Volume 7 Summer 2006 The Alumni Magazine of HKIS - Hong Kong ...

Message From The Alumni Board President:
Kenneth Koo
By the time you’re reading this message, your Alumni Board have
already laid the groundwork for this “once-in-a-lifetime” 40th
Reunion to be held in June, 2007. View the progress of this Reunion’s
planning on the 40th Reunion Website as well as a potpourri of features,
infopaks as well as the ever-expanding “40 Years Of............” photo gallery
which will really stoke the fires of nostalgia within your hearts.
For those of you who’ve registered for this Reunion, welcome back
as you pick up from the last time you were in HKIS and continue your
journey with HKIS. For those whom are still wondering if this is worthwhile...................believe
me, IT IS !!!!!
Ken ‘77
Message From The Annual Fund Alumni Co-Chairs
As fellow HKIS alumni, we share a common goal of upholding
the value of our own education from HKIS by ensuring that
HKIS continues to provide the best education to all its 2,576
students from Reception 1 to Grade 12. Alumni support of the
Annual Fund has enabled HKIS to achieve this goal by supporting
a number of important programs, which otherwise would not
be available to its current student body or would add to the already
high tuition. For example, without the Annual Fund, there
would not be the Instrumental Music programs, Merit and Needbased
Scholarships, the Charles H. Dull Visiting Scholars series,
Special needs programs, Services to the Community and Summer
Programs.
Alumni can contribute either on a non-discretionary basis to the
Annual Fund or on a discretionary basis by designating the specific
use of your contribution. For example, one of the initiatives
of the Annual Fund currently under consideration, but subject to
approval, is to set up an Alumni-sponsored Scholarship, which
would require Alumni to raise HK$200,000 per year over each of
the next three years to provide one combination based scholarship,
which would be awarded based on a local student’s academic
excellence in addition to his/her financial need in determining
eligibility. This would provide an opportunity for Alumni to support
a gifted local student and for the individual to benefit from
Kenneth Koo ‘77 with his family
Calling All Alumni to Show Your HKIS Spirit and Support the Annual Fund
an HKIS education. Although we could probably find ten
Alumni to write a check for HK$20,000, we would rather
see 200 Alumni write checks for HK$1,000 to support this
worthy initiative.
More importantly, our goal is to show that Alumni care, by
increasing the number and percentage of participants contributing
to the Annual Fund. Every level of support, whether
HK$100 or HK$1,000,000, is equally valued and appreciated.
Please show your spirit and support the Annual Fund
and HKIS with your contributions.
Timothy Zee ’84
Alumni Co-Chair
Ning Li ‘76
Alumni Co-Chair
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