From: S. S. Wat
Class: [ CCSC teacher ]
Location: Hong Kong
Email: sswat@bigfoot.com
URL: -
Date: Apr 30, 1999 at 8:54 [EST]
 

Hi Felix and overseas alumni:
 
I would like to tell you (esp. overseas alumni) about CCSC's 30th Anniversary Dinner which you probably were not able to attend.
 
The dinner was held at Maxim's Chinese Restaurant, City Hall, on the night of 17th April, 1999. I was a member of the organizing committee. My duty on that night was to meet the old students and chat with them before the dinner -- easy job for me. On a few occasions, however, it was a bit embarrassing to have forgotten the names of some of my past students. I did remember a lot of names actually.

That evening all the male staff wore a newly-designed school tie. There were 4 reception counters. Counter A was for the registration of the students and distribution of free souvenirs which included a flexible electric torch, a ball-pen or a fountain pen and a small full-coloured school badge. Counter B was for teacher registration, and sale of dinner tickets to those who suddenly dropped in that night or giving out dinner tickets to those who had not yet collected their tickets. Counter C was for the sale of 30th Anniversay souvenirs - those pens mentioned above, school magazines, A4 writing paper with a small picture of CCSC school building / Anniverary logo at the corners, envelopes and plastic files. Counter D was operated by some old students, mainly for recruiting new members of the Old Students Association.

The teachers arrived early. Most of them had their own duties while I chatted with those students I know well. I was touched to learn that two girls whom I had taught before, came all the way back by plane from Shanghai, just to attend the Dinner. One of them (Ching Sau Ying Fanny) had to fly back to Shanghai the very next day! See how much they love the School and teachers!

I sat with Mr Yuen, Miss Fok, Miss Mag Ng, Miss Su, Mrs J Wong and some old colleagues such as Mrs Sinn, Mrs Hui Chan Sau Han, Mrs Lui (a.k.a. Miss Mak, former P.E. teacher) and Choi Chi Yan, a student from OSA. Soon came the lucky draw for individual tables. There were 7 prizes for each table. I got a red packet of $100. The red packets, one for each table, were donated by a former Form 3 student of 1969-70. There were 38 tables that night, so the girl would have to donate $3800 to the dinner.

Before the food was served, the two MC's, Miss Winnie Wong and OSA Chairman Edmund Yau, addressed the gathering. We hurried to finish each course as we had to leave the table to take a lot of photos together with the alumni, according to their year of graduation. Of course, Mr Leung, Mr Yuen and Miss Fok had to be photographed every time.

Then there was another lucky draw, after which was a slide-show of the recent activities at school, presented by Mr Siu in a very funny way as he assumed the role of an old student coming back to CCSC. This was then followed by a Magic Show conducted by our two teacher-magicians, Mr Tong and Mr Chow. Miss Yung and Mr Fung Tze Sun were invited to assist the magic show. Finally came the lucky draw of the Grand Prizes of the evening. The first prize was a chair covered with gold foil, and costing HK$8000. It was lucky that I was not the one who got it, otherwise I don't know where to put it and dare not sit on it.

The dinner ended before 11 o'clock. Mr Leung asked all the teachers to stay a little longer to take a Family Picture to mark the occasion. Surprisingly, a number of students also were staying behind while the Family Picture was taken. Do you know what they were waiting for? Well, they were waiting for Miss M Ng and me, to take pictures with them! They also waited to take a picture with Mr Au, the person-in-charge for the dinner, after he had settled the bill for the dinner.

Hats Off to Mr Au and Mr T N Chan who had contributed a lot of efforts in this function, and I learnt that Mr Au was not feeling well on that day ! )

Well, that's the story. What do you think about it?

Wat
 
Thank you, Wat, for your very nice and vivid account of the evening. --- Felix

 

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