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)
Saturday, June 28, 2008
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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