderful
Prior to the actual
(1) The additional passing-away( the 10th) of Lim Beng Kok A3505 (Date not known);
(2) Soon Fong Lee 9844 who was hospitalised in the Penang Gleneagles Medical Centre & diagnosed with 3rd stage cancer of his lung.
He was under chemo & radio-therapy and was advised by Doctor NOT to meet people in view of his poor resistance;
(3) 3 days before The Reunion, Hor Swee Aun A0064 was under-going a by-pass of his heart.
However, come 1 Dec 07 from 6.30pm at G-Hotel Ballroom, we were overwhelmed by the turning up of the following:
(a) From the
(b) From
(c) From
(d) From P R
(e) From
(f) From
(g) From
(h) From
their child & grand children were present in the dinner;
(i) From Australia Perth - 9749 Chew Swee Lim + 9830 Wong Peng Choon + 9943 Foo Kiat; there were 100% return of Clob6567
from
(j) From S'pore - A high turn-out which includes 9872 Goh Giang Beng Dr. + A0611 Kuek See Chong + 9964 Khaw Kheng Joo , except
9720 Yeow Yew Kim, 9938 Atomic Leow, A0126 Heng Zee Kek;
(k) Some surprise turn-ups in 9536 Chan Yee Seng + 9703 Cham Cheng Long Dr. + 9708 Teoh Phooi Keat Dr. + 9733 Lim Eng Huat + 9815 Lim Heng Moh + 9837 Chong Yee Khiong + 9843 Yong Chan Shing + 9887 Saw Kong Hooi + 9888 Chow Sek Khoon + 9999 Goh Chiong Hong + A0013 Ong Hua Lim + A0024 Yeong Chun Khuen + A3399 Leong Aun Hock + A3412 Lim Lye Seng;
(l) Ladies From The 1969 6th Form - Hor Yee Choo & Ooi Ee Lee Dr.(with spouse) also attended.
There was a table + of former/present teachers with the familiar Messrs. Lam Chen Long & Wong Liang Kek.
All the 20 tables planned were taken up.
A grand-total of RM120,000/- of contribution was collected before & during the dinner. 50K each will be for Clobs6567 scholarship fund and The
Reported by your co-ordinator/Volunteer: Boo Hock 9728
HP:016-6985118
If I missed out anything worth reporting, please forgive me! There had been requests to thank all the members of our organising committee for the warm reception & hospitality before and during their stay in Penang for The 40th
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2. By Brother Chin Fuan Wah, December 17, 2007
To All Our Friends,
The way to describe the night on December 01, 2007 at the banquet hall in G-Hotel is noisy with groups of friends here and there all talking non-stop. Kok Hin being the MC, had a difficulty time to control the crowd because nobody seemed to pay attention to him. There were so much to talk among friends, so much to catch up after all these years. But it was the kind of atmosphere that we wanted for the re-union dinner. It would be a meaningless re-union if every one of us were to just sit round the table quietly listening to whatever announcement came out from the MC.
At the end of it we all knew It was a fantastic 40th Re-union dinner!
The committee would like to say a big “Thank You” to all of you for your attendance and contributions. Without your fantastic response and presence, it would never be such a meaningful re-union for all of us.
As mentioned in Boo Hock’s earlier message, there were a number of our friends who came back from far away for this re-union the first time. We hope you have enjoyed it and we hope it was really meaningful to you and we want you to come back for the next re-union in 2009.
To all those who have missed this re-union or who have not attended any of the re-union, we hope you will make an effort to attend the next re-union in 2009.
The organizing committee would also like to thank everyone for their contributions to the following 3 special funds that we have targeted in this re-union dinner
- The CLOB Class 65/67 Scholarship Fund
This scholarship fund was set up in 1972 when we celebrated our 25th re-union dinner. The purpose of this scholarship fund is to assist poor and needy students from the 3 Chung Ling Schools (Chung Ling High School, Chung Ling (B’worth) High School and Chung Ling (Private) High School), who are accepted by the local universities and colleges to continue their tertiary education locally.
Only the annual interest earned from the principal amount of the scholarship fund is used to distribute to the selected candidates. The principal amount remains untouched.
We have assigned The Penang CLOB Association to manage the fund and to carry out the selection of the candidates. Over the years we have increased the principal amount and the total amount as at September 2007 stands at RM310K. We would like to correct here that the total amount as at September 2007 is RM310K and not RM380K as announced at the re-union dinner. We apologize for the error.
On December 01, 2007, we again raised another RM50K to increase the principal amount to RM360K.
- The
Many of you may be asking the reason we get involved in Phor Thay High School Building Fund. Our reply is simple. It is just a small gesture on our part to help the Chinese Education in
The amount raised during the dinner is RM50K.
- Contribution to Chung Ling Private School
This is something that was not planned.
About 50 of us went back to our Alma Mater in the morning on December 01. Both the headmasters of
Of the 2 briefings and presentations, we were all impressed with the briefing and presentation by the headmaster of Chung Ling Private School. All of us agreed that he has done a fantastic job in increasing the student population from about 200 to coming to about 1000 and also changing the public’s perception on the quality of students in private school. He accomplished all this with limited resources, manpower and facility.
As a result of this, a few of our friends decided to chip in RM20K on that night as our contribution to help the school to improve some of the sporting facilities.
So in all, we managed to raise RM120K on that night. We thank all of you for your generosity.
Attached herewith is the list of the donors for the above, we would like you to check if we have missed out any names or amounts donated.
If you find your names not in the list and the amount that you have contributed differ from what is stated in the list, please inform us by return immediately.
We will rectify it immediately and we would also like to apologize for the error.
The figures in red mean payment received in cash, blue means payment via cheque and black means amount committed during the re-union dinner but we have not yet received the money.
We will be finalizing this list and total amount collected by end of December. We will be handling over the money to the respective organization in January 2008.
Therefore, if anyone of you would like to contribute any amount to any one of the above, you are welcome to send your contribution by cheque to us before December 31, 2007.
To those who have agreed to contribute but have not yet pay up, we would also like to appeal you to send your cheque to us before December 31, 2007.
Please issue cheque in the name of “Tan Kok Aun” and send it to the following address,
Tan Kok Aun,
(Sorry for deletion from the text for security purpose)
The committee would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you “A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2008”
See all of you again in 2009.
The Organizing Committee.
