History in Pictures: A Trip Down Memory Lane

The Economics Society of Raffles College at Bukit Timah Campus circa 1939/40.

Economics students of the Raffles College on an excursion to the Phoenix Aerated Water Factory in February 1949.

Aerial photograph of the Bukit Timah Campus, University of Malaya circa 1951-53. The horizontal block in the foreground is the Oei Tiong Ham Hall block. The central horizontal block is the Manasseh Meyer building (Science block), flanked by the lower quadrangle in front and the upper quadrangle behind. The third horizontal block houses the History, English, Chinese and Malay Studies Departments. To the far right of the third horizontal block housed the Philosophy Department.

English language graduates and staff at the convocation held on 8 July 1950. In the picture is Miss Lee Seok Tin (second from left) whose father Dato’ Lee Kong Chian became the first Chancellor of the University of Singapore in 1962.

Members of the Historical Society of the University of Malaya (Singapore) travelling by Cathay Pacific Airways for their tours to Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan from July to August 1954.

The "Food from the Sea" float put up by the Arts and Social Sciences Society in front of the Main Administration Building in the 1960s.

Staff and graduates of the Department of Economics, University of Singapore, in 1964. Standing tallest in the centre is Mr Goh Chok Tong, who later became the Prime Minister of Singapore. Seated in the centre is Professor Lim Tay Boh, Head of the Department and Vice-Chancellor of the University.

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