About WYKAAO
Father Coghlan writes, "From July 1st to July 4th 1999 I spent four wonderful days in Toronto celebrating the 75th and 80thanniversaries of Wah Yan College Kowloon and Wan Yan College Hong Kong respectively. In a warm display of brotherly unity and affection, the Ontario Alumni Associations of both colleges jointly organised four days of activities to mark these anniversaries. I was one of the invited guests...... Next morning (July 5) early I left for Hong Kong. I left with indelible memories of a loyalty I find hard to fathom. I asked myself what Wah Yans had done to merit such affection."
Click here to read the full account. Anniversaries News Clip.
We recently received an order of a copy of ‘The Cradle’ book from a US expatriate who currently lives in China and is a K-12 Art teacher in 北崙 (近寧波). Here is an excerpt of her quote: (Continue reading)
Mak Tak-Wah (62) is in the news on a "sharpshooter" new drug to prevent cancer growth. It is reported on Toronto Star.
Tak Mak received our 2006 Wah Yan Ambassadors, Alwin Wong (WYCHK) and Angus Lee (WYK) on August 10. The Ambassadors were accompanied by former directors, Alan Leong (01), Falco So (02) and Albert Fung (02) who were all UT undergraduates then. Tak Mak gave them a briefing on cancer research.
Our websites are getting about 350,000 monthly page views as of March 2013. The number of readership is still on the uptrend (click here to see a chart and the breakdown of access pattern). The Picture site continues to be the most popular though losing a couple of percentage points to the Blog and the Main Site. Thank you again for your continued support of our websites and our association as a whole. Please click here and let us know if you have any suggestions or comments about our websites.
"The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canada to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country. At the same time, it will serve to honour contributions and achievements made by Canadians, who represent the full breadth of our society."
Congratulations to Peter Wong (62), our director and Peter Chang (61) who are recipients of the QE II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Congratulations also go to Edmund Kin Yu Ho 何建宇 (64) and Larry Yip (67) of Vancouver who are also recipients of the medal.
If you are interested to join in the fun, please contact us.
2012 WYK Student Ambassordor, Wilson Fung, was at the practice session on Saturday, July 28.
Our Picture site continues to be the most popular choice, followed by the Blog and the Main Site (see the graph here). If you would like to contribute to the content of any section in our websites, please click here and let us know. You can also send us your comments and suggestions here.
We have designed and made a new batch of golf shirts for our association. Please
A newly designed WYKAAO baseball cap is also available for purchase. There are three styles of different colours and matching trim. From left to right (in the above pictures) are deep blue, beige and black respectively. Please
Wah Yan College Kowloon Alumni Association of Ontario Scholastic Achievement Award is worth Cdn$100 each. The Award is open to students whose aggregate total of their best six Grade 12 credits gained in 2010~2011 academic year is 480 or over and who have begun their post-secondary education in September, 2011. Applicants must (1) have attended Wah Yan College, Kowloon and are current paid-up members of WYKAAO or (2) be the wards/children/grandchildren of current paid-up members of WYKAAO.
Application form can be downloaded here. The completed application form together with a copy of Ontario Secondary School Transcript should be sent electronically to
Successful candidates will be notified and invited to receive their awards at the Annual General Meeting on 19th November 2011. Decision of the Selection Committee is final.