Aw Boon Haw
Chung Cheng High School was first founded by Aw Boon Haw and other philanthropists. Construction of the school building started at 60 Kim Yam Road in 1939. The founding principal of the school was Zhuang Zhulin and the school's first school supervisor was war hero Lim Bo Seng. Aw Boon Haw was the founding chairman of the school management board. In 1940 Xie Rongxi took over as chairman of the management board. Students came from as far as Thailand and the Philippines. Following the Japanese occupation of Singapore in 1942, the school was forced to stop classes.