Bulletin Number Three

Reply by Dr. Ma Lin Dr. Lee, Members of the Council, Ladies & Gentlemen ， Thank you Mr. Chairman for your very kind and generous remarks. During my twenty-three years at the University, I have the honour and privilege of serving the Council in various capacities, for nine years as Vice-Chancellor. I am very grateful indeed to you Mr. Chairman, and to your predecessor and now Pro-Chancellor of the University, Sir Yuet-keung Kan, for having given me your confidence and your unfailing support. I would also like to express my sincere appreciation of the valuable help given me by the overseas members, Lord Todd, Dr. Clark Kerr and not the least, the late Lord Fulton, all the lay Council Members and my colleagues at the University. Our honourable friend Dr. Clark Kerr has set a very high standard for academic presidents in the United States. He said, ‘The President has the primary responsibility for assessing the likely future and for preparing the campus to meet it. The essence of the Presidential task is to cast a vision of the place, and then to move to the internalization of the vision within the university community.' Now, in retrospect, I am happy to say that with the blessing and concerted effort of all the Council Members, the vision and educational goals set by our founding Members, including Dr. the Hon. Q.W. Lee, Dr. the Hon. P.C. Woo, and Dr. J.S. Lee are steadily being realized in the University's development. I am sure the new Vice-Chancellor will count on your wise counsel and support as much as I did in carrying out these important tasks. I have every confidence that under your able guidance Mr. Chairman, our University will continue to progress in the right direction. May I also take this opportunity to wish you all happiness and success. (3rd Meeting of the University Council, 1987) 9