Bulletin Number Two 1984

Opening of Madam S.H. Ho Hospital for Medical Students ■ The Madam S.H. Ho Hostel for Medical Students was formally opened by Dr. and Mrs. S.H. Ho on 8th March, and over two hundred guests attended the ceremony. The new hostel, located at the Prince o f Wales Hospital in Shatin, was originally planned for sixty final-year medical students and financed by Govern ment subvention. A generous donation o f HK$4.5 m illion from the S.H. Ho Charity Foundation towards the project enabled the expansion o f its facilities to provide residential accommodation for a hundred students. A t the opening ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ma Lin, said, 'Three hostels o f the University have come into being as a result o f the generosity o f the Ho family. The one at Chung Chi College is named after Mrs. S.H. H o .. . . The hostel for medical students w ithin the hospital has been completed, thanks again to a donation o f $4.5 m illion from the S.H. Ho Charity Foundation. Fully aware o f the important contribution the Ho family has made to the Univer sity, we have named this new hostel once again after Madam S.H. Ho.' On behalf o f the University, Dr. Ma thanked the Ho family and their foundation for their generosity and promised that 'the doctors we train for Hong Kong w ill, in appreciation o f the support o f the community, do their utmost to serve the people o f Hong Kong well'. Dr. S.H. Ho also addressed the gathering. He said, The success o f Hong Kong in such areas as new towns and commerce and industry since the Second World War has been due in large part to the skills and ingenuity o f the people o f Hong Kong. That is why our community should give special attention to the training and development o f our gifted young. In this respect, my family and I are more than delighted that we have been able to take part in this hostel project o f The Chinese University o f Hong Kong, an institution o f higher learning committed to the task o f training and development, w ith which we have had the pleasure o f establishing very close links since the early days.' The five-storey new hostel has a total o f eighty single and double bedrooms, w ith a common room, a small library and a reading room on the ground floor. The building is presently housing the first class o f fifty-seven clinical students o f the Medical Faculty, and is expected to be used as hostel for final year and obstetric students. 4 NEWS