Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 2 Oct 1969

Institute in 1933 and a M.S. degree in Business Education from the University of Richmond in 1962. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Industrial College of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Executive Developmen t Programme of the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh. For the past five years prior to coming to Hong Kong, Mr. Adams held the position of Assistant to the President and Business Manager of Nova University of Advanced Technology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When he served as a Colonel of the U.S. Army, he held a series of key command and staff positions in the fields of transportation and logistics. Mr. Adams assumed duty as Special Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor and Building Expenditure Comptroller of the University on 1st September, 1969. Mr. Foo Tak-Sun, Assistant Registrar. Chung Chi College Mr. Foo Tak-Sun, born and brought up in Hong Kong, is a graduate of the founding class (1951-55) of Chung Chi College. Upon his graduation, Mr. Foo worked in the Registry of Chung Chi College for two years. In 1957 he took up graduate studies in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines on a scholarship awarded by the Philippine Board of Scholarships for Southeast Asia. He also engaged in research on problems of the Chinese in the Philippines. When Mr. Foo returned to Hong Kong in 1960 after taking his M.P.A. degree, he taught at the Chinese Y .M. C . A. College . The next year he was employed by The Asia Foundation as one of the few Programme Staff of its Hong Kong Office, which post he held until he was appointed Assistant Registrar of Chung Chi in March 1969. During his years with The Asia Foundation, Mr. Foo was particularly active in helping to look after visiting Asia n students at the University of Hong Kong and New Asia College, in programming the schedule of appointments of visiting educators and scholars with the local institutions of higher learning and government departments, and in assisting in the selection of candidates for the Foundation's youth and student programmes, Mr. Foo was invited by the Research Institute of The China Academy in Yangmingshan, Taiwan to serve as an honorary adviser for the academic year 1968-69. He was awarded a grant membership by the American Society for Public Administration for three years. (picture in Chinese section) Com i ngs a nd Go i ngs • Visitors to the University in October included Prof. Francis Dar t and Prof. Michael Moravcsik of the University of Oregon, who were in Hong Kong from 16th to 19th October to interview physics students of the two local universities who wish to further their studies at the Universities of Oregon, Michigan, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles; Mr. Gerhard Elkmann, Treasurer o f the Foundation of German Industries for Scientific Purposes; Dr. George F. Gant, Special Representative for Southeast Asian Affairs, Ford Foundation; and Mr. John Marsh, Director General o f the British Institute of Management. • Prof. Errett Hummel of the Education Department of Portland State University, U.S.A., visited New Asia College on 30th October. • Visitors to United College during October included Monsieur Achille Chiesa , Cultural Attache of the French Consulate General in Hong Kong, and Dr. Edwi n W. Brown, Director of International Health, Indiana University . Co l l ege News • United College held a Foundation Dinner on 16th October to celebrate its 13th anniversary. This has been an important annual occasion for all members of the College faculty to get together in a festive, informal atmosphere. Owing to the increasing links with overseas institutions of higher learning, a larger number of guests and visiting staff from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France and Japan attended the Dinner this year. Student representatives were also invited. The College Student Union had its own programme of celebration on 20th October, including a flag-raising ceremony performed by President T.C. Cheng, staff-student sport s competition, group games, and a dinner-dance. • The 20th Anniversary Celebrations of New Asia College i n the month of October included the following items: A. A series of lectures in culture and the humanities, jointly organized b y the Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and Research and the Faculty of Art s — 1. "Learning and Culture", by Dr. Ch'ien Mu, founding President of the College; 2. "The Role of Chinese Culture as Viewed from the Perspective of Modernization", by Mr. Huang Wen-shan, Visiting Professor in the Sociology Departmen t of the College; — 8 —