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Class 1961

Articles and News of Class 1961


Memorial Article for Wong Hin-Shing (’61) on the First Anniversary of His Passing

Created: 18 February 2025

Dear Hin-Shing,

I thought it best to do this memorial article in the form of an email addressed directly to you.

This is the most common form of communication between us. I am not a good telephone chatter, and dreaded your question, “Do you remember…”, for often I did not. We did use the land line not infrequently when there was something suddenly newsy or to exchange moans and groans about health conditions.  <read the full article here>

修葺花草憶顯誠 -- 余晃英 ('61)

Created: 26 May 2024

花事人事两纏绵
一不修成二不休
去歲驚歎花残瘦
茶花沙崙兩凋零
人如花草多堪折
靈性消耗體折磨
今朝花謝人踪沓
芳影淺淚伴入眠

作者:余晃英
二零二四年五月二十五日

顯誠三文寫就 -- 余晃英 ('61)

Created: 25 May 2024

歲月悠悠年復年
顯誠行滿七十九
还欠三月足八十
揮筆心血填滿年
三文寫就枯淚眼
英靈鑑我手足情

作者:余晃英
二零二四年五月十八日

The Life and World of Wong Hin-Shing in His Own Words and Photos

Created: 25 May 2024

The Life and World of Wong Hin-Shing in His Own Words and Photos

--- a posthumous souvenir to all his friends


Preface by Yu Fong-Ying (’61)                              May 15, 2024

Wong Hin-Shing had expressed to one of his good friends that he would send out a disc to all his friends as a present to them on his 80th birthday on May 17, 2024. He had earlier compiled a disc delineating Sister Ho-Kok’s life which he distributed to some of his friends who knew them both.

In early 2019, Hin-Shing and I were toying with the idea of compiling our own In Memoriam files to be sent out like the previous over 30 files on deceased fathers, teachers and schoolmates. We, at least I, did not take it seriously. But when Hin Shing passed the file to me it was almost complete, certainly up to the beginning of 2019. It was a plainly, clearly and succinctly written short life of himself and it contains hundreds of photos. It contains not only insights Into his life but also a broad view of ’61 grads and people whose life path crossed his. Unknown gaps are filled. There is a rounded picture of him and his world. There are about 10 letters from Madam Wong Kit Kwan as well as short letters from Madam Lee, Fr Mallin and Mr Hsieh. The Appendixes reveal his favourites – music, literature, movies and serve as a guide to what he often called “low-brow” tastes which to me are middle to high-brow affairs. But there, in all frankness, is the man himself.

Read it and you will know Hin-Shing well: the road he travelled, the forces that shaped him, the things he held dear. Above all, the man himself, a decent, honest, sincere friend. What is missing is the pain and the suffering, and for that, we must be thankful.

My Teachers in the English Department - Wong Hin-Shing ('61)

Created: 12 May 2024

Wong Hin-Shing Article

Click here to read the whole article.

小本收集的小故事 - 余晃英('61)

Created: 16 March 2024

小本收集的小故事

點擊閱讀全文。

Wong Hin Shing ('61) - Memorial File

Created: 10 March 2024

Hin Shing Wong

Click here to read the memorial file for Wong Hin Shing (’61) compiled by Yu Fong Ying (’61).

WYK '61 Pictorial Reunion History - Addendum

Created: 28 October 2023

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.

Remembering Roderick Auyang Siu-Lee (歐陽兆里)

Created: 20 October 2023

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

Harry Aitken Visited the Catholic Cemetery while in Hong Kong

Created: 20 October 2023

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.

Read more …

  1. 追憶香港大學歲月(1963至1966年)七言句 - 余晃英 (‘61)
  2. “Last Day” 2022 - Reported by Yu Fong-ying (’61)
  3. 記念何鎮源老師逝世三週年 - 余晃英 (‘61)
  4. Correspondence between Jerome Shih Yen Chung 史仁仲 (‘62) and Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書

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