Montfort Alumni Dinner at Orchid Country Club on 18 Sep 2009

About 160 old boys, including most of the golfers, guests, retired teachers and school principals attended the networking dinner after the golf event. The highlight of the night was during the speech by MA President, James Cher, when he paid tribute to the retired teachers who were present.

Some of the Retired Teachers (Seated) L-R: Joseph Ng, Lee Tong Juan, Thomas Wang, Heng Hua Seng

Montfort Alumni Friendly Golf & Lau Jiak Networking Night 18 Sep 09 (Fri)

For golfers and diners who had already responded for the 4th Sept date, please reconfirm your participation, as date has been changed to 18th Sep 2009.

Golf Venue: Orchid Country Club ( Dendro & Vanda Courses)
Date: 18 Sep 2009 (Friday)
Time: Short-gun start at 1300 hrs
Price: Includes green fee, buggy and GST, excluding buffet dinner
Price: $21.50 per golfer (for OCC member)
Price: $69.00 per golfer (for those entitled to special privileges i.e. union corporate card day-guest)
Price: $140.00 per golfer (others)

Members of OCC please provide us your membership number and those with union corporate card privileges please ensure that OCC gets a fax request/confirmation from your union directly.

Networking Venue: Orchid Country Club (Clubhouse)
Date: 18 Sep 2009 (Friday)
Time: 7:00 pm.
Price: $38.00 per diner - Buffet dinner only, including soft drinks.

For bookings per email to Patrick Khoo patkhooeh@gmail.com Indicate whether you are interested in golf, dinner or both for our proper headcount because the flights and clubhouse seats are limited. OCC member, please provide your OOC Member Number. Please let Patrick know no later than 7th August 09.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

President's Message

Dear fellow Montfortians,

Greetings from the MA. I have been recently elected as the President of the MA and together with my team; we are planning to launch some of our plans. This includes

a) Doing up a presentation for the MA
b) Identify and invite class/cohort representatives for tea
c) Increase our membership to 1200
d) Networking evening
e) Reunion dinner
f) Lau Jiak night
g) Golf game


The MA is for Montfortians and run by Montfortians. Only we and our concerted efforts, together with your support can determine how successful and vibrant the MA will be. I am quite sad to report that with a rich history of 93 years, we have only 800+ registered members. I am appealing to all Montfortians as a first step to sign up as a member. You can do this on line by logging onto our website at www.montfortians.org It will only take a couple of minutes, so do sign up. With your support, we will easily surpass our target to increase membership to 1200 within a year.

We know that there are many old boys who meet up from time to time. We would like to invite these class/cohort representatives to tea. We hope to get their support and through them reach out to more Montfortians. If one guy can reach out to 20 others and we extrapolate, maybe we can reach out to five thousand. We will be the envy of the town if we have this kind of support.

We thought it would be good to introduce a networking evening. The business community amongst fellow Montfortians can mingle freely and network. If this proves popular, we will take steps to further divide this into different industry groups.

A reunion dinner is overdue. The last one was already some years ago. Please wait for more news on this to be announced on the website. We look forward to your support on this. We are giving you early notice so that you can start to make plans and book a table with your friends.

For social activities, we have a group of die-hard badminton enthusiasts who turn up every Wednesday evening at MJS. We all know that the school has done well for badminton but these "uncles" have done themselves proud to be able to do this week in and week out. So if you are looking for some exercise, some friendship and a good time, do turn up and join them. We also have not organised a golf game for some time and we hope to get the golfers to play a round together. For those who are a bit rusty, maybe it is time to brush up by going to the driving range and prepare yourself for this.

The various sub-committees will be formed and we welcome volunteers to help us with each event. No effort is too small and no contribution is too little. The MA needs your support, experience and expertise, so please step forward. We also welcome suggestions and feedback on how we can serve you better.

We look forward to an exciting year with your support. We would like to take the opportunity to wish each one of you and your families a very blessed and successful year ahead.


Sincerely yours
James Cher
Class of 1972
President
MA Ex-Co 2009/10

Montfort Alumni Exco 2009/10

Back Row (L to R):
Darius Foo, Simon Goh, Arthur Ang, Terrence Lai, Patrick Chua

Front Row (L to R):
Ang Chee Kok, Charles Ng, James Cher, William Gay, Andy Loe, Jason Pan, Seah Kok Woei, Clement Chia

Absent:
William Ng, Patrick Khoo

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Montfort School 93rd Founder’s Day

(25th April 2009, Sat, 8:30 a.m.)

Our Guest of Honour, Mr Chew Hua Seng, will grace the occasion
with the opening of the “Chew Hua Seng Foundation Indoor Sports Hall

Mr Chew (left), an ex-Montfortian, made a generous contribution of $500,000 to the Montfort indoor sports hall building fund last year at the 92nd Founder’s Day.

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Montfort 1972 O-Level Cohort Gathering
(24 April 09, Fri, 7:30 p.m.)

Chinese Full Course Halal Dinner

Venue: Montfort Junior School

Parking: Free Parking at Montfort Secondary School

Date: 24 April 2009 (Friday)

Time: 7:30 pm

Contact: William Gay HP: 91298771 to register

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