Photograph of Chow Ah Ming as a gardening supervisor at the Lee Kuo Chuan School

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 before retiring with 30 years of service in Singapore. In this photograph, he is seen supervising students of Lee Kuo Chuan School as they tended to a garden in 1954.

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