Newsletter No. 12

CUHK N e w s l e t t e r tennis and tennis. The overall champion team is awarded the Ch'ien Mu Cup while the winners of individual events are awarded trophies named after other former college heads. This year the championship went to the staff team. The second feature was the installation on the wall of the college concourse a commemorative plaque inscribed with the names of all New Asia graduates from 1952 to 1989. The plaque was officially unveiledby Prof. T. B. Lin, the college head, on the college's Founders' Day on 28th September, United College 34th Anniversary On the college's Founders' Day on 19th October, Dr. Ho Tim, vice-chairman of the College Board of Trustees, and Mr. Vincent H. C. Cheng, member of the Hong Kong Government's Central Policy Unit, were invited to officiate at the official celebration held in the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall and to present academic prizes to outstanding students. A series of other celebration activities were then held at the United College campus, including a lion dance and the cutting of a birthday cake. A ‘feast-for-a- thousand' and an inter-departmental talent quest held on the same evening brought this year's anniversary celebration to an end. Chung Chi College 39th Anniversary To celebrate the Founders' Day on 2nd November, Chung Chi College organized a thanksgiving service in its chapel. The new head of college, Dr. Philip Shen, was officially installed on the same occasion. The Vice-Chancellor was invited to present awards and scholarships to outstanding students, and the representative of the college alumni presented a gift for the new extension to the college chapel. Other celebration programmes and recreational activities were separately organized by the Student Union and the college alumni and held on 2nd and 3rd November at the Lingnan Stadium on the Chung Chi campus. ANNOUNCEMENTS Appointment of Pro-Vice-Chancellor The University Council has reappointed Prof. Baysung Hsu as pro-vice-chancellor for a further period of two years upon the expiration of his current term of office on 28th February 1991. Appointment of Head of Shaw College The University Council has reappointed Prof. C. N. Chen as head of Shaw College for a further period of three years upon the expiration of his current term of office on 10th February 1991. Appointment of Professor of Sociology Prof. Lau Siu-kai has been appointed as professor of sociology from 1st October 1990. Prof. Lau graduated with a B.Soc.Sc. degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1971 and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, USA in 1975. He joined this University as lecturer in sociology in August of the same year and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1983 and reader in 1987. Prof. Lau specializes in studies on Hong Kong and has published extensively on the subject. For many years he was director of the Centre for Hong Kong Studies in the University's Institute of Social Studies. Following the reorganization of the institute and its replacement by the 4