Photograph of Chow Ah Ming conducting the 1957 Census of Population

Chow Ah Ming came to Singapore from Ipoh, Malaya, in the 1950s and joined the Teachers’ Training College. At this time, he lived at the Kingsmead Hall student hostel for Malayan trainee teachers at Farrer Road run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He completed a 3-year training course at the College and qualified as a primary school teacher. He later went on to specialise in teaching English as a second language. This photo shows him as a supervisor for the 1957 Census of Population of Singapore while working as a teacher.

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Photograph of Chow Ah Ming on a motorbike at Kingsmead Hall while he was living there and attending the Straits Chinese Church