Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

Nations Peace Award, he has been recognized for his poetry by gaining the Kenya Oral Literature Association Award and the Poet Laureate Award of the Association of World Poets. From Moscow to Harvard, Peking to Buenos Aires, Shenzhen to the Institut de France, he has spoken at universities around the world, and forged strong links with them. Our own university and Soka University have had ties since 1975. For over a quarter of a century now we have engaged in extensive academic exchanges, including the exchange of undergraduates. Dr. Ikeda was here in 1992 as Distinguished Visiting Professor and more recently in February 2000 for detailed exchange of views. Our current Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Arthur Li , and his predecessor, Prof. Charles Kao, have had Honorary Doctorates conferred on them by Soka University. Daisaku Ikeda serves humankind, spreading life-serving values through education and art in order to nurture men and women of good will, in the pursuit of global peace. I have heard men cry, Hatred's venom on their tongues. But with his heart-felt words, Ikeda's poetry turns us from the paths of blood. For these reasons, it is my great privilege, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, to ask that you confer on President Daisaku Ikeda the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa. Tin Ka Ping Mr. Tin Ka Ping is one of Hong Kong's best known industrialists and philanthropists. He was bom in 1919 in the Yintan Village of Dabu, in the City of Meizhou, Guangdong Province. His father Mr. Tin Yuk Wu, a merchant of Hakka descent, had a good reputation for being upright and charitable. His mother Madam Tin was a paragon of the thrifty and practical virtues for which Hakka women are known. Mr. Tin Ka Ping, bom late in his father's life, was muc h loved but brought up under strict discipline all the same. Mr. Tin senior was apt to encourage his son with the exemplary stories of the ancient sages and heroes, and reference was frequently made to the Rules for the Household of Zhuzi. The young Tin Ka Ping, guided by his father's f i r m hand, thus learnt to uphold his values and persevere in adverse conditions, and also began to cultivate a benevolent character. Mr. Tin senior passed away in 1935 ， when Ka Ping was only 15 years old and had just completed the second year of junior high school. However, family duties made it necessary for him to forego school life and to inherit his father' s business. In 1937 ， Mr. Tin went to Vietnam to found his own business and, in less than two years, had established himself as the largest supplier of kaolin in that country. In the summer of 1939 Shantou fell to the Japanese and the supply of kaolin was cut off. Mr. Tin then found it expedient to move south and landed in the city of The 56th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees 45