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It was then that she made up her mind to proceed for the

gold award. "It seemed to beckon, and I simply had to achieve it."

she said.

"My interest in community service," she explains, "made it

a challenge I simply had to overcone. There was in me an irrisistible

impulse to achieve the ultimate. I devoted all my leisure to it.

"When I was told that the tasks to be completed involved an

outdoor expedition of 36 miles to be accomplished in three days and

four nights almost entirely on my own resources, I trembled at the

outcome, but I had to see it through. At that time, it was a formi-

dable undertaking, but in retrospect I feel that I could not serve

the community to the best of my ability unless I had done it."

Miss Wong said the tasks leading up to the gold medal had

Had she known that at, the

both taxed her patience and her endurance.

end Prince Philip himself would be there to present her with the

award, she might have tried harder stíll.

"But," she said, "the gold medal is its own roward. I would

have been happy to receive it by someone else on the Duke's behalf,

The Scheme will always be associated with Prince Philip, who both

founded the Scheme and has been its inspiration,"

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