PFS 100 years ago

With Speech Day fast approaching at Penang Free School this Thursday, perhaps it is timely to say that the occasion has not always been observed on the 21st of October. Even as recently as 2017, the school's Speech Day was held on the third of October, for reasons that escape me now. And exactly a hundred years ago when Ralph Henry Pinhorn was the headmaster, Speech Day had been held on 9 September 1921. 

Here is an extract from the Singapore Free Press newspaper one day later. The report on the Speech Day appeared right at the end of the newspaper extract. It did not mention the Resident Councillor by name but that should be Gilbert Amos Hall who was appointed as Resident Councillor of Penang twice from 20 October 1919 to 27 February 1920 and again from 31 January 1921 till sometime in 1922. 

The other picture showed a card signed by Pinhorn to accompany a book prize. Standard VIII is the equivalent of today's Form Four. The picture comes courtesy of Sean McCusker from the private Nostalgic Peninsular Malaysia facebook group.