Newsletter Vol. 01 - 4

Annual Gathering 2002

Watch out! Annual Gathering 2002 is coming! With the perfect timing: two months after the School Hall Farewell "Basin Banquet" in SFXS and the Good Old Days' Night in December, 2001, you and your old buddies will enjoy a spring dinner reunion brought to you again by the Alumni.

Details of the event are here:

Date: 23rd February, 2002 (Saturday)
Venue: Maxim's Palace Chinese Restaurant, Grand Century Plaza, Mong Kok (旺角 新世紀廣場 美心皇宮大酒樓)
Ticket Fee: $400

In the past, raffle tickets were sold to raise fund for our mother schools. This year, there will no longer be raffle tickets selling. Instead, a little premium has already been included to make up for the target fund. All of us can therefore be rest assured that we can spend more time chatting, sharing and reminiscing.

The alumni family has been growing and our past activities have been transcending age, geographies and people, including old boys and our beloved Brothers. While we begin involving more past and current teachers in our events, we are going beyond that. Members of the Parent-Teacher Association may join us for the first time!

As we believe personal touch is far more important than an invitation card, we would like to designate the job of inviting teachers to every old boy. The Alumni committee will invite Brothers as in the past. If you and your old friends would like to invite any of your beloved former teachers, you may contact and invite them personally. The Alumni will be most happy to assist in providing the contact method.

Annual Gathering 2002 will be in the form of a traditional Chinese feast. It will be enjoyable for you and your family members alike! Act fast, register now! Use the registration overleaf or email sfxaa@hkstar.com.

 

Basin Banquet (盆菜宴) at SFXS to Farewell the School Hall

SFXS, Tsuen Wan will hold a basin banquet at school on 1 December 2001 (Saturday) at 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. to commemorate the coming demolition of the school hall. A new complex will be built on its original site to accommodate more classrooms and special rooms. Banquet ticket is only HK$120 per head. Please call Mr. Chong Man-Ho (莊Sir) at 2492 7055 for reservation.

 

Report on AGM 2001

The Annual General Meeting was held at 6:00 p.m. on 7 July 2001 at the Hall of St. Francis Xavier's College Kowloon. 55 alumni attended the AGM. The President presented a brief report on the functions held by the Alumni in the past year. In essence, the functions included Decade Reunion for alumni graduated in years ending with 0's on 8 October 2000, Annual Gathering on 10 February 2001, Happy Hour Gatherings on 20 October 2000, and an Alumni Trophy Basketball Competition still in progress. Three issues of Newsletter had been released. And thank for the effort of Mr. Thomas Tsui, the number of e-mail address of the alumni had increased to about 1,200. Mr. Louis Tang, our Honorary Auditor, presented the accounting report of the Alumni. As at 31 May 2001, the Alumni had a credit balance of HK$162,794.33.

Election of officers for the two-year term of 2001-2003 followed and the outgoing and incoming executive committee members are listed below:

	Outgoing officers	Incoming officers
President	Raymond, Ng Ngai Man	Raymond, Ng Ngai Man
1st Vice-president	Joseph, Lam Man Che	Dave Kin Kwan
2nd Vice-president	Ray, Lau Kam Wai	Samuel, Ho Tat Ming
Secretary	Lee Kim Hung	Lee Kim Hung
Asst. Secretary	Thomas, Tsui Yiu Ming	Chow Ka Po
Treasurer	Adrian Lo	Louis, Tang Kwok Leung
Asst. Treasurer	Ng Ming Yui	Joseph, Lam Man Che
Members	Alan Auyeung	Thomas, Tsui Yiu Ming
	Sandy Chuang	Sandy Chuang
	Dave Kin Kwan	Tony, Ho Ling Tung
	David Lai	Lawrence, Chan Man Hei
	Michael Wu	Ray, Lau Kam Wai

 

Report on Decade Reunion 2001

The Decade Reunion dinner for the year 2001 was held together with the Alumni AGM on 7 July 2001 at the Champagnat Hall of SFXC. This time, old boys with graduation year ending with "1" were the hosts of the event while all other old boys were welcome to join as guests. We had a happy gathering with nearly 100 participants. Over 20 teachers and brothers joined and enjoyed it.

The atmosphere was warm and harmonious as many old boys had not met for a long time since graduation. They quickly grouped together in small circles. This is natural for long-lost friends. In years to come, we hope these circles could go beyond the boundary of year and people, and there could be even more interactions among old boys of different years and teachers, making this family event as memorable and meaningful as can be.

Many alumni were particularly interested in the photo exhibition which presented both SFX schools' premises development in the past decades. Some of the alumni's own old photos in school time were displayed too. Many old boys were able to find their young faces. The photos did arouse numerous rounds of "guess-who-and-when" and brought the reminiscences of all the participants to the good old days.

Some old boys thought that the event would be much greater if there was a larger number of participants. This could be, in fact, partly due to the relatively short time of preparation, and partly due to inadequate liaison officers. The organization committee is formed every year by a handful of alumni. They share the workload of both organizing the event and contacting people. Should some people dedicate their time doing the liaison while some others dedicate in the event preparation only, the message could be more widespread.

Likewise, the number of participating teachers could be increased if more old boys could take the initiate to invite their former teachers and put in effort to give the teachers kind of "home" feeling. After all, it is personal touch that our beloved teachers and Brothers treasure most. May we hope that future decade reunions will attract even more teachers and alumni!

 

SFX Alumni Tianjin, Shanghai, & Hong Kong Good Old Days Night

o Time: 7:00p.m. to midnight, December 8, 2001(Saturday)

o Venue: Li Hua. 19/F., Lee Theatre Plaza, 99 Percival Street, Causeway Bay,
Hong Kong

o Program: Singing, Dancing, and a lot more………Fun! Fun! Fun!

o Tickets: HK$500 per person. The maximum capacity of Li Hua is 15 tables with each
table 10 to 12 people. 11 tables already pre-sold. Call now and make your reservations

o Contacts: (50's) George Ko:25776693, David H T Lan: 97803388
(60's) Chan Cho Hung: 23933111,Raymond Leung: 25946401
(70's) Chong Man Ho: 91517143, Raymond Ng: 90382703
(80's) Dave Kwan : 94368025

o Dress Code: Anything: Jeans, Suits or Nostalgic costume

Support your alma mater!
Live the SFX spirit!