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Happy New Year 2012! (Dec 30, 2011)光头大四喜祝各位兄弟和家人2012年 前途光明！顺头顺路！
Happy New Year Everyone！ Wish you and your family a prosperous and rewarding 2012！Pictures taken at Friday Club 12-30-2011. For more pictures, please view Sam Kuk's album http://ImageEvent.com/samkuk818/dinner20111230a |
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Yu Sir in Vancouver (Nov 26, 2011)| Ah So joined the Wah Yan Vancouver Chapter AGM and Spring Dinner earlier in the year(Feb) and met the Evergreen Yu Sir. Tommy just returned from a trip with Yu Sir in China to celebrate his 80th birthday. |
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Wah Yan Golf Tournament Nov 2011 (November 2, 2011)WAH YAN (H.K.) PAST STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Report by the Golf Convener
The second golf tournament organized by our Association for the year 2011 was held on Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011 at the Eden Course of the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling. A total of 22 members participated in the match.
The final results were as follows:-
William Kwan Trophy – Gross Score
Winner: Mr. Derek Cheung
Runner-up: Mr. Cheung Yuk Tong
Eric Ko Cup – Stableford
Winner: Dr. Albert Fong
Runner-up: Mr. Fong Hup
Other Winners
Longest Drive on hole #4: Mr. Charles Wong
Longest Drive on hole #18: Mr. Cheung Yuk Lam
Nearest to the Pin on hole #5: Mr. Geoffrey Ng
Nearest to the Pin on hole #17: Mr. Philip Wong
Consolation Prize: Mr. Daniel So
Fong Hup
Golf Convener
Dated: 3rd November, 2011
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In memory of Fr Luis Ruiz S.J. (August 4, 2011)紀念畢生服務弱小的陸毅神父（1913-2011）
(Article from UCANEWS.com July 27, 2011)
Father Luis Ruiz Suarez, who dedicated his entire life to needy people in Macau and mainland China, died yesterday at the age of 97. The Spanish Jesuit, whose Cantonese name was “Luk Ngai,” was the founder of Caritas Macau.
Paul Pun Chi-meng, secretary general of Caritas Macau, remembered Father Ruiz’s selfless service, saying that “He was a pragmatic man. He never spread the Gospel with words, but I saw Jesus whenever I saw him.”
The obituary prepared by Caritas honored his lifelong contribution while urging people from all walks of life to emulate his spirit to serve the needy in the community.
Born in 1913, Father Ruiz joined the Jesuits in 1930. His missionary work in China began in 1941. It was interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War, and resumed after the war ended in 1945. When the Communists took control of China in 1949, he was imprisoned briefly and expelled from the country.
He was told by his Jesuit provincial to stay in Macau, at the time a Portuguese colony, to recover from typhoid, which he contracted in prison, but within a month he was already working with refugees.
Later he founded the Casa Ricci Social Service in Macau. It was later turned into Caritas Macau, which he began to operate in the 1970s and established five centers for the aged and for young men and women with mental disabilities.
He also enlisted the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne to help caring for the people with leprosy.
He began his service for people with leprosy in neighboring Guangdong province in 1984. Ten years later, this service had grown so much that he handed the Caritas operation back to Macau diocese.
He had helped more than 8,000 patients and their children in about 140 leprosaria in various Chinese provinces.
In 2005, Father Luis, in his 90s, accepted invitation from the Hunan provincial government to set up a caring center for HIV/AIDS patients.
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Wah Yan Golf Tournament June 1, 2011 (June 2, 2011)WAH YAN (H.K.) PAST STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Report by the Golf Convener
The first golf tournament organized by our Association for the year 2011 was held on Wednesday, 1 June, 2011 at the Eden Course of the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling. A total of 22 members participated in the match.
The final results were as follows:-
Fong Hup Trophy – Gross Score
Winner: Mr. Simon Lee
Runner-up: Mr. Paul Tan
Ralph Shea Cup – Stableford
Winner: Mr. Geoffrey Ng
Runner-up: Mr. Fong Hup
Other Winners
Longest Drive on hole #4: Mr. Henry Lam
Longest Drive on hole #18: Mr. Cheung Yuk Tong
Nearest to the Pin on hole #5: Mr. Peter Tam
Nearest to the Pin on hole #17: Mr. Simon Lee
Consolation Prize: Dr. Godwin Leung
Fong Hup
Golf Convener
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Fr. Thomas Ryan Memorial Mass (February 4, 2011)Held at Ricci Hall Chapel on 4th Feb. 2011. 年初二
Fr. Thomas Ryan S.J. (1889-1971)
Article from "Sunday Examiner" Feb. 12, 1971.
Father Thomas Ryan, SJ of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, died at Canossa Hospital on 4 February 1971, aged 81.
He was born in Cork, Ireland, on 30 December 1889. On the completion of his secondary education, he joined the Jesuits and was ordained priest in 1922, after the usual Jesuit course of studies.
SOCIAL WORK IN IRELAND
After his ordination he became editor, first of the Madonna, and later of the Irish messenger of the Sacred Heart. With his editorial work he combined a vigorous social apostolate and soon became the refuge of all Dublin parents whose children were getting into trouble. He was always businesslike and never soft, yet he won the confidence of the young delinquents as well as that of the children’s court: before he left Ireland in 1933, he visited every prison in Ireland to say goodbye to old friends who had graduated into adult delinquents without losing their trust in Father Ryan. The army of slum-dwellers who came to see him when he was leaving for Hong Kong has entered into the folk memory of Dublin.
SOCIAL WORK IN HONG KONG
When he reached Hong Kong, Father Ryan was 43. His effort to learn Cantonese met with little success, so to his lasting regret, he found himself cut off from the direct social work that he had practiced in Ireland. He turned instead to social organization, then much needed in a community that was dominated by almost unadulterated laissez faire - no Welfare Department in those days and very few voluntary agencies or associations. Despite the fact that he was senior teacher of English in Wah Yan College and editor of the Rock, a lively monthly of general interest, he threw himself into whole-heartedly into committee work and into seeing to it that the decisions of the committees were carried out. The development of a social conscience in Hong Kong was due in large measure to the work of Bishop Hall, then at the head of the Anglican diocese of Hong Kong and Macau, and Father Ryan. The Hong Kong Housing Society - the pioneer of organized low-cost housing in Hong Kong -was on fruit of their labours.
When Canton fell to the Japanese in 1938 and refugees began to pour into Hong Kong, the task of providing for the refugees who poured into Hong Kong fell largely upon a committee of which Bishop Hall and Father Ryan were the leading spirits, and the executive work, providing food and shelter, fell chiefly to Father Ryan.
MUSIC AND THE ARTS
With all this Father Ryan had already begun his career as a broadcaster on music and the arts generally. In time he became music critic to the South China Morning Post. By some he was thought of quite wrongly, as chiefly an aesthete.
Soon after the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in 1941, he went first to Kweilin, Kwangsi, and later to Chungking, where he did relief work and continued his broadcasting.
FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE
After the war came perhaps the oddest period of his varied life. There was a grave shortage of the administrators needed to restart the shattered life of Hong Kong. The then Colonial Secretary, who had seem Father Ryan at work in Chungking, asked him to take over the directorship of Botany and Forestry and to help in setting up a Department of Agriculture. Father Ryan, city-born and city-bred, knew nothing about botany, forestry or agriculture, but he did know how to get reliable information and advice and how to get things done. He welded his co-workers into a team and was soon busy introducing a New South Wales method of planting seedlings, planting roadsides, experimenting with tung-oil production and looking for boars to raise the standard of Hong Kong pig-breeding.
Having discovered that middlemen were exploiting the New Territories vegetable growers, he went into vigorous action, founding the Wholesale Vegetable Marketing Organization. The middlemen put up a fight but the WVMO won.
JESUIT SUPERIOR
In 1947 regular administrators were available. Father Ryan laid down his official responsibilities, only to find a new responsibility as superior of the Hong Kong Jesuits. A man of striking initiative, he showed himself ready as superior to welcome initiative in others. “It has never been done before” always made him eager to reply “Let us do it now”. The plan for new buildings for Wah Yan Colleges in Hong Kong and Kowloon came from him, though the execution of the plan fell to his successor, Father R. Harris.
On ceasing to be superior in 1950, Father Ryan continued his writing, broadcasting and teaching - only his teaching had been interrupted. His books include China through Catholic Eyes, Jesuits Under Fire (siege of Hong Kong), The Story of a Hundred Years (history of the P.I.M.E. in Hong Kong), Jesuits in China and Catholic Guide to Hong Kong.
COUNSELLOR AND FRIEND
By this time father Ryan knew an enormous number of people in Hong Kong. His forthright and at times brusque manner did appeal to everyone; he had stood on many a corn in his time. But a very large number of people treasured his friendship and his advice, and a constant stream of callers was part of his life in his later active years. The advice was giving vigorously and uncompromisingly, and was all the more valued for that.
In 1964 the University of Hong Kong conferred upon him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. At the conferring, Father Ryan was the spokesman who expressed the thanks of the five who received honorary degrees that day. This was his last important public appearance, for by then his health had begun to fail. There was no loss of intellectual clarity of interest in current affairs - at his funeral - one of his visitors in his last few days in hospital reported that Father Ryan had submitted him to the usual searching examination into everything that was happening in Hong Kong. Physically, however, he had become weak, and he suffered much pain.
A period of comparative seclusion now began. All his life he had slept only about four hours daily and had worked for the rest of the time. When he found himself unable to do what he regarded as serious work, he became impatient to die. He suffered greatly and several times seemed on the verge of death. His partial recoveries from these bad spells caused him nothing but annoyance. The much longed - for end came at 9am on 4 February. |
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