Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 5 Mar–Apr 1970

Miss Janet Lai, Administrative Assistant, University Registry Miss Janet Lai, a graduate of Maryknoll Convent School, read English Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Upon her graduation in 1966 , she taught at Kowloon English School for one year. Miss Lai joined the University in August 1967. As Administrative Assistant in the General and Public Affairs Section of the Registry, her schedule includes, inter alia. University ceremonies and othe r functions, programmes for visitors, and public lectures. (picture in Chinese section) Com i ng s a nd Go i ngs • Dr. P.N. Campbell, Professor of Biochemistry of Leeds University, England, visited New Asia College on 2nd March, and exchanged views on related courses with teachers of the Biology Department of that College. • A group of teachers and students from Chapman College of California, U.S.A., visited New Asia College on 4th March. They toured the campus, and had a seminar wit h teachers and students of the College on "Public Education". • Members of the World History Working Party of the University, Sir Herbert Butterfield , Prof. Cho-Yun Hsu and Prof. William H. McNeill, visited New Asia College and United College on 16th and 18th March. • Over one hundred teachers and students from the Faculty of Commerce of Nippon University, Tokyo, visited New Asia College on 20th March, and attended a tea party given in their honour by the teachers and students of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science of th e College. • Dr. and Mrs. Leslie P. Spelman visite d Chung Chi College from 19th to 24th March to meet the members of the Music Department and discuss the development of music in the College. Dr. Spelman, a well-known organ virtuoso in the United States, was for over 30 years Professor of Organ and Theory of Music at the University of Redlands. • Mr. R.N. Rayne, Vice-President, and Dr. Philip Shen, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Chung Chi College, left for Taiwan on 21st March to visit Tunghai University to exchange views on general education. • Dr. and Mrs. Wei Hsueh-ren visited Chung Chi College on 27th March. Dr. Wei, sometime Dean of Science at the University of Nanking, just recently retired from Bethany College in West Virginia. • Dr. Douglas Mendel, Jr., Professor of Asia Politics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, visited Cluing Chi College on 27th March. • Prof. Bruce Pattison, Professor of Education , The Institute of Education , University of London, arrived on 1st Ap r il to visit the University under the sponsorship of The Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas. During his short visit, he met with the teachers and the students of English Language and Literature of the three Foundation Colleges. • Professor Hsueh Shou-sheng, Professor of Government and Public Administration assigned to United College, left Hong Kong on 2nd Ap r il for Manila, where he served as the director of a research workshop convened by the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration on "Administrative Implications of Rapid Populatio n Growth in Asia" from 3rd to 6th Ap r i l. Professor Hsueh returned to Hong Kong on 6th Ap r i l. • Prof. B. Holzner, Visiting Professor of Sociology of the University, left on 28th March for the United States to attend a conference held on 4th Ap r i l at the University of Pittsburgh . • A t the invitation of the Association for Asian Studies, M r . Fook-lam G. Chan, Assistant Lecturer of the Department of History, United College, left Hong Kong o n 24th March to attend the Annual Meeting of the Association held in San Francisco, f r om 3rd to 5th Ap r i l. Many leading scholars in Asian studies assembled at the Meeting. • Other visitors to United Colleg e included Dr. Peter Campbell, Professor of Biochemistry , University of Leeds, England; Prof. M. Rainer Lepsius , Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim, Germany; M r. W.G. von Heyden and Dr. Eva Lindemann, German Consul-General and German Consul respectively in Hong Kong. • Other visitors to the University included the Rev. Canon P.T. Chandi, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gorakhpur, India, and Mrs. Chandi; Prof. and Mrs. Henry David of the National — 8 —

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