Former MM Editor celebrates 100th birthday

MRS Lorinne Reinoehl (left) celebrated her 100th birthday on Feb 25, 2003 at a nursing home in Claremont, California.

She is the oldest past Head of Anglo-Chinese Middle/Primary School. Before her marriage to the Rev Waldo Reinoehl, she taught the ACS Cambridge classes at the start of her missionary service from 1927 before being appointed to head the lower school at Coleman Street from 1931 to 1934.

Her late husband, a long-time missionary to Malaya and Singapore, taught at ACS Singapore and was Principal of ACS Seremban (1939-1941) before pastoring Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore. Both retired in 1972, having served in this area for more than 40 years.


Mrs Reinoehl is the daughter of Methodist missionaries, the Rev and Mrs J. L. McLaughlin, who served in the Philippines beginning at a time when it was still a District of the Malaysia Mission Conference in 1901.


After the Japanese Occupation, she was appointed Editor (October - December 1947), and Managing Editor (January 1948 - December 1949) of the Malaysia Message, forerunner of Methodist Message.