Fall Issue, 2014

Chan Sai-bun 陳世彬 1932-2014 ( BA 1957 ; MA 1961) Chan Sai-bun ( 筆名：羔羊 ） , dedicated his life to education and Chinese writing, passed away in February 2014 at the age of 81. In 1952, Sai- bun came to HKU as a Queen’s College graduate to study under Edmund Blunden for the first two years and then Qian Mu 錢穆 , Lo Hsiang-lin 羅香林 , Tang Junyi 唐君毅 and Jao Tsung-I 饒宗頤 for the final two years. During his university life, Sai-bun was very active in student affairs. He travelled widely and became a constant contributor to the Travel Page of Hong Kong Sing Tao Newspaper in the 1970s. In 1982, he took an early retirement from the government position of Principal Officer and started a new life in Canada to work as a sub-editor at Sing Tao Newspaper Toronto- edition and later at Ming Pao until he fell ill in 1997. His passion for writing also led him to be a popular columnist under the pen name of Go Yeung 羔羊 . His columns of daily yet humorous observation were collected and published as a series of three books including 《羔羊妙論》. Professor Hou Jiancun 侯健存 1923-2014 ( Honorary University Fellow 2005) Anhui-born Professor Hou passed away in Beijing in January 2014. Son of the eminent pathologist and teacher at HKU Professor Hou Pao-chang 侯寶璋, he became a researcher at the then Central Institute of Health, the predecessor of today’s Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences after graduation and took up a lectureship at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College in 1962. He remained in China during the Cultural Revolution and was a true patriot who dedicated his life’s work to the greater good of the country. While fostering the development of medical science in China through his personal sabbaticals around the world, he always returned to his roots to build bridges between western science and Chinese traditions. The University has been a grateful beneficiary of Hou’s tireless bridge-building. We are indebted to him for his instrumental role in the founding and continuing effectiveness of the HKU Alumni Association of Chinese Mainland 香港大學內地校友聯誼社 . Filius sericus, viator indefessus, orbis terrarum discipulus (Son of China, tireless traveller, student of the world). extracted from the citation at the Honorary University Fellowships presentation ceremony on December 15, 2005 Dr Wong Chi-shing 黃志成 1934-2013 ( BSc ( General ) 1957; BSc 1958 ; MSc 1961) authoring and co-authoring nearly 200 papers, he received numerous awards including election as Fellow to the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, and Royal Society of Canada. Calling Dr Wong “an icon in Canadian ocean science,” the obituary in the Canadian Science Newsletter (June 2013) speaks of his “astute geochemical eye and remarkable tenacity.” Dr Wong, an internationally renowned scholar of ocean sciences and awardee of the Distinguished Alumni of HKU Faculty of Science in 2009, passed away in June 2013 in Canada at the age of 78. He was the Emeritus Scientist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Victoria, BC). In addition to InMemoriam 58