Date: 13 December, 2009
Time: 5:30p.m. - Reception 7:00pm - Dinner
Venue: The Grand Hall - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Price: HK$800 per person; HK$9,600 per a table of 12
Dear Wahyanites,
This year is the 90th Anniversary of Wah Yan Hong Kong and 85th of Wah Yan Kowloon. The 2 Wah Yan will celebrate with a Gratitude Dinner on 13 Dec., 2009. We hope that you will join the function to wish the schools a happy birthday. It is a great opportunity to meet the Jesuit Fathers, teachers, your old classmates and friends. In this special event, you can be updated of the status of the two schools as well as know more about the history of Wah Yan. To secure your place, please contact the following persons or simply fill in the booking form and return to us. I look forward to welcoming you that evening.
Martin Kwan (WYHK ‘80)
Chairman of Organizing Committee
For enquiries, please feel free to contact:
Raymond Siu (’96) at Tel. 9208 8374
Please send all Tickets Booking Forms (with cheque enclosed if by post) to:
By e-mail: wyk.dinner09@ymail.com
By post: Attention Raymond Siu (WYKPSA)
56 Waterloo Road,
Kowloon, Hong Kong.
By Fax: 2770 5095
Booking form
Mrs. Ma Wong Kit Kwan Cecilia, who served in Wah Yan College Kowloon from 1945 to 1978 for 33 years, passed away on 31 October 2009. May her soul rest in peace.
Requiem Mass for the eternal repose of her soul (presided by Fr. Stephen Chow, S.J.) will be on Friday, 27 November, at 8:00pm at Hong Kong Funeral Parlour and Final Commendation (presided by Fr. A. Deignan, S.J.) on Saturday, 28 November, at 9:00am. The cortege will then proceed to Cape Collinson Crematoria.
The 2009-10 Wah Yan League Cup Basketball Tournament will be launched soon. The proposed details are as follows:-
Date: Saturdays, commencing on 5 December 2009 (tentative)
Time : 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Venue : Wah Yan College Hong Kong, Basketball Courts
About the Tournament :
- 5-a-side basketball match
- A team should be formed by min. 6 and max. 15 players including substitutes. All members should be members or old boys of WYK Past Students or WYHK Past Students or Current Students.
- Maximum 8 teams, First Come First Serve.
- Rules will be more or less the same as last year and will be announced during the Team Captains’ Meeting.
Enrollment Fee: HK$1,200 per team, PLUS HK$400 refundable “no show” deposit.
Payment should be made in the Team Captains’ Meeting on 28 November 2009 (Saturday), either by cash or a crossed cheque payable to “Wah Yan (Hong Kong) Past Students Association Ltd.”
Deadline for enrollment: 25th November 2009 (Wednesday)
The Team Captains’ Meeting will be held on 28 November 2009 (Saturday) at 14:30 to discuss the rules and the grouping. The venue will be announced in due course. Please submit the completed Enrollment Form by:-
(a) Fax : to Mr. [Albert Poon] (WYHKPSA) at 3427-9000, OR
(b) E-mail : to albert.poon@ovi.com for confirmation.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact:-
Raymond Wong 98730108
Alvin Chan 93889874
We look forward to seeing you.
* A team of student members is defined as a team formed by at least half of full time students, in which should be all Wahyanites.
Cover letter | Enrollment form
Mrs. Cheung wrote us a letter about Chung Pan’s recovery in Hong Kong. Chung Pan and his family still have a tough road ahead. Please pray and support them.
Letter
On behalf of the past students’ associations of Wah Yan College Hong Kong and Wah Yan College Kowloon, we are writing to cordially invite you to attend a Mass and tea party on 7 November (Saturday) 2009 in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of ordination of our beloved Fr Deignan.
Fr Alfred J. Deignan, S.J. has been involved throughout the years in the education and development of generations of young people in Hong Kong. He was the Vice-Principal of Wah Yan College Hong Kong from 1962-1968 and as Principal from 1968-1970. After that, he took up the position of Warden in Ricci Hall, University of Hong Kong from 1970-78. From 1978-1992, he was the Principal of Wah Yan College Kowloon. In recent years, Fr Deignan has been engaged in the moral and ethical development of teachers and students. With a group of educationalists, he founded the Hong Kong International Institute of Educational Leadership in 1997 and has been the chairman of the council since then.
This year is the 50th Anniversary (Golden Jubilee) of the Ordination of Fr Deignan. The two Past Students’ Associations have arranged a tea gathering and Mass, and we hope that you can join this very special occasion. It will also provide a great opportunity for us to thank Fr Deignan for all he has done for the two Wah Yans and the young people of Hong Kong.
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: 7 November 2009 (Saturday)
(A) Mass
Time: 4:00 - 4:45pm
Venue: School Chapel, WYCHK
(B) Tea Party
Time: 4:45 - 5:30pm
Venue: School Hall, WYCHK
Invitation letter
(Originally posted at February 12, 2009)
Fr. Stephen Chow made us a presentation of “Profile of the Jesuit Student at Graduation for the Chinese Province”, which was adapted from Adapted from the Jesuit Secondary Education Association’s “Profile of the Graduate at Graduation”, during our last Exco meeting. The carefully compiled Profile spells out expectations of the Wahyanite and serves as a good guideline for students, old boys, teachers and all stakeholders who strive for the continual improvement of Wah Yan.
Presentation (update: October 2009)
We are walking on 18th October 2009 again to celebrate the 85th and 90th anniversaries of Wah Yan College, Kowlon and Wah Yan College, Hong Kong receptively. In this Walkathon, named as “Pace with Love”, we will walk as a school community with energetic stride. We want to tell the world that we are respectably old, full of life and anticipations for our future.
Join us with your family and friends in this first event of the Anniversaries Celebration Programme by taking part or making a donation. Download the enrolment form below and have it completed and returned to the schools with your fee/gift on or before 25th September 2009. Your support is essential for the continous growth of our schools.
Please call Ms Grace Lee on 2384 1038 for enquiries.
Enrolment form | Poster | Press clippings
The 2nd Homecoming Concert has been set for 6:15 p.m. Saturday, September 5, at WYK School Hall organized by WYK Past Students’ Association and co-organized by the Music Association and WYK Parents’ Association.
Our Homecoming Concert this year will also kick-start the 85th Anniversary celebration of Wah Yan College, Kowloon. Naturally, our theme for the concert will be “Our Music Throughout the Years”. How has music changed throughout the years at WYK? From hymns to incorporation of instruments and varied styles performed by old boys and current students, we revisited the sounds of the various eras in a music concert on a Saturday summer night. The performance is meaningful to current and former students because it gives former students the opportunity to share memories of their experiences with the current students and also create new memories for the current ones. It’s a concert for every Wahyanite to connect to the past while renewing friendships and building for the future.
All proceeds from the concert will be donated to Fr. Kelly Educational Fund. Proceeds from this concert will be used to support the development of the musical talent of the current WYK students. That includes certain instruments & equipments and payment for external conductors/trainers which the teachers and students have for long desired.
Taking this opportunity, we are requesting the honor of your presence at this concert. If you will sponsor this concert by making further donation, not only are you granting great endorsement on the efforts of the performing students, teachers, and alumni, you are also making the dreams of the music students and teachers possible.
P.S. We have just been informed by the WYK administrative office that the Homecoming Concert is overwhelmingly well received by the current students. All the regular HK20 student tickets have been sold out in school. To facilitate your purchase of the VIP tickets and supporting the event, we have attached a Sponsorship Form for your perusal.
Sponsorship form
WYK Homecoming Concert was first launched last year with great success. The objective of the event was to enhance the bonding and interaction between the old boys and existing students of WYK, as well as to offer an opportunity for many of the old boys to showcase the musical talents of “Wah Yan Boys” at our mother school. This year, the PSA has endorsed the idea of organising such a meaningful event again.
The Organising Committee, which comprises representatives from WYK, WYKPA, and WYKPSA, has been formed. The following is an overview of our ideas about the concert:
- The concert will be held in the evening of 5 September 2009 at the school hall of Wah Yan College, Kowloon.
- As many of you are aware, September 2009 marks the beginning of the 85th anniversary of WYK. It has been agreed that the concert will be designated as a celebrating event of the PSA for such an important year.
- The theme of the concert will centre on the music of WYK over the past 85 years. As such, the performance undertaken this year would be a collection of genres which display our music tradition over our past golden period.
While the details of the concert programme are being worked on, the possible performances include:
- String instruments/ orchestra performance undertaken by the old boys and the existing students.
- Choir-singing undertaken by the WYK Old Boys (possibly including a mixed choir performance with our long-timed partners) and the existing school choir.
- Quartets or quintets (including instrumental and choral)
- Western Art Songs
- Chinese Orchestra
- Chinese Art Songs and Chinese Operas
- Band music/ folk songs (unplugged)
- Other combinations
The details of the programmes certainly will require further development and the Organising Committee will provide you further update in the coming weeks. Obviously the content of the programmes depends heavily on the level of participation from our old boys. Therefore, the Organising Committee would like to take this opportunity to sincerely invite our PSA members who are interested in joining as performers to show their interest, particularly for (but not limited to) those who are former school orchestra members, choir members and active musicians during their school days. For those of you who are interested, please as soon as possible (but in any event no later than 3 July 2009) contact our Mike Cheng (86) for choir performances and Ken Luk (99) for instrument performances, or any one of them for other performances.
Mike and Ken’s contact details are set out below:
Mike Cheng
mikecheng9999@gmail.com | 9182 4906
Ken Luk
ken.ckluk@gmail.com | 9851 6179
We look forward to hearing from you.
The Tai Chi & Kung Fu Interest Group of WYKPSA is going to organise a training class with details as follows:
Class: HuaYue XinYi LiuHeBaFa 華獄心意六合八法 (http://www.liuhebafa.com.hk)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Thursday (From September 2009)
Class size: 8 -10 (can be exclusively for Wahyanites)
Location: 2/F., No. 43 Boundary Street
Fee: HK$600 per month
Those interested parties please reply directly to our Tai Chi & Kung Fu Interest Group Convenor Mr. Henry Fok at henryfokco@yahoo.com.
