Clobs6567's 42nd Reunion -5 Dec 09 Northam Hotel Penang

Clobs6567,
Everyone of us would be just pass 60 or would be 60 when we meet up this Dec 09. Happy Birthday to all of us.
Our committee had been encouraging all of you to stay connected for the following reasons.
Despite our good efforts, however, we cannot force all to stay connected.
5 Dec 09 will be our another effort to keep in touch and stay connected with you. Please do not disappoint us and yourselves by joing us for this rare occasion to meet up and reunion.
Stay connected. Having regular social contacts with friends and loved ones is key to avoiding depression, which can lead to premature death, something that's particularly prevalent in elderly widows and widowers. Some psychologists even think that one of the biggest benefits elderly folks get from exercise the strong social interactions that come from walking with a buddy or taking a group exercise class. Having a daily connection with a close friend or family member gives older folks the added benefit of having someone watch their back. "They'll tell you if they think your memory is going or if you seem more withdrawn," says Perls, "and they might push you to see a doctor before you recognize that you need to see one yourself."
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讣告： 王超衡令堂往生

昨天4月12日在光华日报讣告版阅到：CLOBS65/67王超衡（A0112)令堂往生的讣告。

我的恩师叶志颜

转贴2009年4月5日登载于东方日报, 一篇由老校友胡万铎对已故叶志颜老师的记述。

 

http://www2.orientaldaily.com.my/dread/DGF/2w6f05fn0wby9P1Q019Z4i9a0SUB45A6

 

我的恩師葉志顏

胡萬鐸

二戰結束后，我重回學校讀書。1952年在檳城鐘靈唸初一時遇到訓導主任葉志顏老師。他可以說是除了雙親外，影響我一生最大的恩師。

當時我的體重113公斤，是個大胖子，見到同學就有點靦腆不自然。葉老師看在眼裡，有一天他拉我走進剛建好的健美室，鼓勵我作舉重健美運動減肥。在他不斷勉勵和嚴格訓練下，我堅持不懈，不到一年，就將體重減到65公斤，心裡對他由衷敬佩，自己也感到成功的喜悅。

葉老師也曾造就數位舉重健將。其中白尉鵬曾奪得1958年馬來亞先生冠軍，而丘榮山回中國后曾代表中國榮獲共產世界舉重賽亞軍。

那時候鐘靈寄宿生有好幾百人，共有20間宿舍，我被選為總舍長，葉老師則是總舍監。他曾在中國接受過正式軍訓，做事非常有紀律，態度認真，要求嚴格。他以軍訓方式監管寄宿生，早上6時起身做早操跑步運動，晚上9點半熄燈睡覺，集體吃飯先行「起立坐下」儀式，遲到者得先挨餓。每一階段活動都以吹號角來傳達。他幾乎每天晚上都親自巡視宿舍，這種高紀律的生活對我日后人生影響很大。

過后，葉老師教我吹喇叭號角，成為號角手后，就可免除早操跑步。我靈機一動，得到老師允許，自己又訓練了四位號角手，這樣一來，他們吹號角，而我就無需早上6時起身，可以在被窩裡多睡一個小時。

葉老師的座右銘是「人生以服務為目的」。他把這句話寫在每一位學生的紀念冊上。他不時給我鼓勵和勸誡。我尊敬他、敬佩他、聽從他的話，從他身上學到不少做人處世的道理。

只有一次，我傷了他的心。1955年鐘靈學潮風雲緊急，當時鐘靈是左傾思潮的溫床，恩師為了我的安全勸我不要參與，我當面拒絕。他說：「你不聽我的話去搞學潮，會坐牢的。」我立即毫不示弱回答他：「坐就坐罷！沒什麼大不了。」他生氣地走開。后來自己果然被抓，也被學校開除，這是后話。

恩師退休后生活安逸，子女有成，安享晚年。多少年了，每一年我都誠心奉上一點心意給恩師，不為什麼，只因他是我的老師，我以一顆感恩之心去履行中華文化尊師重道之傳統。

葉志顏恩師不幸于2009年3月15日逝世，享年91歲。自己未能及時前往拜祭送恩師最后一程，乃我人生一大遺憾。悲慟之余，依自己記憶所及，寫成此文，以表我對恩師的追思與悼念，他的教誨，我深銘五中。

安息吧，葉老師！您叛逆的學生永遠懷念您！

The Late CLOBS & New Found Teachers

A valued information from CLOBS64/66, Ooi Chin Wah:

叶志颜老师 和 陈健来同学passed away recently in March. According to Ken Lye's relative whom I met at his funeral, he was hospitalised just before the last Chinese New Year for skin cancer. No one knew that it could deteriorate so fast that he left us about two months later.

We were told by Team Chye that our old English teacher, P.K. Nair, is now staying in Silver Jubilee Home for the Aged in Sungai Dua. We plan to visit him soon.

Mr. Lam, 蓝正隆老师taught me mathematics in Form 3. His clear and crisp pronunciation, good command of the language and the subject stood him in good stead in making mathematics so much easier for us to understand. I remember there was a problem in deductive geometry that our class Form 3D (1964) could not solve. We struggled with the question for several days without success. Finally, we copied the question on the blackboard before the maths lesson. Mr. Lam came in, saw it and conquered it after pondering for a short while. Since then, he has become our inspiration and idol.

Today, forty five years later, he is still as witty , as sharp and as humourous. During the lunch, he taught us Economics 101 with applications in the present financial crisis. Terms like leverage, foreclosure, sub-prime loans etc are explained in simple layman's terms. Morever, he elaborates on currency trading as an added bonus.

Another old boy from another year which happened to be at the same restaurant but different table thought that Mr. Lam was a student from our batch i.e. he was not our teacher but our contemporary in CLHS!