Bulletin Vol. 8 No. 3 Oct 1971

授敎鼎盧迎歡長校敏卓李 Vice-Chancellor Choh-Ming Li greeting Prof. H.R. Rudin Trustees to donate a building to the University to house the University Health Centre. Thi s project fits in very well with the interest of the Yale-in-China Association, for it has had many decades of active participation in higher education in Mainland China, the Yali Medical School at Changsha being famous throughout the country. Today I am sure that Mr. Holden, now President of the Association, Professor Harry Rudin, Vice-President of the Association, and Dr. Ira Hiscock, Chairman of the Health Committee of the Association, will derive great satisfaction in witnessing the completion of a project for which the y have laboured conscientiously and, if I may add, lovingly, for these five years. In this connection I would like to mention two of their colleagues, Dr. Louise Hutchin s and Dr. Francis Hutchins, who gave us valuable assistance in the planning of the project when they were here with us for a period of over two years. As all of you will notice from the wording of the plaque, the Association's contribution represents an expression of its close friendship for 70 years with the Chinese people. It is the good fortune of The Chinese University to receive this expression in the form of the University Health Centre. We are most grateful for this contribution and for the presence of its representatives on this occasion. Let me at this point introduce to you Mr. Holden, Professor Rudin, an d Dr. Hiscock. When the University Healt h Centre was projected, effort had already begun to map out a university health programme. Outside assistance was sought, since without it the programme could not be carried out effectively within a short period of time. It is here that Dr. John Bowers, President of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation of New York came to lend us a strong hand. Fully sharing our aspirations for the development of The Chinese University, Dr. Bowers took it upon himself to convince his Board of Trustees to give us a grant of about HK$300,000 " to suppor t the development of University health services for the first three years". This grant has greatly facilitated the recruitment and training of our University Health Director, Dr. Robert Dan, and his staff. I am very happy to see that Dr. Bowers has come all the way from New York to join us on this happy occasion. Let me introduce to you Dr. John Bowers, President o f the Macy Foundation. In setting up the University Health Programme we have relied heavily on advice from experts outside the University. These include many friends, all of whom have served with devotion and have met the University demands at their personal sacrifice of time and effort. I would like particularly t o introduce to you the Chairman of the University Health Service Committee, himself well-known in this Region, Dr. Morgan Lu’ and an importan member of the Committee who is also the health officer of the sister University, Dr. Solomon Bard. What we want to achieve in the University Health Programme is to develop a system that will give high quality clinical and healt h services to our students and staff. This goal could not be achieved without the whole- hearted support of the Medical and Health Department of the Hong Kong Government. I am therefore especially grateful that the Director of Medical and Health Services, Dr. Gerald Choa, has made a special effort to interrupt his attendance at a conference at Manila in order to address us later on at this gathering. To all of you I would like to extend a warm welcome and to say, "thank you for coming to join us on this happy occasion". - 6 -