Tan Boon Lin

21 October 2024

Dato’ Tan Boon Lin addressing Penang Free School at the 208th Annual Speech Day, 21 October 2024, and announcing the launch of his autobiography, On Making a Difference: The Joyful Journey of an Educationist.

Dato’ Tan was a student at Penang Free School from 1939 to 1947. After studying history in Raffles College, University of Malaya in Singapore, he returned to the school as teacher. From 1963-1968 he served as the first Asian Headmaster of the school.