CNews Issue 3, 2009

50 Homecomings Mak Chai-kwong 麥齊光 (BSc(Eng) 1973; MSc(UrbanPlanning) 1985) Ir Mak, Permanent Secretary for Development (Works), was invited to play with Professor Pan Yonghua 潘永華 , Director General of Education Science and Technology Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government, at the first friendly table tennis invitation match for senior administrators of higher education in Hong Kong in September 2009. Mak was one of the representatives of HKU’s tennis team at the Triennial Intervarsity Games (TIG) during his university years. Cheung Nim-kwan 張念坤 (BSc 1969; BScSp 1970) Professor Cheung, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co Ltd, revisited his alma mater as one of the guest speakers at the 70 th Anniversary Homecoming Day of Faculty of Science. Laurence Chan 陳光輝 (MBBS 1972) Todd Ing 吳兆濤 (MBBS 1957) Steve Wong 黃文輝 (BSc 1990) Vice-Chancellor Lap-Chee Tsui and senior administrators of the higher education kicked off the day’s matches. Laurence, who is a distinguished nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA, came back and toured round the campus. Steve (right) is now a senior scientist at Abbott Laboratories and resides in the northern suburbs of Chicago with his family. He met two seniors recently, Dr Todd Ing (left) and Dr Laurence Chan (centre), to form an alumni network for the central states of the US. If you or your alumni friends in the central states would like to stay connected and be part of the network, please kindly email wong.man-fai@graduate.hku.hk .