WYK at 100 by Henry Ku ’56

2/2/2024

九龍華仁書院,將會今年舉辦建校一百週年校慶活動,我諗到時一定好熱鬧,好高興,我自己唔能夠參加,但喺呢喥獻上多少資料.

我在臉書見到幾張九華照片,特別有一張係九華喺旺角嘅舊校校舍,後來改做德仁書院。

嗰座就係我進入九華時嘅校舍。本來我想借相用,但唔知邊個係物主,冇辦法去打個招呼借用,所以冇相!

舊九華校舍建築物喺旺角兩條街交界之處:通菜街與乃路臣街。

正門望出,向住外面,右邊係通菜街,今日變成「女人街」,擺滿各式各樣女士及其他用品嘅攤檔,我都去過買嘢。

當日冇呢啲攤檔,但係早晨有好多苦力,等待僱主嚟招請臨時散工,雖然人多,但秩序聲響還好,不致騷擾我哋學生上課!

校舍右邊係乃路臣街,如果喺彌敦道巴士站落車,通往德明中學,諸聖堂中學等,學生要靠乃路臣街!

中午時份有不少女中學生經過嗰條街返學,我哋一班頑皮仔,就企喺二三樓騎樓,大聲吹口哨表示欣賞,呢女仔當然唔啋我哋,我都學識,將手指屈曲放入口中,吹得好响,過癮!

學校冇運動場,麥花臣球場係唯一運動場,其實係沙地一塊,人頭湧湧,無數人一齊踼波.

聯想起有一件小事:我記得40年代尾九華恢復教授學生,有夜校,我家中比較年長兄姊,夜晚參加英文班,有一晩我跟去,當然不知所謂,但係記得有一位老師到課室,對學生話學校需要枱椅,接受捐贈!

Hong Kong’s new Catholic bishop pledges to unify divided city and start healing process among young

Bishop-elect Stephen Chow Sau-yan has pledged to unify Hong Kong’s politically divided Roman Catholic community, while nurturing empathy and helping the city’s youth to heal from past trauma.

His long-delayed appointment was announced by the Holy See on Monday after the post was left vacant for more than two years, at a time when the city’s political and religious freedoms were being tested by the civil unrest in 2019 and Beijing’s imposition of a sweeping national security law last June. <Read the whole article>

小桃紅 從回華仁中學 李勝生 ’66

應華仁書院校長之邀,重回校園參加紀念湯維強獎學金頒發禮。重臨舊地,樓臺依舊,往事矇矓,當年一羣熱血少年,雄心壯志,陽光夢境。而今日薄桑榆,舊遊消逝,壯氣蒿萊。豈不是「世事漫隨流水,算來夢裡人生」?

(photo – Peter Li on left with Joseph Lau ’67)

李勝生 2021.2.9
小桃紅 從回華仁中學

園林依樣綠油油,
昔日音容扣。
五十三年去如驟,
塵海沉浮。
雄心壯志原難就。
芳華舊遊,
桑榆白首。
滿目晚涼秋。

Fr. Hurley’s Social Services Group of the HK Federation of Post-Secondary Catholic Students – Vincent Lee ’65

I was looking through the links I found about Fr. Hurley……, in between doing other things…… and got to the bottom one.

Lo an behold, when I went to minute 1.52 (of 6.49) I found a photos of the Social Services Group of the HK Federation of Post-Secondary Catholic Students — Linda and I are both here.  I still have a copy of the somewhat faded original; taken at WYK outside the corridor after or meeting (inaugural meeting?), 1966 (54 years ago).  Below that picture, and may be the top one in the next frame, is a shot of us visiting the orphanage (in Fangling I think) in which Tony Ng also participated.  This is priceless to me. What a treasure and surprise!  Other than Linda, I am still in loose contact with two other Group members.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiq_VNwp3gw