Summer Issue, 2013

77 Alumni Networks HKUAA UK Chapter Members of the HKUAA UK Chapter visited Dr Rayson Huang in Birmingham on Saturday, April 27, 2013. We had lunch with him at a local restaurant. It was a wonderful reunion and we spent four hours together! Everyone knows where Rayson Huang Theatre is at HKU; I have even helped a society organise its inauguration ceremony there. But who can believe that I got a chance to talk with the legendary Dr Rayson Huang and even had dim sum with him in Birmingham! The 92-year-old former Vice-Chancellor is in good health, even better than a student who has been studying under stress in the library all week. He shared some of his stories of the old days when he was a student at HKU. He told me that he was actually grateful that he got a degree certi cate from HKU without being examined in his nal year due to the war, or else he might not have been able to graduate. Back in his day, he was a good violinist and was the rst to propose dentistry as a subject at HKU. It surprised me how talented and forward-looking Dr Huang was. Even now, a chemical that he synthesised during his postgraduate studies at Oxford is still in use. However, what I learnt from Dr Huang is not how he synthesised the chemical, but the importance of taking a nap during the day. Sam Leung 梁兆森 (BEng, Year 2) www.alumni.hku.hk/hkuaauk Gathering with former Vice-Chancellor Dr Rayson Huang Dr Rayson Huang 黃麗松 (BSc 1942; Hon DSc 1968) (front row sitting) and members of the UK chapter (from left): mentee Sam Leung 梁兆森 (BEng,Year 2) (from Birming- ham), Dr Ronald Lo 羅佐華 (MBBS 1970), HoraceTam, Simon Cheung 張世文 (BSc 1986), and Dr Polly Fung 馮樸琳 (BDS 2009) (sitting). A luncheon talk with Dr the Hon Anson Chan 陳方安生 (BA 1962; Hon LLD 1996) on May 21, 2013 at the Grand Imperial Chinese Restaurant, Grosvenor Hotel. The Annual General Meeting 2013 and Poon Choi luncheon was held on March 10, 2013 at the Islington Chinese Association (ICA) premises in London and was attended by 35 members and guests, including (front row, from left) Dr Stephen Ng 吳呂南 (BA 1976), Professor Tom Boyde, Col. Brian Kay, Stella Ho, Dr Eric Peter Ho 何鴻鑾 (BA 1950), Mrs Payne, and Dr Hung Ching-tin 洪清田 (BSocSc 1975). Together with the members and mentees of the International Mentorship Programme, they all enjoyed a wonderful homemade Poon Choi luncheon provided by the kitchen of the ICA.