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Dear Friends and Schoolmates of James Tong,
To remember and honour James Tong, we contacted Mr. Warren Chung, Principal of Wah Yan Kowloon about setting up a one-time scholarship in the name of James. We sent a public announcement to you in early November 2020 about the at Wah Yan College, Kowloon. Contributions were to be sent to Wah Yan Kowloon directly, which would be used as one-time scholarships awarded to worthy students who demonstrated academic achievement as well as resilience to hardship.
We are pleased to report that Wah Yan Kowloon collected a total of HK$40,025 by January of 2021. After carefully reviewing the applications, Mr. Chung, the school principal, and his team decided to award a scholarship in the sum of HK$7,000 to each of the six students, selected from each level of the school, that is, Form One to Form Six.
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James Tong Scholarship at WYK in support of students in need. Please click here to view the Appeal Letter by Principal Chung
Background
James Tong passed away on October 4, 2020. His wife Marita wrote a touching tribute in which she said in lieu of flowers, “James will be very pleased if you do an unexpected act of generosity in his name.” To honour her wish and in the spirit of what James had done all his life, we looked into different options by way of setting up a James Tong fund to help students in Hong Kong. We are pleased that WYK has a “Fr. Kelly Educational Fund Ltd” in place, and under this fund, we can easily set up a Professor James Tong Scholarship for Resilience” (see separate document attached) to help students in need. Recipients of James Tong scholarship, each in the amount of HK$10,000, will be WYK students from S.1 to S.6 who have shown resilience in adversity and displayed satisfactory academic and non-academic performance despite family financial hardship. Under this fund, WYK will report to us each year how many James Tong scholarships are awarded using donations to James Tong Scholarship.