11910/2453 – 1925/24683
The reign of King Rama VI
1910/2453
There was a royal wedding ceremony between King Rama
VI and Princess Varnvimol, the daughter of Prince
Naradhip, who was Wanglang School alumnus (pupil ID
435). She influenced Thai ladies to wear skirt and
had long hair up-done.
1910/2453
Miss Elsie Bates helped teaching at Wanglang School.
At this stage, the school was famous and
self-contained. There was an expansion of school
rooms, dormitory, refectory, reinforce the pier and
acquired land toward the back. Siamese civil
servants and citizen helped to donate.
1911/2454
Miss McCord began to use electric oven to bake
bread.
1911/2454
Film producer, Richard Burton
Holmes Traveloques, use Wanglang School as his
location.
1911/2454
Miss Alice J. Ellinwood was the person who reviewed
lecture preparation that teachers planned to teach
the day after, so as to make sure of the highest
standard for the school.
1912/2455
Bangkok was flooded. Miss Cole baked rice cracker
and donated to people who were affected.
1914/2457
World War I broke out. Siam entered the war.
Wanglang School opened a “Red Cross Tea Room” to
solicit donation and sent relief money to the French
Red Cross Society.
1914/2457
This year, Miss Cole bought a new 25 rai (40,000
sq.m.) plot of land, on the bank of Saen Saeb Canal.
The land was divided to fruit orchard, flower and
plant garden and building site. The building site
had to be elevated for 4 feet as a precaution
against flood. Friends sent a lot of plants. There
were 900 coconut saplings, 100 mangoes, 50
mahoganies and more than 100 bananas. Then there
were lime, pomelo, rose-apple and others. A doctor
gave 5 quinine trees. Unfortunately, the manager did
not know about trees thoroughly. Some disappeared.
1914/2457
Alumni and well-wishers donated as much as 75,000
baht to build school building.
1915/2458
The school increased Mathayom 7 class. Pupils
graduated from this class received School’s Diploma.
At that time, girl school according to the
government’s curriculum only finished at Mathayom 6.
Girls who passed Mathayom 6 were considered having
completed secondary school for girls; whereas, boys
had to complete Mathayom 8. But Wanglang school
thought that knowledge obtained in Mathayom 6 was
not enough. So, higher grade was added to the
school’s curriculum.
1919/2462
There was a ceremony to lay the corner stone of new
school building on the 27th of September.
The building was designed from Manila. Mr. C.A.
Steele supervised the construction project.
1920/2463
Construction of Wattana Wittaya Academy dormitory
was finished. Construction cost was donated by
churches in the USA.
1920/2463
Queen Sawang Wattana donated 1,000 baht to Wattana
Wittaya Academy.
1920/2463
Queen Sawabha Pongsri donated 1,600 baht to Wanglang
School and later donated another 2,000 baht.
1921/2464
Wanglang School moved from the old place to Bangkapi
and changed the name to Wattana Wittaya Academy.
1922/2465
In May, the fifth church at Wattana held the first
service in the school’s auditorium. The church’s
first pastor was Reverend
Kimheng Mangkornpan.
1923/2466
In April, Miss Edna Sarah Cole retired and returned
to the USA.
1923/2466
Miss Bertha Blount was appointed a Principal of
Wattana Wittaya Academy.
1923/2467
Miss Bertha Blount resigned to marry Phra
Artvidhyakom.