Before beginning her collection, Huang was an ordinary housewife who knew nothing of the travails of the Chinese education movement and only had a vague idea that Sim was an important figure in that movement.
在接觸剪報前，黃亞花只是一名平凡的家庭主婦，對於馬華教育的風風雨雨完全不瞭解，對沈校長的認識也只是大略知道華教有這麼一號人物。