1967 name list part 5/5

Mohidin bin Ishak
Ngen Meng Kiang
Ngu Lee Nah
SHE JOO CHIN
Tee Kong Yoke
Ting Chin Teck
Yeo Geok Hoe
Yusof Awg Nassar
Kho Bee Lian
Kho Tze Tzang

Yu Chu Ngee
Yew Chu Fu
Ho Chow Yong
Yee Yong Yaw
Abdillah bin Aton
Liu Ng Leen
Louis Huong How King
Masar Talenta Teddy
Lee Kee Pui
Yong Chung Nyen
Joshua Betie Kunchit
Henry Garner
Ho Wun Kun
Chan Tze Chon @ Chan Jin Chiew

Ding Seling (rejoined the school to complete his sixth form)

Mohidin Ishak won the first prize as the Best Reader in school om 1967. This was based on the number of books he borrowed from the school library which then was well stocked with assorted English novels from Charlotte Bronte to DH Lawrence. I am wondering whether students at TLS still enjoy reading books from the TLS library and what has happened to all those books.

I think the school library two classroom size area and we spent most of our free time in the library. I enjoyed reading the National Geographic which was a source of inspiration for many of us. Borrowing and returning of books were strictly controlled under the school rules. Of course at times, library time was abused,and used as dating time for some of us. I am sure I was not one of them. :)

Together with Mohidin,another girl student, whom I remember only as Susie, won the other prize. The handing over of the prizes, the late Mr. Robert Nicholl remarked," Now boys and girls, the only thing that I wish would happen is for Susie to marry Mohidin!"

Mohidin,like several others,went to the university, is now the current General Manager of BDA, Bintulu Development Authority. As other TLS would I am very proud to have been his school mate and associated with him.

Shee Joo Chin as I remember him, was fondly called Keningau because physically he was bigger than the rest of us. I would say he is a gentle giant.

Keningau was a coastal vessel that plied from Kuching to Miri. And those TLS from Kuching Sibu, Simanggang, would surely remember their slow journey in Keningau which would take two nights and two days along the long coast of Sarawak.

And I knew that Joo Shin never took advantage of his size to bully the younger and smaller boys and girls of TLS. And I would say bullying during the TLS years though not obvious did occur, for which I was involved in a fist fight , which Haji Mohammad and many others had witnessed and in front of the school flag post.

I always detest bullying in school because it had always had communal elements and in this respect Mr. Robert Nicholl must have successfully eliminated bullying during his years.

Joo Chin got along really well with boys and girls of all races. I am sure he was not conscious of it but many of us would remember that was the case. I remember his best friend was Lawrence Lee who still refers to him as Keningau, each time we meet up here in Miri.

Joo Chin has a very successful career in the Civil Service and I only realise that he was married to one of my classmates of Form I-Form 3 years( only very recently) and I am so very surprised that he speaks very fluent Iban. If you take an evening jog in one of the recreation spots in Miri you might meet him.

Lawrence Lee was considered a Romeo of his time because he was tall, good looking and attractive. Most of us were fairly envious of his popularity among the girls.

Lawrence is very successful in business and recently has told me that no one should retire regardless of age or physical disadvantage.