Thirty-Sixth Congregation
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG THIRTY-SIXTH CONGREGATION Conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Social Science, honorís causa A Citation Mrs. Esther Yewpick Lee Conceming the passage of time, the most used metaphor in the Chinese language is )t Ê,DlÊî (Time flies like an arrow). When looking back at the history of the University, the history of Hong Kong and indeed the history of the world, this phrase easily springs to mind. In October 1963, the month and year the University was established, Sir Alec Douglas-Home was taking over from Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of Britain, President John Kennedy was nearing the end of his thousand days at the White House, and in China Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping were repairing the damage done to the country by the hasty Great Leap Forward. And Mr. Chancellor, in 1963, you yourself were serving your first posting in Beijing. In the month of October twenty-five years ago, the Chinese University of Hong Kong came into being at an inaugural congregation at the City Hall on the 17th day of the month. From that first congregation until his death twenty years later, in 1983, Dr. Richard Charles Lee was the Vice-Chairman of the University Council and he, besides bountiful donations to the University, gave also generously of his time and wise counsel. Giving him the emotional and moral support that he needed to discharge his many public and private duties was the woman the University is honouring today, Dr. Læe's widow, Mrs. Esther Yewpick Iæe.
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