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BETWEEN RUBY AND SALLY Volume O ne • September 1964 • N um ber Three Even the two uninvited guests, Typhoon Ruby and Typhoon Sally, had chosen an appropriate time to arrive in Hong Kong, sandwiching the Installation ceremony in the middle to allowa bright and sunny day on September 9. By good fortune, none of the overseas guests’ arrival schedules were upset by Ruby, although many of them had to be confined in their hotels the very first day of their arrival. Two Regents of the University of California, Mrs. Edward H. Heller and Mr. William E. Forbes with Mrs. Forbes were the first to arrive on the 4th. Dr. and Mrs. Lyman P. Van Slyke of Stanford University arrived the same evening. They spent their first day in the hotels. Acting President of University of Saigon, Prof. Pham Bien Tam, Dean and Mrs. Vicente Abad Santos of the University of the Philippines, and Dr. J. V. Loach of the University of Leeds arrived the second day of Typhoon Ruby. On the 7th, Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim of the University of Malaya and President Clark Kerr with Mrs. Kerr and two of their children reached Hong Kong. The following day, Sir John Fulton and Lady Fulton of the University of Sussex and Chancellor Vernon L.Cheadle and Mr. William Allaway of University of California, Santa Barbara, arrived. All of them missed Ruby but had a taste of Sally. Prof. Tam, who was staying in the Mandarin Hotel with a room overlooking the harbour and Kowloon, said the harbour of Hong Kong in all stillness during Sally, was the 'most magnificent sight I have ever seen'. To see the harbour without ships, junks and ferries is a rare experience, indeed. In spite of the inconveniences caused by Ruby and Sally, the visiting guests managed to pay a visit to all the founda­ tion colleges, talk with College officials and teaching staff and take a sight-seeing tour of Kowloon. All in all, the University was blessed by their presence as the Chancellor said: ‘Our guests have provided the necessary audience and publicly endorsed our status as a University and proclaimed their faith in us. Some of them travelled many thousands of miles to be here, and we must all be very grateful indeed to them that they should have consented to undergo a fatiguing journey in order to honour us in this very practical and essential manner'. The Dinner Party given by the Vice-Chancellor in the D r . C h o h -M in g L i, the V ice-Chancellor, addresses the C ongregation. 9