Vol 9 May/June 2012
The Alumni Magazine of UWC South East Asia
From Ojek to GO-JEK
Caroline’s charity shop
Alumni profiles
Reunions
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OneºNorth May/June 2012 3
Returning to Chiang Mai
The continuing
commitment of four
former UWCSEA teachers ...................... 22
An educational experience
in Northern Thailand ................................24
Dale Fisher gives back to UWCSEA ...... 25
Civil Unrest
Rahul Sriskanthan
plans filming of
documentary............................................. 26
A week in Timor-Leste ............................ 28
Former Olympian
takes on new challenge ...........................30
UWCSEA takes a leading role
The launch of the
Royal Geographical Society’s
Singapore branch...................................... 32
UWCSEA Foundation
Alumni giving.............................................34
UWCSEA Global Concern
Using the iLearn intiative
to raise funds to build
a school in Cambodia............................... 36
In Memoriam
Jim Heal, Matron Ho Siew Han...............37
Current students help out
Wedding raises awareness
and funds for Global Concern................38
More alumni weddings ............................38
Upcoming reunions ..................inside back
Letter from the Head of College ..............4
Note from the Alumni Office ...................5
Dover and East Campus update ...............5
Cover story
From Ojek
to GO-JEK
Two UWCSEA
alumni turn a
traditional service
into a professional
business ..................................6
All systems go!
Akihiko Hoshide heads to
the ISS for the second time........................9
Give a little
Caroline Watson-O’Duffy
runs a charity shop in London
to help people in need.............................. 11
Alumni vignettes
From Mallika Ramdas’
Gap-Year-for-Grown-Ups ........................12
Another polar expedition for Tim Jarvis .14
Gautam Banerjee
Business leader
continues practice
of UWC values ...........................................15
Reunion 2011 ..............................................16
Reunions .....................................................18
Events and activities at UWCSEA ......... 20
Editor
Brenda Whately
Layout
Gregory Parker
MICA (P) 051/11/2010
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Contents
4 OneºNorth May/June 2012
Letter from the Head of College
The dawning of a new era at the College
was marked on 15 August 2011 as the
new East Campus opened its doors in
Tampines to 1,500 students from K1–
G10. It is remarkable to reflect upon the
events of the last five years and how
this project has evolved. It says much
about the vision of the Board, the quality
and professionalism of the staff and the
health and resilience of the community
that we have been able to steer our way
so successfully through an extraordinary
process of change.
The challenge for James Dalziel, the Head
of East Campus, and his staff is to create
not just ‘another international school’
but one that is readily identifiable as a
UWC and exhibits all the characteristics
that you will recall from your time at the
College. It is early days yet but as you
wander round the campus and engage in
conversation with students of all ages,
you sense that the culture is developing.
They talk animatedly about why the
College exists and its purpose; they have
a deep understanding of the College
ethos, and they know what is expected of
them in terms of their responsibilities as
global citizens.
The official opening of the East Campus
took place on 8 December and was a
particularly poignant occasion, not least
because it was 40 years to the week that
former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, had
officially opened the Dover Campus. Our
Guest of Honour on this occasion was the
Minister of Education, Heng Swee Keat.
In his speech, he commented upon the
government’s commitment to creating a
world-class education hub in Singapore.
Whilst the East Campus is establishing
itself, the staff at the Dover Campus are
not resting on their laurels. In November,
we hosted the College’s first accreditation
visit by an external body, conducted
under the auspices of the Council for
International Schools and the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges. The
visit, by a team of 16 senior educators
from other schools, was the culmination
of a 12-month review and reflection
by committees, consisting of staff,
students, parents and Board members.
They covered all aspects of our provision:
admissions, university counselling, the
curriculum from K1 to Grade 12, service,
outdoor education, staff development,
facilities, finance, governance and
management, etc.
In their verbal report at the end of the
week, the visiting team commended us,
amongst other things, on the strength
of the ethos, the quality of our service
and outdoor education programme,
the exceptional IB results, the ‘ethos of
caring’ that permeated the College and
the relationships between the Board and
management. As you would expect, they
made a number of recommendations that
broadly reflected the conclusions of the
self-study committees. Chief amongst
these was the need to ensure that the
curriculum was properly articulated
from K1 through to G12 (i.e., that there
was a logical progression from year
to year and equality of access for all
students in a grade).
Strange though it may seem, whilst
governments, states and provinces
have created K–12 curricula for their
students, nobody has ever written such a
curriculum for international schools. Our
situation is, therefore, no different from
other international schools. However, the
Board has had the foresight to provide the
resources for us to develop one rooted in
the UWC ethos and reflecting the holistic
nature of the education we provide. This
is an exciting and innovative project and,
once completed, will further differentiate
us from other schools.
Towards the end of last term, the new
High School students on the East Campus
were asked to sum up their experience
since they had joined the College. One
of them, who I suspect has a future as a
copywriter, wrote,
“Something new, something fun,
something mysterious gathered together
to create uniqueness.”
There is no doubt in our minds that the
College is unique; it is wonderful when
the students appreciate it as well.
Julian Whiteley
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It’s hard to
believe that I have
been with the
Alumni Relations
Department for
more than five years
now, since August
2006. It seems like
yesterday that I
joined UWCSEA and started getting
to know such an inspiring group of
former students.
There have been a few changes at the
College over those years. UWCSEA now
has two campuses. The new East Campus
opened its doors in 2011, and this year is
educating students from K1 up to Grade 10.
In August 2012, the East Campus will
see its first group of IB students. The
Dover Campus, on the other hand, this
year graduates its largest group of students
to date; 316 students are heading off
to university, National Service or a Gap
Year experience.
We have a full reunion schedule this year,
including several cities throughout the
world as well as Singapore, and we hope
to see as many alumni as possible at those
events. We will also be celebrating the
classes of 1972, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 2002
in Singapore in August 2012. Each year, we
get about 300 alumni returning to celebrate
their 10, 20, 25 and 30 year anniversaries.
Now we are able to add 35 and 40 year
anniversary groups as well. Join your former
classmates for your anniversary celebration!
We plan to start up some informal regional
groups in various locations, and we also
plan to launch a regular schedule of events
for those of you living in Singapore.
I hope you enjoy this issue of the alumni
magazine and its profiles and stories
about some of your fellow alumni. Please
let us have your stories and suggestions for
future issues.
Take care. All the best.
Regards,
Brenda Whately
Director of Alumni Relations
Note from the
Alumni Office
Dover Campus
Upgrades to the Dover Campus
continue to take place with a schedule
that will run over the next few years.
A covered linkway between Dover Road
and the guard house has been erected,
and it is now possible to remain under
shelter from the rain all the way in
from the main road and throughout
the campus.
A new five-story classroom block
has been constructed between the
Main Hall and the Physical Education
Building, providing more classroom and
student gathering space. It will house
the Middle School plus a few High
School classrooms and science labs, a
state-of-the art gymnasium and a new
performance hall along with plenty of
open space.
At the same time, a covered extension
to the Pavilion Canteen just outside
the Exam Hall is well underway and
a steel structure to support donated
solar panels is being installed by the
swimming pool.
The next stage of the upgrade
programme includes preparation
of the current Humanities block for
refurbishment followed by the other
classroom blocks.
East Campus
The East Campus was officially opened
in December 2011. The purpose-built
school is located in Tampines.
UWCSEA East is the first school in the
world to have installed a large solar
panel cooling system which will provide
for all of its hot water needs as well
as a large part of its air-conditioning
requirements.
In addition to the tremendous
environmental and cost savings, Head
of College, Julian Whiteley says it has
become a good lesson in sustainability
for students. “We’ve been able to
teach the students about how you can
genuinely achieve sustainability and not
just talk about it.”
The East Campus is now teaching K1 to
Grade 10, but will be taking in its first
group of IB students in August 2012.
Dover and East Campus update
6 OneºNorth May/June 2012
By Brenda Whately
Michaelangelo (Mikey) Moran
(Class of 1999)
UWCSEA 1992–1999
Nadiem Makarim
(Class of 2002)
UWCSEA 1998–2002
“I didn’t think I would ever see myself
doing anything CNN-worthy in my entire
lifetime!” Michaelangelo Moran (pictured
above left), known by his friends as
Mikey, declared as he related to me how
pleased and excited he felt when CNN
aired feature coverage of his and founder/
fellow-UWCSEA alumnus, Nadiem
Makarim’s new company GO-JEK, just
three months after its launch in Jakarta,
Indonesia, January 2011.
The company has since been covered in
a number of publications, videos, blogs
and websites, most recently by Time
Magazine and also by CNN, CCTV, ABC
Australia News, MNC TV and Reuters
Report, as well as the two largest English
newspapers in Jakarta—the Jakarta Globe
and Jakarta Post, to name just a few.
When Time Magazine’s video of the
company and its drivers was featured
December 2011, on their global website
www.time.com, Mikey says, “It was
probably as big for us as hitting CNN or
having Eric Schmidt and Hilary Clinton
recognise us.” He was referring to the
Global Entrepreneur Program Indonesia
(GEPI) awards in Bali in July 2011 at which
they took first place in the non-tech
category. One of the highlights was being
acknowledged for their innovation by
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and US
Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. Mikey
says, “This was the award that put GO-
JEK on the map—after this, we definitely
shot up in demand.”
The idea for GO-JEK came to Nadiem
Makarim upon his return to Jakarta in
2010 from the United States where he
received an MBA from Harvard Business
School. Nadiem had grown up in Jakarta
aside from the four years he boarded at
UWCSEA, and had always used ojeks
as the cheapest, quickest and most
efficient way to travel through the
heavy and chaotic traffic there. An ojek
is a motorcycle taxi, and there are over
35,000 of them in Jakarta. The service
has always been available but there
has never been an official or organised
business structure around it.
In one of his first ojek rides upon his
arrival back to Jakarta in 2010, Nadiem
began chatting with the driver about
the ojek situation. He was told that the
system was very territorial—drivers were
not allowed to pick up a fare anywhere
but at their own station and then upon
returning to their station, the drivers had
to queue up behind all the other ojeks
ahead of them.
Nadiem, on seeing how inefficient
the system was, and recognising an
opportunity, asked a couple of them
what they would think of an organised,
professional system which allowed
customers to book a ride. That was the
seed from which the idea of GO-JEK
began to grow.
Nadiem invited Mikey and another friend
to join him in the enterprise. Their idea
was to form a company that would
provide this service on a more official
level with a brand image that people
would recognise and trust.
Mikey and Nadiem knew each other
before and during the time that they
were both boarders at UWCSEA. Mikey
had gone on to complete a business
degree at the Boston University School
From Ojek
to GO-JEK
Two UWCSEA alumni
turn a traditional
service into a
professional business.
OneºNorth May/June 2012 7
of Management in 2003. His plan was
to prepare himself to eventually take
over his parents’ fashion business in
Jakarta. After graduating, he did some
work in event management and retail,
subsequently running his own event
management company. Most of the
design work for those companies was
outsourced, and Mikey began to develop a
desire to become involved in design work
himself. He enrolled at the Academy of
Art in San Francisco and graduated with a
degree in Web Design and New Media.
Mikey has been involved in social and
environmental projects in the past,
including the Urban Forest Project (UFP)
in San Francisco for which he designed
posters relating to the concept of trees
and life. One of his posters was chosen
for display, after which the design was
sold for t-shirts and handbags and the
money used to fund the planting of trees
in the city. Another social project he was
involved with in Indonesia was DJ’ing for
the IBU Foundation which raises money
to build facilities and provide food and
shelter for some of Indonesia’s poor,
particularly in Nusa Tenggara Timur
(NTT). Recently he has been approached
by Volcom Indonesia to be involved in a
project to save orangutans in Kalimantan.
Mikey is a much in-demand DJ. At
UWCSEA, he played the piano, sax and
drums and was in a band in his senior
years. He attributes his love of music
for the reason he became a DJ. He has
worked at clubs across Indonesia as
well as Singapore, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and Mumbai, India. Currently
he still performs in Jakarta and Bali,
Indonesia and organises events for a local
DJ organisation that he also designed a
website for, called Trigger Production.
His personal website is located at www.
michaelangelomoran.com/djmikeyblog
and his music can be downloaded at
www.soundcloud.com/djmikeymoran.
Mikey worked on several different design
and marketing projects before becoming
involved with GO-JEK, but he says that
this is by far his most exciting endeavour.
As the brand director for GO-JEK, Mikey
designed everything that involves the
company’s image, including the company
name, logo, website and promotional
materials, right down to the drivers’
jackets and helmets. The company
colours he chose were green, grey, black
and white. The latter three colours,
he says, represent the road, while the
green is to represent the environment.
One of the goals of the business is to be
environmentally friendly, using less fuel
to pick up and deliver more customers,
and eventually to invest in electric
motorbikes.
By December of 2010, friends and family
members were testing the system to
find any potential issues, and by January
2011, 200 drivers had been recruited, the
website was finalised and the company
was launched.
Mikey says, “Our company is the first of
its kind in Jakarta. The management, the
drivers and the customers are all really
excited about this project because it is
definitely what Jakarta needs, and we are
growing at a greatly accelerated rate.”
The way the system works is that the
drivers send an SMS to the GO-JEK
system, identifying which of the 150
active stations they are located at. When
GO-JEK receives a customer order, they
call the driver closest to the pick-up
point and send the customer an SMS
confirming the order. GO-JEK takes a
“Our company is the first
of its kind in Jakarta.”
8 OneºNorth May/June 2012
commission from the total fare paid.
Each driver is provided with a drivers’ kit
containing a helmet, a jacket, an ID tag
and a cleaning kit. They receive some
vehicle insurance and financial assistance
to get a license if they don’t have one
(which some don’t!), and they receive
training on customer relations in order to
protect the company’s image.
Most of the drivers seem to take great
pride in being part of the business, as
evidenced by the interviews which have
appeared in the various articles and
videos done about the company.
The four current partners in the business
all have input into the formulation of
the company’s strategy. Right from
the beginning, they decided to offer
further services in addition to passenger
transportation. These initiatives include
courier service, document delivery,
corporate services and even restaurant
and grocery shopping and delivery.
They have recently launched a monthly
newsletter, a fare calculator and
programmes including ‘Driver of the
Month,’ ‘Customer of the Month’ and a
photo project called ‘GO-JEK Spotted.’
Future plans include adding GPS systems
and developing smartphone apps for
their services.
Not only is the company newsworthy,
it’s also worthy of the UWC mission and
values. Their business plan has a social
component—to improve the lives of
others. Mikey states, “We believe that by
professionalising ojeks in Jakarta, we can
improve the welfare and status of ojek
drivers, while providing Jarkartans with a
practical and fast convenience service. It’s
great to be able to help people.” Nadiem
has said, “By giving ojek drivers access
to orders they would not otherwise get,
we provide them with additional income
through a profit-sharing arrangement.”
Ojek drivers who have joined GO-JEK
have been reported to claim that their
earnings have risen by 50%.
GO-JEK has been in operation now
for just over a year and has grown
dramatically in that time to 450 drivers,
more than 35 corporate accounts, 4,000
unique customers, more than 5,000
followers on Facebook and over 3,700
on Twitter and has won three national
awards. They have been approached
by potential business partners in other
countries but their concentration is
currently on perfecting and growing the
business in Jakarta for now. All indications
are that they are on the road to success.
For further information about the
company, please visit the website at URL:
www.go-jek.com
Mikey and Nadiem can both be reached
through the alumni website.
UWC turns 50
In September 2012, UWC celebrates
its 50th anniversary.
The first UWC college,
UWC Atlantic
College, opened
in 1962 in South
Wales. By offering
an educational
experience based on
shared learning, collaboration and
understanding, it was intended that
the students would act as champions
of peace.
Today, there are 13 UWCs across 5
continents. UWCSEA is the second
UWC, having opened its doors in
1971, originally called Singapore
International School until it gained
full membership in the UWC
movement in 1975. More than
40,000 students from more than
180 countries have studied at UWC
schools and colleges and there are
more than 140 national committees.
Pearson College in Canada was the
third UWC, opened in 1974, followed
by Waterford Kamhlaba in 1981. Then
came UWC-USA in New Mexico, USA
and UWC Adriatic in Italy in 1982.
Simón Bolivar UWC was established
in Venezuela in 1988 and Li Po Chun
UWC of Hong Kong opened in 1992.
This was followed by Red Cross Nordic
in Norway in 1995, Mahindra College
in Pune India in 1997, UWC Costa
Rica and UWC Mostar, Bosnia and
Herzegovina in 2006. Maastricht UWC
in the Netherlands became the most
recent UWC in 2009.
This year, in September 2012, the
UWC movement celebrates 50 years.
For more information about UWC and
its 50th anniversary, please see the
UWC website at www.uwc.org and
www.50.uwc.org.
OneºNorth May/June 2012 9
By Brenda Whately
Former UWCSEA
student, Astronaut
Akihiko Hoshide
of JAXA (Japan
Aerospace Exploration
Agency) dreamed
of travelling into
space from the time
he was about four years of age. In July
of this year, he is about to embark on his
second trip to the International Space
Station (ISS). He will be travelling there
on board the Soyuz spacecraft for a long-
duration mission.
In June 2008, Aki made his first trip to the
ISS on board the space shuttle Discovery.
The main purpose of that mission was
to deliver and install the Japanese ‘Kibo’
(meaning ‘hope’) laboratory to the ISS.
An article appeared in the December
2008 issue of One°North, the Alumni
Magazine of UWCSEA, about Aki and his
first mission to the ISS. A PDF version of
the magazine can be found on the alumni
site under Publications.
For Aki’s second mission to the ISS,
currently scheduled for 15 July 2012,
JAXA reports that he will be engaging
in scientific experiments coordinated
by Japanese scientists and international
partners, as well as robotic arm and
system operations in the Japanese
Experiment Module, Kibo, as an ISS
Flight Engineer.
We are hoping that Aki will eventually
make it back to UWCSEA for a visit at
some point after he returns to Earth.
Unfortunately for his classmates, he
won’t be able to join them during the
25th anniversary celebrations of the Class
of 1987 in Singapore this August, but I
think we would all agree that he has a
good reason!
For more information about Aki and
his mission, please visit the JAXA website
and search ‘Mission 32/33’ or the NASA
website and search ‘Expedition 32.’
You can also follow Aki on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/#!/Aki_Hoshide.
Akihiko Hoshide, UWCSEA Class of 1987 heads to
the International Space Station for the second time.
Photos supplied by JAXA and NASA
All systems go!
10 OneºNorth May/June 2012
By Brenda Whately
Caroline Watson-O’Duffy
UWCSEA 1974–1977
Class of 1981
The desire to help others runs in the
family. Caroline runs a charity shop in
London following a social work career,
working with people in need. She is the
sister of Fiona Watson Ambrosi, featured
in an earlier issue of the alumni magazine,
the founder of the NGO Todos Juntos,
which funds free dental clinics and a
community centre in the slums
of Buenos Aires. Elder sister Nathalie
is also involved in charitable work,
soliciting and delivering donations for
Caroline’s charity shop.
Caroline and her sisters lived in Singapore
for 10 years of their young lives, and all
three attended UWCSEA.
After leaving Singapore and finishing her
International Baccalaureate in France,
Caroline attended Boston College,
majoring in Psychology with a minor in
Spanish. Although at first she thought she
might be a teacher, after completing her
Bachelor’s degree and living in Paris for a
year, she gave in to her calling and moved
to Canada to attend McGill University in
Montreal, for a degree in Social Work.
Caroline says, “I always knew I wanted
to work with those who needed help.
That may have been influenced by
my experiences at UWCSEA. I used to
fund raise for various causes—we were
encouraged to do so. I remember roller-
skating to raise money. I knew I wanted to
continue to help others.”
Caroline moved to London after
graduating from McGill and has remained
there since. She worked for four years
with Vietnamese child asylum seekers
until the refugee homes were closed after
the children were reunited with their
families. Her inspiration for this work
included her memories of going to Rawa
and Tioman with her family in the ’70s
and seeing Vietnamese refugees coming
in to Malaysia. She remembered the
impact that it had had on her at the time.
She then worked with homeless men for
a while until 1993 when she had her first
child and took a year off. When she went
back to work, she did so part-time, for
supported housing for 16 to 21 year olds.
By 1997 she was working part-time as
a panel advisor for the Refugee Council
where she worked with newly arrived,
unaccompanied children to the UK. She
was one of the first panel advisors and
worked to ensure that these children were
given the same rights as British children.
She says, “After all, they were children
before they were refugees.”
Caroline has always worked in the
charitable side of social work and says she
never wanted to work on the statutory
side. Eventually she became a full-time
manager with the Refugee Council, until
2009. She organised a drop-in centre in
London in 1999 and pulled together a
team for the children to see when they
arrived. It was very successful, and the
team, which grew to 15 people, began
to see up to 100 children a day. They
did case work, made regional visits and
worked at the drop-in centre in London.
Over the years, the countries from which
the children were arriving changed as
the major areas of conflict changed,
from Africa (DRC, Rwanda, Uganda) in
1997, to Kosovo, Albania, Serbia and Sri
Lanka, also in the late 1990s and early
2000s and then more recently, Iraq and
Afghanistan. The numbers have dropped
these days she says, because it’s so much
harder to get into the UK as an asylum
seeker. She says just before she left that
Give a little
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work, she was constantly met with the
situation in which she had to try to prove
to the statutory social services staff that
children they were calling adult asylum
seekers were indeed still just children.
She says, “We had a great track record
of winning. Having lived abroad, I had
perhaps more of an understanding of
different cultures. We were able to get
the best lawyers on our side. The work
was really hard, but so satisfying.” She
says even now, some of the children who
have grown up since she helped them,
come to see her or talk to her by email or
on Facebook. Some even call her ‘Mum.’
In 2009, Caroline decided to try
something completely different and
opened a shop. She runs the business
as not-for-profit by donating the profits
to charity. Although the shop is not
registered as a charity, it is recognised
by HM Revenue as Non Profit. To start
the business, she collected donated
goods which she kept in her garage.
When she had enough to fill a shop, she
signed a lease for what she considered
a great location in London and in April
2010 opened the shop, which is called
Give a Little. All proceeds, after costs,
are donated to support grass roots
charities that help children. She says her
shop opened with a bang and has been
very successful since. “People like the
idea,” she says. Last year she donated
to four different charities, choosing one
approximately every three months. She
started with her sister Fiona’s NGO.
She also donated to a youth group in
the Refugee Council where youngsters
can meet other young people and feel
safe, a day centre and a group providing
music therapy, a home for HIV orphans
in Uganda, a trauma centre for children
in Gaza, an educational trust in Ecuador
and an orphanage in India. The total
amount she donated in her first year
amounted to GBP 33,500. This financial
year looks to be about the same. She is
currently supporting a charity in Morocco
that helps give Berber children an
education, as they come from very poor
backgrounds. Her next charity donation
will be to an organisation that helps
street children in Brazil. Caroline also
gives a smaller amount to local charities
in her own country. Although she admits
that the work is hard, she still finds it
quite satisfying and has recently signed
the lease for another two years.
Having worked in the charity sector most
of her life, Caroline has a network of
friends and former colleagues from whom
she gets ideas and recommendations
for the grassroots charities that she
chooses to support. Her two main rules
for supporting an organisation is that it
food, a health check, some leisure
activities and then returns them to the
streets from which they were picked up.
She says she has been to Cambodia and
has witnessed the poverty that exists
there as well, and she wants to move
there to help.
When I asked her what she likes best
about her current work, she said, “I like
handing over the cheque, knowing that
the hard work has paid off.”
Caroline notes that she has been very
interested to see how the ethos and
values instilled in her friends and family
at UWCSEA have stayed with them even
though they were all fairly privileged
themselves. She says, “It makes me
humble.”
Caroline can be contacted through the
UWCSEA alumni website or through her
own website: givealittleshop.org. She
would love to be contacted by anyone
who remembers her.
She’d like to feel that she has
eventually supported a worthy
cause on every continent.
must be registered in the UK and 90%
of the funds she donates must go to the
children that she is supporting. She tries
to do one trip each year to visit one of
the organisations she supports or plans
to support.
Some future projects include supporting
a Tanzanian orphanage that she heard
about from a Canadian girl who walked
into her shop one day and told her about
the work that she was doing there. She
would like to do something for Burma
and Afghanistan and the Aborigines in
Australia. She’d like to feel that she has
eventually supported a worthy cause on
every continent.
Caroline’s future plans include ultimately
selling the shop and its name and
reputation in order to recoup her
investment and then setting up a project
in Cambodia. She would like to start a
project similar to the Happy Bus charity
in Salvador, Brazil, which picks up street
children, provides them with clothes,
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By Mallika Ramdas
UWCSEA University Counsellor
On a spectacularly beautiful, crisp
fall morning in late October 2011, my
‘Megabus’ from Boston deposited me
at its deserted Burlington, Vermont,
terminal. I breathed in the lovely cold air
while savouring the sight of sunshine on
yellow-red-gold leaves and soon ‘Mikey’
(Michael Ogutu, UWCSEA ’08) pulled
up in the Middlebury car he’d rented.
We talked non-stop on the drive over
to the picturesque campus where Mike
had started as a freshman four years
ago and from which he would soon be
graduating. It was hard to believe that
the earnest young Kenyan, who had left
Senior House and Singapore the night of
his UWC graduation, was talking now of
his Middlebury senior research project
and job search interviews in healthcare
research and consulting.
Later that day, I was part of a happy,
boisterous tea party with seven UWCSEA
alumni, all at various stages of their
undergrad lives at Middlebury. Between
us, we represented Germany, Hungary,
India, Kenya, Peru, the United States
and Uruguay. Rachel Ochako (UWCSEA
’06), recently graduated from and now
working at Middlebury as one of its
Residential Life directors, hosted the mini
UWCSEA-at-Middlebury reunion. Voices
and laughter criss-crossed over endless
cups of tea and a big platter of brownies
and cookies. We talked about courses and
majors; deadlines and procrastination;
the challenges of finding jobs for those
getting ready to graduate; the excitement
of ‘study abroad’ experiences—Helena’s
in Russia, Joaquin’s upcoming semester
in Brazil; the culture shock of US campus
social life for international students; Gap
Year experiences after High School and
in mid-life; our significant others and
families; music and food; and, of course,
memories of life at Dover Road.
These were just some of many
“conversations we only got to start,” as
Dana Miller (UWCSEA ’07) said in an
email to me soon after I’d visited her and
a few other UWC alumni at Yale, a few
days before I got to Middlebury. “Meeting
folks from previous parts of your life can
do that,” she added. Dana’s words strike
a deep chord in me during this year in
which I have the luxury of time, travel,
rest and reflection; a year in which I
have consciously sought out ‘folks from
previous parts’ of my life.
Being at Middlebury nine years after
my last visit brought many different
previous worlds together. I caught
up with Barbara Marlow, Associate
Director for International Admissions,
who has admitted generations of UWC
students from all the UWCs and seen
them grow into adults on her campus.
Barbara and I recalled our first meeting
on what was to be a very dramatic day,
11 September 2001, when she visited
Mahindra UWC where I was college
counsellor at the time. The Davis-UWC
Scholarship Program was only a little over
a year old then, but already generously
funded high-need UWC graduates to
pursue a college education at five US
Davis-UWC colleges: Colby, College of
the Atlantic, Middlebury, Princeton and
Wellesley. Ten years later, Shelby Davis’s
incredible scholarship opportunity for
Alumni vignettes from my
Gap-Year-for-Grown-Ups
Left: Rachel Ochako, Mallika Ramdas, Alhaji Jalloh
Opposite left: Abiy Fekadu Tasissa (UWCSEA ’08,
MIT ’12)
Opposite top right: Vaskar Pahari and Dana Miller
at Yale
Opposite bottom right: Middlebury ‘tea party’
(front row, l to r) Michael Ogutu, Joaquin Marandino
Peregalli, Krisztina Pjzecka, Anjali Merchant, Rafael
Manyari Velazco, Helena Treeck; (back row) Rachel
Amongina Ochako and Mallika Ramdas
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UWC graduates has grown to support
over 2,400 undergraduates from 146
countries at 94 participating Davis-
UWC colleges all over the United States
(www.davisuwcscholars.org). Over
delicious blueberry pancakes and locally
produced maple syrup, Jane Schoenfeld,
who administers the Davis-UWC
Scholars Program from its Middlebury
office, and I traded stories of the many
transformations that the programme
effects in both scholarship recipients and
their peers at the Davis institutions.
I relish the chance to meet some of these
amazing young alumni and hear of their
journeys in person. While sharing injera,
doro wat and other Ethiopian delights,
Abiy Fekadu Tasissa (UWCSEA ’08)
looked back on his four years at MIT and
reflected on how much he has enjoyed
double majoring in his grand passion,
Mathematics, as well as Philosophy. I
smiled at my memory of the lanky youth
who came to Singapore from Addis barely
speaking English. We emerged from the
restaurant into Boston’s first, ‘unseasonal’
snowstorm; a chilly wind whipped at
Abiy’s light jacket, but he assured me
he was warm enough and continued
talking excitedly about his grad school
applications. A few weeks before this, I
spoke to another of my former advisees,
Lailul Ikram (UWCSEA ’08), now a senior
at Earlham College in Indiana. A 2004
Tsunami survivor himself, Ikram recently
started an NGO that supports a women’s
income-generation crafts project in his
native province of Aceh, Indonesia. His
start-up funding came from winning one
of the Kathryn Davis Projects for Peace
awards (www.davisprojectsforpeace.org)
as well as from local and state
governments. Ikram talked about
what a challenging experience this has
been and how he realised quickly that
he needed to learn a lot about business
and accounting!
‘Learn, Earn, Return’ is the motto that
Shelby Davis urges young people to
embrace. Meeting my former English
students or University Counselling
advisees convinces me that there are
many different ways to give back to
society. The UWC movement has seen an
ongoing debate about how to measure
how scholars, or indeed any UWC
students, live up to the movement’s
mission and values. ‘Returning home’
was often used, in the past, as a gauge
of whether scholars delivered on the
heavy investments made in them by the
UWC national committees and member
colleges. The notion of ‘home’ is an
increasingly complex one for most UWC
students, as also for many UWC teachers.
To quote Dana again, “I am increasingly
realising that soon, if not already, ‘home’
and ‘where my parents live’ won’t be the
same place.” So where Dana will choose
to pursue her dream of implementing new
water-resource management technologies
and practices after graduating with her
Yale engineering degree is still unclear,
but students with her drive and passion
will do so somewhere, and it will make a
difference to that community’s life.
Many of our alumni already belong to or
are being prepared to join that elite one
percent that the ‘Occupy Wall Street’
protestors have drawn our attention
to with their protests against growing
income inequality. Hopefully these
alumns will recall their relatively humble
beginnings and draw on their UWC
principles as they find ways to use their
positions of wealth, power and privilege
to ‘return’ in meaningful ways. Some
may return to the place where they
were born, or to the countries where
their parents live, or they may adopt a
different community that has become
‘theirs.’ Whichever it is, the accidents of
geography, career and personal lives that
place them somewhere do not preclude
them from doing their bit ‘to unite
people, nations and cultures for peace
and a sustainable future.’
A few weeks after returning from my
travels northeast, I was off again—
this time to meet up with my sister in
Washington, D.C. At a dinner gathering
to which we had invited my former Sierra
Leonean advisee, Alhaji Jalloh (UWCSEA
’07), I listened intently as Alhaji talked
about living in the US as a practising
Muslim and his efforts to educate himself
and his friends about each other’s
religions. One of my sister’s friends
turned to me and said: “You must be so
proud of him!” I grinned and said: “Yes.
Yes, I am. Of all of them.”
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By Brenda Whately
Tim Jarvis
UWCSEA 1978–1982
Class of 1984
Tim Jarvis has recently announced that
in January 2013, he will be leading the
official centenary re-enactment of
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s history-making
1916 Antarctic expedition.
An exact replica of Shackleton’s 22.5ft
(6.9m) boat, the James Caird, which
will be used in the expedition next year,
was launched in March 2012 at Dorset
in the United Kingdom. It is named
the Alexandra Shackleton, after the
expeditions’s patron, the Hon. Alexandra
Shackleton, granddaughter of Sir Ernest
Shackleton.
Technology, food and equipment used
in the expedition will also be the same
as that used in 1916, aside from some
modern emergency equipment, which
will be kept on board. A support vessel
will follow the voyage and the expedition
will be filmed for a documentary.
The expedition press release quotes the
Hon. Alexandra Shackleton, saying, “The
Shackleton Epic expedition is a fitting
tribute to my grandfather, Sir Ernest
Shackleton, as we celebrate the centenary
of his astonishing voyage (1914–1916).
Tim Jarvis is the ideal person to lead
this expedition as his determination,
along with the high caliber team he has
assembled will honour the leadership of
Ernest Shackleton.”
The press release goes on to say that
the Shackleton Epic also aims to
generate awareness of the importance
of preserving Antarctica’s marine
environment. The crew will film the ice
melt in the region, and Tim will compare
climactic conditions faced by his crew
with those that Shackleton and his men
experienced 100 years ago.
Tim says, “Whereas Shackleton’s goal was
to save his men from Antarctica, we now
find ourselves trying to save Antarctica
from man—a very unfortunate irony.”
Tim’s concern for the environment has
led him also to found what he calls a
Do-Tank aimed at doing rather than just
talking about doing. His aim is to turn
the best suggestions for environmentally
sustainable solutions into reality.
He says, “I often go on about the
importance of ‘doing’ and ‘learning by
doing’—it is after all, the essence of what
my Do-Tank idea is all about. To clarify
my position, although my focus is on
‘doing,’ it is in no way meant to detract
from the importance of strategic planning
and all that that entails. In actual fact,
integrated design in the environmental
field—looking at problems and solutions
from multiple perspectives over time—
is becoming ever more important.”
He describes his ‘Do-Tank’ in the
following way: “Do-Tank is a clearing
house, receiving and considering ideas
with environmental worth and then
determining and assembling the resources
and project management skills needed
to make the best of them happen. Unlike
other web-based forums, it is a place
where we not only initiate and develop
ideas, but where we also commit to try
and fund and project manage them into
reality—the ‘doing’ bit. This is important
because the implementation phase is
where many of the real learnings about
the viability of an idea are discovered—
you only understand what the real issues
and opportunities are when actually
trying to implement an idea.”
Tim Jarvis has an MSc in Environmental
Science and another in Environmental
Law. He is an explorer, author and public
speaker as well. Tim was featured in an
article about his polar explorations and
environmental sustainability work in the
July 2011 issue of One°North, the Alumni
Magazine of UWC South East Asia. A PDF
version of the magazine can be found on
the alumni website under Publications.
For more information about Tim’s
‘Do-Tank’ or his upcoming Antarctic
expedition, please see his website at
www.timjarvis.org or write to him via
wwww.timjarvis.org/contact
Another polar expedition for Tim Jarvis
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By Brenda Whately
Gautam Banerjee
UWCSEA 1971–1973
Class of 1973
Gautam Banerjee celebrates his 30th
anniversary with PwC this year and
next year, his 40th anniversary since
graduating from UWCSEA.
Gautam is the Executive Chairman of
PwC Singapore and Chief Operating
Officer for PwC Eastern Cluster, which
includes most of Asia. He joined PwC
Singapore in 1982 after achieving his
B.Sc (Hons) in Accounting and Financial
Analysis at the University of Warwick. He
is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants,
England and Wales and the Institute of
Certified Public Accountants in Singapore.
He was made a partner at PwC Singapore
in 1989 and Executive Chairman in 2004.
Along with a heavy workload, in true
UWC fashion he has taken on several
additional challenges, working on the
Boards of a number of organisations,
largely in a voluntary capacity.
Gautam attended UWCSEA, then called
Singapore International School (SIS), from
its very first year of operation in 1971
until graduating in 1973 as part of one
of the first graduating classes. He recalls
that in those early days the school had
three or four Gap Year students from
UWC Atlantic, who brought some of the
UWC culture with them and worked as
teacher assistants for a term or so. He
also remembers the official opening of
the school, presided over by then Prime
Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew,
and the impact it had on him.
Gautam had come to Singapore with
his family when his father transferred
from Mumbai. He was 16 years old at the
time. Having come from a city school in
Mumbai, he says that SIS was, “luxury
beyond imagination, with its nice setting,
greenery, low rise buildings and small
classes.” He says he has many happy
memories of his time here.
When asked if the school influenced
him and his future choices in any way,
he answers, “It opened my mind to
think outside of what was a very narrow
perspective I had had in Bombay. India
was very closed at that time. When I
arrived at SIS however, I was the only
person from India in my class. I studied
with German, Dutch, Australian,
British and Malaysian students. It was
my first exposure to an international
environment—meeting people from
different parts of the world. I had to keep
moving away from my comfort zones. It
made me embrace change and be more
adventurous. I developed an attitude of
go ahead and do it and then work it out.”
That attitude has remained with him
since. A nominated member of Parliament
for Singapore from 2007 to 2009,
Gautam says that when the position was
first proposed to him, his initial reaction
was that maybe this was not a good
time as he had a lot on his plate. But
he decided to go ahead and accept the
position and says that he is very glad he
did. “It was an incredible experience.”
now I see in my children that social
consciousness seems to have been
embedded into their DNA.”
SIS may or may not have been where
he picked up the UWC values of ‘giving
back,’ but Gautam certainly does give
back a significant amount of his time
and talent for his chosen country of
Singapore. He serves as Vice Chairman
of the Singapore Business Federation
and also serves on the Boards of the
Economic Development Board, the
APEC Business Advisory Council and the
Yale-NUS College. He is a member of
the Corporate Governance Council of
the Monetary Authority of Singapore
and the Companies Act Reform Steering
Committee, and since 2007 he has been a
Director of the Singapore Arts School Ltd.
In the past, he has served on the National
Heritage Board. He also participated in
the Singapore Promise Programme and
the Distinguished Speakers Series whose
goals were to attract and retain foreign
and Singaporean talent respectively.
In addition, he and his wife Bashobi have
self-published a couple of children’s books
about their pet dog which Bashobi, a
specialist English teacher, has written. The
book has helped to raise over $10,000 for
the SPCA.
Gautam can be reached through the
UWCSEA alumni website.
Gautam Banerjee
Business leader with UWC values
“It opened my mind to think
outside of what was a very
narrow perspective …”
Gautam and his wife have two children,
a son and a daughter, both of whom have
also now attended UWCSEA. Aside from
coming back to the school for his children,
Gautam came to speak at the 35th
anniversary celebration in 2006 at which
he commented on how the school had
not been good at keeping in touch with
its alumni to that point. Coincidentally,
a dedicated Alumni Relations office had
been established just a couple of months
before that anniversary celebration and
Gautam said he is happy to see that since
that time, the school is making a good
effort to engage the alumni community.
When comparing his experience with
his children’s experience at UWCSEA,
he says, “Social service was just in its
beginning stages in the early ’70s, but
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Reunion 2011, celebrated the classes
of 1981, 1986, 1991 and 2001 over the
weekend of 26–28 August 2011. Just
under 300 alumni and guests from over
29 different countries around the world
spent a weekend together in Singapore,
celebrating the 10, 20, 25 and 30 year
anniversaries of their class year groups.
On Friday evening, each of the class
groups mingled at a cocktail reception
to break the ice before heading into the
ballroom for an Asian-themed buffet
dinner. After a lion dance and a couple of
brief speeches, everyone had the chance
to catch up with each other over dinner
and party far into the night.
On Saturday, the class year groups
participated in a number of events, meals
and late-night celebrations organised
by their own class year volunteers.
Some of the members of the Class of
1991 had planned a game of soccer on
the Ayer Rajah pitch Saturday morning,
but perhaps not surprisingly, fewer
players than originally planned, actually
showed up! The rest played valiantly on,
regardless. On Sunday, everyone was
invited back to UWCSEA for a barbecue
lunch and tours led by members of the
Alumni Council, made up of current
Grade 12 students.
The Class of ’91 gathered together after
lunch to relive some memories from the
contents of a time capsule, which had
Reunion 2011!
been buried 20 years ago, just before
their graduation. The time capsule had
been completely forgotten about until it
was dug up a few years ago during some
construction at the College! If you placed
an envelope in the time capsule and
didn’t pick it up at the reunion, it’s waiting
for you in the Alumni Office.
The weekend was a great success thanks
to all the alumni who attended and took
part in the celebrations, many having
traveled back to Singapore from afar.
Hundreds of photos of the weekend have
been loaded to the event calendar of the
alumni site. Feel free to have a look!
We look forward to seeing alumni from
the classes of 1972, ’82, ’87, ’92 and 2002
for Reunion 2012!
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18 OneºNorth May/June 2012
Fifth Annual Singapore
December Alumni Get-together,
22 December 2011
Reunions
December 2011 saw the largest
attendance yet at our holiday alumni
get-together in Singapore. Lots of young
alumni who had returned to Singapore
from university for the holidays took this
opportunity to come out and meet up
with other alumni, friends and teachers,
also here for the holidays. Joining us as
well were a good number of alumni who
are now working in Singapore. It was a
great mix of people from a wide range of
class year groups; a total of more than
245 alumni, teachers and guests. Next
year’s event will take place on the 21st.
Reserve the date now!
Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia alumni gatherings,
October 2011
Events were held in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney in October, before and after
a conference which some of the Alumni Department staff were participating in.
Attendance in Perth and Sydney was unfortunately affected by some major sporting
events on at the same time, but Melbourne saw a packed venue. Thanks to those who
made it to any of these events. Hope to see you again next year.
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Sixth Annual London Alumni
Get-together, 27 January 2012
The sixth annual alumni gathering in
London took place on a bitterly cold
evening in January, but that didn’t
prevent almost 300 people from
coming along to meet and mingle with
other alumni and guests. This year, a
presentation was given about the history
and evolution of UWCSEA to update
former students on how the College has
maintained the ethos and values that it
has always sought to instill in its students,
while it continues to evolve its teaching
methods and programmes. We look
forward to 18 January 2013.
First Amsterdam Alumni Get-
together, 28 January 2012
The first ever alumni get-together held in
Amsterdam in The Netherlands attracted
a nice group of just under 20 alumni
from a variety of class year groups. It
was a cosy gathering of alumni living,
studying or working in Amsterdam and
the surrounding area. The gathering was
followed by a dinner that many of the
alumni stayed behind to enjoy. We had
several requests to hold another event
there in future, and we hope to be able to
do so next year. Stay tuned.
Hong Kong Alumni Get-together,
16 March 2012
The gathering in Hong Kong, which was
held at the culmination of a week-long
conference that some of the UWCSEA
Foundation and Alumni Relations staff
had attended, included a small but lively
gathering of alumni. A couple of alumni
had recently moved to Hong Kong and
said it was a great opportunity to meet up
with others who are also living there. We
heard that the event may have started
a little too early in the evening for some
of our hard-working alumni (although it
managed to last until quite late into the
evening!), and we’ll keep that in mind for
future events there. The evening was very
enjoyable, and it was great to see and
chat with those of our Hong Kong-based
alumni who were able to make it.
20 OneºNorth May/June 2012
Events and activities at UWCSEA
Just a sample of some of the things taking place at UWCSEA during the year. Thanks to Kengthsagn Louis, Grade 11 National
Committee student from Haiti and member of the Alumni Council, for pulling out some of the highlights from the College calendar.
Dover Campus
mathematician takes gold!
In November 2011, two groups of Grade 9
students participated in an international
school mathematics competition (SIMSC)
with a student from the Dover Campus
winning the gold!
Chinese Language
Department visits the
city of Hibiscus in China
A group of Chinese language students
travelled to Sichuan Province in China to
visit the city of Hibiscus and practise their
Chinese language skills.
A tiger at UWCSEA
A large, striped, furry tiger, the main
character from the story The Tiger Who
Came to Tea by Judith Kerr came in
November 2011 to the K1 classes at
Dover Campus.
Leadership training
for student leaders
UWCSEA High School students have the
opportunity to develop their leadership
skills through a programme of leadership
workshops organised by alumnus Dale
Fisher and teacher Susan Edwards.
Girls Touch Rugby team
wins SEASAC in Jakarta
On a weekend in early February 2012, the
UWCSEA Touch Rubgy girls team regained
the SEASAC championship trophy, winning
a hard-fought final against Tanglin Trust.
Current UWCSEA scholar from
Aceh speaks at East Campus
The UWCSEA scholar from Aceh, Indonesia
gave a memorable and heartwarming
speech during the recent masquerade
ball. He spoke about the opportunity he
has been given to study here and learn to
be a global citizen who can help others,
particularly the people and the country
he loves.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
In October 2011, Grade 9 and 10 drama
students gave a fantastic performance of
the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
UN Night!
In October 2011, the annual evening of
cultural diversity took place once again
with a fusion of dance, music and food from
around the world.
The Sound of Music
In December 2011, an amazingly talented
cast of Grade 11 and 12 students gave a
breathtaking performance of The Sound
of Music.
Mother Language Day
In February 2012, students on both
campuses celebrated Mother Language
Day, greeting each other in their own
mother tongue, sharing their language with
others and celebrating their diversity.