Class of 72

After rounds of planning, the Organisation Committee had finalised on the major details of our 40th Anniversary Gathering:

Event 1: Oct 13th - 2:30pm to 5:30pm tour of Wah Yan, sports and ideas sharing activities;

Event 2: Oct 13th - 6:30pm drinks, 7:30pm Dinner at Fortunatus Stella Restaurant, 88 Caroline Hill Road, Causeway Bay;

Event 3: Oct 14th - 8:30am to 6:00pm Tour Lantau Big Buddha and Tai O fishing village, lunch at Tai O.

For further details, please click here.

Happy Mother's Day, 2012

"May I present you with an essay for Mother's Day?

Please click Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver.

The essay has been abridged and is only about one page long.

Kingsolver is a US novelist and essayist. Needless to say, she writes well."

___ Yu Fong-ying (61)

Wah Yan IC 2012 - 88 Days Away

The Wan Yan IC2012 is only 88 days away. Looking forward to seeing you at the IC in August. Registration and fees payment can be done online at the conference website.

A list of alumni, fathers, teachers and friends who will be joining the event can be found here: 

http://wahyanic.org/online-form/

Election of WYK Alumni Manager – Voter Registration 校友校董選舉 – 選民登記

Introduction

According to the existing arrangement, the members of the School Management Committee of Wah Yan College Kowloon comprise, inter alia, a representative of the alumni (the “Alumni Manager”). Pursuant to the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting 2010 of Wah Yan College Kowloon Past Students’ Association (the “Association”), the Alumni Manager shall be elected based on the principle of universal suffrage.

Election

The term of the new Alumni Manager shall commence on 1 November 2012 and the election arrangement will be announced in due course.

Voter registration

If you wish to vote at the Election, you should register as a voter first. In order to be eligible to register as a voter, the following requirements must be satisfied:

1. you shall be an alumnus of Wah Yan College Kowloon, which means that you have attended class in Wah Yan College Kowloon for not less than one full academic year and have left the school as at the date hereof; and
2. you are over 18 years old on the date of submitting your voter registration form to the Election Committee.

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Father Farren Update

Simon Au Tak Shing (81) writes, "Clovis Hui (one of my classmates) and I visited Fr Farren at the end of April.   We stayed at Dublin for 4 – 5 days.   Clovis stayed longer than I. 
Fr Farren walked with the walking frame steadily. He could walk a short distance even without the frame.
His voice was strong but memory was not as good as before.
Luckily, he does not feel any discomfort caused by the cancer at the moment."

Maryknoll Bazaar to raise fund for the Sisters

Date: Saturday, May 5, 2012

Place: Chester Village
3555 Danforth Ave.,
Scarborough, Ontario M1L 1E3
(Danforth/Warden)

Time: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

lots of goodies for everyone, young and the ‘not-so-young’; hand-made knitwear and accessories, FERI line of jewellery, SEM line of jewellery; Greenfield line of golf products, quilts, souvenirs and decor items, healthy low fat suger free bakery goods and more.

Click here to view the pictures.

Friendly Table-Tennis Match

(Saturday, April 28) In place of the Joint Schools Table Tennis Tournament (postponed to July 7), Wilfred Wei (’69) organized a friendly match with the La Salle College Old Boys’ Association (Toronto Chapter) in a Markham table tennis club. Seven of our team members attended the event. While exercising and playing in a really friendly environment, everyone got a glimpse of some of our potential opponents in the upcoming tournament. Click here to see the pictures taken on Saturday and the training session the night before.

More table tennis training/playing sessions will be set up as a regular activity of our association. Stay tuned!

Alan Tam 譚詠麟WYOFF Fundraising Concert

Dear Wahyanites, 

Greetings from The Wah Yan One Family Foundation! We would like to report to you our progress thus far. As at end of March 2012, we had raised $94 million for the Dream of Wah Yan Campaign. Since 2009, more than $32 million has been appropriated to the two Wah Yan Colleges to implement small class teaching, teacher formation and whole person development activities for our young Wahyanites. 

Under the new 3-3-4 secondary school curriculum, our Schools need much more resources to provide extra care and support to help our senior form students cope with the requirements of the new public examination, The Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (香港中學文憑). The Foundation is going to appropriate $7.5 million each year to help our Schools sustain our Dream for our young boys in the next five years. Nonetheless this is not enough, because our Schools have estimated that they need around $13 million each year in the coming years. 

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孟嘗會義工嘉獎晚會

2012 Mon Sheong Volunteer Appreciation Dinner was held in a Scarborough restaurant on Saturday April 21. The Mon Sheong Foundation 孟嘗會 is a Canadian registered charitable organization, dedicated to the promotion of Chinese culture, heritage, language and philosophy through caring for the elderly, encouraging the young and providing programs and services in response to the needs of our communities.

A number of WYKAAO members are also volunteers for the Foundation. Click here to see the pictures of our members who attended the event.