Class 1961
Articles and News of Class 1961
Click here to read the memorial file for Wong Hin Shing (’61) compiled by Yu Fong Ying (’61).
Wong Hin Shing and Fong Ying Yu have complied a pictorial list of the reunion gatherings of 61 grads over the past 5 years, an addendum to the original article published in 2018.
October 16, is Roderick Auyang Siu-Lee's date of passing away (born 1944-10-29; passed away 2021-10-16).
Here's his memory file compiled by Fong-ying and me.
May he rest in peace.
Hin-Shing
Photos of Fathers Buried at St Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Photos: Harry Aitken (61 grad)
Report: Wong Hin Shing and Yu Fong-ying (61 grads)
Foreword
There were many Irish Jesuit fathers who considered Hong Kong home. After 1997 some chose to stay and not return to Ireland or be posted to other places like Australia. The latest example is Fr. John Russell, who first came to HK in 1951. Since 1962, he stayed in HK until his passing on September 22, 2023. After a funeral mass at St Ignatius Chapel on October 7, he was buried in St Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley, joining the Irish fathers who went before him.
Harry Aitken, 61 grad and resident of England, had visited the cemetery and sent us through Wong Hin Shing's communal broadcast the photos of the fathers buried there. These would be of interest to other Wahyanites and are therefore reported and posted here for a wider audience.
--- 今年3月27日, 參加曾登保學長喪禮 (喇沙中學, 1958年入讀港大中文系), 歸而作.
六十年前舊事, 我就史實請教過兩位朋友, 但如有記憶錯誤或用詞不當, 責當在我.
懷舊文字,寫下以誌不忘.
~ 余晃英 (‘61). 溫哥華2023年4月16日定稿
“Last Day” is a tradition started many years ago, perhaps dating back to the formation of the school’s Students’ Union. It might have started simply, as students came back on the last day of school to get teachers and friends to write some memorial lines and to have pictures taken together. It has evolved over the years. It usually takes place in the hall balcony where the principal might give a farewell speech. There would be tea and cakes for teachers and students in the common room in the East Wing, often subsidized by the Alumni Association. In the last decade or so, the graduates formed a big circle in the car park and there would be student-led chatting, chanting and singing.
記念何鎮源老師逝世三週年 余晃英 (‘61) 二〇二一年十一月四日
三載恆念稟師前
溫煦音容尚依然
如沐春風思教益
牢記秋陽伴君行(1)
星移物換鄉情怯
雲散霧消友逝先(2)
可憐陷牢申公義
世情變幻釜中煎
瘟疫猙獰如鬼魅
四苦弄人多糾纏(3)
願隨良師艱奮步
堅毅從容入暮年
compiled by Yu Fong Ying (‘61)
On August 5, 2021, in an email to fellow ’62 grads, Paul Lee remembered a deceased classmate Jerome Shih Yen Chung (Feb. 28, 1944 – Jan. 22, 2005, aged 61), extolling his excellent Chinese. In this, Paul was repeating what he contributed to the memorial file on Jerome compiled by Wong Hin Shing (’61) and Yu Fong Ying (’61) in 2012: “I also have some copies of his correspondence with Chiang Chung-Hsu (Qian Zhongshu 1910-1998). Very erudite and impressive! I think I can say with some confidence that no other Wah Yan alumnus has mastered Chinese literature better than Jerome. (I am being conservative. The field can actually extend much beyond Wah Yan alumni.)” (Introduction to the Series In Memoriam -- Jerome Shih Yen Chung, Feb. 13, 2012, on WYKAAO website). The difference is that for the first time, the correspondence was attached to the email, as follows:
In Memoriam:
Clement Lee Wen-Hao 李文浩 (1961)
Compiled by Wong Hin-Shing and Yu Fong-ying (1961)
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