spc #93: Donation reached $1,066,000 on Dec 3, 2009

This has reference to Post #84 about spc66 class donation to St. Paul's College Foundation Limited.

The donation amount finally reached ONE MILLION PLUS SIXTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Please watch video for the announcement made during SPC Speech Day on December 3, 2009:

spc #92: Dinner on November 8, 2009

Please refer photos taken by Wong Kai Fan:
http://gallery.me.com/kfwongtl#100154

Dinner function open to all classmates (and family members) of spc66

香港中華游樂會
香港大坑銅鑼灣道123號

CHINESE RECREATION CLUB, HONG KONG
123 TUNG LO WAN RD, TAI HANG, H.K.

電話: 2577-7376
辦公室傳真: 2576-5242
接待處傳真: 2915-7147
康體部傳真: 2882-9230

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From Frank Fu
cc mitrali@hkbu.edu.hk
date Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:07 PM
subject Re: spc66: Nov 4 function

Dear all:

I shall be pleased to organise the dinner on Nov 8th at CRC at 6.30 pm for Paul.

We can have a table for 16, and if more are coming, we shall have 2 tables.



Yours,
Frank Fu



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From: paul shum
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: spc66: Organizing the November 4 2009 HK reunion
To: Edward Sin

Dear Edward,

Has it really been a year already since the great evening you fellows had in WMH Hall ? How time flies, not waiting for anyone!

I will be visiting HK from Nov. 6-15. Really unfortunate that will miss the reunion by a mere 2 short days.

However, I will definitely look forward to having a lunch/dinner gathering with some of you on the weekend of Nov.7-8. Afterall, this is the 50th anniversary of the last 2 classes of 8th Grade ( 5a & 5B) of 1959 of SPC before that expanded into 6 classes the year after.

Undoubtedly, an ostentatious occasion in my books to celebrate the beginning of half a century of friendship and brotherhood which started nervously ( for me anyway) on that otherwise unremarkable September morning 50 years ago! 50 years !! Wow, where did it go?

Looking forward to seeing you guys,
岑煒鳴 SHUM Wai Ming, Paul

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Participants:
* Paul Shum x 2
* Frank Fu
* Philip Chow x 2
*
* Philip Cheung (left before dinner)
* Marcus Mok x 2
* Anthony Wu
* Wong Kai Fan
*
* Lee Dad Yen
* Lam Chuen Fong
* Tse Sik Yan
* Raymond Lai
* Peter Lo
*
* Edward Sin x 2
* TAM Chi Tung
*
(Total 18)

spc #91: Grand Reunion November 4, 2009

Photo album:




2010-06-12 04:10


YouTube

Frederick Kan has shared a video playlist with you on YouTube.
Refreshing friendship n memories, re union Nov 4,2009





Please note:
a/ Cocktail starts at 6:30pm
b/. Party starts at 7:30pm till 10:00pm
c/.

Welcome speech by MC (Jacob)
School Song
Principal's Speech
News Sharing
Saying of Grace
Dinner
Closing.

d/. Cost per classmate = $300. Guests are free
e/. Dress Code : smart casual

Grand Re-union of spc66
(St. Paul’s College Class of Form 5
graduated in June 1966)

at Craigengower Cricker Club ("CCC")
188 Wong Nai Chung Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Tel.﹕2577 8331

香港跑馬地黃泥涌道188號
電話﹕2577 8331

Date:
November 4, 2009 (the 4th Grand Re-union)

Master of Ceremony:
Leung Siu Kwong, Jacob


Convenor:
Tong Tak Cheung, Ronald

Treasurer:
Shum Kun Lam, Henry


We welcome your participation.

Grateful if you will enrol now.

Participating classmates:

Au Kim Lun
Chan Kan Chiu Tony (Toronto)
Chan Pat Lam, David
Chan Yuk Choi
Chen Cheung Shing
Cheng Wai Leung, Ernest (Toronto)
Cheung Kok Kee, Philip
Cho Wing Nin
Chow Yiu Wah, Philip
Fung Sing Yui
Ho Shut Kan
Ip Chung Sang, Joseph
Ip La Lam, Lawrence
Kan Shiu Cheong, Frederick
Lam Chuen Fong (Singapore)
Lee Cho Yee
Lee Dad Yen
Lee Tat Man (Singapore)
Leung Siu Kwong, Jacob
Lo Chun Kay
Luk Wang Lung
Lun Hung Kit, Thomas
Mah Cheuk On, Bernard
Mok Chiu Wing, Marcus
Mong Kar Keung
Shum Koon Lam, Henry
Sin Wing Sang, Edward (arrived at 9:00)
Tam Man Wai, Mark
Tang Kwok Wing, George
Tong Tak Cheung (Ronald)
TSE Hon Kin
Tse Sik Yan (London)
Tsui Chi Keung, Wilfred
Wong Kai Fan
Wong Kam Shing
Wu Lan Ming, Anthony
Yau Tai Nin, Sonny
Yim Chi Ming, Simon
(Total 38)



Guests: Principal and Teachers
* Dr. John Kennard & Mrs Linda Kennard
* Ms. Ho Kwai Ming, Josephine
* Mr. Ernest Liu
* Mr. Kenneth Ng
* Mr. Peter Kwok
* Mr. Wilfred Lee
* Mr. Yuen Chik Kam
* Mr. & Mrs. Yung Yik Cheung
(total: 10)

spc #90: SPC News 08/09

from Philip Cheung - Golden Bough
to Edward Sin
date Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:32 PM
subject Class of 66 in News from St Paul's 08/09


Hi Edward,



The “News from St Paul’s 08/09” is on the website of the School.



This is the link for it: -

http://www.spc.edu.hk/docs/news_from_spc_09.pdf

Activities of our class are from pages 45 to 48.

Thought you would like to notify everyone.



Thank you and have a good weekend.



Regards,

Philip

spc #89: Dinner on July 28, 2009

From left: Frederick Kan, Henry Shum, Frederick Cheng, Wong Kam Shing


from Frederick Kan
subject Dinner with Cheng Man Him , Frederick 鄭文謙

Dear Edward,

I just spoke to Wong Kam Shing, we agreed to have dinner with Cheng's family of four on July 28, 2009 at Gallop, HK Jockey Club, Shan Kwong Road premises.

Kindly inform those who are interested to join.

Thanks.

Fred Kan

Participants:
* Cheng Man Him, Frederick X 4
* Frederick Kan
* Wong Kam Shing
* Henry Shum
*

spc #88: Activities of Class of 66 (written by Mr. Emerson)

The Class of 1966
There is very little doubt but that the alumni of the Class of ‘66 are among the most active and most loyal supporters of the College. They were the first class to hold a reunion dinner in the renovated Wong Ming Him Hall on 3rd November 2008. An evening of joyful reminiscence took place in this Hall which so many remembered from more than 40 years ago as students.

Earlier in the year, in April 2008, a dozen alumni and their wives gathered in Causeway Bay in the lobby of the Manulife Building, on the site of the former Lee Gardens Hotel, to view the beautiful paintings of Hong Kong flowers painted by George Tang Kwok-Wing. Now a solicitor, George made good use of his excellent artistic skills which had been shown even when he was a student, and his paintings of flowers were chosen by the Hong Kong Post Office to be used for a series of six beautiful stamps, issued in March 2008, ranging in value from $1.40 to $5.00. Following the gathering to admire the paintings, a sumptuous Chinese dinner was held in George’s honour at the Craigengower Cricket Club. Mr G C Emerson, who had taught all these former students in the 1960s, also attended the reception and the dinner.

The Class of ’66 has become very keen on hiking, such a good way to keep fit and see some of the very beautiful Hong Kong countryside. Most every weekend alumni, their spouses and friends hit the trails. Some are so keen that they have joined a number of charity walks as well. One of the biggest events for the Class of ’66 was Oxfam Trailwalker from 7-9th November 2008. This annual 100 km run of the Maclehose Trail started in 1981 with a few soldiers running to raise money for the Gurhkas’ families. Last year, 3,872 walkers in 968 teams participated and one of them was SPC66. The four team-members were Philip Cheung Kok- Kee, Dr Lawrence Ip Ka-Lam, Henry Shum Kun-Lam and Sonny Yau Tai-Nin. They began the walk on Friday morning at Pak Tam Chung and finished early Sunday morning at So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun. No individual times are recorded, only the team time and there are 9 checkpoints and all four members of a team must arrive at the checkpoint before moving on to the next checkpoint. It is a team exercise and not a race. The whole team must finish within 48 hours. Only 55% of the teams completed in full team last year. The SPC 66 team started practising months before the event and set Oxfam record as the oldest first-timers (average 59.75) to complete the walk. The average age of the walkers is 33. At the finish line, they were greeted and presented with their certificates by a long-time Trailwalker as well an Oxfam consultant, Dr Lo Wing-Lok (Class of ’72), and Mr Emerson was also there to welcome them and say, ‘well done, extremely well done’. Other helpful supporters were their classmates Lo Chun-Kay and Simon Yim Chi-Ming, as well as ex-Trailwalker and current marathoner Alan Lo Kin-Hing, (Class of ’93). Thanks to their keen supporters who generously pledged donations, the team raised an amazing $246,750 and won 2 awards by Oxfam; one for champion of the Individual Team group and the one for an Outstanding Fundraising Team. The 2009 Trailwalker will take place the weekend of November 20th -22nd. Will SPC66 again participate? Certainly in spirit, if not in actuality. Let’s hope more St Paul’s teams will decide to take part as well.

With the visits from England of Mrs Christine Speak and Colonel Michael Stewart, son of Col E.G. Stewart, for the 2008 Speech Day on 5th December 2008, as well as the Stewart Dinner and establishment of the St Paul’s College Foundation on 6th December 2008, the Class of ’66 was very involved. Mrs Speak had taught many of them geography and her husband, Geoffrey Speak, was Principal while they were students. As of end May 2009, the Class of ’66 had donated more than $700,000 to the Foundation of the pledged amount of one million.

In addition to the two major events of the week, Mrs Speak and Col Stewart were invited by a number of Class of ’66 alumni for yum cha at the Craigengower Cricket Club on 10th December 2008.

Now in 2009, the Class of ’66 is continuing its love affair with walking and running. On 8th February, Dr Chan Yuk-Choi participated in the Standard Chartered Marathon. He started running in 2001 and has joined a number of public races including the Hospital Authority New Year Run, a half marathon and finally full marathons. Yuk Choi will be retiring next year and already is planning to do much more running then, and perhaps another Oxfam Trailwalker.

On 28th February 2009, the SPC66 four who completed the Trailwalker as mentioned above again hit the road, or rather the Hong Kong Trail, for a 50 km Green Power Hike from the Peak Tower on the Peak to Big Wave Bay. They completed this fund raising campaign for environmental protection and education walk. In addition to the original four, the Principal Dr John Kennard, Yim Chi-Ming and Winnie Kwok also joined the Hike.

spc #87: 2008 Grand Reunion - Essay & Photo

Class of ’66 Grand Reunion 2008

The third annual grand reunion of the SPC Class of ’66 was held on November 3, 2008 and was attended by thirty-seven alumni classmates, as well as by honoured guests including SPC principal Dr. John Kennard and Mrs. Kennard, Ms. Josephine Ho, Secretary for the SPC Foundation, and six of our former teachers and mentors, Messrs. Geoffrey Emerson, Peter Kwok, Kevin Mak, Kenneth Ng, Yuen Chik Kam and Yung Yik Cheung. This year’s grand reunion dinner gathering is notable for several things: For one, a larger number of classmates were able to participate this time than were present at the 2007 reunion; which is an encouraging sign of the growth in interest in our alumni activities among members of our class. Even more importantly, in response to an invitation that was issued to our class by Dr. Kennard at last year’s (2007) reunion, we were able to hold the 2008 grand reunion dinner at the most auspicious location that we could imagine – the newly refurbished Wong Ming Him Hall at the College itself. The reunion activities included a tour of the College and especially of WMH Hall, and holding our dinner gathering in a place where we once spent many hours of our youth in a variety of classes brought back precious remembrances and made this 2008 gathering indelibly memorable.

As always, the 2008 reunion was a time for sharing memories of old friends, and of times past. However, it was also a moment to catch up with the present and to look forward to the future. Therefore, we were especially grateful that Dr. Kennard spoke to our gathering again, as he did in the previous year, and, in doing so, provided us with a timely update of the current situation and recent developments at our alma mater. Dr. Kennard informed us that in its current planning, SPC pursues three major goals, namely, the continuation of the College’s tradition of academic excellence, the infusion of a global and international perspective in all its endeavours, and the heightening of the College’s awareness of its relationship with and impact on the larger Hong Kong community in which it exists and operates. These are indeed objectives worthy of our school, and together with the fundamental educational objective that the College serves, form a most challenging vision for all of us who are, past, present and future, related to St. Paul’s College. As much as the reunion itself, this vision rekindled our sense of belonging and connection, and helped to motivate our collective will to do something concrete to benefit our alma mater and all the students it continues to educate and serve. Thus, at this reunion, we grew more firmly committed to our plan to contribute, as a class cohort, in some very substantial and significant way, to the newly-established SPC Education Foundation.

It seems that, in honour of the rich artistic tradition of our SPC class of ’66, some kind of musical rendition has become de rigeur for our reunion gatherings. This year, to honour the memory of our former music teacher, the late Rev. Moses Wu, an ad hoc choir under the leadership of Philip Chow regaled us with a performance of Georges Bizet’s “Song of the Toreador.” It probably took the steely nerve of the bullfighter himself to bring our intrepid singers to lend sixty-year old voices to a melody that we sang forty-some years ago when our vocal cords were much younger and much more supple than they are now, but the performance was greeted with thunderous applause, and gave a rousing spark to the evening’s activities. Somewhere in heaven the Rev. Wu probably smiled, too, and applauded our courage.

As each reunion brings us closer to one another and to the school in which we have our common identity, each reunion is also an opportunity for us to celebrate and give thanks for the education we have received and which has enriched each one of us. It is, in the words of blessing and grace that Jacob Leung lifted up in prayer for our 2008 gathering, also a chance for us to renew our commitment “to being fully alive to God’s call and challenges … to live a life that will glorify God and benefit humankind.” The SPC Class of ’66, celebrating its third annual reunion on November 3, 2008, wholeheartedly wishes, collectively, that such would be our legacy.

Post-script: As we file this report of the November 3, 2008 reunion, it is only appropriate to thank every classmate and honoured guest who took time to participate and to attend the reunion gathering, and to render a special word of thanks to:
• members of the organizing committee, represented by Tse Sik Yan, Frederick Kan, Edward Sin, and Philip Cheung
• Robert Law Chi Lim, who once again served as master of ceremonies for the evening’s proceedings
• Jacob Leung, who offered the prayer of blessing for the meal
• Philip Chow, who led the choir
• Wong Kai Fan, who played the piano
• And various classmates who served as table hosts

We urge everyone who wishes to enjoy more of a taste of what this reunion was all about far better than can be put into the words above to visit the SPC66 blog site at http://spb66.blogspot.com/ and to pay especial attention to information and news in the blog concerning the most recent activities and developments of the SPC alumni class of 1966.



Front Row (from left to right):

莫超榮 MOK Chiu Wing, Marcus;
岑冠林 SHUM Kun Lam, Henry;
鄭偉樑 CHENG Wai Leung, Ernest;
嚴志明 YIM Chi Ming;
張國祺 CHEUNG Kok Kee, Philip;
吳能明 WU Lang Meng, Anthony;
葉嘉林 IP Ka Lam;
左永年 CHO Wing Nin;
唐德彰 TONG Tak Cheung;
羅致廉 LAW Chi Lim;
陳育才 CHAN Yuk Choi


Middle Row (from left to right):

馮勝銳 FUNG Sing Yui;
冼永生 SIN Wing Sang, Edward;
郭耀坤 Mr. Peter Kwok (Teacher);
何桂明 Ms. Josephine Ho (SPC Foundation Secretary);
吳茲謙 Mr. Ng Chi Him, Kenneth (Teacher);
甘納德 Mrs. & Dr John Kennard (Principal);
嚴穆生 Mr. Geoffrey Emerson (Teacher);
翁益彰 Mr. Yung Yik Cheung (Teacher);
麥耀鋆 Mr. Mak Iu Kwan, Kevin (Teacher);
袁植錦 Mr. Yuen Chik Kam (Teacher)


Back Row (from left to right)

鄭熾昌 CHENG Chi Cheong;
賴卓藩 LAI Cheuk Fan, Raymond;
馬灼安 MAH Chuck On, Bernard;
盧振棋 LO Chun Kay;
鄧國榮 TANG Kwok Wing, George;
邱泰年 YAU Tai Lin, Sonny;
譚文偉 TAM Man Wai, Mark;
吳仲文 GAW Tiong Boon, Henry;
李達仁 LEE Dad Yen;
徐志強 TSUI Chi Keung, Wilfred;
杜柏和 TO Pak Wo, Patrick;
蒙家強 MONG Kar Keung, Steven;
謝錫恩 TSE Sik Yan;
吳志強 NG Chi Keung;
徐錦翔 TSUI Kam Cheung, Kenneth;
林傳芳 LAM Chuen Fong;
何誌信 HO Che Shun, Jackson;
陳鉅森 CHAN Kui Sum;
王啟蕃 WONG Kai Fan;
黃錦成 WONG Kam Shing;
梁少光 LEUNG Siu Kwong, Jacob;
鄒耀華 CHOW Yiu Wah, Philip;
簡肇昌 KAN Shiu cheong, Frederick;
陳洪烈 CHAN Hung Lit, Lionel

spc #86: Mr. Geoffrey Speak, Principal of our time

Life of Mr. GEOFFREY LOWREY SPEAK O.B.E.

written by Christine Speak, wife of Mr. Speak

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Geoffrey Lowrey Speak was born 6 October 1924, attended Holy Trinity primary school in Halifax and was later a scholar at Rishworth School. He spent the war years as a teacher at Rishworth and although declared unfit for military service at the outbreak of war, owing to a double mastoid operation three years earlier, he was the school’s OTC officer in charge of weapon training. He had many stories of stepping into cold Welsh mountain tarns in January and running up the Snowdon mountain railway track.

In 1946 he went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge, to read Mathematics but decided after the first lecture that this was not for him and at the end of the first year switched to Theology. At Cambridge he took up rowing and was for a short period Captain of Boats at Selwyn. He reached the last eighteen in the selection for the Boat Race Crew of 1951. He met his future wife, Christine, at a Student Christian Movement study group in 1948 and they were married in August 1951. It was a very happy marriage.

After being accepted for ordination he completed his training at Ridley College, Cambridge and was ordained deacon in Wakefield Cathedral on Trinity Sunday, 1951. During the three years spent as a curate in Sandal, Wakefield, they met Bishop R.O.Hall of Hong Kong who, knowing they were interested in serving overseas, told them that when they came to Hong Kong they would be going to St Paul’s College. It was easier to go than to argue with ‘RO’ and they arrived in Hong Kong in September 1954 with their three-month old son. It took four to five weeks to sail to Hong Kong then; when they left in 1985 it took 12 hours by air to return to England!

In 1954 Hong Kong was a refugee centre reeling under the influx of people after the Communist takeover of mainland China, and American sanctions on trade with China during the Korean War. The provision of education was a priority and a challenge to be met. Geoff threw himself into all aspects of education and was appointed headmaster of St Paul’s College in 1959. He occupied many voluntary, non-governmental posts such as Chairman of the Grant Schools’ Council, Chairman of the Hong Kong Examinations Authority and member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong. He also acted as the Bishop’s representative as one of the managers of several Church schools. The Bishop’s remit at that time also included a group of Communist Schools! Education was expanding rapidly and Geoff felt that the prestigious schools should lead the way in quality education. From a two stream school St Paul’s grew to a six stream school in less than five years with classes continuing as the new school was built around the old buildings - with all the consequent upheavals. The school continued to be - and still is - one where human concerns and values were important, where academic achievement was encouraged but where people and their contributions mattered greatly. Many of the foremost citizens of Hong Kong today are alumni of St Paul’s - including the Archbishop Emeritus and one of the Bishops.

In the 1960s the ingenuity and hard work of the people meant that Hong Kong shared in the wave of prosperity of the industrialised world and in 1965 the Bishop urged him to be responsible for building up an organization to cater for the ever increasing needs of the children of expatriates who were arriving in large numbers as Hong Kong thrived. The English Schools’ Foundation came into being in 1967, starting with three forms in a Secondary school on the island and two in a Primary school in Kowloon. Today it has five Secondary and nine Primary schools with over ten thousand pupils. Starting as the first head of Island School he later became the Secretary of the Foundation. In 1970 he was awarded an OBE for ‘services to education’. Geoff was a pioneer, a builder and a visionary. His work will live on not only in the concrete of school buildings but in the high standards he expected from everyone he worked with. He possessed a fine critical brain and was always able to get to the centre of a problem. He was a logical choice for membership of many of the Education Commissions and contributed to several Government Green and White Papers.

Although from 1954 onwards his work was purely educational he was occasionally called upon to take services in St John’s Cathedral where he and Christine, together with each child as it reached the required age, sang in the Choir. He had an excellent voice: singing and music were among his chief interests. A firm supporter of the ordination of women he was proud to have assisted in the ordination in Hong Kong of the first two women to be ordained priests in the Anglican Church. (Although the ordination by ‘RO’ of Florence Li Tim-Oi in 1944 to serve the needs of Japanese occupied Macau may be said to claim that honour.)

As so many people have said, he was a gentle-man. His family always came first in anything he did and they spent many happy family holidays visiting parts of Asia, Europe and the States when on leave. He was always there with wise advice - and sometimes stern admonishments too.

Walking was also one of his favourite past times and when they retired in 1985, given their joint interest in the countryside, it was logical to live in a village. In Donhead St Mary they soon made many friends and Geoff was a familiar figure walking the lanes with Ginny (the German Shepherd they brought from Hong Kong) and later Ben, the enthusiastic black Labrador. His financial acumen soon made him in demand for Treasurer of the local Church, the North Dorset (Citizens’ Advice Bureau) and also governor of the local school. He was President of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong and soon after joining the Shaftesbury Club was also President of that. After coming to Donhead he and Christine both learnt to ring the bells and enjoyed contributing both to that, to the local choir. He died on 13 March 2000 following a heart operation.

spc #85: Dinner on March 30 with 周成宗 & 葉嘉標

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from Philip Cheung - Golden Bough
to Edward Sin

subject
dinner with CHOW Shing Chung 周成宗 & IP Ka Biu Bill 葉嘉標
on March 30, 09 at CCC



Hi Edward,



A few classmates propose hosting a dinner on Monday March 30th at CCC for CHOW Shing Chung & IP Ka Biu Bill, who are visiting from Canada.



Please, would you kindly notify all.



Details as follows:-



Date: Monday, March 30th



Time:

7 pm for drinks at the Centenary Bar, left hand side after main entrance;

7:30 pm dinner at the main building 1st floor 威龍中菜餐廳

Venue:

Craigengower Cricket Club

188 Wong Nai Chung Road,

Happy Valley

Hong Kong

Tel 2837 1888.



If asked by the security at CCC, please tell him that you are the guest of Philip Cheung (C93).



Please advise by Monday midday if you are attending. Thank you.



Philip Cheung

Mobile 9020 1551 (if necessary)

Participants:
* Philip Cheung
* Chow Shing Chung
* Ip ka Biu
* Tse Hon Kin
* D.Y. Lee
*
* Lo Chun Kay
* Henry Shum
* Yim Chi Ming
*

spc #84: Fundraising reached HK$812,493.50

From: Philip Cheung - Golden Bough
Date: Sept 1, 2009
Subject: FW: SPC donation
To: Edward Sin



Dear Edward,


SPC Foundation Ltd advises as of end Aug, there are HK$812,493.50 from 58 donors from our class.


Sincerely,

Philip Cheung

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from Philip Cheung
date Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM
subject donation progress report


Dear ALL,



SPC Foundation Ltd advised, as of June 1st, they received HK$741,454 from 51 classmates.



Philip Cheung

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from Philip Cheung - Golden Bough
to Edward Sin
cc spc66
date Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
subject progress report as of 17/4/09




Dear Edward,



SPC Foundation Ltd advises as of today 17/4/09, there are 21 donations total HK $439,973.



Please kindly blog and advise all classmates.



Thank you.



Philip Cheung

spc #83: Some Q&A regarding donation

Dear classmates,

This has reference to Post #76, 78.79 and 81.

Since the start of the donation campaign 3 weeks ago, we have received a number of donations.

We also received some questions regarding tax deduction, which we are pleased to provide our answers as follows:-


a) Yes, all donations are tax deductible in Hong Kong.

b) You can ask for more than one receipt and in different names, from one donation.

c) Overseas classmates can ask for receipts for anyone in Hong Kong.

d) If you deposit cheque or post your donation before end of March 2009, it is tax deductible for the fiscal year 2008/09. Otherwise, it will be for 2009/10.

e) Yes, you are more than welcome to donate before and after March 30, 09.

f) You can fill in the donation form and send cheque (made out to St Paul's College Foundation Ltd) to Frederick Kan, or Philip Cheung or any member of the donation subcommittee. We would be more than happy to handle them for you.

Frederick Kan's contact information:
Unit 1903, Seapower Centre,

73-77 Lei Muk Road, Kwai Chung, N.T., Hong Kong
Telephone 22100388 / 24108484
e-mail address frederick.kan@gmail.com

Philip Cheung's contact information:
Golden Bough & Co Ltd
Room 1211B, Tower Two,
Cheung Sha Wan Plaza,
833 Cheung Sha Wan Road
Kowloon
Tel 2742 8892 - 109

email: philipc@goldenbough.com.hk

spc #82: Lunch on Feb 18, 2009

Dear Classmates,



It has been a long while since there was a lunch gathering for classmates to catch up.

A table for 12 has been reserved at the Dynasty Club (dim sum lunch) with details as follow:



Date: Feb 18, 2009 (Wednesday)

Time: 12:15pm

Venue: Imperial City (Chinese Restaurant)

7/F, Dynasty Club

South West Tower, Convention Plaza

1 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Tel: 852 2824 1122

Table reserved in the name of OOCL Mr. Philip Chow.



It goes without saying that a second table can be arranged, if necessary.



Thank you.



Sincerely,

Philip Cheung

spc #81: Donation appeal (from 劉兆佳)

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我是劉兆佳，是那個和您們一同成長的老同學。雖然近年投身公職，工作繁忙，和大家聯繫的機會不多，可是在聖保羅書院的日子以及您們的歡顏笑語經常在我的腦海中浮現。

聖保羅書院培養了無數人才，許許多多的精英在香港各個領域卓然有成，並盡力回饋社會。人的知識基礎、生活態度、事業抱負以及道德標準，無不奠基於其青少年時期。懷念我們的母校，是懷念那青春光燦、意氣風發一去不回的日子，卻也更懷念母校給我們的最全面而高尚的教育。當香港日漸轉型，香港的下一代將面對比我們當年更多的挑戰，我們多麼希望聖保羅書院這種培養知識全面、人格高尚、胸襟寬廣和對社會有承擔的年輕人的良好教育，能夠承傳下去、發揚光大。

日前六六級畢業同學倡議，在我們這屆同學間籌集一百萬元港幣以修葺黃鳴謙堂，我以為此議甚好，大家應該積極響應。黃鳴謙堂有我們的足跡，今後也將代表聖保羅書院的精神承傳。我們不會讓它倒下，只會讓它更昂揚矗立……謹此也向大家呼籲，讓我們各盡己力，不拘厚薄，共同來襄助這個有意義的盛事！

值此一年伊始，向大家拜年，望多保重，並頌 新春如意！事事圓通！

香港特別行政區政府中央政策組首席顧問
劉兆佳 敬啟
二零零九年二月四日

spc #80: Chan Yuk Choi finished Marathon Race

Proud achievement of Chan Yuk Choi

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:51 AM, CHAN Yuk-Choi wrote:

Dear Edward,

Thanks very much for the comradeship. I finished the full Marathon in 5 hr 23 min (I think) & within the allowed time of 5 hr 30 min without any injury.

Best regards,

Yuk Choi

spc #79: Donation Appeal

********* Part A: Appeal letter (written by John Leung) **********

Dear Classmates,

Kung Hey Fat Choy. May the year of the ox bring you and your family good health, happiness and prosperity.

Warm greetings and best wishes as you celebrate last year's successes, cherish the fond memories, take strength from the challenges you have encountered, and prepare to face new ones in the year ahead. In this season of looking forward and back, our recent SPC66 reunion activities reminded me that however much we may have changed in body, mind and spirit over the last two-thirds of our lifetimes, we remained recognizable to one another and our mutual bond in the school in which we have our common roots has only grown stronger over the years. Despite our divergent paths, our shared education of so many years ago brings us back to the same place where it all started, together in our still lively SPC brotherhood.

About a year ago, some of us broached the timely idea of celebrating our common bond by contributing financially to the growth and renewal of our alma mater. More recently, the campaign committee proposed a goal of donating a sum not less than HK$ 1 million to the St. Paul's College Foundation. That pledge was made on behalf of the Class of 1966 at Speech Day held at The College on December 4, 2008, and was greeted with great excitement by the entire SPC family. The SPC66 gift shall be commemorated by a permanent plaque on the wall of the newly-renovated Wong Ming Him Hall, where, many years ago, we had spent hours of our youth in class and at play.

We, therefore, write to appeal to you to join us in making this a reality by participating in this worthwhile philanthropic and educational cause. Please indicate the pledge of your contribution by filling out the donation form with the appropriate information. We hope that you will do this knowing that what matters is not the size of our contribution, but that our participation will renew in us a sense of belonging, of once again being identified with that source from which we sprang.

It is not out of a sense of nostalgia alone, but more importantly, out of hope, that we make this appeal. Our pride in our alma mater lies not merely in its having educated us, but because it will continue to nurture thousands of SPC students who follow in our footsteps. Some forty years ago, we left the gates of St. Paul's College to venture forth into a world of endeavor for which our school had prepared us. We have experienced in our own ways what the poet Tennyson called an "untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and forever as [we] move." Since then that world has changed profoundly; that "newer world" we once sought, and perhaps found, gives way to yet newer worlds. Today, our school continues to prepare our younger brothers and sisters for their new and challenging worlds. Our contribution will make us not only a part of St. Paul College's most honorable past, which we are, but also an integral part of its bright and hopeful future.

We live in times of great turmoil and uncertainty, but let us remember the words that a saintly man of old, whose name we bear because of our school, once wrote in a letter to friends: "Three things exist now, and also abide forever – faith, hope and love. Of these the greatest is love." Today we have these qualities in abundance, and there are no greater or more enduring riches in the world that we can possess, or share.

May your life, and the lives of all your loved ones, for today and for all your tomorrows, for this new year of the Ox and for all future years, be filled with the blessings of joy, peace, health, faith, hope and love.

Humbly and fraternally,

SPC66 Donation Committee
Kan Shiu Cheong Frederick
Cheung Kok Kee Philip
Shum Kun Lam Henry
Fu Ho Kin Frank
Henry Gaw
Shum Wai Ming Paul
Tam Man Wai Mark
Tse Sik Yan
Yau Tai Nin Sonny



////////// Part B: SPC 66 – How to donate /////////////////

Option 1.

Deposit into HSBC a/c 400–579835–001 cheque or bank draft, made out to “St Paul’s College Foundation Ltd”.

Post, fax or email bank’s deposit slip with a completed donation slip to:-

St Paul’s College Foundation Ltd
69 Bonham Road
Hong Kong
Att Ms Josephine Ho, Secretary

Fax: 2559 7075
Email: kmh@spc.edu.hk
Tel : 2859 8441

Option 2.

Post your cheque or bank draft, with a completed donation slip, to the same address above.

(Please keep a copy of the cheque, bank draft or the bank deposit slip, if you send it by post)
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Donation Slip from an alumnus of 1966

To: St Paul’s College Foundation Ltd, 69 Bonham Road, Hong Kong.

I attach:-

 Cheque number _______________for HK$ __________drawn on _________________ (bank)

 Bank deposit slip for HK$ ______________

Please make tax-deductible receipt to: Name: ____________________________

Please send receipt to:-

Name: ______________________________

Address _______________________________________________________________

Please (delete whichever is inappropriate):-
 Disclose name______________________ & donation amount
 Disclose my name _____________________ ONLY.
 DO NOT disclose my name nor donation amount.

Sender: _________________________ tel:___________________ Date: ________________

Please feel free to phone either Frederick Kan Shiu-Cheong 221 003 88, Philip Cheung Kok-kee 9020 1551 or Henry Shum kun-lam (9047 9611), if there is any query.


========= Part C; Notice to classmates residing overseas ===========



Notice to classmates residing in Canada, the USA & Australia.

In Canada

If you don't mind disclosing your name and donation, you can save postage by sending your bank draft to Tennyson Ng at:-

2 Kensington Drive,
Richmond Hill,
Ontario,
Canada L4E 3M9
Home phone: 905-884-1151
Cell phone: 416-557-8958.
Email: tennyson.ng@rogers.com

You can even save bank charges by sending your cheque payable to Tennyson Ng for him to purchase a bank draft on behalf of all classmates residing in Canada.

Please do not forget to send Tennyson your filled out "how to donate".


In The USA & Australia

In the USA, please contact Henry Gaw.

In Australia, please contact Michael Ng Shiu Shing (tentative arrangement).