SIBU: More than 700 former students of Sacred Heart and St Elizabeth secondary schools have confirmed their attendance at the annual reunion on April 6 at Kingwood Hotel here.
“More are expected as the event draws nearer,” said Sacred Heart School Old Students Association (SHOSA) president Yong King Sung during the association’s monthly meeting recently.
Calling on former students to quickly round up their respective class years and make their bookings to avoid disappointment, Yong said the forthcoming event should be another showcase of Sacred Heart’s famed esprit de corps.
“Come together as brothers and let us honour our alma mater. Come together as a show of our team spirit and love for our school.
“As always, SHOSA is targeting the various class years and offering tables instead of individual tickets. We encourage former students to band together with their classmates and come in a show of force,” he said.
While there was nothing to stop any former students from purchasing individual tickets, SHOSA hoped former students would keep the team spirit burning and alive, by attending as a group.
At the moment, some 600 students from the 60s to the 90s have banded together and purchased tables.
For the younger generation of former students, the Class of 2000 and 2004 had taken the lead by being their first to confirm their attendance.
Praising the Class of 2000 and 2004 for their commitment, Yong was enthusiastic that more classes from the new millennium would follow suit.
On former students who were interested in signing up for the event but do not know who to approach, Yong said there were many channels opened to them.
“Firstly the school will always be a bastion for former students. Approach the school principal or teachers, many of whom are former students themselves and they will put you in touch with SHOSA or with Pack Leaders,” Yong said.
The Pack Leaders are former students spanning more than seven decades, from the 1950s right up to 2015 representing their own class years in a grouping of former Sacred Heart boys.
Other than that there were countless media platforms from which former students could use to reach out to SHOSA or their class years.
