PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1979
(Covering the period March 27, 1979- March 23, 1980)
I am pleased to report tonight on your Society's activities over the past year and on our ongoing projects. During the period we organized twelve lectures which, because so many members and most of your Council are away from Hong Kong in the high summer season, were arranged mainly for the Spring and Winter months. There were two overseas excursions and one local tour. Let me briefly review the lecture programme first of all:
Talks to the Society
In April 1979 two lectures were given. The first had Dr. Margaret Ng as our speaker: well-known in Hong Kong for her newspaper column, and also as a social philosopher concerned with different facets of the Chinese world-view. She spoke on "A Chinese theory of Discontent". The other speaker in April was Professor Rulan Chao Pian who talked to us once before, in 1975. She is presently visiting professor in Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her talk, entitled "A Musicological trip to China”, was related to a recent visit to China where she had lectured to the National Academy of Musicology at Peking.
In May Mr. Leonard Rayner lectured on "Communism in the Association of South East Asian Nations”. Mr. Rayner who moved to Hong Kong from Singapore a few years ago is a journalist and perhaps best known to us for his regular column in the South China Morning Post. In June Professor D. W. Y. Kwok, who has been Director of the Asian Studies Programme at Hawaii for the past six years, spoke on "The New Culture Movement in China”. Also in June, Dr. John Young of the Extra-Mural Studies Department of Hong Kong University, lectured on "The Hong Kong-Canton Connection, 1905-1925”, at the same time sharing his experience with us of a research trip to Canton and pointing out the archival research opportunities which exist in that city. In October Rev. Carl Smith talked on "The Amateur Dramatic Club (founded 1860) and the early history of Dramatic arts in Hong Kong.
Since the new year we have had a relatively full programme. In January there were two lectures: one by the Rev. Father Harold Naylor who spoke on "Wah Yan College; a case study of an Anglo-Chinese school directed by an Irish Jesuit". Father Naylor has
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PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1979
(Covering the period March 27, 1979- March 23, 1980)
I am pleased to report tonight on your Society's activities over the past year and on our ongoing projects. During the period we organized twelve lectures which, because so many members and most of your Council are away from Hong Kong in the high sum- mer season, were arranged mainly for the Spring and Winter months. There were two overseas excursions and one local tour. Let me briefly review the lecture programme first of all:
Talks to the Society
In April 1979 two lectures were given. The first had Dr. Margaret Ng as our speaker: well-known in Hong Kong for her newspaper column, and also as a social philosopher concerned with different facets of the Chinese world-view. She spoke on "A Chinese theory of Discontent". The other speaker in April was Professor Rulan Chao Pian who talked to us once before, in 1975. She is presently visiting professor in Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her talk, entitled "A Musicological trip to China”, was related to a recent visit to China where she had lectured to the National Academy of Musicology at Peking.
In May Mr. Leonard Rayner lectured on "Communism in the Association of South East Asian Nations”. Mr. Rayner who moved to Hong Kong from Singapore a few years ago is a journalist and perhaps best known to us for his regular column in the South China Morning Post. In June Professor D. W. Y. Kwok, who has been Director of the Asian Studies Programme at Hawaii for the past six years, spoke on "The New Culture Movement in China”. Also in June, Dr. John Young of the Extra-Mural Studies Department of Hong Kong University, lectured on "The Hong Kong-Canton Con- nection, 1905-1925”, at the same time sharing his experience with us of a research trip to Canton and pointing out the archival re- search opportunities which exist in that city. In October Rev. Carl Smith talked on "The Amateur Dramatic Club (founded 1860) and the early history of Dramatic arts in Hong Kong.
Since the new year we have had a relatively full programme. In January there were two lectures: one by the Rev. Father Harold Naylor who spoke on "Wah Yan College; a case study of an Anglo- Chinese school directed by an Irish Jesuit". Father Naylor has
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