Talk:Hwa Chong Scout Group

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Its founding year was first recorded as 1946 when alumni and Scouter Dr Yu Meng Lun, Mark established a Scout Group in the school, drawing the membership from the students of then The Chinese High School, which used Chinese as a medium of instruction until 1978. However, a 1920 school meeting record uncovered in 2000 showed that the school had Scouting activities much earlier - in fact a troop was established shortly after the school was set up in 1919. An English teacher of the school, Lim Beng Quan had set up a Scout troop on 23 November 1919, registering the troop as "7th Singapore Troop" with the Singapore Boy Scouts Association (SBSA, now Singapore Scout Association). This discovery has been verified by the UK Scout Association as well as the Scout Associations of Singapore and Malaysia. It is the first time that a Scout troop had made inroads to a Chinese school in Singapore and Malaya, and in fact the Southeast Asia region. However, interest waned thereafter as Scouting did not really catch on with the school population, and activities ceased after 1922. Still, Dr Mark Yu M.L was credited as the reviver of Scouting in The Chinese High School, which pioneered Scouting in Chinese-speaking schools after World War Two in the region.

Hwa Chong Scout Group scored another feat in Singapore's Scouting history by being the first troop to ask for a change in the Boy Scout Promise before consenting to join the SBSA. The contention lied in the line "To do my duty to God and to the King" (Chinese:对上帝及英王效忠) with stirring awareness about nationalism sweeping the vast overseas colonies and dominions of the British Empire after the war. The SBSA finally agreed to amend the line in the Promise to read "To do my duty to my religious belief and my place of residence" (Chinese:对我的宗教信仰及居留地尽责), and Hwa Chong Scout Group was officially inaugurated on 9 August 1947 witnessed by the Founder of Scouting in Singapore and Malaya, Frank Cooper Sands. In recognition of the pioneering status of Scouting in Chinese schools, Hwa Chong Scout Group was given the troop number of "First Singapore Chinese Troop" (Chinese:星加坡华校童子军第一团,简称“星华第一团”）. The troop continued to use Chinese as the medium of instruction, which proved to be of little hindrance as it saw two of its members, Troop Leader Mak Hon Cheong and Patrol Leader Lee Yew Wing gaining the King's Scout Badge shortly after in 1948, with another four King's Scouts in 1949. Mak and Lee were the first King's Scouts from Singapore Chinese speaking troops and had the honour of representing the SBSA in the First Pan-Pacific Jamboree in Australia held in 1948.

The Scout Group currently consists of 2 Scout Troops, 1 Venture Scout Troop and 1 Rover Scout Crew. In addition, it has its own Scout Guild, which is also a member chapter of the Singapore Scout Guild. On top of the usual Scout training syllabus for its three programme sections, the Group also introduced a Bugle Scout Band and Lion Dance to its members in 1966 and 1983 respectively. To date the bugle band remains the only Scout Band in Singapore that has represented the Association in National Day Parades on four occasions in 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1975.

To date (2005), the Group has produced 6 King's Scouts, 1 Queen's Scout and 79 President's Scouts, totalling to 86 members garnering the top Scout awards in the country throughout its 86 years since its founding in 1919. Another 107 members have won the Scout Cord and the Chief Commissioner's Award, the highest award in the Scout section.

Mr. Lee Tai Hui is currently the Group Scout Leader of Hwa Chong Scout Group, who is also the longest serving member in the Singapore Training Team and one of the few adult leaders still active in Scouting for more than half a century.

End of content. --Bduke 02:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)