The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future. A Milestone Lasallian Publication
“The publication is very well produced with the photographs, and for those who are students of the LaSalle brothers, it should bring them many fond memories, for they are the products of such callings.” ~ President S.R. Nathan, Singapore.
Media Masters Publishing, an Ipoh-based publishing firm, is proud to present its latest title, ‘The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future.’ a book which portrays the Lasallian schools’ history over the past 157 years in Malaysia and Singapore.
In the Foreword to the newly released ‘The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future.’ – a revealing chronicle of eight key Lasallian schools in Malaysia and Singapore – reference is made to three primary objectives that spurred its publication.
Firstly, it was intended as a “gesture of gratitude to the Brothers and teachers who made learning an everyday adventure”.
Secondly, it was planned as a celebration of a legacy “which imbued us with the great belief in education and how far it can take us in the world”.
Finally, it was to be an invitation for Lasallians – both students and alumni alike – to think of “what else we can do to preserve an educational philosophy that goes beyond the mere recitation of facts and figures and the glow of straight As”.
Without question the book has succeeded in attaining these goals and, indeed, in carrying its task to even broader perspectives.
Published by an Ipoh-based firm, the title is essentially a Lasallian initiative. The Foreword was written by Dato’ Lim Keng Kay, the eldest of the six Lim brothers behind the book project – all of them products of the St Michael’s Institution, Ipoh.
The book comes within an impressive hard back, coffee-table format. The text is strongly supported by extensively researched archival photographs, a number of them, along with charts and plans, published for the first time.
Significantly, the book has arrived at a particularly critical moment for the regional Lasallian movement which is currently working towards reorganisation within a strengthened multi-national framework.
When ‘The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future.’ was launched in Kuala Lumpur recently the local Lasallian Brotherhood regarded it an important milestone for their organisation. But there was far more behind this acceptance than the book’s fortuitous appearance on bookshelves.
For while the Brothers had generously opened their document and photographic archives to the authors, at no point did they exert, or even seek to exert, influence on how the historical research underway would ultimately be interpreted or presented.
The result has been a both broad-based and balanced appraisal of events from the mid-1800s onwards which must surely rank as the most accurate and dispassionate of its type undertaking thus far. The glad moments are there. And so, too, are the sad.
As such – and as the book’s cover jacket points out – ‘The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future.’ should emerge a significant keepsake in the private collection of every Lasallian.
‘The Tradition. The Legacy. The Future.’ is available at the LaSalle Centre Ipoh, Meru Valley Resort, the Ipoh Echo office and all leading bookstores in Malaysia. A fixed portion from all sales of books will be channelled towards Yayasan DeLaSalle in Kuala Lumpur. For bulk orders, call Horizon Books at 03-92210928 or email horizon@wismaytt.com.
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