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MALAYAN STORY
Miss Griffith Jones, a well-known personality in Malaya, ran a boarding school in the Camerons
called “Tanglin” where George Williamson was also acting as Chaplain. She donated a lovely site
for the building of a proper church, and the British Army donated a large military hut which became
the All Souls Church.
Meanwhile Percy was busy in 1954 in Kuala Lumpur registering a new boarding school for the
Mission and obtaining permits for children to come into the country from Thailand and other
countries without their parents. This school was in the Cameron Highlands also and many of the
children spent a night or sometimes several nights with us on their way to the Camerons before they
would be driven by someone up the long winding road to the school.
We found other ways to relax. Picnics at the Lake Gardens or at the beach and birthday parties on
the side lawn at Penang Road all became part of our lives. For our own relaxation after the doctor in
Singapore had insisted that Percy must take a day off every week, we usually went to the Kuala
Lumpur Golf Course where Percy played a round of golf and I enjoyed the swimming pool.
Christian friends in the government in Kuala Lumpur would sometimes invite us to spend the
weekend in their lovely home or they would take us with them to Frasers Hill where we were able
to completely relax
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Miss Griffith Jones, a well-known personality in Malaya, ran a boarding school in the Camerons
called “Tanglin” where George Williamson was also acting as Chaplain. She donated a lovely site
for the building of a proper church, and the British Army donated a large military hut which became
the All Souls Church.
Meanwhile Percy was busy in 1954 in Kuala Lumpur registering a new boarding school for the
Mission and obtaining permits for children to come into the country from Thailand and other
countries without their parents. This school was in the Cameron Highlands also and many of the
children spent a night or sometimes several nights with us on their way to the Camerons before they
would be driven by someone up the long winding road to the school.
We found other ways to relax. Picnics at the Lake Gardens or at the beach and birthday parties on
the side lawn at Penang Road all became part of our lives. For our own relaxation after the doctor in
Singapore had insisted that Percy must take a day off every week, we usually went to the Kuala
Lumpur Golf Course where Percy played a round of golf and I enjoyed the swimming pool.
Christian friends in the government in Kuala Lumpur would sometimes invite us to spend the
weekend in their lovely home or they would take us with them to Frasers Hill where we were able
to completely relax
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