The Archive · 1928

LOCAL ABERDONIANS' GIFT TO SCHOOL

Shanghai Old Boys Fill Grammar School's Clock Tower The recitation of an original poem by Mr J. M, Bulloch, who presided, was an interesting feature of the presentation to the Aberdeen Grammar School, on N of the tower clock gi members of th the Former Pupils Club. The cer' many took place in the school hail, and there was a mi platform party, represent the educational' interests and of former pupils' clubs of other schools in the city, while the prox ceedings were followed with one thaciasm by the pupils of the school.

The "Aberdeen Weekly Journal" states:—

Mr Stewart Begg, a member of the Shanghai Former Pupils Club, first of all gave an outline of the Proceedings leading up to the gift—the intimation, in 1925, by Mr, George Buyers, of the' Shanghai branch of the Former Pupils Clab, that the club wished to do some: thing for the school; the suggestion by Mr. Theodore Watt, hon. secretary of the club, that a clock would be a suitable adornment for the vacancy in the school tower; the discussion of "the suggestion at the following annual dinner of the Shanghai branch; and the ing into being of the clock.

Buyers had been most unti hhis efforts la connection with matter, a Mr, Theodore Watt also been. On'behalf of the Shang-

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