So, googling "Huang Mao Ting" yielded this wiki entry on a Methodist school in Penang, Malaysia:
Pada bulan Jun 1931, Puan Tan Choon Lan mengambil alih tugas sebagai guru besar diikuti dengan Madam Seah Kok En pada tahun 1932. Apabila Madam Seah meletak jawatan pada tahun berikutnya, urusan pentadbiran sekolah diuruskan oleh pengerusi Jemaah Pengurus Encik Chew Cheng How. Bilangan pelajar yang bertambah dengan pesat pada tahun 1935 menyebabkan pihak sekolah membuat keputusan menyewa sebuah banglo di Lorong Hutton untuk dijadikan bangunan sekolah. Selepas berpindah, Taman Tadika Union ditukarkan kepada Sekolah Union. Pada masa itu, urusan sekolah dijalankan oleh Pengerusi Jemaah Pengurus Sekolah, En Huang Mao Ting. Pada tahun 1936, Encik Wang Lek Oo dilantik sebagai guru besar. Beliau telah berusaha membuka kelas latihan guru-guru tadika.
This, via Google Translate, comes out as:
In June 1931, Mrs Tan Choon Lan took over as the headmaster, followed by Madam Seah Kok En in 1932. When Madam Seah resigned the following year, the school administration is managed by the chairman of the Management Board Mr. Chew Cheng How. The number of students increased rapidly in 1935 led the school to make the decision to rent a bungalow in Lorong Hutton to be a school building. After moving, Garden Kindergarten Union converted to Union School. At that time, the school run by the Chairman of the School Board, Mr. Huang Mao Ting. In 1936, Mr. Wang Lek Oo was appointed headmaster. He was trying to open a training class kindergarten teachers.
Googling on, here's an excerpt from John Sung's Diaries (notice the reference to Penang!):
And how about this January 1937 minutes of Telok Ayer Methodist Church from the Yale Library, where Grandpa Timothy gets 16 mentions and even Granny gets one!
But stand in awe of this a la Hebrews 11 Methodist gallery of faith, courtesy Yale's copy of the 1933 Malaya Conference in Wesley Church, where Grandpa and Granny Huang are mentioned in the Hokkien ministry, and:
By faith Hong Han Keng in Klang and M. Timothy Huang [sic] in .Seremban being warned of things not yet seen in their respective towns have moved their people to look for more spiritual foundations. It is most gratifying to note in all of our Chinese churches that the require- .ments for membership have been raised and their spiritual tone has been greatly improved.
By faith Yau Vee San, our Senior Chinese pastor, raised $160.00 which is the payment due this year on the parsonage debt and in spi!e -of the depression raised more money this year than last for pastoral -support.
By faith]. A. Supramaniam induced his Board of Stewards to take ,on the 'support of a second worker in Negri Sembilan. D. John, a Local Elder, came from I ndia in January and took up this post. He has been resident in Labu, but has travelled throughout the state of Negri. Sembilan.· ,
By faith Ang Geok Swee and Loh Choo Chee have kept alive a church interest in the most difficult coast district of Malacca and Negri SembiIan. The work in Port Dickson has gone ahead under the leader- -ship of Ang Geok Swee.
What shall I say more? for time would fail to tell how the two -colporteur-pastors Lam Thau On and Foo Kee Kwang have travelled throughout the District selling Bible portions and distributing tracts. Not only have these two specialists pushed this most worth-while phase ,of our task, but largely through the efforts of Mr. Blasdell each pastor has undertaken to be his own colporteur which has resulted in the increased dissemination of Christian literature.
And multiple mentions in more Methodist documents at Yale:
- Minutes of the Malaysia Chinese Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1937
- Minutes of the Malaya Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church January 1931, where there is the rare mention of the passing of the Rev. Timothy M. Huang's father!
Here's a nice vignette of the no-more-ricebowl-Christian spiritual revival during the Japanese Occupation, from From Mission to Church:
Quoth Theodore R. Doraisamy, Forever Beginning: One Hundred Years of Methodism in Singapore, Volume 1
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