Seow Seng Chee - Vice President, A Global Financial Services Institution
Seng Chee came to Singapore with the Malaysian equivalent of a 20-point score GCE ‘O’ Level. He was told by many schools that he approached that he would not be able to do well in a 2-year ‘A’ level course.
SRJC gave him a home, and Seng Chee made the most of this treasured opportunity. He secured a place in the university with his grades:
Mathematics - A
Accounting - A
Economics - C
General Paper - A2
Malay - A1
Seng Chee finds SRJC graduates tend to have a more realistic, grounded approach, with the street smarts that enable them to survive better in the corporate jungle.
Dr Yeo Sze Ling - A*STAR Scholar and Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research
Sze Ling contracted Glaucoma when she was only 4 years old, and as a result, her optic nerves were damaged and vision was reduced to mere light perception.
In 1995, Sze Ling joined SRJC and our teachers helped ensure she did not lose out in her studies for her 'A' levels, even with her visual disability. Lecture notes were sent two weeks in advance to the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) to be translated, and she had a space in the library for typing on the Braille machine. It was there that her buddy would read to her the Mathematics questions. She not only solved the questions, but also taught her peers.
Some test papers were sent for Braille translation while for others such as Mathematics, which did not have so much text, the teachers would read the questions to her during the test. This explains the close bond she has with her mathematics teacher, Dr Gui Eng Hock, whom she is still in touch with.
After she completed her A-levels, Mr Alex Lum, her Economics tutor, applied for a $3000 sponsorship from the Singapore Buddhist Lodge to finance her first year of undergraduate studies at NUS before she was offered her NUS scholarship.
She subsequently graduated with excellent results, went on to do her Bachelor's Degree, her Masters Degree and finally her Doctorate Degree which was funded by the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship.
She is currently working as a research engineer at the Institute for Infocomm Research. Her research interests revolve around the areas of number theory, cryptography and coding theory.
Koh Yah Hwee - Finalist, Star Search 2007MediaCorp Artiste
Yah Hwee was a key member of the SRJC Dance Team. Coming from a background of Chinese Dance, joining the SRJC Dance Team exposed her to other dance forms and helped her to build up a diverse repertoire of dance moves. She also honed her creative and leadership skills when she choreographed a dance routine for 25 dancers for a Community Involvement Programme in China.
Competing against artistes from Singapore, Malaysia, China and Taiwan in the Star Search 2007, her experience in SRJC enabled her to reach the finals, where she was given the Miss Telegenic title.
A MAN WITH AN EYE FOR CHANGEMr Tan came to SRJC in 2007 after having served a six-year tenure at Yishun Town Secondary School. He considers his greatest accomplishments there to have been enabling students, teachers and parents to find a different perspective of a neighbourhood school, to see it as a place of hope and growth, despite its humble placement in a heartland area.
With his leadership, Yishun Town Secondary grew to become one of the most sought after schools in the North Zone.
He comes to SRJC as a mover and a shaker, determined to ensure the continued progress of the college. For this reason, a new college vision has since been crafted:
Mr Tan seeks to lead the staff and students in SRJC to dream big dreams for SRJC, and to find the fire in themselves to turn these dreams into reality.
Oh God,
please , make it a reality.
