BORN1946 INDUCTED2023 CATEGORYEducation THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME KHOO KIM CHOO Khoo Kim Choo is a pioneer of early childhood development and education in Singapore. She played a key role in the transformation and growth of the...
BORN1965 INDUCTED2022 CATEGORYEducation THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME LILY KONG First Singaporean woman to head a Singapore university Geographer Lily Kong made history in 2015 when the Singapore Management University (SMU) appointed her...
BORN 1918 INDUCTED 2019 CATEGORY Education THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME EVELYN NORRIS Outstanding educator Evelyn Norris had a long and storied association with Raffles Girls’ School (RGS). She was a student, then a teacher there and,...
BORN 1901 INDUCTED 2019 CATEGORY Education THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Outstanding educator Liew Yuen Sien was just 26 when, in 1927, she gave up the adventurous life of a globe-trotting journalist to become principal of Nanyang Girls’...
BORN 1943 INDUCTED 2017 CATEGORY Education THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME The Helen Keller of Southeast Asia Theresa Chan Poh Lin was 12 when meningitis took her hearing. Two years later she lost her sight. The daughter of a hawker and a...
