Dr Chuang Chu Lin(Zhuang Zhu Lin)

• In 1938, he became the principal of Chung Cheng Secondary and in 1960 he was a vie-principal at Nanyang University.
• As he was devoted in education, he was one of the rare chinese in Singapore that works in the education industry
• Under a friend's persuasion, Xie Rong Xi agreeday for his trip back to Singapore to set up Chung Cheng Secondary School. With Xie Rong Xi's financial support and his qualifications, he was elected to be the first principal of Chung Cheng.
• Overseas chinese, under the leadership of Tan Kah Kee, raised money and put in energy into the anti-japanese sentiment. Zhuang Zhu Lin, together with teachers and students, supporting them in patriotic activities.
• Chung Cheng had become the vanguard of the anti-japanese activities.
• However, a member of the Blueshirts spread rumors that Zhuang Zhu Lin was surrounded by leftist teachers and students. They planned to strike in the opening ceremony of 1940 students protests against Zhuang Zhu Lin.He was notified in advanced but only laughed.
• However, the group of people launched the attack and sealed the school while forcing Zhuang Zhu Lin to sign the resignation letter. Fortunately, he refused to sign the letter and he got support by the many teachers and students who still supported him.
• The controversy led to the reorganisation of the Board with Xie Rong Xi as chairman. Since then, the school made some adjustments like expanding the lineup of teachers and greatly improving the level of teaching.
• During the japanese occupation, the school was closed and after the japanese surrendered, Zhuang Zhu Lin restarted the school with only 300 students. It is only until 1956, the number of students increased to 5500 and became the biggest secondary school in Southeeast Asia.
• In order to raise enough funds to build the school, he encouraged everyone to pay $10 to the school building fund.
• After many years of construction, not only its scale to meet the needs of teaching and activity, it has became a new landscape in Singapore.