ACS OBA Founder's Day Dinner

Keep On Renovating & Innovating
                               - Mr Oon Jin Teik Advises ACSians

The ACS OBA Founder’s Day Dinner at the Shangri-la Ballroom was yet another grand affair to celebrate 120 years of excellence in ACS. The Guest-of-Honour was Mr Oon Jin Teik, Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Sports Council and a true-blue ACSian from the Sec 4 Class of 1979 and ACJC Class of 1981.

In his speech, Mr Oon called upon all ACS old boys and girls to keep on ‘renovating and innovating’ ACS to meet the challenges of the future. Although ACS already enjoys a superb brand – the name ACS is synonymous with ‘excellence’, the ACS Spirit is synonymous with ‘resilience, fighting spirit and pride’, and ACSians are synonymous with ‘leadership and comradeship’ – he urged ACSians not to rest on our laurels.

Members of the ACJC String Quartet (above)
ACS (Barker Road)'s singing sensation, Nathan Hartono captivating the audience.
The ACS OBA, being organizers of the event, set out to recreate the dinner event so that it will continue to remain relevant over future years and become a focal point of the annual celebration by all ACSians. New features of the event included exhibitions by the ACS family of schools, audiovisual presentations celebrating the sporting achievements of ACSians, the launch of the ACS OBA Affinity Credit Card, and a roll call for the best-attended cohorts during the dinner. Entertainment for the evening included superb performances by the ACJC String Quartet and ACS (Barker Road)’s singing sensation, Nathan Hartono. More than a thousand old boys and girls, staff, teachers and well-wishers filled 108 tables for this year’s celebrations, which was well orchestrated by the Master of Ceremonies, Leslie Quahe (Sec 4 Class of 73 & Pre-U Class of 1976). Leslie is seen here on the right with his favourite teacher, Mrs. Lee Gek Kim.

ACS Oldham Hall

ACS Oldham Hall staged a Founder’s Day Challenge to celebrate Founder’s Day. The event sought to generate greater esprit de corps among boarders from CJC Hostel, Dunman High School Hostel and ACS (Independent) Boarding School. After sweating it through several rounds of play and urged on by cheerleaders waving colourful pom-poms, the CJC Boys Team and the Oldham Hall Girls Team 2 emerged as the winners.
Where's the ball?	The girls in action!
In the same spirit of our founder Bishop Oldham who offered free tuition to sons of widows and poor families, ACS Oldham Hall pledged to donate $1,000 to the Methodist Welfare Services (MWF) Bursary Awards Fun for each participating hostel. Many students from low-income families of all races and religions have benefited from the MWS Bursary Awards annually since 1986. Last year, 274 awards worth over $70,000 were disbursed to needy primary and secondary school students.
Mr Tan Wah Thong, Chairman of the ACS Board of Governors, presenting a cheque for $3,000 to Ms Katy Tay of the Methodist Welfare Services. According to Ms Tay, “I am very happy that through this event, ACS Oldham Hall’s donation of $3,000 will greatly help the needy students in furthering their education”.	The Challenge was indeed a great success! As summed up by one of the organisers, Ms Magdalene Lim, “We are glad to support the work of MWS in contributing to the welfare of less fortunate students. In future Founder’s Day events, we hope to introduce a greater variety of games and involve more hostels so that we can raise more money for MWS.”