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Stanley James Ting慢浹菊 17 March 1935—25May 2009
Jim, as we all know him, was born in Wellington, eldest son of Joseph and Molly Ting and grandson of Chin Moon Ting, the first president of the Tung Jung Association. After primary school, he attended Rongotai College where he was a school prefect and then went to Victoria University to study pure science and worked for
Shell-BP Todd for two years but found it boring and turned to teaching in 1958. His school of choice was his old school, Rongotai College, where he taught mathematics, general science and chemistry. He was well liked as a teacher and later became deputy principal and acting principal.
He left in 1995 when the college looked elsewhere for another principal.
In 1997, he joined the staff at Wellington College where he coached the college’s first XV and taught there until 2004 when tired of commuting from Lower Hutt where he lived,took a teaching job at St. Bernard’s College in Lower Hutt teaching the same subjects that he loved and coaching their first XV also.
Over the years, Jim was a Mason and senior grand masonof his lodge, a marriage celebrant, a Justice of the Peace
and a staunch member of the Tung Jung Association. During the years with the Association, Jim was the
MC at many of the Association’s activities and was the MC on the night of the Association’s 80th anniversary and combined book launch “Zengcheng New Zealanders—a History for the 80th Anniversary of the Tung Jung Association”, a night that all will remember.
Jim’s experience with the Masons and the world outside the Chinese environment was often called upon in the
Association’s decision making and his expertise was respected by all the committee. His passing has left a big hole in the committee that will be hard to fill.
Jim was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and is survived by his second wife Valerie and her youngest daughter and his daughter Robyn and three sons Graeme, Malcolm and Anthony, from his first marriage to Esther Young.
Jim’s funeral was held at Old St. Paul’s in Wellington and was attended by over 500 people.
Condensed from Dominion Post 20 June 2009 www.tungjung.org.nz/images/stories/newsletters/2009/Cover_page.pdf
Jim, as we all know him, was born in Wellington, eldest son of Joseph and Molly Ting and grandson of Chin Moon Ting, the first president of the Tung Jung Association. After primary school, he attended Rongotai College where he was a school prefect and then went to Victoria University to study pure science and worked for
Shell-BP Todd for two years but found it boring and turned to teaching in 1958. His school of choice was his old school, Rongotai College, where he taught mathematics, general science and chemistry. He was well liked as a teacher and later became deputy principal and acting principal.
He left in 1995 when the college looked elsewhere for another principal.
In 1997, he joined the staff at Wellington College where he coached the college’s first XV and taught there until 2004 when tired of commuting from Lower Hutt where he lived,took a teaching job at St. Bernard’s College in Lower Hutt teaching the same subjects that he loved and coaching their first XV also.
Over the years, Jim was a Mason and senior grand masonof his lodge, a marriage celebrant, a Justice of the Peace
and a staunch member of the Tung Jung Association. During the years with the Association, Jim was the
MC at many of the Association’s activities and was the MC on the night of the Association’s 80th anniversary and combined book launch “Zengcheng New Zealanders—a History for the 80th Anniversary of the Tung Jung Association”, a night that all will remember.
Jim’s experience with the Masons and the world outside the Chinese environment was often called upon in the
Association’s decision making and his expertise was respected by all the committee. His passing has left a big hole in the committee that will be hard to fill.
Jim was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and is survived by his second wife Valerie and her youngest daughter and his daughter Robyn and three sons Graeme, Malcolm and Anthony, from his first marriage to Esther Young.
Jim’s funeral was held at Old St. Paul’s in Wellington and was attended by over 500 people.
Condensed from Dominion Post 20 June 2009 www.tungjung.org.nz/images/stories/newsletters/2009/Cover_page.pdf