********* 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 & AustraliaIn the USA, please contact Henry Gaw.
In Australia, please contact Michael Ng Shiu Shing (tentative arrangement).
