Answering call of alma mater


St Xavier’s Institution bagpipers ushering in Chow at the gathering.

OLD memories flooded back for former Kuala Lumpur mayor Tan Sri Kamaruzzaman Shariff, 80, as soon as he walked into his alma mater St Xavier’s Institution (SXI) in Penang for a reunion.

“When I started studying here, we were taught in attap huts. Then we moved into the school building in 1954 when I started Form One.

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