Bulletin Number Five 1984

much o f the new materials just then coming to light and making use o f special exhibitions being held in London. In 1966 he moved a few blocks up Gower Street over to Gordon Square, to take up the Chair o f Chinese A rt and Archaeology at the School o f African and Oriental Studies o f London University. He was also invited to head the Percival David Foundation o f Chinese A rt, which holds a most magnificent collection o f Chinese porcelain ， mainly o f the Sung period and onwards, that would have been the envy o f any curator outside China itself. Naturally his attention and energy increasingly turned towards this particular Oriental art form, and as a result the fame o f the Foundation as a centre for Oriental ceramic studies had been steadily on the rise through out his tenure. He was also active in arranging exhibi tions, an outstanding example being the dazzling 1973/74 London presentation o f major new archae ological finds o f China, for which he wrote the masterly introduction. The Genius o f China. A t the same time a steady harvest o f scholarly publications was kept up, eventually totalling some ten books and numerous articles on a wide spectrum o f Chinese art, including the Cultural Frontiers in Ancient East Asia published in 1971 and the Tang and Liao Ceramics published this year. Thus when Professor Watson retired from his Chair and the Precival David Foun dation last year, it must have been w ith considerable pride and satisfaction that he looked back on those thirty-six years o f solid scholarly achievement, and presumably would not have totally regretted the six years' stint w ith Intelligence which might have led up to it. Over the years, it would but be natural that a stream o f honours and distinctions should have been attracted to a renowned scholar like Professor Watson. He was awarded the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal in 1973 ， the Commander o f the Order o f British Empire in 1982, has been elected Fellow o f the British Academy, Fellow o f the Society o f An ti- quaries o f London and Fellow o f the Royal Asiatic Society, has been made a Trustee o f the British Museum since 1980 and was the President o f the Oriental Ceramic Society from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Chancellor, in recognition o f his outstand ing contribution to the study and exposition o f Oriental art, may I request Your Excellency to confer on Professor William Watson the Degree o f Doctor o f Literature, honoris causa. The Honorable Lydia Dunn, CBE, JP Were the economy o f Hong Kong a ship sailing forth in international trade wind, then Miss Lydia Dunn would undoubtedly have been the skysail atop the mainmast, where it can catch wind most easily and efficiently. Whether in a breeze or a gale, whether on a run or close-hauled, we can always look up to find it correctly trimmed and well filled, making the ship fly towards the distant horizon. To rise to the top would not have been easy, but judging from the feat o f Miss Dunn, it does not seem too d ifficu lt either. Born and brought up in Hong Kong, she went through St. Pauls' Convent School and then the University o f California at Berkeley, where she obtained a BS in business administration. A fter returning to Hong Kong, she joined Swire & MacLaine lim ited as an administrative trainee, rose in ten years to export manager and then director, and w ithin another ten was made Senior Director o f the Swire Group as well as Chairman o f several subsidiary companies, thus joining the inner circle o f one o f the oldest and biggest hongs o f Hong Kong. It would be naive to imagine luck or chance counts much in the fiercely competitive trading world, where only true talent and hard work can make one rise, the success o f Miss Dunn probably being no exception. However, her immense strength which must be the envy o f many o f the presumably stronger sex makes the move up the ladder seem so effortless, that one cannot but be held in admiration and amazement. In Hong Kong, recognized talents are always relentlessly sought after. Thus, during the past several years, she has been appointed director by several major corporations, such as The Hongkong NEWS 5