CU 50 and CWC 05

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of CUHK and the 5th anniversary of the founding of CW Chu College.  As a double celebration, the College held its Founders’ Day Celebration cum Second High Table Dinner entitled “CU 50 and CWC 05”.

Members of the Committee of Overseers, College Fellows, teachers and around 170 students attended this memorable event. In his opening speech, Prof. Kenneth Young, College Master, highlighted the remarkable achievements of CUHK and shared with the participants the transformation of the University over the past few decades.  He believed that the University’s steadfast and single-minded commitment to a worthwhile cause in education would carry greater heights of achievements in the next fifty years.

Prof. Young associated this philosophy with that of the late Dr. CW Chu, who sponsored hundreds of youngsters for overseas studies with personal care, and changed the lives of these beneficiaries.  By sharing the philanthropic endeavours of the late Dr. Chu, Prof. Young encouraged College students to set a worthwhile goal for themselves and strive for it with determination.

As the guest of honor of the evening, Mr Philip Liao, the Design Architect of CW Chu College Campus, delivered a keynote address titled “University and College Vision: their embodiment in the College campus design”.  He started by sharing his perception of the CUHK campus and how this has inspired him in the design of the CW Chu College campus, making it a synergy with the overall university architectural language.  Mr. Liao demonstrated his effort to create an environment conducive to bonding, interchange and search for knowledge by presenting slides illustrating features of the College premises.