Lee Hup Suan And Jawahir Haji Ali – Malayan Teens Hit The World Stage, Back In The 50s
Students from Kota Bharu’s Zainab School and Ipoh’s Anderson School making Malaya proud abroad.
Picture this. The year is 1956. Malaysia was a word no one had coined yet. Independence was still a year away and no one knew what the future would hold.
A young girl from SMK Zainab (1) in Kelantan, Jawahir Haji Ali, was about 17 years old, and could not possibly have imagined that her fellow countrymen would be discussing her achievements on social media some eight decades later.
At the time SMK Zainab was known as Zainab School, a government English school for girls.
Jawahir spoke fluent English at the time and while not much information can be gleaned about her early years, what is clear is that she was a brilliant young lady.
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