WYCAA

Summer is approaching and it’s time to enjoy beautiful sunshine in Vancouver! As is our tradition, Wah Yan boys in Vancouver to celebrate Father’s Day together in June. Set against forest and mountain, with English Bay as its front view, Stanley Park’s Ceperley Meadow is just the site for such an event.

Invite your loved ones for a hearty afternoon with abundant fresh food and laughter.

Date: 19 June 2011

Location: Ceperley Meadow at Second Beach, Stanley Park Map

Time: 11 – 4 pm (BBQ lunch will start at noon)

Fees: $18 (Adults); $10 (Children)

In order to access Ceperley Meadow, please enter Stanley Park on Beach Avenue and turn left at the first parking lot, near the fire engine by second Beach Pool.

Please fill in and return the reply slip below and mail it back with cheque to Lawrence’s Chan office on or before June 10, 2011, thank you. (Address: 3378 Cambie Street, Vancouver V5Z 2W5)

For other enquiries, please feel free to contact me at vincentchik@gmail.com (cell: 604-349-0017) or Lawrence Chan (cell: 604-876-9222). Thank you.

Notice is hereby given that the 2011 Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of the Wah Yan College Alumni (Vancouver) Association will be held on Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Conference Room, 1/F, City Square, 555 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. for the purpose of:

1. Adopting the minutes of the 2010 AGM (March 7, 2010)
2. Receiving the President’s Report
3. Receiving and approving the Public Accountant’s Report
4. Election of the Board of Directors for the coming year
5. Appointment of the public accountant
6. Any other business

All members of the WYCAA are invited to attend the AGM to exercise their rights as members. If you want to nominate other member(s) to stand for election to the Board of Directors, please use the form on p.4. As in previous years, spouses and children are welcomed to join members in the Chinese New Year Family Dinner (see p.2) to be held at Kirin Seafood Restaurant immediately after the AGM. Send in your replies early to avoid disappointment!
We also encourage you to invite other non-member Wahyanites to join the alumni. Please note that the lifetime membership fee has been waived this year.

Secretaries

Jonathan Lui & Samuel Law

As in previous years, Kirin Seafood Restaurant (at 2/F, City Square, 555 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver) will offer an excellent menu to help us celebrate the Chinese New Year. The cost of the Family Dinner will be:

Payment Received On or Before Feb 7 (After Feb 7)

Member, member’s spouse & member’s children (Age: 13 & above): $30.00 each ($35.00 each)

Member’s children (Age: 5-12): $15.00 each ($20.00 each)
(Note: Children under 5 years old are free)

Student member: $15.00 each ($20.00 each)

Guests, parents & relatives (including Wahyanites who are not members of WYCAA, Vancouver): $35.00 each ($40.00 each)

Please use the form in the following newsletter and submit a completed reply slip to reserve your seats as early as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Raymond Kwok at 604-773-9783 or raymond.kwok@alumni.ubc.ca.

Reunion for the Kowloon WahYan class of 1970

A) The function

i) This is going to be re-union of class of 1970 school certificate, and class of 72 for matriculation, as well as those who should be in class’70 but for whatever reason left Wah Yan and go on somewhere else
ii) All family members are welcome
iii) The gathering is on Saturday December 18, 2010 at Wah Yan College.
iv) We have booked the venue for 3:00 pm onwards as we wish to conduct a tour for all of us who haven’t visited Wah Yan for a long time.

B) The preparation work and the organizing committee

i) The self-appointed organizing committee member are Edwin Cheung, Chung See Yuen, Eric Lai, Peter Lee, Eddie Li, Gabriel Yu, Derek Zen New volunteers are most welcome
ii) So far we have booked the venue, Edwin Cheung had (?) arranged for the catering, G. Yu (with Lam Kok Cheung) will be in charge of MC function
iii) Peter Lee will be our Treasurer
iv) Eric Lai has volunteered to do the video for us to share our memories
v) Wong Kok Wah will contact all the fathers and teachers.

C) Run Down

i) As Eric is going to produce the video, he will need a lot of photographs, so whoever has in his possession, ‘old photograph’ of the WahYan day, please contact Eric at Tel. 9102 6826 or email: eric.lai@turner.com, family photos are also welcome
ii) We haven’t really settled down on what exactly to do in the afternoon (obviously this is optional) and welcome all suggestions
iii) During the dinner, whilst we have background music etc., we are comtemplating classmates going on stage and share with us their memorable moments at Wah Yan.

One thing, we are only interested in things and times that we all share together but not really in what happen afterwards. No matter how successful one are in your career, please keep it for some other occasion to share with us.

iv) The issue of having some kind of souvenir to record this reunion was discussed, perhaps Fung Chi Keung may wish to take up this task?

If you belong to this class, we like to maintain contact with you, disregarding whether you can make it to this reunion or not. With your email address, we shall keep you informed about this event and send you pictures as well. Please contact Derek Zen Wei Peu <derek@waikee.com> or the undersigned.

Title: Fictional and Non-Fictional China 虛構與非虛構的中國
Date: Saturday August 14, 2010
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church
Address: 5771 Granville Avenue, Richmond, BC
Contact: Vincent Chik (wahyanvancouver@gmail.com)

Dear members,

It is our great honour to have Mr. Chan Koon Chung (陳冠中) to share with us his views about China at the 2010 Midsummer Afternoon Talk. He is an alumnus of the 1969 class of Wah Yan College Kowloon.

Born in 1952, Mr. Chan Koon Chung has lived in Taipei for six years, and studied Sociology, Politics and Media in University of Hong Kong and Boston University. He is one of the cultural pioneers in Hong Kong, practicing as a writer, critic and media practitioner. He is one of the founders of the ‘City Magazine’ 《號外》, which has been the most influential cultural magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. His latest novel In an Age of Prosperity: China 2013 is a sardonic and disturbing fictional consideration of the ‘harmonious society’ engineered by China’s party-state since the tumultuous events of 1989. He resides at Beijing and shuttles between China, Hong Kong and Taiwan etc.

For more information about our guest speaker, please refer to the following links:

• People: Chen Guanzhong (aka Chan Koonchung): www.danwei.org/people/people_chan_koonchung.php
• 陳冠中談城市說「盛世」: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLBd_05XYFU&feature=related
• CityMagazine: www.cityhowwhy.com.hk

Seats are limited and registration is required. Free admission. Please register and indicate the number of attendees by Sunday August 1, 2010.