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 Blood

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 Deputy 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 could 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.

in the principal..

...

"The Department has complete confidence

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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

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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 them

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