Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 2 Jul 1964

The Government of Japan has already given a scholarship to one of our teachers in Chung Chi College to study in the University of Kyoto for two years. Japanese books to the value of one m illion yen (US$3,000) w ill be donated to the University library in the near future. A long-term exchange programme between the University and universities in Japan on publications is now being worked out. D r. C. T . Yung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor w ill relieve the Vice-Chancellor as leader of the delegation on July 30. The Vice-Chancellor w ill leave Japan for Manila on July 30 to visit the University of the Philippines. COLLEGE PRESIDENTS Dr. Yung Chi Tung, Pro- Vice-Chancellor and President, Chung Chi College. Dr. Yung was a native of Hong Kong and had studied Chinese Classics before he entered Lingnan M iddle School. After receiving his B.S. degree in Biology at National Tsinghua University, Peking, in 1929, he taught there until 1935. Dr. Yung Chi Tung In 1935, under a China Foundation Fellowship he studied Botany at University of Chicago and received a Ph.D. in 1937. Returning to China after his study in America, Dr. Yung taught at National Northwestern University in Sian and later at Lingnan University, Canton. He was Professor and Head of Biology Department at Lingnan University and later, Dean of Science Faculty, Acting Dean of Studies, and Acting President. In 1944, D r. Yung spent one year in the U.S.A. teaching at various Universities as Visiting Professor. H e joined the faculty of University of Hong Kong in 1951 as a senior lecturer in Botany and later he was Head of the Botany Department. He became President of Chung Chi College in 1960 and has served on the College Board of Governors since 1959, In 1961, he received an honourable L L .D . from University of Hong Kong. When the Chinese University was inaugurated, D r. Yung was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor, A member of the American Honorary Fraternity Sigma X i, D r. Yung is also a member of Phi Tau Phi and the International Society of Plant Morphologists. Dr. Yung is married and has three daughters and two sons. Mr , T. C. Cheng, President, United College After receiving his B.A. degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1939, M r. Cheng began his public service w ith the Education Department. During the war, he was in China, working for the Allied cause. He went to England in 1947 to pursue post-graduate studies at the Institute of Education of the University of London, and was awarded the Diploma in Education(1948) and the degree of Master of Arts (in Education—1949). Returning to Hong Kong in 1949, he continued to serve with the Education Department as an Inspector of Schools and was concurrently secretary to several important Boards and Committees dealing w ith the policy and administration of local education. During this period, he taught at the University of Hong Kong and the Teacher Training Colleges. He was twice Chairman of the Education Society of the University of Hong Kong during the post-war years. From 1954, M r. Cheng was transferred to the Administrative Service and served in various Government Departments as D istrict Officer in the New Territories Administration, Planning Officer in the Resettlement Department, Administrative Officer in the Commerce and Industry Department, etc. In 1958 he was appointed Joint Secretary to the Advisory Committee on the proposed Federation of Hong Kong Industries, and in the same year he attended the ECAFE Conference in Bangkok as a Hong Kong delegate. In 1960 he led the Hong Kong Delegation at an International Anti-narcotics Conference in Lahore, M r. Cheng's last administrative appointment before returning to educations service was that of Chief Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs. M r. Cheng assumed duty as President of the United College in January 1963. He has been for some time a Member of the Hong Kong University Court, Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong University Convocation, a Member of the Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Social Research, and a Member of the Training-in- Industry Committee of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. In the spring of this year, M r. Cheng visited leading American Universities and Colleges for two months at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. 7