Dear All

A number of you will remember our Dad, Hugh Wheeler, who in the early 1960’s was headmaster at the Alexander Grammar School before moving to St John’s where he sadly contracted encephalitis whilst on holiday in Malaysia and subsequently passed away. I know some of you had a reunion out there last year and Lynne Copping kindly told us about it and sent a photo of his grave at Kranji.

This year is the 50th anniversary of his death on 3rd November 1965 and my sister (Sue Stephens (nee Wheeler)) and I have decided to visit Singapore this October to pay respects to his memory at the Kranji cemetery and to take the opportunity to bring our families (Sue’s husband, my wife and our four young adult children) and show them some of the old and new Singapore, including places which were part of our life when we lived there is the 1960’s. During this time we shall be visiting the UWCSEA Dover Road campus, the site of St John’s, the buildings of which have changed hugely but nevertheless form the basis of the present College, and we will be meeting with Frazer Cairns who is presently responsible for the campus. We could not be there for 3rd November itself as one of our children is a maths teacher in London and could only come during the UK half term week.

We shall be staying at the Goodwood Park Hotel from October 25th to 27th before moving on to Penang and it would be a great pleasure to meet up with any of you who may be in the area at the time and who knew our Dad. Perhaps if anyone is interested you could email me and we can see what sort of response there is and whether we might be able to arrange something!! We know that this is short notice, so sorry about that, and we accept that it is quite likely that no one will actually be around at the time.

We have sent this to the two what seem relevant email addresses I have been able to uncover, and we would appreciate it if whoever runs these could circulate this email to the appropriate people!!

Very best wishes

Tony & Sue