Dunman School Installation
I attended the 20th Installation of Dunman School's Interact Club. I had an opportunity to met Mrs Yao (Vice Principal), Ms Siti (Teacher Advisor of Dunman Interact Club) & Jasmine Tai (wonderful Interactor) at the Rotary Club of Marina City's Installation at Conrad hotel earlier this month. They have invited me to their installation which I gladly obliged...
I have never attended any past Dunman School's Installation before...At first instance I thought that it will be a simple installation in a staff common room or something...and I didn't dress overly formal...I was dressed in my shirt and pants minus the tie too...Later did I realised that the Dunman School actually give a lot of support to their Interact Club...
After registering my name on the guest book together with AG Rotarian Jagjit Singh, Rotarian Wilfred James & Rotarian Dr. Adrian Bai, we were ushered into the school hall by the principal of Dunman School Mrs Edelweis Neo, Vice Principal Mrs Yao, teachers like Miss Siti and Mrs Sundram and wonderful Interactors....We were warmly welcomed by the likes of 1000++ over students, fanfare and even given red carpet treatment! I swear my heart was thumping really fast...Really amazing...Its like I was back in secondary school once more...the youth of the students revigorated me....the performance they put up for us...obvious that they have spent....
The lighting of candles for Installation of new Board of Directors for Dunman Interact Club and diminishing of candles for outgoing Pres and BODs was so nicely done accompanied by a lovely pianist playing Canon in D. Yes that lovely Korean movie theme song....I heard about Interact Club but never have I seen such a amount of patronage towards Rotary International from a school under the Ministry of Education, Singapore...You can see that the school were very appreciative of the works of the entire Rotary movement...
Mrs Edelweis Neo (Principal of Dunman School) invited me on stage & presented me a token of appreciation. I have never seen anything like that...There was the refreshment that follows after the Installation and I had the opportunity to talk to my Interactors...They have so much ideas and passion for their Interact movement that I was really inspired by their boundless energy.
Truly Amazing
YIRS,Matthew
