MA Activities - Past Year & Present

Year 2009/2010 Montfort Alumni AGM and Executive
Committee Election
(30th May 2009, Sat, 2:30 p.m.)

Notice is hereby given that the next Annual General Meeting of the
Montfort Alumni will be held on Saturday, 30th May 2009, 2.30 pm, at the Montfort Secondary School Learning Hub (Level 1).

Members who have any resolution to table are to do so in writing by 18th April 2009.

Members can view the Notice of AGM Minutes Agenda Accounts Website and the Proposed changes to MA Constitution at 2009 AGM

Year 2008/2009 Montfort Alumni AGM and Executive Committee Election

Notice is hereby given that the next Annual General Meeting of the Montfort Alumni will be held
on Saturday, 26 April 2008, 2.30 pm, at the Montfort Secondary School Learning Hub (Level 1).

Members who have any resolution to table are to do so in writing by 19th April 2008.

Members can view the Notice of AGM Minutes Agenda Accounts Website
and the Proposed changes to MA Constitution at 2008 AGM

MontfortAlumni@SingaporeFlyer

22 Feb 2008

The Singapore Flyer is promoting the Exclusive Corporate Event from 15th ?29th Feb 2008. 22 Feb 2008 is available to Montfort Alumni for corporate booking. The SF will only be opened to the public from 1st March.

Corporate booking is for a whole private capsule, each of which can accommodate max 28 persons (i.e. 26 guests + 2 F&B serving staff).

Each flight (1 rotation) is about 30 minutes, and the F&B served in the capsule would consist of canapés, soft drinks, juices & mineral water. After that we will adjourn to one of the bistros or pubs in SF premises.

Price inclusive of GST: $2,000
- $1500 per capsule per flight (peak period price) with exclusive check-in
- $500 minimum order of F&B to be served on board per capsule.

Car Park at SF (280 lots available).

Take this rare opportunity to be amongst the first to ride Singapore's newest icon. Limited slots left. Payment on event date.

Call 9756-9797 for reservations before 31 Jan 2008.

All images of the Singapore Flyer are copyrights of the "Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd"
Visit www.singaporeflyer.com.sg for more info.

Join the Rat Pack for a Montfort Karaoke Session

01 Feb 2008

Date: 1st February 2008 (Friday)
Venue: Montfort Staff Recreation Lounge
Time: 8pm till late
Dress Code: Casual
Bring your own beverages
Free Parking at Montfort Secondary School premises
Call 9756-9797 for queries

Boys' Town Music Carnival

Boys' Town Music Carnival on 18 November 2007. This is a fundraising event to be held on that day from 9.0am to 3.00pm.
There will be various music groups and artistes that will be entertaining the crowd through out the day.

Ticket are on sales now and I am having some for sale. I would appreciate your support.
Tickets are at $10 each. They can be available from me.
Please indicate your interest to have a ticket or more through this email or you can call me at the numbers given below.

Bro. Dominic Yeo Koh Tuan Kiok
dominic_yeokoh@montfortcentre.org

HAPPY 65th BIRTHDAY EDMUND JAMES

On 14th September 2007, some Sec 4 Science cohorts gathered to celebrate the 65th birthday of their form teacher, Edmund James. It was held @ Choon Seng Seafood @ Hougang Ave 1 Kopitiam. Almost every Montfortian knows that Choon Seng Seafood brings back good memories of the old Ponggol End chilly crabs. The Hougang unit is not the original Choon Seng, and minus the sea breeze and bus exhaust fumes.

The simple celebration was decorated with plenty of seafood, wine, beer, songs, cakes, presents, even a beer waitress and the ever-present kopitiam crowd! There was a hilarious and lively mini debate between the teacher and students on " The Fundamentals of Procreation". Luckily, it ended peacefully!

The evening went by all too quickly, and the celebration ended on a highly charged spirit with the birthday song and cutting of cakes by the ‘birdday boy? Even the beer waitress presented Edmund with a birthday gift!

Nobody went home empty handed. Koh Seow Long sponsored each guest with a box of Tung Lok mooncakes! A collection was held and amounted to S$867.00 for the St Gabriel's Foundation fund.

I thanked the Class of 1972 Sec 4 Science for organising the celebration of Edmund's 65th Birthday. I am very certain that he is very appreciative and will remember the occasion for many years!

Special thanks to James Cher Liew Hiong, Richard Mok Piak Liang, Law Kee Hau, Koh Seow Long, Tan Chee Meng, Peter Tan Poh Heng, Dennis Mok Kee Seng, Lawrence Ku Yun Fong, Victor Lim Kong Puay, Choy Kah Kin, Eric Ee, John Lee Boon Guan, Tng Hor Teck, William Kwa Hui Khoon, Roger Ng Tioy Teng, Shih Chi Lai & Seow Kok Hsien for making it happened.

Reported By William Gay

MONTFORT ALUMNI GOLF OUTING on 28th Sep 2007

Date: 28 September 2007 (Friday) p.m.

Venue: Singapore Island Country Club

Course: SIME Course

Green Fee: At cost

Please contact Patrick Khoo at patkhoo@starhub.net.sg

St Gabriel's Foundation Flag Day 2007 - 22nd Sep 2007

Montfort is appealing for donations for the SGF Flag Day to be held on 22/09/07. Please make your donations through Montfort (instead of direct to SGF) as the school will receive 20% of the amount raised through this Flag Day. Please read the appeal letter from Bro. Emmanuel for more information. Kindly contact your network of schoolmates, classmates and friends and encourage them to donate. Thank you.

If you wish to make a donation, please:

1) Write a cheque for donation payable to "St. Gabriel's Foundation".

2) Include your Name, NRIC, Contact No. and Address to facilitate the processing of tax relief for the amount donated.

3) Mail the cheque to the school:

Montfort Secondary School,
50 Hougang Ave 8,
Singapore 538785

MONTFORT ALUMNI GOLF OUTING ON 11th JULY 2007

Our long awaited MA golf outing on 11th July 07 at Marina Bay Golf Course kicked off with great weather.
The next planned outing is tentatively in September and we will keep you posted.
Thanks to Matthew Ng for the golf bookings, and Richard Ng for the arrangement of the
post-game dinner at Spore Swimming Club courtesy of

Congratulations to our winners:

Also thanks to all participants for all their co-operation in making this a success.

Report By:
Patrick Khoo

BOY'S TOWN HOME CHARITY GOLF
17 July 2007 (Tues)
Guest-of-Honour
Mr Lim Boon Heng
Minister, Prime Minister's Office
For more information and registration form, please download here

We Remember Bro Andrew

A MONTFORTIAN GIANT

The school flag has been flown at half-mask for the last two days and there is a condolence book placed outside the general office for students to pen their thoughts and condolence. There was also a minute of silence observed by students and staff.

A photo exhibition has been set up, which features the life of Bro Andrew, and his contribution to Montfort. You should really read what the boys have written about Bro Andrew even though they have not met him. It was through the eulogy yesterday that they came to know him and what he stands for, "A MONTFORTIAN GIANT"

I wish to invite you to the school anytime today or tomorrow to view the exhibits and sign the condolence book. Can you mass mail out to all former Montfortians who may want to sign the condolence book? We intend to send the book to his family through the Bros of St Gabriel.



Written By:
Adrian Leow
Vice Principal
Montfort Secondary School
4 April 2007

THE BOXER

I chronicled what happened in the school. So, the article and some information on him can be found at www.montfortschool.blogspot.com

Tor Cher, Edmund and I did the morning eulogy, which lasted for about half an hour.

We held a farewell concert in the hall on the day itself. The band performed and Mr Simen and myself played "The Boxer" and "Listen to the Falling Rain" to signify the heavens crying.

Very meaningful stuff we did. The boys learnt some meaningful history and heritage that day. You could smell it in the air and sense it through their expressions.



Written By:
Lloyd Yeo
HOD
Montfort Secondary School
4 April 2007

Lau Jiak - 24 Mar 2007

MA AGM - 24 Mar 2007

Montfort Alumni Ex-Co 2007/08

Montfort Weekend Retreat at Montfort Centre - March & August 2007

MA Bowling - 10 March 2007

90^th Founders?Day
90 km Challenge Run

Date: Wed, 5^th April 2006
Start time: 8.00 am
End time: 6.00 pm

• Route: CHIJ Nativity Church Compound- MSS foyer (1 km) - Nativity Church (2 km)

• Distance: 3 km per round

• No. of repetitions: 30

• No. of checkpoints: 2 (Church and MSS)

• Estimated completion time: 10 hours @ 20 minutes per round

• No. of participants running at any one time: 10

• Participants from MJS, MSS, YMA, MA & VIPs- can choose to run either 1 km or 2 km route

Interested parties will have to indicate if they are
From MA or YMA and e-mail their details (Name, email address, contact no.
and preferred slot) to our coordinator, Mr Faizan email address,
faizan_muhamad_nor@moe.edu.sg by 28 March 2006 (Tuesday).
For any enquiry, he can be contacted at 6510 7060.

Montfort 90th Founder's Day

The St. Gabriel's Foundation Charity Golf
31 March 2006
Raffles Country Club, Lake Course

Naturally we are looking for help to get sponsors to make the event a greater success.

Anyone can get a sponsor for the next Hole-In-One car prize as well?

Patrick Khoo
Chairman (Social Committee)
MA Ex-co 2004/05

BADMINTON UPDATE 2005

Montfort Alumni Badminton Group (MABG) started in May 2004 with 6 Montfortians at the Montfort Junior School Hall, made available through the kind generosity of the Principal, Ms Judina Chua.

Presently on record, we have about 30 players, age ranging from 20s to 60s, and on average we have about 12 to 15 regulars playing weekly on Wednesday nights, from 7.00pm to 10.00pm.

As there are 3 courts available, we welcome more shuttlers to join in the sweat it out. We oldies run out of steam too fast. The ideal would be would be around 20 players.

As many Montfortians do not play golf, the Badminton weekly serves other members an opportunity to meet, network and sweat out those extra kilos. We are still in our infancy, and we are not ready to have any competition yet. But it will happen soon enough. Now it is the "Battle of our Bulges".

It is well known that Montfort had won many trophies at the national level. We even had an old boy, Chia Yong Joo who represented Singapore in international games.

There are plans to reach out to more members and develop the MABG further with the help of Yong Joo. We will keep you posted.

Join us every Wednesday night. You can also check out who are the badminton enthusiasts in the Member Search feature. See you.

William Gay
Badminton Convenor (Social Committee)
MA Ex-co 2004/05

GOLF REPORT FOR 2004

The Montfort Monthly Golf
1st March 2002 saw the beginning of "Montfort Monthly Golf Friendly" event where champions and runners-up emerged on two formats of "Best Honest John" and "Best Nett Stroke Play". The monthly games generated lots of interest from the old boys who looked forward to every game making it a regular affair for the die-hards on the green.

Kudos to the golfers from class of 1970 who started this social game amongst them, and kick-started it to an official MA Monthly Golf friendly, introducing winner trophies through the initiative of John Tan.

Ties were rekindled amongst Montfortians and the golfing group thrives on continuing till today. Besides the monthly meet, there were also golf charity events, which the group generously supported. See the MA Archives for articles and pictures.

Thai CGA 2004 Invitation
Additionally, in the year 2004 a contingent of about 25 Montfortians travelled to Bangkok for a golf event organized by the CGA of Thailand.

This trip included sightseeing tours for non-golfers and wives whilst we played at Lakewood Golf and Country Club / Suprapuek Golf and Country Club. A few also attended final day of The Johnny Walker Classic tournament at The Alpine Golf and Country Club accompanied by Gordon Lim, Gabrielite and our "Johnnie" sponsor.

Singapore CGA Golf Formation
News of the Montfort Golf Monthly spread rapidly here by word of mouth, and from the Thailand trip to golfers to schools under the umbrella of The Bros of St Gabriel's. Soon they, too, joined in making it a bigger family affair.

From February 2004, this regular outing has been re-named CGA (Confederation of Gabrielites Alumni) Singapore Golf Outing to include golfers from St Gabriel's, Boys' Town and Assumption schools.

Sponsors & Thanks
Additionally, in the year 2004 a contingent of about 25 Montfortians travelled to Bangkok for a golf event organized by the CGA of Thailand.

Lastly, this event would not be successful without the full cooperation, patience, and understanding from the golfers on any shortcomings and all members of the various golf clubs who assisted in playing hosts. A round of applause to all of you.

Patrick Khoo
Chairman (Social Committee)
MA Ex-co 2004/05

ST GABRIELS'S FOUNDATION LAUNCH DINNER - 2004 OCTOBER

The official launch of the St Gabriel's Foundation was celebrated with a highly successful dinner on 30th October 2004. Held at the St. Gabriel's Secondary School Hall, the dinner was graced by an old boy of Montfort, His Grace, Most Rev Mgr Nicholas Chia who was the Guest of Honour.

Despite the very short notice to organize the dinner, the Organizing Committee made up of the Principals of the Gabrielite Schools pulled it off successfully. The dinner was a sell-out, attended by more than 700 old boys and supporters. Amongst the VIPs were Mr. Lim Boon Heng, Minister, Prime Minister's Office, Mr. Ng Kok Song, Managing Director, GIC, Mr. Michael Tan, previously Senior EVP Singapore Airlines, Khun Wanlop Chiaravanont, President, Confederation of The Gabrielites Alumni, [CGA] Thailand. CGA Thailand sent a contingent of 4 Senior Officials to grace the occasion.

Apart from the good spread, merry making and catching up of old times, each school put up a special item which had the audience rapt in attention. The Dinner also raised some $20,000 for the Foundation.

Everyone had a great time, and people were still milling around long after the party was over.

Chua Cher Choon
Governor
St Gabriel's Foundation

MONTFORT WALKATHON 2004 JULY

The Guest-Of-Honour, BG (NS) George Yeo flagged off the Montfort Walkathon 2004 on 23rd July 2004, 8 a.m., with the theme "The Sporting Montfortian". The combined Montfort Junior and Montfort Secondary event was organized to raise funds through donation cards. The presence of well-known sportsman, James Wong, added a touch of celebrity to the event and he was an excellent role model for the young Montfortians who harbour similar aspirations to excel in sports.

The MA also participated in the fund raising event and many members turned up all geared up and added to the fun by joining in the walkathon. The event turned out to be a grand success and the schools managed to raise close to $45,000 together. The funds will go towards the PRIME and school development programme.

We thank everyone who joined in the morning walk and all those who contributed to making this event a success!

Simen Lourds
Principal
Montfort Secondary School