The following message was sent to the Hunters group today.
It's been three months since I last issued a status report, so it is a good time to do another one.
'67 had a reunion in Vancouver in July. They now have 56 found classmates.
LH, my contact for '68, sent me a list of 60 found classmates. That's 56% of the 108 graduates, which is even better than '67! My wholehearted congratulations to '68.
AC also sent me a list of 49 found classmates for '70. That's a big leap from the last reported number.
I am happy to report that '72 has grown from 75 to 94 found classmates. In about April, KW and I had set a target to reach 100 found classmates by end of the year. Looks like we will achieve it very soon.
All the above classes have done well. The reason why I reported these classes first is that they have all started to organize themselves before the Alumni Search project was started. Now let's see how the other classes are doing.
I am glad to inform that '69 has found 27 classmates so far. That's a good progress despite a late start. Congratulations to WH.
Not to be outdone by '69, '71 has grown from 20 to 37 found classmates. They have organized two gatherings in July and September. Well done, KO.
'73 must be the superstar of this period. They have grown from 23 to 47 found classmates. Congratulations to CK and MK!
Luck is not with '74. They only added 1 person to reach 20 found classmates. Add oil, both JWs and RL!
I am happy that we have two new Hunters since the last report - AC for '77 and GM for '76. '77 has doubled the found classmates to 28, and '76 has jumped to 22 found classmates. Well done, AC and GM!
The Hunter post for '75 is still outstanding. 10 classmates have been found so far.
So here's a summary of the status:
1967: 56
1968: 60
1969: 27
1970: 49
1971: 37
1972: 94
1973: 47
1974: 20
1975: 10
1976: 22
1977: 28
Cheers,
-mw ('72)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Class of 72 North America Reunion
The Class of 72 had a rave success in the 4-day North American reunion at the end of August, as witnessed by some of the post-event feedback:
"Hence, let us salute the hosts for the effort and energy they had spent that gave us such joyous memories!!!!"
"Even though I might have never talked to some of you back 36 years ago, I had a great time in the reunion."
"Take you and I for example, I cannot recall we did even say Hi to each other in KCC, however, we did not have any STRANGER feelings. I enjoyed your humour, I learnt about your terrible accident at work and was impressed by your character."
"The kind of hospitality extended to us by our hosts in LA is immeasurable and my appreciation is equally 'wordless'."
"I want to add that all the spouses and family members blended in with us right away like other long lost 72ers. Wayne has to endure some language barrier but several of us tried now and then to keep him company and he came back the next day for the reunion dinner. He left me with a memorable very long and warm and hearty hand shake."
"I just received your photo CD for the NA reunion. You are so considerate that I don’t know what to say except thank you from the bottom of my heart."
"You should be glad that at least you showed up on the last day and still got so much fun. Imagine those could not make it at all."
"Hence, let us salute the hosts for the effort and energy they had spent that gave us such joyous memories!!!!"
"Even though I might have never talked to some of you back 36 years ago, I had a great time in the reunion."
"Take you and I for example, I cannot recall we did even say Hi to each other in KCC, however, we did not have any STRANGER feelings. I enjoyed your humour, I learnt about your terrible accident at work and was impressed by your character."
"The kind of hospitality extended to us by our hosts in LA is immeasurable and my appreciation is equally 'wordless'."
"I want to add that all the spouses and family members blended in with us right away like other long lost 72ers. Wayne has to endure some language barrier but several of us tried now and then to keep him company and he came back the next day for the reunion dinner. He left me with a memorable very long and warm and hearty hand shake."
"I just received your photo CD for the NA reunion. You are so considerate that I don’t know what to say except thank you from the bottom of my heart."
"You should be glad that at least you showed up on the last day and still got so much fun. Imagine those could not make it at all."
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Six Degrees
The following message was sent by a KCC72er:
"Thanks for the invitation and welcome! Glad to be in touch with the group. Can't thank you enough for reconnecting us! I found you through human web! I got the email from my brother and my sister-in-law whose sister graduated in 1970 I believe, and of course the rest is history."
Thanks to the KCC70er who made the connection.
We can all benefit from and contribute to the process of alumni search.
1. Start by looking around yourself. Are your sibilings alumni of KCC? How about cousins, neighbours, colleagues, friends in other circles, etc. Former neighbours and business associates should also be included. So should your teachers and students.
2. If you are married, ask your spouse, and go through the same thinking process with him/her.
3. Don't stop yet. Ask all those people whom you know in the above connections to do the same for you.
4. Lastly, when you meet new people. Ask them if they know of any alumnus from KCC.
When more of us participate in the process, the effect will start to multiply, and soon, we will have found all our missing friends. Many similar wonderful stories have been told before Christina's, and I am sure countless will follow. Let's make history.
"Thanks for the invitation and welcome! Glad to be in touch with the group. Can't thank you enough for reconnecting us! I found you through human web! I got the email from my brother and my sister-in-law whose sister graduated in 1970 I believe, and of course the rest is history."
Thanks to the KCC70er who made the connection.
We can all benefit from and contribute to the process of alumni search.
1. Start by looking around yourself. Are your sibilings alumni of KCC? How about cousins, neighbours, colleagues, friends in other circles, etc. Former neighbours and business associates should also be included. So should your teachers and students.
2. If you are married, ask your spouse, and go through the same thinking process with him/her.
3. Don't stop yet. Ask all those people whom you know in the above connections to do the same for you.
4. Lastly, when you meet new people. Ask them if they know of any alumnus from KCC.
When more of us participate in the process, the effect will start to multiply, and soon, we will have found all our missing friends. Many similar wonderful stories have been told before Christina's, and I am sure countless will follow. Let's make history.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
KCC 50th Anniversary
This year marks the 50th anniversary of KCC. To celebrate her birthday, the college is organizing an Open Day for the alumni, and the alumni association is holding the celebration dinner in the same evening of 22nd November, 2008.
Some retired teachers and alumni are flying into Hong Kong to join this event. I will definitely join, and hope to see many of you there too. Please pass the news on.
Some retired teachers and alumni are flying into Hong Kong to join this event. I will definitely join, and hope to see many of you there too. Please pass the news on.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Class of 1972 family photo at the HK Yacht Club
The reward of finding lost friends is priceless. On 14th June, 26 classmates of the Class of 72, four spouses, and one teacher gathered at the Hong Kong Yacht Club for a dinner. Some of the faces have been missed for over 30 years. The sunny smiles showed how much we enjoyed this event. Those who read the other postings in this blog may ask why "only" 26 classmates. Well, it was not a formal reunion. Three of us happened to be visiting from abroad. We just chose a date when they were all here and said, "Let's meet."
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The Class of 1972 Year Book Cover
This is the cover page of the graduation year book of the Class of 1972. It was scanned and posted on my Flickr photo site to let my classmates view the book to refresh their memory of the good old days. The second, and more important objective was to serve as an advertisement on the Internet that we are looking for our lost classmates. Initially, only this page was viewable by the public. Starting today, however, the entire photo set can be browsed by anyone. The photoset is at http://flickr.com/photos/guzhengman/sets/72157604348736598/Saturday, June 28, 2008
State of the Union report
The following email was sent to the Hunters group today. I have made some slight changes to the content, including using initials to preserve people's privacy.
How do you like the title of the the subject? I shall be doing periodic updates on the number of found classmates.
You can't imagine, until I tell you, that the class of 67 has found 53 classmates. Yes, that's an amazing 60% of their population. They achieved it before the launch of the KCC Alumni Search project. Take a moment to visit their web site http://www.cca.cc/kcc/ I tried a couple times to invite their webmaster, PL, to join the Hunters group in vain. He said he had a very simple mandate - to find the lost classmates of their own year. My reply to him was that I had a very simple mandate too - to find the lost classmates of all years.
'68 now has 12 found classmates, a pretty good number.
With the inclusion of ST, 5 classmates from '69 has been found. I have invited WH to join us.
'70 and '74 are tied with 19 found classmates. I am looking forward for the day when they break the magic number 20.
I am excited that '71 has surpassed '70 and '74 to reach the magic number 20! HC and KO ('71) should thank WL ('70) for introducing FY ('71) who in turn referred 3 other classmates from her class.
On the other hand, '73 is still leading you by a slight margin. They are now 23.
'72 stays at a top record of 75 found classmates. This number won't be reached by other classes any time soon, but we can't be complacent. Add oil, HK and YS!
'75 has made progress to reach the lucky number 8.
'77 is catching up fast. They are now 14 strong. Watch out for this dark horse!
Last but not least, I have been wondering why nobody has referred anyone from the class of 76. Today, I am happy to advise that they have "broken the egg". I have yet to discover whether the 2 found classmates have been in touch with each other before I found them.
So until the next report, here are the latest records:
1967: 54
1968: 12
1969: 05
1970: 19
1971: 20
1972: 75
1973: 23
1974: 19
1975: 08
1976: 02
1977: 14
Cheers,
-mw ('72)
How do you like the title of the the subject? I shall be doing periodic updates on the number of found classmates.
You can't imagine, until I tell you, that the class of 67 has found 53 classmates. Yes, that's an amazing 60% of their population. They achieved it before the launch of the KCC Alumni Search project. Take a moment to visit their web site http://www.cca.cc/kcc/ I tried a couple times to invite their webmaster, PL, to join the Hunters group in vain. He said he had a very simple mandate - to find the lost classmates of their own year. My reply to him was that I had a very simple mandate too - to find the lost classmates of all years.
'68 now has 12 found classmates, a pretty good number.
With the inclusion of ST, 5 classmates from '69 has been found. I have invited WH to join us.
'70 and '74 are tied with 19 found classmates. I am looking forward for the day when they break the magic number 20.
I am excited that '71 has surpassed '70 and '74 to reach the magic number 20! HC and KO ('71) should thank WL ('70) for introducing FY ('71) who in turn referred 3 other classmates from her class.
On the other hand, '73 is still leading you by a slight margin. They are now 23.
'72 stays at a top record of 75 found classmates. This number won't be reached by other classes any time soon, but we can't be complacent. Add oil, HK and YS!
'75 has made progress to reach the lucky number 8.
'77 is catching up fast. They are now 14 strong. Watch out for this dark horse!
Last but not least, I have been wondering why nobody has referred anyone from the class of 76. Today, I am happy to advise that they have "broken the egg". I have yet to discover whether the 2 found classmates have been in touch with each other before I found them.
So until the next report, here are the latest records:
1967: 54
1968: 12
1969: 05
1970: 19
1971: 20
1972: 75
1973: 23
1974: 19
1975: 08
1976: 02
1977: 14
Cheers,
-mw ('72)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Privacy and Hunter Champions
I am pleased to report that the Classes of 70, 71, 73 and 74 already have people joining me and two of my '72 classmates as Hunter Champions. The twelve of us are members of the "KCC-hunters" Yahoo Group with our own email address KCC-hunters@yahoogroups.com and website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KCC-hunters. While I am looking for more volunteers to join the group, here are the statistics of the number of "found" classmates for these five years :
1970: 18
1971: 14
1972: 75
1973: 23
1974: 19
I have been communicating with the other four classes, mostly via email, plus a couple of phone calls during the last three weeks. Some of us have expressed concern on the issue of privacy, which I well understand and have already thought out during the first week of the project. The solution is that when the group size of a graduation year reaches to about 20, then I shall retreat myself and let them enjoy their fellowship. Meanwhile the search for lost classmates continues. The Hunter Champions will be the bridge between the each graduation class and all other classes. They will maintain the contact records of their own classes, and share only the names of their found classmates with Hunters Champions of other classes.
1970: 18
1971: 14
1972: 75
1973: 23
1974: 19
I have been communicating with the other four classes, mostly via email, plus a couple of phone calls during the last three weeks. Some of us have expressed concern on the issue of privacy, which I well understand and have already thought out during the first week of the project. The solution is that when the group size of a graduation year reaches to about 20, then I shall retreat myself and let them enjoy their fellowship. Meanwhile the search for lost classmates continues. The Hunter Champions will be the bridge between the each graduation class and all other classes. They will maintain the contact records of their own classes, and share only the names of their found classmates with Hunters Champions of other classes.
Friday, June 13, 2008
My window to the alumni
Since I started this alumni search project in late May, emails with the subject "KCC Alumni, unite!" Has been sent several times to the people whose contact addresses I got via personal connections. Just one week after I sent out the first email, it became apparent that I must have a copy of the email to be publicly accessible. Several alternatives were considered, and the final decision was to put it in my blog.
This blog is enabling me to "broadcast" the status of the project to all my alumni.
I would like to request all of my alumni who have so far been found to please refer their new contacts to my initial email as a tool to help them explain what we are doing.
This blog is enabling me to "broadcast" the status of the project to all my alumni.
I would like to request all of my alumni who have so far been found to please refer their new contacts to my initial email as a tool to help them explain what we are doing.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
KCC Alumni, unite!
Dear Kiangsu-Chekiang College Alumni,
I am Leung Man-wah , a F.5 graduate of the Class of 1972. Your names have been given to me by other alumni via personal connections.
To me, secondary school classmates are one of the most valuable types of friends. Since 2006, I created KCC1972 Yahoo Group to foster communication between my classmates. The group has grown from 40+ members to 70 in May 2008, with most of the growth in 2008 through active searching.
Our mother school is celebrating her 50th anniversary in December 2008, which will be an important date in the college’s history. The college and the KCC Alumni Association are planning to organize a school Open Day and a reunion dinner.
Though it looks like an appalling task, I have committed to Principal Fong to help find long disconnected alumni of other graduation classes, because I want you all to share my joy of being able to reconnect with some of the best friends whom you miss. This is my crude vision of the 3 phases of the project:
PHASE 1
1. Extend the people search from my graduating year of 1972 by 10 years, i.e. to cover all schoolmates who graduated between 1967 and 1977.
2. Get initial contacts of each graduation year via personal connections.
3. Recruit “Hunter Champions” from the initial contacts.
4. Set up a committee of the Champions, with 1 to 5 persons from each of the eleven graduation classes.
PHASE 2
1. Share and grow with them on the tricks of the people-search trade.
2. Help each of the 10 graduation classes set up their class forum.
3. Document people search techniques.
PHASE 3
1. Set up a database of alumni contact information
2. Extend the scope to cover all graduation years
I am looking for volunteers from each graduation class to become Hunter Champions. If you share my aspiration, come join me. Together we will apply "The power of 10” to unite the alumni into a more cohesive body.
I am Leung Man-wah , a F.5 graduate of the Class of 1972. Your names have been given to me by other alumni via personal connections.
To me, secondary school classmates are one of the most valuable types of friends. Since 2006, I created KCC1972 Yahoo Group to foster communication between my classmates. The group has grown from 40+ members to 70 in May 2008, with most of the growth in 2008 through active searching.
Our mother school is celebrating her 50th anniversary in December 2008, which will be an important date in the college’s history. The college and the KCC Alumni Association are planning to organize a school Open Day and a reunion dinner.
Though it looks like an appalling task, I have committed to Principal Fong to help find long disconnected alumni of other graduation classes, because I want you all to share my joy of being able to reconnect with some of the best friends whom you miss. This is my crude vision of the 3 phases of the project:
PHASE 1
1. Extend the people search from my graduating year of 1972 by 10 years, i.e. to cover all schoolmates who graduated between 1967 and 1977.
2. Get initial contacts of each graduation year via personal connections.
3. Recruit “Hunter Champions” from the initial contacts.
4. Set up a committee of the Champions, with 1 to 5 persons from each of the eleven graduation classes.
PHASE 2
1. Share and grow with them on the tricks of the people-search trade.
2. Help each of the 10 graduation classes set up their class forum.
3. Document people search techniques.
PHASE 3
1. Set up a database of alumni contact information
2. Extend the scope to cover all graduation years
I am looking for volunteers from each graduation class to become Hunter Champions. If you share my aspiration, come join me. Together we will apply "The power of 10” to unite the alumni into a more cohesive body.
Revival of my blog
It has been almost 3 years since I last posted on my blogs. As I had predicted, my interest in writing soon ceased after doing it for a few months. But now I am back with a new mission that has convinced me to use this blog as the my window to the world. And I am not opening a new blog to do it like I used to do, which is not the best practice after all. I want to use this very blog, as I have saved it to be the blog of "guzhengman", for representing me, Leung Man Wah (梁文華), and to write about the most meaningful project in my life that I have so far worked on - to search all the alumni of Kiangsu-Chekiang College (North Point, Hong Kong).
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