Part IV The School after August 1, 1977
A. The New Principal, Miss Hilda Kwan
1. appointed by the Bishop
With the departure of all the nuns of the Precious Blödd
Order who had been staying in the school for four years was the
arrival of Miss Hilda kwan. She was appointed principal by the
Most Rev. Bishop John Baptist Wu on August 1 1977.
sister Lorraine Turcotte, the headmistress of St. Clare's
Girls' School where the Députy Director of Education, Mr. Haye,
spoke out against "smear campaigns" discounting achievements
of religious orders in education was made Supervisor of the
school.
2. Supported by the Education Department
As Sister Lorraine cauld not be present in Precious Blood
Golden Jubilee Secondary School, Miss Kwan herself ran the school
with a senior officer from the Education Department, Mr. P.C.
Fung, who had been appointed one of the members on the School
Management Committee. "The Department has complete confidence
in the principal.. 老 a spokesman for the Education Department
once said. Miss Kwan, on one occasion, told one of the teachers,
Mr. Koo Chao Ming, that she had absolute power in running the
school. "I am the Management Committee."
3..The new teaching and non-teaching staff
The new principal came, employing fifteen new teachers and
later four more when four old teachers resigned in the middle
of the school tern. Some of the new teachers were her former
students and some of them were relatives of her friends. Among
these new teachers, two of them were made the deputy principals,
five of them the disciplinary form teachers and two of unem
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