POINEERS OF THE "PENCINTA BAHASA BRIGADE"

Being a new and vital experiment in Education in the Federation, the Language Institute was launched, without fanfare, on Sunday, January 5, 1958. A stately mansion in Bukit Senyum, Johor Baru was adapted to accommodate the fledgling Language Institute. The 1st term ended on Friday March 14, 1958. (J.E Tod, Dec 9, 1957)

Fresh school-leavers who had completed their Overseas Cambridge School Certification and with excellent Bahasa Melayu results were taken in as freshmen and assigned as Course A Students. There were about 60 of them . Serving and qualified Malay Primary School teachers, also numbering about 60, were designated as Course B (A renown Malaysian educationist, Prof. Dr. Awang Had Salleh was among the 1st intake of Course B). The Course B Malay Teachers abandoned the course midway due to salary dispute.

The Language Institute in Bukit Senyum, Johor Baru as on March 7 1958

Course A2 Students of the Language Institute as on March 14, 1958 (end of 1st term) with the 1st Principal, Mr. J. E. Tod and Vice Principal, En. Zainal Abidin bin Ali.

Those in the picture from L to R

Sitting : Nik Jaafar (Kelantan), Omar Hassan(Johor), Raja Shahriman(Perak), Salleh Darus(Perak), Muhammad bin Long(Pahang), En. Zainal bin Ali(Vice  Principal,Lecturer in BM), Mr J.E Tod(1st Principal and English lecturer), En. Mokhtar bin Mohd. Don(Education and Elementary Phonetics lecturer), Shaari Che Man(Perlis), Mohd Hussein Ahmad(Johor), Shamsul Bahrin(Perak), Kamar Ibrahim / Hanafiah Kamal Bahrin Lubis(Selangor), Saad Jusoh(Perlis).

Standing : Mohd Kenali(Pahang), Tajuddin Hussein(Johor), Mohd Anshar(Johor), Shamsuddin(Kelantan), Mustapha Muhammad(Selangor), Mohammad Musa(Penang), Mohd Karim Sharif(Johor), Raja Ahmad(Perak), Noran Abdul Rahman(Johor), Zakaria Ibrahim(Johor),

Raja Aizuddin Anor Shah(Perak), Muhammed bin Hussein(Johor), Nasir Jalil(Johor).

Not in photo : Nasir Ishak(Johor), Muhammed bin Arshad(Perlis).

Lecturers not in photo : En. Ku Bahadur(Methodology-Malay), Mr. K Sundram(Methodology-English), En. Rahim Che Teh(General Linguistics Theory and Language Acquisition), En. Nordin Bachik(Language Teaching Materials).

CourseCoCurse A2 resplendent in their dark green blazers with the 2nd Principal and Vice-Principle

The date at the back of this photograph was December 12 1958

Sitting(center) : Mr. F. Daniel(Principal). On his right, Mr. Drennon(Vice-Principal)

2nd row standing : 4th from left : Nasir Ishak, Muhammad bin Arshad(5th from right).

Note : Muhammad Arshad was the co-designer of the Institute's crest,together with Abdul Rahmad Khalifah(Course A1).  By  HANAFIAH LUBIS  COURSE  A/30 LANGUAGE INSTITTUTE ,BUKIT SENYUM,JOHORE BARU 1958.