50 Years and More
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- Created on Friday, 23 July 2010 22:18
It has been more than 50 long years since John Chan Doming from Hong Kong met some of his classmates in Toronto. During his very short stay, he and his wife, Jan, managed to find time to have dinner with the group on Thursday, July 22, 2010, the night before he left for Hong Kong via the States.
Looking back, the School Swimming Champion in 1960 found himself having studied 2 full years in Primary 6 in other schools before joining P6 at Wah Yan. Another proudly announced that he had the fortune of repeating three years before graduating from Form 5 in 62 and then moving onto McGill. Another record was set in the 50’s in Form 3D when 8 students had to repeat another year with the same Form-master, Father Mallin. Repeating was not unusual at Wah Yan in those years. Interestingly enough, many repeaters enjoyed their extra time at school.
Now that many are professionals, practicing or retired, anecdotes of their work were happily shared. Time flew by. They discussed their 50th Anniversary reunion in Hong Kong next year. Preparation has already been under way. Parting, they said, “See you at reunion.”
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Albert Young in town
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- Created on Monday, 12 July 2010 21:04
The Co-chairman of IC2010, Dr. Albert Young (62), was in town attending a wedding. At a dim sum lunch on Sunday, July 11, he updated Mr. Ho and Peter Wong (62) on the conference which was only 40 days away. He came with his wife, Kathy and brother Aaron/wife Helen. Aaron went to University of Toronto for 2 years post doc after getting his PhD from Duke University. Food was excellent and stories interesting. The party had to break at two because of the World Cup Final.
See the 10 reasons for attending IC2010, http://sites.google.com/a/wahyan.com/ic2010/home/why-join-ic-2010
[The other Co-chair is Alex Man of class 97]
Professor Mak Tak-wah honoured by HKU
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- Created on Sunday, 11 May 2008 09:18
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.
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