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Ho Seng Ong

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Subject :Ho Seng Ong
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Location : Ipoh, Perak
Estimated Year : 1960
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Karpal Sekawan
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Born in 1898 in Selangor, Ho Seng Ong was one of Malaya's finest educationists, serving as headmaster of ACS Malacca for fifteen years. In his era there were twenty-six "mission schools" in Malaya and Seng Ong was the only local-born principal; all the rest were American or European.
After the war he served for a time as headmaster of ACS Ipoh as well as pastor at Wesley Methodist Church, before moving to Penang. Around that same time, in order to ease crowding elsewhere, a new primary school was set up in Canning Garden, Ipoh, as a co-educational branch. A scant year after the new school was opened in his name, Seng Ong died – a great man who loved his country and all its children.


We thank our donor - Karpal Sekawan - for the above information.

The picture shows Ho Seng Ong; probably taken during his years as headmaster of ACS and pastor at Wesley Methodist Church.


Click here to see the then newly built school in Canning Garden, which was later named after Ho Seng Ong.

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