The V.I. Picture of the Month - March 2000

Here we pull out a scanned picture from our collection or contributors that is related to either the V.I. past or present. If you have any interesting photo or picture about the V.I. or Victorians that you would like to share in this section, please do send the scanned image in GIF or JPEG format, together with a short write up on it to ooibk@pop.jaring.my.

Seven Malayan students seen here before leaving for Brisbane on five-year Australian Government scholarships awarded under the Colombo Plan. They were to read for science degrees and then train to be science teachers. Six of the students were from the Victoria Institution - Saran Singh Sekhon (extreme right), and, from left, Siew Fook Cheong, Miss Chung Kean Yue, Miss Tang Miew Yoong, Lau Chee Pun, and Mohd. Ali bin Ibrahim. The sole exception was Khoo Chin Hock (second from right) from the ACS, Penang. Mohd. Ali was to read physics while the rest were to read chemistry at the University of Queensland. Saran Singh, the former V.I. School Captain, was given a farewell tea party by his fellow prefects. In 1958, Mohd Ali returned to teach physics at the V.I. for a year, while Miss Tang Miew Yoong, better known to her future pupils as Mrs Teh Khoon Heng, taught science at her alma mater from 1959 to 1973.