OVA today announces a full conversion to a Ladies-Only club. With this conversion, the OVA hopes to reach out to the tens of thousands of females who have passed through the gates of Victoria Pre-U and Victoria Junior College.

In announcing this decision, OVA’s newly elected president, Ms Veronica Yeo, was prescient. “The council made an unanimous decision after our AGM. As Chairman Mao said, ‘Women hold up half the sky’.”

The boys in the OVA were unsurprisingly supportive of the decision to encourage more females to join the association. However, on hearing that their own membership will be nullified, they were speechless. “This sucks!” said Joe, a frequent contributor to the OVA website.

The first event that the OVA plans to organise will be a soccer match between OVA All-Girls and the alumni of Raffles Girls (now Raffles Institution). Members (females only, of course) are encouraged to subscribe to the free newsletter via the website to be kept informed of updates.