Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 6 May–Jun 1970

"The Changing Nature of Economics" 18th April “The Great Boom" 22nd Ap r il “Recession? Inflation? Or the Beginning of a New Era?" 22nd April ' The Impact on International Finance" 23rd April • At the invitation of the Student Union of New Asia College, Dr. Yen Yuen-chang, Lecturer at the School of Education of thi s University, gave a talk on "Thinking and Human Life" on 17th April. • At the College Assembly of Chung Chi College on 17th April, Mr. Cha Liang Yung, Editor-in-Chief of Ming Pao, spoke on “Crisis of the Press in Hong Kong". • A Biology seminar, sponsored by the Department of Biology, Chung Ch i College, was held at the College on 24th April. Mr. William Chan, Senior Research Officer, Fisheries Research Station, Agriculture and Fisheries Department, spoke on "Aspects of Fisheries Studies in Hong Kong". • Mr. Edward Ho , Chairman of the Music Department, Chung Chi College ， has been invited by Radio Hong Kong to give a series of six illustrated talks on Beethoven's Piano Sonatas a s part of their series of programmes to commemorate the bicentenary of Beethoven's birth. The series began on 15th May. • Mr. Joachim Poon, Director of Physical Education, United College, left Hong Kong on 22n d May on long leave. He will be away for some five months, during which he plans to take refresher courses in physical education at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. • The Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and Research of New Asia College held a monthly meeting for its Research Trainees on 27th May . A t the meeting, a Research Trainee, Mr. Wan Tat- ming, reported on ‘The Imperial Censors of the Early Tang Dynasty", whil e Miss Dong Wo-kwun presented a paper on "Communications by Sea in China during the Prime Perio d (627-766) of the Tang Dynasty, as viewed from the Poetry of that Period" . • Miss Lui Ling-ye, a fourth-year student of English of New Asia College, has won the 1969/70 Royal Society of St. George's Shakespeare Essa y Prize. The essay title of the competition was "Humour in Shakespeare's tragedies or in any one tragedy". She was awarded HK$1000. • The contests of essay, poetry, lyric and song, sponsored by the Chinese Literature Department of New Asia College, had been finalized and the Department announced on 16th May that the winners of the contests were Mr. Chen g Kin-nam, Miss Lai Yin-man, Mr. Tung Chi-wan and Mr. Fung Yu-ming. • Two student representatives of Chung Chi College, Miss Chan Yin Pik and Miss Chu Lai Fong, selected by the Student Union of the College, attended the International Student Seminar held from 28th to 30th May in Korea under the sponsorship of the Ewha Women's University, Korea. The theme of the Seminar was "Women's Role in World Peace". • A group of teachers and students of Yuen Long Public Middle School visited New Asia College on 18th May. Ten teachers and students of th e Third Year Specialist Art Course of Grantham College of Education visited the Fine Arts Department of New Asia College on 19th May. O b i t u a r i es • Mr. Lee Wing-Kim, Assistant Librarian of Chung Chi College, passed away on 21st April, 1970 in the Baptist Hospital after a long illness of heart trouble. He was 47. He joined Chung Chi College in October, 1960. • Dr. Tchang Pi-Kai, former Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science and Head of the Economics Department of New Asia College, passed away on 28th May, 1970. Dr. Tchang, who retired last year, was one of the Founders of the College and had been on the teaching and administrative staff of the College for abou t twenty years. — 1 2 —