Fond memories of former teachers: Jonathan Gadsby '94

For me, Mr Lowe, the music teacher was a huge inspiration and source of energy and encouragement. There was a moment during the production of Wizard of Oz in my final year when the band (some of whom were students, like me, some were teachers and a couple were professionals hired for the run of the show) started really mucking about with the final number and Mr Lowe (conducting) pretended he was about to do a strip tease that I remember as one of the funniest moments of my childhood.

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I also think the history department teachers (I had Dr Underwood and Miss Hoggetts) were very good teachers and I still remember things that they said. Miss Hoggetts' teaching of Chinese history for IB has given me a very different sense of Hong Kong, the country I lived in before coming to Singapore.

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I especially remember a class about the Vietnam conflict that Dr Underwood taught that affected me greatly.

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Cikgu Hanifiah was a very kind and patient Malay teacher and I will never forget the homestay she organised for me in a tiny traditional Malay village somewhere remote in Negeri Sembilan (house on stilts, livestock underneath, the grandad tapped 300 rubber trees every morning while chain-smoking Marlborough reds). And what is this fake Duke of Edinburgh award scheme they do here without Gunung Panti’s leeches? Who wants that?! If Mr Finter (aka ‘studley Dudley’) is still alive I owe my life-long love of motorbikes to him (and probably a sense that ‘health and safety’ is mostly unnecessary).

So what a precious time it was, 1990 - 94, UWCSEA. I was at least as foolish and lacking in social skills as most teenage boys but I have nothing but the warmest feelings for everyone I went to school with. I wonder what you are all doing now and I wish you all well.