What emerged was a school that was a cross between home schooling and the proverbial "little red school house." The curriculum was based on the Calvert School, a home correspondence course. The original ten teachers were mothers whose pay was so low they might as well have been volunteers. The only male on staff was the principal, Al Fisher, who was hired from the United States. Larry Wales, one of the original school board members, remembers Fisher's arrival in Singapore. "Even as Margie [Wales] and I met him at the old Kallang Airport in a driving tropical rainstorm, I wondered why anyone in his right mind would have accepted our offer."
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"A most important contribution to our prosperity." Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, January 3, 1956