Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 4 Nov 1965

the United States on a State Department "Specialist Grant" to study methods of teaching English as a foreign language, following which she visited the United Kingdom under the auspices of the British Council for the same purpose, returning to Hong Kong in February this year. She was appointed Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at the commencement of the present 1965-1966 academic year. Mr. Arthur J. Leary, Chung Chi College, Economics and Business Administration. Mr. Leary was born and educated in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., where he also met and marred his wife, the former Ruth Van Natta in the year 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Leary have three daughters and three grandchildren, all residing in the United States. Mr. Leary was employed by the Standard Oil Company in Chicago, as an accountant and held many other positions with that company until 1943 when he entered the public accounting field as a certified public accountant, after having receiving his C P A degree from the University of Illinois. In 1946, Mr. Leary, in addition to practicing as a certified public accountant, accepted a position from Northwestern University as a lecturer in accounting. In 1954, he joined the Price Waterhouse & Co., to become the head of the Tax Department in its St. Louis office and later in the Buffalo office. H e had also held the post of lecturer in accounting at the State University of N e w York at Buffalo, where he remained until 1965 when he retired from Price Waterhouse & Co. He came to Chung Chi College under the auspices of the United Church Board for World Ministries. Mr. Leary has been an active member in the Illinois, Missouri and N e w York Societies of CPA's, as well as the American Institute of CPA's and the American Accounting Association. Dr. Phillip S.Y, Sun, New Asia College, English Literature. Dr. Sun was born in Canton and attended several primary schools in different places in the South-western provinces of China during the Second World War, and ultimately graduated from Pui Ching Middle School. Entered N e w Asia College as a major of English, and, upon graduating in 1958, he was given a Yale-in- China Fellowship for post-graduate studies, and went to Yale in 1959. He received a M.A. in the following year, and a Ph.D. in English Literature in 1963. His dissertation being a study of the biographies of Swift. He returned to join the faculty of N e w Asia as an assistant lecturer in 1963; was promoted to lectureship in '64. He has taught Freshman English, Survey of Literature, History of the English Language, English Fiction, and Chinese Fiction. Has published several articles in Chinese, and two in English: “Wuthering Heights: the Devil and the Critics” N e w Asia Academic Annual, VI, 1964, and ''Swifts Eighteenth-Century Biographies”, ibid., VII, 1965. Mr. Wong Shiu-shang, Chung Chi College, Chinese Language & Literature. Mr. Wong's native place is Fung Shun, Kwantung. H e graduated from Kwangtung Higher Normal College in 1926 and later studied in the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking Normal University where he received the B.A. degree in 1928. At the same time, he was an associate of the Research Institute of Sinology, Peking University. After graduation he joined The First Kwangtung Provincial Middle School as a teacher in Chinese Literature, and later years as Principal of Tuen M u ng School, Singapore; Lecturer at Canton Normal College; and Director of Education Department, N a m Hoi. In 1936 he was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, National Sun-Yat-sen University ; Lecturer in the College of Education, Sheung Kan University; Associated 9

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