Some of us may say that writing about the past is an exercise in futility.The past is dead and best remained buried.It has no intrinsic value.It may be so.But it is not necessarily so.Our Alma Mater,surely,has its own past too.Everything in existence has a past from which the present comes into being.
To my mind the school's past,events big and small,significant or not,its anecdotes even minutae should as far as possible be salvaged and put on record for future alumni and alumnae.On reading it,they might find something to smile,to feel amused about or even dismiss it with unappreciative and derisive comments.Or they don't give a damn !
Be that as it may, in all humility I dedicate the compilation entitled LONG LONG AGO IN KAJANG HIGH SCHOOL to the memory of the late Mr.Ng Seow Buck,
Head Master(1923 - 27).This was a man ! As a Head Master,he was dignified,dynamic, indefatigable and exuding aura and aplomb.In the early years of the 20th Century,long before the millennium,he played many parts in nursing,nurturing and charting the future of the fledgling infant known as the Kajang Government English School,the antecedent of the Kajang High School and which had produced many of Malaysia's well-known administrators and politicians.And the late N.S.Buck's effort toward the establishment of the Kajang High School was in no small measure. As a matter of fact he was one of the Founding Fathers.
As a gesture of respect and gratitude for his noble effort and to perpetuate his name,the Kajang High School authority then made him House Patron of Buck House(House Number's last digit is 0 or 9/Color- Yellow ) .
LABOR OMNIA VINCIT !
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