Answering call of alma mater

Wong (in brown batik shirt) singing the national anthem with fellow Xaverians during the ‘Alma Mater’s Call to Industry Leaders’ 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.