Class 1961
Articles and News of Class 1961
Gabriel Lau ('61) has passed away while vacationing in the United States. He worked for Immigration Department until his retirement two or three years ago. He is quite a well known person in Winnipeg. [The Honourable Philip S. Lee ('60), Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, reports yesterday.]
Condolences to Lin and her family.
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriel Leung, son of the late Carmelo Leung Siu-Tat (61).
Please click the image to read the report from Apple Daily, Hong Kong.
Hi All
Very happy to see Freddy Fong in Vancouver again. Freddy next is to meet his wife in California and continue on to New York and UK.
(I had my cataract surgery done 2 months ago and didn't wear glasses in the picture)
Best Regards and Good Health to All.
Gilbert
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It was a heart-warming welcome by our Vancouver friends. Chatting over dim sum with them and their lovely wives makes this visit memorable. Thanks again.
Gilbert and Margaret : happy sailing!
Best regards,
Freddy
"Welcoming Stephen
Stephen Lam was in Vancouver on his business trip Oct 2013. It was wonderful that we had the opportunity to see him despite of his tight schedule.
As usual we met in a restaurant and talked about the past and the present. Lam Yu-Ming, Michael Tang and Tony Chow were still visiting HK and were unable to attend.
Gilbert"
Loo Wei-Zun, May and Fong-Ying Yu are in town. The 61ers had a dinner with them at Vince Seafood Restaurant in Markham, on Sunday, August 12. Mr. Ho was invited. Wei-Zun, now a Meditation/Qigong Master, and Mr. Ho have not met for over 50 years!
Wong Hin Shing and Fong Ying Yu have complied a pictorial list of the reunion gatherings of 61 grads over the past 5 years, an addendum to the original article published in 2018.
October 16, is Roderick Auyang Siu-Lee's date of passing away (born 1944-10-29; passed away 2021-10-16).
Here's his memory file compiled by Fong-ying and me.
May he rest in peace.
Hin-Shing
Photos of Fathers Buried at St Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Photos: Harry Aitken (61 grad)
Report: Wong Hin Shing and Yu Fong-ying (61 grads)
Foreword
There were many Irish Jesuit fathers who considered Hong Kong home. After 1997 some chose to stay and not return to Ireland or be posted to other places like Australia. The latest example is Fr. John Russell, who first came to HK in 1951. Since 1962, he stayed in HK until his passing on September 22, 2023. After a funeral mass at St Ignatius Chapel on October 7, he was buried in St Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley, joining the Irish fathers who went before him.
Harry Aitken, 61 grad and resident of England, had visited the cemetery and sent us through Wong Hin Shing's communal broadcast the photos of the fathers buried there. These would be of interest to other Wahyanites and are therefore reported and posted here for a wider audience.
--- 今年3月27日, 參加曾登保學長喪禮 (喇沙中學, 1958年入讀港大中文系), 歸而作.
六十年前舊事, 我就史實請教過兩位朋友, 但如有記憶錯誤或用詞不當, 責當在我.
懷舊文字,寫下以誌不忘.
~ 余晃英 (‘61). 溫哥華2023年4月16日定稿
“Last Day” is a tradition started many years ago, perhaps dating back to the formation of the school’s Students’ Union. It might have started simply, as students came back on the last day of school to get teachers and friends to write some memorial lines and to have pictures taken together. It has evolved over the years. It usually takes place in the hall balcony where the principal might give a farewell speech. There would be tea and cakes for teachers and students in the common room in the East Wing, often subsidized by the Alumni Association. In the last decade or so, the graduates formed a big circle in the car park and there would be student-led chatting, chanting and singing.