Tuesday, April 8, 2008


These is some NEWSPAPER ARTICLE about ELIZABETH CHOY


An extraordinary life 

15 September 2006
Straits Times
(c) 2006 Singapore Press Holdings Limited 
Excerpt: 1910: Born Elizabeth Yong in Sabah. 
1929: Arrived in Singapore to study. 
1933: Started teaching. First at St Margaret's School and later at St Andrew's School. 
1941: Married bookkeeper Choy Khun Heng. The couple adopted three daughters. 
1943: Operated a hospital canteen during the Japanese Occupation. Jailed for about seven months by the Japanese for passing food, medicine and messages to British prisoners of war.


Over 100 bid farewell to Elizabeth Choy  
16 September 2006
Straits Times
(c) 2006 Singapore Press Holdings Limited 
Excerpt: BLIND from birth, Ngiam Quek Bee had little hope of an education back in the Singapore of the 1950s. 
Even when a school for the blind was started, the 15-year-old boy's family was reluctant to let him attend. But the school's founder, a feisty woman called Elizabeth Choy, refused to give up.


More than a war heroine to many 
15 September 2006
Straits Times
(c) 2006 Singapore Press Holdings Limited 
Excerpt: Also a teacher and social worker, Elizabeth Choy touched many lives 
SHE was best known as a war heroine to most Singaporeans. 
But Mrs Elizabeth Choy was much more than that to those whose lives she touched: A teacher for more than 40 years, she also founded a school for the blind and served as a politician for a spell.


A woman ahead of her time. 
15 February 1998
Straits Times
(c) 1998 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
Excerpt: MRS ELIZABETH CHOY was born in Sabah in 1910 and came to Singapore in 1929 to further her studies. When her mother died two years later, she was left to bring up her six younger siblings on her own. 
During the Japanese Occupation, she became a canteen operator at a mental hospital with her husband. They secretly helped British internees by passing them food and radios.

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