spb66 #34: News Article on Interview with Terence Chang dated August 27, 2007

spb66 #33: Report of Re-union lunch in USA on August 25, 2007

left to right:
Ng Sai-Tak, Chan Kar-Wah, Tony Chan Kan-Chiu, Alex Lau Hoi-Shing, Ernest Cheng Wai-Leung, Linda Wong, Nelson Cheng Yui-Hing, Rita Cheng, Celestine Sin, Nancy Sin, Fu Tze-Kin, Aaron Sin, Joe Tang Joe-Yan, Tong Biu, Edward Sin Wing-Sang, Nico Choi Lap-Chung, Bill Ip Ka-Biu, Tennyson Ng Chung & Steve Wong Sai-Hoo.
left to right:
Bill Ip Ka-Biu, Tong Biu, Joe Tang Joe-Yan, Fu Tze-Kin, Steve Wong Sai-Hoo, Nico Choi Lap-Chung, Linda Wong, Rita Cheng, Nelson Cheng Yui-Hing, Edward Sin Wing-Sang, Tennyson Ng Chung, Aaron Sin, Celestine Sin, Nancy Sin, Tony Chan Kan-Chiu, Chan Kar-Wah, Alex Lau Hoi-Shing, Ernest Cheng Wai-Leung & Ng Sai-Tak.

Please read report written by Ernest Cheng Wai Leung.

Reunion luncheon on August 25, 2007 at the Red Coach Inn, Niagara Falls, New York


The rustic Red Coach Inn overlooking the raging Niagara River meters away from the Falls was the site of the recent reunion luncheon of the Class of 66. Thirteen classmates from the Greater Toronto area, in four separate cars, crossed over to the US side for a rendezvous with Edward Sin and his family.


Edward, just retired after a productive career with the HK government, drove up from Binghamton, New York. Edward and Nancy are proud parents to Aaron, SPC Class of 1995, who earned a Ph.D. from Cornell (in 2002) and Celestine, who will begin her second year in Electrical Engineering at SUNY at Binghamton. We were delighted to meet Edward’s lovely family!


Steve Wong Sai-Hoo’s wife Linda and Nelson Cheng Yui-Hing’s wife Rita also joined us for the occasion.


This was a most enjoyable afternoon as classmates caught up with their long lost buddies and made new acquaintances. Each classmate had the opportunity to share with the rest of the group what mischief he has gotten himself into over the past forty-one years (sort of).


All of us agreed that we should hold another reunion soon, and make sure that those who couldn’t join us this time (such as Gordon Jang Kwok-Tung, Timothy Leung Kam-Fai, Tony Tam Man-Kwong, Bobby Siu Chee-Yiu, Paul Shum Wai-Ming, Enoch Mo Yiu-Chor) would join us then.


We wish to thank Nico Choi Lap-Chung for suggesting the venue and Tennyson Ng Chung for making the reservation.


Report filed by Ernest Cheng Wai-Leung

spb66 #32: Acting Blog Master

Effective immediately, Tennyson Ng has agreed to serve as 'Acting Blog Master' while Edward Sin takes his vacation leave for the month of August.

Have a great time, Ed!

spb66 #31: St. Paul's Mentorship Scheme

Apart from scholarship fund, this is another way to show affection and support to St. Paul's

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Dear friends,



If you are a recipient of alumni email, you should be well aware of the mentorship scheme. It is a scheme for St. Paul's College and the SPC Alumni Association to join hands to provide mentoring and sharing of life experience to our F6 boys. It started in 2004 and it is the third session now.



Our new principal John Kennard is very supportive to this scheme, as he firmly believes that we are all in one big family under SPC flag. At the assembly yesterday, he openly encouraged our F6 boys to join the scheme.



We are now under the usual process of recruiting new senior mentors. Commitment is not that much - you just need to attend the inauguration at the school on 30/9 (and take the chance to visit the new school extension block), meet some F6 boys (normally 4-5 in a group) once a while (say once every two months) to have some chats or have some activities with them, and attend a high table dinner around Easter 2007. If you feel you could share your life experience with our younger St. Paul boys, do join us to help our Alma Mater.



No matter you have or have not indicated your availability before, I would be most grateful if you could re-register again by replying to this email, so that I could take stock and make arrangements. Pls also copy your reply to Mr. Darren Lam (khlamd@yahoo.com) for administration purpose.



Regards,

Vincent Fung

Chairman, SPCAA

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Some further information from Philip Cheung:

The objective is for those Form 6ers who are interested to know in advance a little bit of the working/business life they enter eventually, hopefully from the senior &/or junior mentors whose profession or business is one he is aiming for.



The school will pair the junior mentor (under 30 years old, whose job is to liaise between the students and the senior mentor, as well as sharing work experience) and the senior member. The boys will then choose the group’s profession according to his interest and preference but the school will have the final decision.



In my case, we spent time over walks (what else) and meals, and factory visits in China, to chat about garment business. They are very interested to know ours SPC days and how life was without TV.



Learning for me is a 2 way track, as I get to know the inside world of young people these days that much more. I learnt not to approach them as another tutor in order to have interesting conversations with them. They could be your friends if you try not to lecture them.



You meet students of all kinds. Some are elite and some just join for the sake of it. I have had a head prefect, and have one who never turn up. You have to be patient with them because they are, after all, young students.



They are supposed to learn table manner at the High Table dinner. A lot of them have their first zip of wine. Selected senior mentors were guests speakers the first year, Tsang Yuk-Shing the second. Do you know that chap on the third:-




Philip Cheung

spb66 #30: 益壽一到十

益壽一到十
充滿前人智慧的益壽良方，請用心品嘗.....

一句箴言：
天下沒有偷懶可得的健康。

二句話：
對於以往不愉快的事及逆境，不發牢騷，不念舊惡。
對於未來的日子沒有奢望，但求平安幸福。

三養：
保養，營養，修養。

四忘：
忘記年齡，忘記錢財，忘記子孫，忘記煩惱。

五福：
有健康身體謂之福，
有興趣讀書謂之福，
有知己好友謂之福，
有人惦念你謂之福，
做自己喜歡做的事謂之福。

六喜：
一喜退而不休，
二喜兒女獨立，
三喜無欲則剛，
四喜問心無愧，
五喜好友甚多，
六喜心情不老。

七樂：
知足常樂，
閒中作樂，
自得其樂，
及時行樂，
助人為樂，
行善是樂，
平安最樂。

八點：
嘴巴甜一點，
腦筋活一點，
脾氣小一點，
度量大一點，
心放寬一點，
做事多一點，
說話輕一點，
微笑多一點。

九常：
齒常叩，
津常咽，
鼻常揉，
眼常動，
面常搓，
足常磨，
腹常旋，
肢常伸，
肛常提。

健康十則：
少肉多菜，
少鹽多醋，
少糖多果，
少食多嚼，
少衣多浴，
少言多做，
少欲多施，
少憂多眠，
少車多行，
少氣多笑。

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spb66 #29: Scholarship Fund

Shum Wai Ming proposed to set up SPC66 Class & Teachers Scholarship Fund.

Please refer Shum's message for detail:

I believe that it was Monday, September 7, 1959, when the class of 66 first congregated unceremoniously at SPC.

It is a great joy to see (read) that the OLD gang is so interested and energetic in renewing our long neglected but obviously unforgotten comraderie and memories of our years at SPC.

Hung Lo Zhai was so right when he taught us that the best friends in one's life are mostly made in one's formation years. The current, timely, revived reconnection efforts of SPC66 is a living proof of his wisdom.

In reflection, I do not think too many will disagree with me that, as a group, we are what we are today have a tremendous lot to do with what we learned at SPC from SOME of our experienced and knowledgeable teachers (although certainly not all of us were cognizant of that at the time). We owe them and SPC an eternal gratitude.

In line with those ruminations, I dare to propose for the thoughtful men (I think I am politically safe here) of SPC66 to consider the establishment of the SPC66 Class & Teachers Scholarship Fund, with charitable gifts from us. Its purpose is to assist scholarstic, matriculating SPC students with demonstratable financial needs to pursue higher education, who will otherwise have to forgo their dreams of a better future for themselves and possibly even greater benefits to society.

To some of us, this idea may sound dreamy, difficult, intangible or irrelevant. But I think it is a marvelous act to show our gratefulness to and to leave our remembrance at SPC for generations of classes to come (if we pull it off! ). Who knows, this may even start a trend for other alumnus classes to follow suit and therefore benefit many more worthy future SPC students. Or, if OUR scholarship fund turns out to be humongously successful and rich, they may even name something( maybe a faculty of medicine somewhere) after us!!

It is with the deepest regret that I will not be attending the reunion in 11/07. However, I am more than happy to donate the estimated cost of the non-trip to the SPC66 Class & Teachers Scholarship Fund. It is a mere drop in the bucket for sure, but for the altruism that the mighty flow of the Yangtze starts yet with a single snow flake up on the mountain of Qinghai !

From afar and yet feeling close,

Paul Wai Ming Shum.
aka Dai Tau Fudg.

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While there is wide-spread support, Frank Fu offers some practical points for thought:

Dear Philip and Edward:



1. To form a Trust needs legal document to set up.

2. Authorised signatures are difficult to agree upon.

3. I suggest that we agree on the kind of scholarship to award first such as $10,000 for "the Best Model Student" (selected by teachers or peers) or the Most Outstanding Form 6 student (based on HKCEE results).

4. We can commit this for 5 years and then review the amount of the scholarship and the selection criteria/title. Thus, a target of $100,000 to start.

4. Open an account with SPC and deposit fund raised and ask the School to administer it during Speech Day/Prize Presentation Day in the name of Class of 1966.

5. They have many scholarships already at SPC and we need to ask the Council for endorsement.



Just some thoughts to make the project simple and manageable.



Yours,

Frank Fu

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Below is a message from the Principal, Dr. John Kennard

-----Original Message-----
From: principal [mailto:jrk@stpauls.edu.hk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:10 PM
To: Philip Cheung - Golden Bough
Subject: Re: donation from class of 66



Dear Philip



Thank you for the message and thank you again for the kind offer from the Class of '66.



The College is about to announce the formation of The Foundation, the purpose of which is to secure the financial well-being of the College in to the future. All donations /bequests /gifts to the College from this point will be directed to The Foundation, the executive committee of which will decide on particular disbursements. This will help enormously with future planning.



The two key projects that will require significant short to medium term funding are:

1. the renovation of the Wong Ming Him Hall (approximately HK$5 million) and

2. the relocation of the Primary School (we estimate that we might need to 'top up' government funding by about HK$30 million).



The dollar value of any individual donation will be considered by the Foundation executive committee, for example, large donations might be reflected in exclusive naming rights to particular buildings in the new Primary School, smaller donations cited on an honour board etc etc.



I hope that this is of some assistance in your deliberations. However, the immediate need is in probably in bricks and mortar as opposed to scholarships for individual boys etc.



Best

John


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Lastest news:


Leung Siu Kwong, Jacob, will be glad to collect any views classmates would like to raise about donation.

Task force will be organized after the Grand Re-union of Nov.2, 2007.

spb66 #28: Game proposed by Henry Gaw

A game suggested by Henry Gaw:

Name the teacher’s name (listed first) followed by his/hers nickname and
the subject that he/she taught.

I will start w/a few and please add to my list:

1. Hung Man Fong, AKA Hung Lo Chai, Chinese. Always spent 45 minutes each class telling us his WWII stories and his glorious old days as ShumSuiPo’s District Head and then 5 to 10 minutes of Chinese lessons.

2. Sung Man Chun, AKA Tai Tau Sung. Assistant Headmaster. Subject?

3. Liu How Sway, AKA Tai Tau Whu Ying, or Big Head Fly, Math.

4. Reverend Stewart (?) Speak, AKA See Bit Lo. (what’s his first name?), Bible, Headmaster.

5. One of my favorite Chinese teacher, AKA Hing Tung Lo, whose always started his sentences with “Cair Li See”. What’s his real name?

6. Lau Sir (what’s his full name), AKA Sing Sing Lo (as in Gorilla)

7. Lee? AKA Hum Seun Lee (Salty and Sour Plum). He taught Handwork and has the entire ground floor of Wong Ming Him Hall for his classroom/workshop.

Feel free to correct my error(s), if any. After all, we are all getting into the early state of Senioritis, Dementia, or God forbid, Alzheimer’s (better known as Oldtimer’s) Disease.

Bo Suk, how about putting this game format onto an Excel Spread sheet as an attachment and put it onto our blog site so that we can all add onto this list?

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