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disappointed" at Eric for choosing not to disclose the fact that he was getting married to them and that he did not get married in a church. However, she also claimed that Elias eventually warmed up to Eric's wife, who "became a favourite" of his. However, Mary Jer and an accomplice would later be charged with conspiring to attack Eric's wife with acid in 1981, the year following Elias's death. She claimed to have been acting on the belief Eric's wife was to blame for a rift in the family. However, a judge decided in
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was a friend of his. He was supportive of the increase of women finding employment as secretaries as he believed it was "making use of women power" and "helping alleviate the labour problem." In 1980, Pereira left for the United States, where he received a heart surgery which proved unsuccessful. He
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with only 10 students. Classroom materials such as a blackboard, desks, chairs and tables were purchased using his savings. The school taught a syllabus which he came up with himself. Pereira was a strong proponent for the provision of government aid and encouragement to youths seeking higher
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education. In 1956, he left the university to serve as the principal as the school full-time, expanding its curriculum to include arts and sciences subjects. In the same year, he founded his own public accountants firm. He then founded schools of commerce in
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Pereira founded the CYMA School of
Commerce, which eventually came to be known as the City School of Commerce, in 1950. He served as its principal, running it after his lectures. The school started as a singular classroom he rented along
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Malayan to hold this position. Pereira had established the Stamford Centre for Executive and Commercial Training just prior to the session.
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in developing countries. In
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planning" for achieving goals. While working for the Department of Civil Aviation, he became the first Malayan to be made a member of the
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