WYKAAO 25th Anniversary / AGM Dinner
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- Created: 20 October 2008
With close to one hundred guests attending, our 25th anniversary celebration was held in conjunction with our 2008 Annual General Meeting on 19th October 2008 at the Galaxy Restaurant. At the meeting, the general members confirmed the incoming Directors and the newly elected Board convened to re-elect David Wong to another term of office as President. Sumptuous dinner was served after the business part of the evening was over. During the dinner, we were treated to a video recording of Mr Wilson Hsueh’s performance and the newsreel of the actual TV broadcast of the 1999 WYK Diamond Jubilee celebration. Members of the classes 1968 and 1978 were honoured with souvenirs and so was Don Yau who travelled all the way from Calgary to join us. Mr. Anthony Ho gave a very witty roast of all our Presidents, from Raymond Kwong to David Wong. This was followed by Mr. Tam’s speech on his "Cradle of Chinese Ink Movement" exhibition. Many purchased or pre-ordered his ink painting movement book, which will raise fund for the upcoming exhibition. Its net proceed will be donated to Wah Yan. Finally, an urgent appeal letter from Principal So was read and over 3,010 dollars were raised for Wahyanite Cheung Chung Pan’s lymph-oedema treatment. (Another C$1,600.00 was raised at WYCHKOAA AGM on November 1.)
More AGM photos can be found in the WYKAAO Album.
Terry Fox Run 2008
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- Created: 15 September 2008
On a cloudy Sunday in September, Team WYKAAO showed up at the Unionville Public Library registration desk. After a short speech by the local organizers in the front lawn on Terry Fox' fight for the cure of cancer, participants started their Run/Walk along the scenic country path along the Toogood Pond. Some of our members undertook the 5-km route and some negotiated the short cut on a bridge across the beautiful pond.
For the effort of the Jeff Mah family with his sister-in-law, Ms Monica Tang, Ms Gertrude Chan, Eric Li, Alan Leong and Anthony Ho, Team WYKAAO raised close to C$6,000.00 for this worthy cause. Click here to view the photo album.
Requiem Mass for Hsueh Sir
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- Created: 30 August 2008
Fr. Deignan, Fr. Naylor and Fr. Zee co-celebrated the requiem mass for Mr. Wilson Hsueh at St. Ignatius Chapel at school on Thursday, August 28, at 7:00PM. Mr. Laurence Tam reports from Hong Kong .....
Outing to Royal Botanical Gardens
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- Created: 23 August 2008
Our first ever outing to the Royal Botanical gardens in Burlington was held on the 23rd August. Touring of the Gardens was followed by our own harvesting of Chinese vegetables in a nearby farm after a quick lunch at the famous local hot dog joint - The Easterbrook. The trip ended with afternoon refreshment at the Burlington Lake Front's Discovery Landing.
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Mr. Wilson Hsueh Wei-Shiang (1924~2008)
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- Created: 15 August 2008
Mr. Hsueh passed away on August 14. He taught music from 1958~74 and was instrumental in building the strong foundation of music that our students enjoy today. He produced four Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, introduced local artists at weekly lunch-time music programme and conducted our school choirs to win numerous awards at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. May he rest in peace.
Memories of Mr. Hsueh are posted in our WYKAAO forum.
We have prepared a web page showcasing his farewell on-air recital at Radio Hong Kong in 1974, recordings of his winning choir at City Hall, practice sessions of the intermediate choir also in 1974 and a video of his performance at our Diamond Jubilee Gala Dinner in 1999. Please click here to go to the page.
Local Jesuit news
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- Created: 17 June 2008
The next Provincial of the Jesuits in English Canada will be Fr. James Webb, S.J. His appointment was announced by Father General Adolfo Nicolas, S.J. who himself was newly elected to the position of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus in January. Fr. Webb will begin his term as Provincial Superior of the English Canada Province on 31 July, 2008. He will succeed Fr. Jean-Marc Laporte S.J., who has served as the Provincial Superior since 2002.
Effective 1 September, 2008, the Jesuit Offices will be moving to -
43 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON M5S 2C4
Source - The Jesuit bulletin 2008
Professor Mak Tak-wah honoured by HKU
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- Created: 11 May 2008
Our distinguished member from the WYK class of 1962, Professor Mak Tak-wah, OC, O Ont, Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology at the University of Toronto, Director of the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, and Senior Scientist at the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute/Ontario Cancer Institute has been awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Hong Kong at the 177th Congregation on March 11, 2008 in recognition of his pioneering work in immunology and cancer research.
Spring Banquet 2008
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- Created: 10 May 2008
Our 2008 Spring Banquet was successfully held 1 March at the Empire Oriental Cuisine. With close to 70 attendees, this event saw the debut of the new Board of Directors led by President David Wong. Several tables of guests enjoyed the game of mahjong before dinner. Our special guest was Michael Au from Hong Kong, Chairman of the Wah Yan International Conference 2008, who presented to us the details of the upcoming IC in Hong Kong. Everybody enjoyed an evening of Wah Yan comradeship, lucky draws, Chinese word game and of course a sumptuous dinner.
Valentine Ball 2008
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- Created: 08 May 2008
The 2008 Valentine Ball was successfully held on February 9th at the Sheraton Parkway North Hotel. WYKAAO’s four tables were among the 45 tables of guests enjoying a wonderful evening of good food, live entertainment and dancing. Our past president Kelvin Chan was the co-chair of the event for the second time.
The next Valentine Ball will be held exactly on February 14th 2009, the exact Valentine Day. Please stay tuned for more details.
Class of 1967 40th Anniversary Reunion in Hong Kong
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- Created: 06 May 2008
Classmates from all over the world gathered together in Hong Kong from November 16th to 23rd to celebrate the 40th graduaton annviersary of the class of 1967. The week-long event started out with a welcome dinner, followed by a session at WYK when classamte Herman Wong How-man gave an account of his journey of discovery of the source of Yangtze River. Our own tour of disocvery began with a 3-day trip to Macau and Guangdong Province, and then it was back to Hong Kong for an evening at the Happy Valley tracks as well as a day-long tour of Hong Kong. The finale event, the farewell dinner on the 23rd, was held eaxactly 40 years to the day of the class’s speech day back in 1967.
