Just this past Wednesday (April 21st), we held a press conference for IC 2010 at San Gabriel Hilton. Here are the links to the three reports: Here are some photos of the event:     |
Here is a report about IC 2010 from World Journal: |
Samuel will not be able to join the IC for some personal reason. Here is a message from Samuel:
Please see our Guests page for the update. |
We held a dinner reception for Mr. Philip Lee, our keynote speaker, at 888 Seafood Restaurant last Friday: World Daily News: 加拿大華裔省督李紹麟 現身羅市 (Newspaper version) Singtao Daily: (Newspaper version) Here are some photos of the dinner: |
As of this writing (8/18/2010), no one has signed up for the Huntington Library & Shopping Tour. So, the IC committee has decided to cancel it. Thanks! |
We are glad to let you know that our beloved teacher Mr. LAI Chan Pong (Math Chai) from WYK will be joining the conference! Here's an article written by Lai Sir: Reflections of a retired WYK teacher By Lai Chan Pong (“Maths Chai”) For the 12th Wan Yan Alumni Conference, LA, USA 28 July 2010 Hi, dear students, I hope you still remember me. I am Lai Sir, whom you endearingly nicknamed as “Maths Chai” since I joined Wah Yan College, Kowloon in 1971. After working for two years as a tutor in the Department of Mathematics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, I applied for a Maths teaching post at WYK. That year the School Principal was Fr Reid, and the Assistant Principal was Mr A Ho. Mr Ho regarded my application for a teaching post in WYK with suspicion. He found it hard to believe someone teaching in a university would be interested in applying for a teaching post in a secondary school. But at that time, he said WYK was in need of a Mathematics teacher. He gave me the job on condition that I could obtain a good testimonial from the Department Head in the Chinese University within the next couple of days. After submitting the necessary document, I joined the teaching team of WYK on 6th Sept., 1971. I have taught in WYK for 24 years, teaching F4, F5, F6 and F7 Mathematics. I’m forever grateful for the school administrative personnel for their support of my teaching as well as my further studies. This included releasing me from the afternoon classes for my M. Ed. in the University of Hong Kong from 1984 to 1986, and granting me one year’s leave for completing my MSc in the University of Oxford in 1987. I left WYK for Melbourne, Australia on 22nd Feb., 1995 after the Form 7 class had finished the mock examination. I was on a scholarship for my doctoral degree. I was also being offered a part-time teaching job by the RMIT University, Melbourne as a lecturer to groups of Master’s degree students. The subjects I taught were statistics, research methodology and report of learning outcomes. I completed my PhD thesis in the University of Melbourne in 1998. My area is the use of psychometric models to assess students’ performance in multi-component tasks. After graduation, I was offered a full-time post as a lecturer in the same university. My job there consisted of lecturing and supervising the higher degree candidates. After four years, I was invited to work in the Australian Council of Education Research as a Senior Research Fellow. My job was mainly to conduct analysis of examination data, test equating and test design. One of our purposes is to help universities to select students in highly competitive undergraduate and post-graduate courses such as Medicine and Law. We also conducted international studies on assessment and literacy/numeracy competence etc. It was a challenging job for me and it has extended my professional horizon. Time flew quickly. After working for five years in the ACER, I decided to take a break in my career and retired in 2008. Looking back at my career of 40 years, I thank God for His loving guidance. There is no better school for me to begin my teaching career than WYK. There, I obtained invaluable wisdom on teaching from the senior colleagues. The harmonious atmosphere among staff members, as well as the respect shown by the school to the teachers, provided great support for me to teach creatively and with flexibility in my own style. I was not only teaching but also learning together with many industrious and highly intelligent students, who never stopped prompting me with stimulating thoughts, posing me challenging questions, and feeding me with inspiring ideas. Throughout these 24 years, this interactive cycle of teaching and feeding back from my students helped improve my teaching skills and enrich my Mathematics knowledge. Coming to Melbourne, I did fulfil my dreams of obtaining my PhD and teaching in different universities and post-graduate institutes, and yet I still found something missing. It is something I could obtain from no where else but only from the Wah Yan boys -- It is a deep sense of satisfaction and an impelling driving force inspired by my students. Today, as a retired teacher of WYK, there is nothing more pleasing than finding my students achieving brilliant success in different professional pursuits and careers. I’m constantly being reminded of the motto on our school badge: “By this sign, we’ll win!” Through the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, sins and evils were overcome; and men are set free on their way to holiness. I would like to end my reflections with a word of encouragement to all my dear former students: Hoisting this badge of Wah Yan, with the concerted efforts of students, teachers, school administrators and supervisors, let’s march on to Excellence! And may God’s name be honoured in whatever we do! |
Please see the message from our Program Chair James Tong on the following page: |
We have just updated our conference program: Feel free to let us know if you have any question about the program. Thanks! |
If you are bring your spouse with you to join the IC, you may want to consider the Huntington Library & Shopping Tour we will be holding on the Saturday (8/21) of the IC weekend. Please see the page below for more information: Huntington Library & Shopping Tour |
Since one of our gold sponsors upgraded to a Diamond Sponsorship, we have one available spot for Gold Sponsorship now. If you would like your ad to be placed in the inside front/back of the program book, please proceed to the Sponsor page to make a donation. This is a first-come, first-served opportunity! |
The early-bird discount will end tomorrow (June 20th). If you have not registered yet, please proceed to our Registration page to do so. As of this writing, we have over 120 guests now: http://ic2010.wahyan.com/guests/guest-list Hope to see you at the conference! |
Please note that the $20 early-bird discount will end in fewer than two weeks on June 20. You will probably be busy attending commencements and celebrating for your fathers in the coming two weeks so please register now to take advantage of the early-bird discount :) Also, we are glad to let you know that we have over 100 guests on the guest list now! Go there to take a look: http://ic2010.wahyan.com/guests/guest-list |
Thanks to our video editor Eddie, we have two new videos about why you should visit Los Angeles and join the IC. Watch them on our homepage and our new page "Why join IC 2010?". Here are the links on YouTube: |
Because quite some of you would like to go to the Gala Dinner only without attending the conference program, we have modified the Registration page and payment page such that you have the following three options now:
If you feel that there is anything about the conference program that can be improved, please do not hesitate to let us know. Thank you! |
We have created an Events page for events that will be held in Los Angeles around the IC time and a Dining page for some highlighted restaurants. Hope that they will help plan your trip! |
We have updated information for the Las Vegas Tour and Mexico Cruise. You can now register for the trips using the form below: Wah_Yan_IC_2010_Side_Tours_Application_Form.pdf |
The IC committee has just decided to extend the 50% student discount to include graduate students at a university also (it only applied to undergraduate students before). So, if you are a Wahyanite currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree, you will be entitled to 50% discount (excluding Friday Golf Outing and Monday Oxnard Tour). http://ic2010.wahyan.com/registration#student |
Just this past Wednesday (April 21st), we held a press conference for IC 2010 at San Gabriel Hilton. Here are the links to the three reports: Here are some photos of the event: |
We have just added the option for you to pay for the Oxnard Tour online! For those of you who have already registered, please go to this page http://ic2010.wahyan.com/registration#oxnard and click on the link "here" if you would like to add the Oxnard Tour to your visit. For those of you who have not registered yet, you can add the Oxnard Tour when you register for the conference http://www.wahyan.com/ic2010-registration.html If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us! |
We have just updated our Visitor Guide page to include some information about how you can travel from the airport to San Gabriel Hilton. Please take a look if you have questions regarding that. |
We just got the IC 2010 banner the past weekend and here's a photo of it held by Peter Leung and Alex Man:  |
We're glad to inform you that the discount code for booking hotel rooms at San Gabriel Hilton is available. Please visit our updated Hotels pages for more details! |
If you are not comfortable with making payment online with your credit card, we are glad to let you know that you can register for the conference by mail and check now. Please visit the following page for details: Register by Mail |
Dr. Tai-lok Lui is attending the IC and will be one of our panel speakers. Please see our updated Guests page! |
To spread the words about Wah Yan IC 2010, we have created a brochure (PDF). Please feel free to distribute it to your fellow classmates. We will continuously add new materials to it. |