Home ¢ Joy-marie Toh (MGS ’89, ACJC ’91) is the 2nd Vice-President, ACSOBA, and the Executive Producer of the ACS 135 Thanksgiving Service / Photos courtesy of ACSOBA; screenshots courtesy of Klaus Tan (ACS [I] ’18)
Guest of honour and ACS Old Boy Bishop Dr Gordon Wong delivered the sermon and led “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
Mr Richard Seow, Chairman of the ACSBOG, welcoming ACSians to the ACS135 Thanksgiving Service
135 years on,
the best is yet to be The ACS135 Thanksgiving Service
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March is a day deeply etched into the hearts of ACSians— what those from the Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) family of schools call themselves. It’s a reminder of God’s continued
blessings upon our school and causes us to reflect upon the tenacity and vision of our founder, Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham. ACS Founder’s Day is an institution of its own; the schools celebrate with much pomp and ceremony, and alumni look forward to reliving school days with friends and former teachers. This 135th Founder’s Day was meant to be a grand endeavour.
Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham
Echoing the celebration held in the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2011, 10,000 ACSians were poised to congregate at the stadium to commemorate yet another milestone year. Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions did not permit that plan to go ahead. The path of least resistance would of course have been for us to blame the pandemic for the disruption and then hope for a better
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age. But that’s not the ACS nor the ACSOBA way. ACSians find a METHODIST MESSAGE April 2021
way—or make one.
