Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2003

Th e 60 th Congregatio n for the Conferment of Degrees The seven honorary graduates posing with Prof. Ambrose Y.C. King, vice-chancellor of CUHK (middle) and Dr. Edgar W.K. Cheng, chairman of the Council (right 4). (From left) Dr. Anthony Francis Neoh, Prof. Yu Kwang Chung, Prof. Arthur Li, Prof. Jao Tsung I, Prof. Lu Yongxiang, Prof. Reinhard Selten, and Dr. Raymond Kwok. A total of 4,586 degrees were conferred at the University's 60th Congregation for the C o n f e r m e nt o f Deg r ees h e l d i n t he mo r n i ng on Thursday, 4th December 2003. The total n umb er of graduates ( i n c l u d i ng hono r a ry graduates) i n 2003 was 4,742, b ut the 156 degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery were already conferred at the 59th congregation on 24th October 2003. This year, h o n o r a ry doctorates we re conferred on seven distinguished persons. They were Dr. Ra ymo nd K w o k Ping Luen, distinguished entrepreneur, leader i n Ho ng Kong's p r o p e r ty sector and v i c e - c h a i rman o f the Un i v e r s i ty Co u n c i l; Prof. the Ho n o u r a b le A r t h ur K.C. Li, Secretary for Education and Ma n p ower of the H K S AR and former vice- chancellor of C U H K ; Dr. A n t h o ny Francis Neoh, senior counsel and Chief Adviser to the China Securities Regulatory Commission; Prof. the Honourable Jao Tsung I, world-renowned scholar in Chinese and oriental studies, Wei L u n Honorary Professor of Fine Arts and Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Literature of C U H K ; Prof. Yu K w a n g Chung, f amous Chinese scholar, poet, and a former teacher of CUHK ; Prof. L u Yongxiang, vice-chairman of the S t a n d i ng C omm i t t ee o f the Na t i o n al People's Congress, PRC and President of the Chinese A c a d e my o f Sciences; a nd P r o f. Reinhard Selten, Nobel laureate i n economic sciences 1994 a nd Professor Eme r i t us of Economics of the University of Bonn, Germany. Their citations were written and delivered b y Prof. D a v i d Parker and Prof. Serena Jin. Prof. L u Yongxiang represented the honorary graduates to address the congregation. A t the end of the ceremony, Prof. Yu Kw a ng Ch u ng p r e s e n t ed a t r i b u te t o the U n i v e r s i ty i n celebration of its 40th anniversary. I n the afternoon, the f o ur constituent colleges, the Part-time Degree Programmes, and the Graduate School also held graduation ceremonies for their students. Chinese University Bulletin Autumn • Winter 2003 34