Newsletter No. 5

CUHK Newsletter Long Service Award Recipients assistant manager's job, nor did he enjoy working for a small firm. Mr. Chan's work at the University has always involved money, from preparing budgets and financial statements to handling expenditure applications and cheques. In his leisure time Mr. Chan likes to go hiking with his wife. Mr . Cheng Kwok-hung Mr. Cheng, laboratory assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, joined the University 25 years ago after holding an interesting assortment of jobs, including auxiliary po l i ceman, wa i t e r, and salesman in a furniture store. He was originally employed by the University as a helper in the laboratory of the Physics Department of U n i t ed College. He later transferred to the Department of Electrical Engineering upon its establishment. In his earlier days, when United College was still located on Hong Kong Island, Mr. Cheng was responsible for preparing apparatus to be used in classroom experiments and f or c l ean i ng and r emo v i ng the apparatus following classes. In those days, when laboratory facilities were limited, the job was quite demanding. In recent years, with the advent of better equipped and much more spacious laboratory facilities, as well as increased student use of computers, life has been easier for Mr. Cheng. Mrs. Lau Shuen Nai-man Mrs. Lau, library assistant in the United College Library, has worked for the UC Library throughout her 25 years at the University. During those years her work has remained pretty much the same; the only real difference is that many tasks previously performed manually are now handled via computers. The job has always suited Mrs. Lau, who has always respected her duties and never found them boring. Mrs. Lau's fondest memory of her years at CUHK is of the UC Library's move from Hong Kong Island to the Sha Tin campus. She still has very warm feelings when she recalls how all the library s t a ff wo r ked — t o g e t h er in packing and escorting the books to Sha Tin. Exhausted after packing and loading the books at the Hong Kong Island campus, they lifted each other's spirits by singing, laughing, and joking all the way to Sha Tin. A devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Lau spends all of her free time caring for her family. Mr. Ho Yui ‘Uncle Yui', as his colleagues fondly call him, serves as laboratory assistant in the Department of Biochemistry. Before he joined the University, however, Mr. Ho thought a lot about shoes. He was a shoemaker before hired as a night-shift watchman by United College in 1964, and he continued making shoes until United College moved to Sha Tin and he was subsequently put on day-shift work. In 1972 he transferred to the Department of Biochemistry, where he was joined by his wife in 1977. The only drawback to this happy arrangement was that he and his wife could not take leave at the same time. Popular with his colleagues, Mr. Ho enjoys p l a y i ng mahjong with them in his spare time. Mr. Ho looks at his receipt of the Long Service Award with mixed feelings. While proud of the award and his service to the University, Mr. Ho is saddened, too, because it reminds him that he is g r o w i ng o l der and nearing his retirement in 1991. Mrs. Esther Mak Ngan Mrs. Ma k works as a telephone operator in the Central Office Support Service. She received her training for this type of post while studying at the Ebenezer School for the Blind. Upon graduation, she was encouraged by her headmaster to apply for the post of telephone operator in New Asia College in 1964. It was a job she didn't expect to get, as competition for the post was keen, and there were few opportunities for blind people. She still remembers with deep gratitude Mr. Donald McCabe, then comptroller of New Asia College, who gave 7