BBGS. Pioneer in women’s education. A school steeped in the tradition of excellence, discipline and godliness. A school where the poor has as secure a place as the rich.
BBGS. Where so many of us spent so many of the best of our growing-up years. For ‘thoroughbreds’ who know no other school than BBGS, this year – 1997 – the year in which our school turns 104 years old, must be extra-special.
But ‘thoroughbred’ or not, all 50,000 or more girls (plus a handful of privileged boys) who have walked the school’s corridors, cannot but stop to thank the headmistresses and teachers for unfailingly passing on the values and traditions that BBGS stands for, generation after generation.
The seed that was sown a hundred years ago by God-fearing missionaries was sown on good ground. Nurtured well, with love and dedication, it grew to be a strong tree, standing tall and proud, sprouting bountiful leaves and flowers, fruits and seeds. A familiar and well-loved tree that has been the shade and shelter of all who have known it.
The principles on which the Bukit Bintang Girl’s School were founded – Nisi Dominus Frustra or ‘Without God, all is in Vain’. – are like roots that have stood the tree on sure and firm ground. To make it unshakeable, immoveable.
The tree grows, drawing its manna from its custodians – the headmistresses and teachers, the parents, the school’s administrative staff, the jaga , the food sellers and all who have dedicated so much of their time and care to ensuring that the generations of students that pass through BBGS get only the very best to become only the very best of citizens of this country.
Their labour of love has not been in vain. One century of BBGS girls has grown and taken their place as loyal women with their race -far beyond the shores of Malaysia… branching out each in her own way or profession, contributing to the enrichment of the society and country they have chosen to live in.
All BBGS girls -past and present -pay tribute to the school that hold an unending stream of memories. The school that has taught us so many fundamental values. The school we are still proud to call our own.