Newsletter No. 42

CUHK N e w s l e t t e r No.42 May 1993 The 30th Anniversar —Prof. Kenneth Young Convener, Sub-Committee on 30th Anniversary Exhibition I t was 8 a.m. on Friday, 26th March, three hours before the exhibition was to open, and the City Hall was in pitch darkness - the electricity supply to the City Hall had failed around midnight, the Exhibition Hall was inaccessible with doors disabled in the 'locked' position, and it was not known when the power would come back on. That was the most worrying moment in the months of preparation. But all's well that ends well, and none of the guests, and indeed relatively few of the colleagues helping with the exhibition, knew about this close brush with disaster. But apart from that hitch, the preparations went surprisingly smoothly for an event of such magnitude and involving so many people. Of course we did anticipate many problems 一 academics not always having a high regard for deadlines, outside typesetters not always having a high regard for spelling, last minute changes and additions 一 but everything was somehow fixed, nearly always just in the nick of time. But to start at the beginning, it was in May last year that the series of celebration activities for the 30th anniversary was decided upon, and I was asked to chair the exhibition sub-committee, with Mrs. Alison Lee, assistant registrar in the Faculty of Medicine, as secretary. We convened the first meeting 6