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Thursday, September 6, 1973

Until his new appointment, Mr. Jao was Dean of the Arts Faculty

and Professor of the English Department of the Hong Kong Baptist College.

A member of the Linguistic Society of America, he has helped

organise and lectured in a number of translation courses which are currently

being consolidated into a Certificate Course in Translation, sponsored by

the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Hong Kong.

r. Jao received his first degree at Tsing Hua University and his

M.A. degree at the University of Edinburgh.

He is married with two children and is the author of a number of

published works dealing with the problems of languages and translation

techniques.

Dr. Pan is currently heading a glossary project of applied legal

terms jointly sponsored by the government and the Chinese University and

will assume his appointment once the project is completed.

He graduated from Tsing Hua College and obtained his Doctorate

degree in Commercial Science at the Graduate School of Business Administration,

New York University.

Dr. Pan has served as Director-General of many governmental

institutions.

He took up teaching in 1955 and for 13 years was Senior

Lecturer in Economics and Management Studies with both the University of

Hong Kong and the Chinese University.

In March 1971, he was assigned Director, Dictionary Project

supervising the editing and publication of the recently published Chinese-

English Dictionary of Modern Usage by Lin Yu-tang.

Note to Editors:

Photographs of Mr. Jao and Dr. Pan are boxed for collection together with some biographical notes. They will meet press representatives at a press conference tomorrow (Friday) at 3 p.m. in the G.I.S. theatre, 5th floor, Beaconsfield House, meeting covered.

You are invited to have the

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