Summer Issue, 2013

Dedicated teacher and loving mother Blessings from thousands of miles away To commemorate the 100th anniversary of their alma mater , members of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association of Ontario (HKUAA Ontario) championed a fundraising initiative to set up a scholarship for needy students to participate in overseas exchange during their undergraduate studies. Experiential learning stimulates the students’ academic learning and is now an integral component of the four-year undergraduate curriculum at HKU. Knowing that overseas exchange would be a nancial burden on less-privileged students, over 40 alumni residing in Canada levelled the playing eld by establishing the “ HKUAA Ontario Student Exchange Scholarship (香港大學安省校友會交換生獎學金)” . Special thanks go to Tim Cheng 鄭天祥 (BSc 1970), Dennis Auyeung 歐陽健昌 (BSc 1977), and Augustine Chan 陳億崙 (BA 1982) who initiated and co-ordinated the fundraising appeal and helped make this Scholarship a reality. Dr Doris Chen and the then Head of Department, Professor A J Ellis (back row, 2nd left), former Heads Dr K Y Chan (back row, 5th right) and Professor Y C Chow (back row, 3rd right) at the annual departmental outing in winter 1982. Dr Doris Chen A memorial fund has been established at the Department of Mathematics by Professor William Chen and Dr John Chen, sons of the late Dr Doris Chen Lai-chue 陳郭麗珠 (1929 – 2012), a mathematician who was the rst female teacher at the Department and who earned the respect and affection of generations of HKU undergraduates in mathematics from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. The Fund will be used to support scholarships for research postgraduate students and scholarly activities at the Department of Mathematics. Dr Chen graduated in 1949 with a degree in mathematics from Sun Yat Sen University in Canton. She went to King’s College of the University of London in 1949, and obtained a PhD in mathematics in 1955. From 1953 until her retirement in 1985, she was a lecturer in mathematics at HKU. For many generations of undergraduates, Dr Chen was a symbol of elegance and culture, and a person full of warmth and kindness. As one of the few female academics at the Faculty of Science at the time, Dr Chen was a role model for many female students. www.scholarships.hku.hk Alumni, their family members and mentees in Ontario attended the fall hiking trip at the Oak Ridges Trail in King City. Giving in Focus 26