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Saturday, June 16, 1973

DR. RAYSON HUANG JOINS COMMISSION ON TEACHERS

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Rayson Lisung Huang, has been appointed to the commission set up to examine the

underlying causes of the recent Certificated Masters' dispute.

He replaces the late Biship Francis Hsu, who died shortly after

the commission was announced last month.

One of the University of Hong Kong's most distinguished graduates, Dr. Huang was Vice-Chancellor of Nanyang University in Singapore before he returned to Hong Kong in September last year to take up his present post. Dr. Huang is married with two sons aged 21 and 18. Born in Swaton, Kwantung Province, he moved to Hong Kong in 1925. Since completing his school education in 1938 at Munsang College, of which his father was head. master, he has been closely associated with the university world.

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Government Scholar, he then became a student at the University of Hong Kong, of which he holds the B.Ss, degree and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

He is a Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science of Oxford University and Doctor of Science of the University of Malaya; and was engaged in university teaching and research during the 26 years before 1969, including three and a half years at the University of Chicago and 10 as professor and head of the department of chemistry and for a period as Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Malaya.

He is the author of a large number of distinguished research

papers published in learned journals, and has been an external examiner in chemistry at Hong Kong's two universities.

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