Alumni
Love is All Around One of the primary objectives of Tanglin’s Alumni community is to connect current and former students, faculty, staff, parents and families. From time to time, these connections blossom into romance. Recently, some Alumni lovebirds returned to Tanglin to share their stories. The Wenham Family Patrick and Anita met as Tanglin teachers at a bus stop early in the morning shortly after Patrick arrived in Singapore in 1988. Patrick remembers feeling very jet lagged and uncommunicative and Anita being very chatty and animated! Their relationship developed following a performance in a staff band at the Tanglin Junior School annual show in 1988 and a tennis match at the British Club. Patrick proposed to Anita at the top of the Westin Stamford, now the Swiss Hotel Stamford, which was then the tallest hotel in the world. Their marriage took place on 4 August 1990, with Tanglin teachers present. Rather than sailing off into the sunset, they flew off in a hot air balloon after the wedding reception! After a stint in the UK, Patrick and Anita returned to teach at Tanglin in 1996 with their two young children, Hannah (then five years old) and Sam (then two years old). Patrick taught in the Junior School and Anita in the Infant School for the next five years, thoroughly enjoying their time at Tanglin and in Singapore. The Wenhams called in at Tanglin in April 2013 on their way back from staying with Sarah Dunn and Alan Newton, former Tanglin teachers, who now live in Brisbane, Australia. Patrick and Anita were honoured to be invited to Geraldine Chandran’s 30th anniversary celebration which provided a wonderful opportunity to catch up with former colleagues. Currently, Patrick is Head of Haslemere Prep School where Anita is Head of the Junior Department. Patrick will be taking up a new headship in 2014 at Bickley Park School in Kent.
Honeymooning Alumni Duncan Fellows and Felicity MacDougal (both Class of 1997, pictured here) attended Tanglin Junior School in the late 1980s. Over the years, their families kept in touch and close friendship developed into romantic love. In April this year, Duncan and Felicity visited Tanglin whilst on their honeymoon! Hayley Hendy (Class of 2004, Tanglin Infant School 1989–90) and her husband Stephen Woods also took a trip down memory lane on a honeymoon visit to Tanglin in May.
Register with the Alumni community at http://alumni.tts. edu.sg to access class photos (1978–2012), Yearbooks (1975–2012), school publications and other memorabilia.
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by Nellie Rogers, Alumni Manager