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This is a close-up of Mr. Lionel Cresson (Leo Cresson), President of the Rotary Club of Singapore, who served from 1948 to 1950. He was a student of Raffles Institution; Municipal Commissioner; Assistant Chemist (1931-1932) and later Managing Director of Singapore Rubber Works Limited; founder and Managing Director of Cressonite Industries Limited (1947-1954); Council Member of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association (1947-1949); founder member and President of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (1947-1950) and the Singapore Federation of Industrialists and Traders; Member of the Public Service Commission (Nov 1951-Dec 1956); the founding Chairman of the Board of Governors of Singapore Polytechnic (Jan 1955-Jul 1959); Manager of the Singapore Industrial Promotion Board (1957); President of the Singapore Association for the Deaf and Dumb (1956-1958); and Chairman of the Traffic Advisory Board. Title devised by Library staff.