Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 3 Nov–Dec 1969

Those of you who graduate today have completed a stage in your education. Nevertheless, your experience is still vivid, the joy and the worry that came wit h your school wo rk may still be fresh in your memory. I hope you would make the best use of your sound judgment to analyse the valuable tradition of a Chinese middle school and the areas where innovation an d improvement should be made. We do not ask for high-sounding suggestions, for your realistic opinions are what we need for reference and research in future. Finally, I should like to thank you for inviting my wife and myself to officiate at this ceremony. Please accept our heartiest congratulations for your achievement in various fields, which, no doubt, is the result of the concerted effort of the Principal, the teachers and the students of this school. I hope you wil l continue to make Lee Kau Yan Memorial School one of the leading schools that aim at improving the educational system in this community and working for the future of the thousands of youn g people in Hong Kong. New Developments of Mass Communications Centre and Journalism Department Removal to new premises The Mass Communications Centre an d the Department of Journalism moved to new premises in December, on the 6th and 7th floors of On Lee Building, an office building in downtown Kowloon. The new quarters, with a total area of 2,000 square feet, bring the research centre and the teaching department under the same roof and provide better facilities fo r more efficient operation of both. The new facilities include a classroom for lectures, a seminar room and offices for staff, a newspaper laboratory with 19 typewriters and stands, a reading room wher e files of 12 newspapers and various magazines are kept, a reference room with 300 books and clipping files on the communication media, and a darkroom for instruction in photography. For research activities and practical training there are a Bell and Howell 16 mm. sound projector, a slide projector, a n overhead projector, a tape recorder and amplifier , three portable tape recorders, three cameras with flash attachments, a layout table and a dri-copier. A new electronic calculator is also being purchased. Thus, the Mass Communications Centre and the Department of Journalism are now a compact and self-sufficient working unit. Recent research projects of Mass Communications Centre I n September 1969 the Mass Communications Centre conducted a "Stud y of Newspaper Reading on the Day of Publication". This was the first research done i n Hong Kong designed to establish the extent to which newspapers are read on the day they are published. Previous studies have dealt with reading of yesterday's paper, or reading of newspapers in the past 7 days. A "Study of Radio Listening Habits i n Hong Kong" was completed in October. In bot h cases a random sample of 700 interviews in more than 20 areas of Hong Kong was used. A "Study of Television Viewing by Educational Attainment" is awaiting final tabulation. Segments of the population with: a. no education, b. primary school education, c. secondary school education, and d. post-secondary education, were interviewed in this survey. A study of "Communications Patterns of Hong Kong Residents, by Occupational Groups", which entails 3,000 interviews, is expected to be completed by June 1970. Members of the Senate Chairman: D r . C h o h - M i n g L i , Vice-Chancellor Members: Presidents of the three Colleges M r . T.C. Cheng Dr. Y . T. Shen Dr. C.T. Yung College Vice-Presidents and members in lieu of Vice-Presidents M r . R.N. Rayne M r . NTH. Young Dr. Yen Two-Yung Professors and Readers Prof. Charles L . Alle n Prof. EricAxilrod Prof. Chen Cheng-Jiang Prof. Choc Fa-AO Prof. R E . Fehl Prof. S.C. Joseph Fu Prof. B. Glassburner Prof. B. Holzner Prof. Hsu Bay-sung Prof. Hsueh Shou-sheng Prof. C.T. Hu Dr. L i u Fah-hsuen Dr. L oh Shiu-chang — 1 4 —