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LA FILLE: Roseline Tan Jie Yi
years of existence: 15 years and some months
a piscean =D
a Dunmanian
a 3h-er
an edsdancer =D
an ex-Goliener
an ex 6-niner
an ex gongshanger
birthday: 6 March 1992
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Building a Dunmanian Heritage

This is a letter from the Dunman High in Year 2006 to the Dunman High in Year 2031. It is part of a collection of artefacts that will be placed in the Dunman High Time Capsule on 31 Mar 2006. When this Time Capsule is opened, you will catch a glimpse of the life, dreams and aspirations of Dunmanians who pass this way 25 years before you.

This Time Capsule is our little contribution to the building up of a richer Dunmanian heritage and identity. We are a young nation. As a school, we are not much older than our nation. It is important that a young community like ours cherish and preserve our heritage, because it is through history that we learn who we are and appreciate what makes us unique.
As a historian (Henry Steele Commager , 1902 – 1998) once put it , “for a people to be without History, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory—condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection.”


Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Dunman High has enjoyed 50 years of success, and much of it was achieved against the odds. Started as a small Chinese Middle School in 1956 with only about 100 students and 10 teachers, Dunman High even had to borrow a primary school campus to serve as her initial school ground. Except for tables and chairs, the school had little else then. Today, Dunman High has grown to be one of the top school s in Singapore . Our students are known throughout the country for their outstanding academic performance and strong co-curricula achievements. More importantly, the public has come to associate Dunmanians with admirable qualities like integrity and uprightness.

There were many other challenges that the school had to overcome. For instance, it is difficult today to imagine how a Chinese medium school could convert to the English medium of instruction in 1980 and still do better than many other top English medium schools in the national examinations. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, but one that is no surprise to those who experienced first hand the determination, resilience and talent of our pioneering students and staff.

When other top schools in Singapore began to turn independent in the 1990s, Dunman High boldly decided to remain a government school. To those who are status conscious, this may seem like compromising our standing as a top school. To the educators in Dunman High, however, this is simply a natural extension of our beliefs in education. We remember our humble beginnings and believe firmly that good education should be accessible to the masses, without children having to worry about affordability. To this day, we stayed true to our cause of providing top quality education at a fee affordable to the masses.
Just as Issac Newton who felt that he could see further than others because he had stood on the shoulders of giants, we in Dunman High feel likewise when we look back on our accomplishments. Without the wisdom, devotion and sacrifices of the ex-staff and principals of Dunman High, the school would not have the strong foundation that we enjoy today. The resilience and imagination demonstrated by them in achieving against the odds continue to inspire and guide us as we chart new frontiers for the school.


Our Journey Forward

Going forward, we will honour our history by preserving two important features in the way we educate Dunmanians:
Character development must take precedence over all other domains of developments. If we ignore character building, everything else that we do in education will be to no purpose but to make the worse or more dangerous man;
Dunmanians must continue to aspire for excellence and give of their best in everything they do. Success in life is an attitude – the attitude of putting our heart, mind and soul even to our smallest acts.

Just as our pioneering teachers and students who built Dunman High from an unknown school to a leading secondary school, we are now embarking on a similar journey to develop Dunman High into a leading junior college. The goal we set for ourselves is to become one of the top 5 junior colleges in the A-level examinations. This is a challenging task, but it cannot be more challenging than what our pioneers experienced 50 years ago. If our pioneers can do wonders with a small, unknown and poorly equipped school 5 decades ago, we must be able to do much more with a school that is already among the very best in the secondary school league.
Apart from our A-level ambition, there are other goals we have set for ourselves in the years ahead. Dunmanians are already famous for their sound values and upright character. We want to nurture Dunmanians into future leaders who are as well known for their passion, confidence, leadership and creativity as their integrity, uprightness and willingness to serve. We want to see Dunmanians who are confident but not arrogant, passionate but not self-centred, articulate but not flamboyant, and creative but not scheming.

These are our dreams for the future, and the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Our dreams will progressively turn into reality, if this generation of Dunmanians exhibits the same pioneering spirit and never-say-die attitude as the Dunmanians who built this school over the last 5 decades. Like a wise man once said, “what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ”.

Question for the Future
As you, the future Dunmanians, read this letter, I would like to ask you: have our dreams come true?

Sng Chern Wei
an old boy (1984 – 1987), who loved the school dearly;
an ex-Dunman High teacher (1997 – 1998) , who cannot think of a more worthwhile profession than teaching;
the serving Dunman High Principal (2005 - ) , who asks for the strength and wisdom to lead the school to greater excellence.
31 Mar 2006

the last part so nice. haha told you the dhs letter was kinda inspiring. i sound as if i promoting dhs -_-
btw its from the dhs website. it changed so much. was trying to find pics of the sch den go there. den changed so much. haha. off to do the stupid protfolio. as much as i like dhs, i hate this portfolio ting =X

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