{"id":18397,"date":"2017-07-09T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2017-07-09T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T07:20:14","slug":"st-josephs-class-of-79-collection-for-century-old-mill-hill-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18397","title":{"rendered":"St Joseph&#8217;s Class of &#8217;79 collection for century-old Mill Hill Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St Joseph&#8217;s school class of 79 showed their generosity when they responded to an appeal for assistance to the 135 years old school which has been in poor condition where some blocks<br \/>\nneed to be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Their representative recently presented a cheque for RM36,161\u00a0to the Old Josephians Association president, Datuk Professor Dr Sim Kui\u00a0Hian, who is also Sarawak Minister of Local Government and Housing\u00a0this morning. .<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim said that many classrooms have been deemed unsafe prompting\u00a0one group of Josephians to quickly passed the word \u2014 and the hat \u2014\u00a0around and they managed to raise over RM31,000 in just a few days.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the school for a good kick start of the fund raising for the school.<\/p>\n<p>The official campaign to save the iconic centrepiece of the secondary\u00a0school&#8217;s buildings will begin on September 3, 2017 with the Ora et\u00a0Labora Run, named after the school&#8217;s motto (which is Latin for \u201cPray\u00a0and Work\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The three-storey brick building, designed by the then principal Father\u00a0Haidegger, was declared open by Rajah Charles Brooke 1894. The 1895\u00a0Sarawak Gazette described it as &#8220;the biggest building in Sarawak at\u00a0that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18398\" style=\"width: 1008px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-07-PHOTO-00000223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18398\" alt=\"Class of 79 presented Dr. Sim the cheque\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-07-PHOTO-00000223.jpg\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-07-PHOTO-00000223.jpg 1008w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-07-PHOTO-00000223-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Class of 79 presented Dr. Sim the cheque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St Joseph&#8217;s school class of 79 showed their generosity when they responded to an appeal for assistance to the 135 years old school which has been in poor condition where some blocks need to be maintained. Their representative recently presented a cheque for RM36,161\u00a0to the Old Josephians Association president, Datuk Professor Dr Sim Kui\u00a0Hian, who is also Sarawak Minister of Local Government and Housing\u00a0this morning. . Dr. Sim said that many classrooms have been deemed unsafe prompting\u00a0one group of Josephians to quickly passed the word \u2014 and the hat<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18397\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}