First Thursday Meeting a success
By David Yuen
The Wah Yan Alumni Association of Southern California held its First
monthly meeting at the Holiday Café in Monterey Park on Thursday,
January 8th, 2004.
The turnout was exceptionally good. Twenty One alumni, plus our
treasurer Franky Low’s better half, attended.
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Jesuit Nursing Fund - via “Wah Yan Alumni Scholarship Foundation”
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Gavin Lam, our new president, discussed the plight of our retired
Jesuit teachers in Hong Kong. There was a tax deductible fund, the “Wah
Yan Alumni Scholarship Foundation” fund, that was already set up. It can
be used also to help our retired teachers. Gavin urged all the alumni
to help in this worthwhile endeavor. Tax deductible receipts were
available.
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June Anniversary Celebration -old memorabilia
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Peter Leung, with co-chair Matthew Lau, discussed the progress of the
June 5th , 2004 conference. This is an independent West Coast
conference on top of the International Conference to be held in Hong
Kong on November 13-15, 2004. May be San Francisco and Vancouver can
join us together to make it a true West Coast affair. Two vice
principals, Messieurs Raymond Yu and Anthony Ho, will be and/or have
been contacted. The one contacted will be able to attend. Another
senior alumni, owner of the Longevity Milk brand fame, who is ninety
years old himself, may attend. We are currently soliciting exhibits of
old memorabilia and old photos.
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Mars Exploration
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One of our alumni, Edward Wong, is a team member of the JPL Mars
project. He gave an impromptu talk on the Spirit rover that landed
successfully on Mars last week. He was involved in the control
development of the rover. He said that the parachute of Spirit had to
open two seconds earlier that planned, due to high speed of the landing,
resulting in higher than expected temperature. Electrical tripping
caused the initial non-communication after the rover landed on Mars. The
rover will explore Mars at a leisure pace of 50m to 100m per day.
Last, but not least, before the meeting was adjoined, Gavin announced
that the dinner was on him, as an added incentive for everyone to make a
donation to the Wah Yan Alumni Scholarship Foundation.
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