The V.I. Picture of the Month - June 1999

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.

For the 1966 annual school concert, Art Master Mr Vincent Voo attempted to assemble a mixed sixth form choir. However the boys regarded the venture as 'cissy' and so it was an all-girls choir that made up the last item of the evening's programme on April 6, 1966. Chew Fei Yin, Shanta Danaraj and Yolande Arianayagam sang Mendelssohn's "It was a lover and his lass", with the words from Shakespeare's "As you like it". The choir then rendered a two-part Elizabethan love song and ended the concert with the national anthem. The same V.I. girls' choir was later entered by Vincent Voo in the Selangor school choir competition and emerged second.