Bulletin Vol. 9 No. 1 Sep–Oct 1972

STAFF PROFILES Mr. Lo Chak Yuen, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Buildings Office Mr. Lo Chak Yuen is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Architects and Surveyors (London). For several years, Mr. Lo was a Senior Assistant Quantity Surveyor with a local leading Chartered Quantity Surveyors and Cost Consultant firm and also part-time lecturer in Building Technology in the Department of Building Technology, Surveyin g and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Technical College. Mr. Lo joined the University as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor in December 1971. Mr. Lin Yan Sun, Assistant Comptroller, New Asia College Mr. Lin Yan Sun was educated at New Asia College and graduated with a degree- of Bachelor of Commerce (cum laude) in 1967. He worked at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation upon graduation unti l 1971 when he was appointed Assistant Comptroller at New Asia College. (Pictures in Chinese section) COMINGS AND GOINGS • Dr. Sim Yaw-soon, Associate Professor and concurrently Chairman of the Department of Political Science of Grambling College, the United States, visited New Asia College on 3rd August. Dr. Sim graduated from the College in 1962. • Mr. Harold Ho, Lecturer and Chairman of the Social Work Department, Chung Chi College, represented the University and the Hong Kong Committee for the International Conference on Social Welfare at the 16th International Congress of Schools of Social Work (ICSSW) and the 16th International Conference on Social Welfare held in the Hague, Netherlands from 6th to 22nd August. The themes of the two conferences were, respectively: “New Themes in Socia l Work Education" and "Developing Social Policy in Conditions of Rapid Change - The Role of Social Welfare". Mr. Ho had been invited by the ICSSW to serve as a resource for a discussion group in curriculum construction and developments. Mr. H o Kam Fai, Head of the Department of Social Work, United College, also attended the two conferences as a delegate of the University. After attending the Conferences, Mr. Ho visited institutes and schools of social work in Europe. • Dr. Charles K. Kao, Head of the Department of Electronics, United College, departed for the Unite d Kingdom on 17th August to do research at th e Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Ltd. for one month. During his stay in the United Kingdom, Dr. Kao delivered a number of lectures at the Institute o f Electrical Engineers' meeting on “Lasers and Optical Electronics" held at Southampton. • Prof. Hansgerd Schulte, President of the German Academic Exchange Service, visited the University on 22nd August, accompanied by Dr . R. Henatsch ， a German Consul, and Dr. K.P. Roos, Director of the Goethe Institute in Hong Kong. • Dr. Ng Wing Chiu ， Research Associate at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, visite d the Physics Department of United College in August. • Prof. Y.L. Yip of McGill Universit y visited the Electronics Department of United College at the end of August, and gave a talk on “Excitatio n Problems of Dielectric Waveguides". • Prof. H.F. Simon, Head of the Department of East and Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Melbourne, visited the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of United College in August. • Mr. Peter S.C. Chang, Assistant Lecturer in Theology, Chung Chi College, attended the Workshop on Programme Instruction Materials for Theological Education by Extension held in Taiwan from 14th August to 1st September. • Prof. George Sinclair from the University o f Toronto visited United College in September, accompanied by Prof. S.C. Loh, Director of the Computing Centre of this University. • On 9th September, the New Asia Research Institute Colloquium gave a reception in honour of Dr. Y.S. Yu, Professor of History, Harvard University. At the reception Dr. Yu gave a talk on Chinese studies in America. • Dr. Philip Shen, Dean of Arts Faculty, Chung Chi College, attended the International Congress of Learned Societies in the Field of Religion held from 22nd August to 8th September in Los Angeles. • Dr. S.W. TaM, Senior Lecturer i n Chemistry, Chung Chi College, left for Manila on 24t h September to attend the Regional Seminar on the Promotion of Public Understandin of Science and Technology held fro m 25 th September to 2nd October, sponsored by the UNESCO. — 6 —