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Filipe Senna Fernandes (Macau) 飛卓迪(澳門)
Spin master FILIPE SENNA FERNANDES Rotary Club of Macau Even Rotarians can bust a move on the dance floor, says Filipe Senna Fernandes, who has built a following as a disc jockey: He was among the featured performers at the 2014 New Year’s gala at the Galaxy Macau casino. A business consultant and marketing professional…
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Kowloon North Rotary Club – Donated computers to Ulaanbaatar high school, Mongolia – 2001
Hong Kong Rotarians donate computers to Mongolian high schools The Rotary Club of Kowloon North, Hong Kong, donated U.S. $25,000 worth of computers to high schools in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Pictured: William Benter, past president of the Rotary Club of Kowloon North, points to one of the new computers, while RI Vice-President Gary Huang (left)…
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Hong Kong Rotary Club – Charity Ball in aid of Kamp for Kids – 1950
Rotary Club Ball in aid of poor children is a success Newspaper clipping dated: 15 April 1950 More than 600 people packed the Sky Room ballroom last night on the occasion of the Hong Kong Rotary Club’s dinner-dance in aid of Kamp for Kids. Beginning at 8:30 p.m., the affair lasted until 1 a.m. It…
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Hong Kong Rotary Club – Mobile Clinic for Mongolia – 2017
SCMP.COM Companies Hong Kong’s Rotary and Land Rover clubs turn an old truck into a mobile clinic for Mongolia’s poor Clubs raise over HK$800,000 to renovate Aussie six-wheel drive and send it on a cancer- screening mission to Ulan Bator Topic | Motoring William Wadsworth Published: 2:52pm, 16 Jun, 2017 Hong Kong’s Rotarians could soon…
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Sir William Woodward Hornell (Hong Kong) 康寧爵士(香港)
Sir William Woodward Hornell The First Rotary Club President in Hong Kong Sir William Woodward Hornell (康寧爵士), Kt, CIE, HonLLD (HKU), MA (Oxford), (1878-1950), Knight Educationalist, was the first president of The Rotary Club of Hong Kong (香港扶輪社) from 1930 to 1932, when he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (香港大學校長). Though…
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Eminent Hong Kong Rotarians Honored with Knights Bachelor
榮授下級勳位爵士的香港傑出扶輪人 Eminent Hong Kong Rotarians honored with Knights Bachelor By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 November 2015 The insignia of a Knight Bachelor devised in 1926 The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member…
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Eminent Rotarians on the Honorary Graduates Roster of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Eminent Rotarians on the Honorary Graduates Roster of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University By Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 15 September 2016 With over eight decades of proud tradition and ranking among the world’s top 100 institutions, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) (香港理工大學) aspires to be an innovative world-class university with a…
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Dr. Chau Cham-Son (Hong Kong) 周湛燊博士(香港)
Dr. Chau Cham-Son — A Rotarian of Life Long Scouting Former Headquarters Commissioner (Public Relations) The Scout Association of Hong Kong 15 January 2024 Dr. Chau Cham-Son (周湛燊博士), OBE, CStJ, HonLLD (Liverpool), BA(AS)(HKU), JP, (23 August 1932 – 9 October 2023), was a senior Rotarian of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong (香港扶輪社) holding the…
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Eminent Rotarians on the Roster of Lingnan University Honorary Graduates
Eminent Rotarians on the Roster of Lingnan University Honorary Graduates 1 August 2015 This article attempts to identify some of the Eminent Rotarians who have been on the roster of Honorary Graduates of the Lingnan University (嶺南大學) in Hong Kong since it passed an academic accreditation review from the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation,…
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Eminent Hong Kong Rotarians Honored with Grand Bauhinia Medal
榮授大紫荊勳章的香港傑出扶輪人 Eminent Hong Kong Rotarians Honored with Grand Bauhinia Medals 1 July 2021 2021 年 7 月 1 日，是中華人民共和國香港特別行政區成立後邁進第 25 年，這也是政府在 《憲報》上公佈年度授勳名單的日子。 「大紫荊勳章」是香港特別行政區授勳及嘉獎制度下的最高榮譽，表揚畢生為香港社會作出 重大貢獻的人士。「大紫荊勳章」自 1997 年 7 月 1 日起每年頒授一次，所有受勳者皆可以終生 在其英文名字前加上「The Honorable」，亦可在其名字後加上「大紫荊勳賢」或「GBM」。 紫荊花是香港的花徽。大紫荊勳章由 18K 黃金及 18K 白金嵌成的，圖案為星光托著紫荊花， 紫荊代表香港，一顆星代表中國；絲帶的紅色和金色象徵高貴榮譽。 本文試圖列出自 1997 年 7 月 1 日香港特別行政區成立以來，曾獲得大紫荊勳章的傑出扶輪 社員。 The First of July in this year of 2021…
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Ir. Dr. Joseph CHOW Ming-Kuen (Hong Kong Island West) 周明權博士 (香港西區)
香港西區扶輪社 — 工程師周明權博士 Ir. Dr. Joseph CHOW Ming-Kuen, O.B.E., J.P. The Hong Kong Rotarian ‘Wonderful and Gentle Soul’ 1 December 2018 In an email to graduates, Professor Christopher Chao (趙汝恆教授), Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, appraised the School’s distinguished alumnus: “Dr. Chow … … … passionately and selflessly dedicated himself to…
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The First Meeting of Rotary
This article was downloaded from the website of The Rotary Club of Ahuriri, Napier, New Zealand (RI District 9930):The First Meeting of RotaryThe 23rd February each year marks the anniversary since the Thursday of 23 February 1905 when Paul Harris, his friend and client Silvester Schiele, friend Gus Loehr and acquantance Hiram Shorey met in…
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Rotarians served the Sanitary Board/Urban Council/Regional Council of the British Crown Colony Hong Kong
Rotarians served the Sanitary Board/Urban Council/Regional Council of the British Crown Colony Hong Kong 1883 – 1999 15 October 2016 Coat-of-Arms of the Hong Kong Urban Council, 1935-1999 Logo of the Urban Council, 1973-1999 The Urban Council (香港市政局) was first established as the Sanitary Board (香港潔淨局) in 1883 in the British Crown Colony Hong Kong.…
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Rotarians served the Executive Council of the British Crown Colony Hong Kong
Rotarians served the Executive Council of the British Crown Colony Hong Kong 1 February 2015 The Executive Council (行政局) of the British Crown Colony Hong Kong government before 1 July 1997 was “the cabinet” presided by the Governor of Hong Kong (香港總督). It was analogous to other Executive Councils in the British Commonwealth such as…
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Eminent Rotarians on the Honorary Graduates Roster of Hong Kong Baptist University
Eminent Rotarians on the Honorary Graduates Roster of Hong Kong Baptist College / Hong Kong Baptist University 15 October 2020 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (香港浸會大學) is a public liberal arts university with a Christian education heritage located in Kowloon Tong (九龍塘), Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. The University was established as Hong Kong…
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The Honourable Peter Chan Chi-Kwan (New Territories) 陳子鈞(新界)
The Honourable Peter Chan Chi-Kwan Hong Kong Urban Council Senior Elected Member 中文版在第 2-3 頁 香港市政局資深民選議員–陳子鈞大律師 15 October 2017 The Honourable Peter Chan Chi-Kwan (陳子鈞) (7 March 1936 – 15 March 2017) was a charter member and Vice-President from 1969 to 1972 of the Rotary Club of New Territories (新界扶輪社), Hong Kong. He later served…
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Dr. Ng Tor-Tai (Kowloon East) 吳多泰博士(九龍東區)
吳多泰博士 九龍東區扶輪社創社社長 劉敬恒 (中華扶輪史研究員) 2016年4月24 日 吳多泰博士 (1911—2005)，九龍東區扶輪社1970-1971年度創社社長。九龍東區扶輪社 (Kowloon East Rotary Club)由九龍扶輪社(Kowloon Rotary Club)輔導，1970 年12月3日加 盟國際扶輪。九龍東區扶輪社是在香港地區成立的第八家扶輪社，例會語言為粵語。 吳多泰原籍中華民國廣東省瓊崖特別區(今海南省)文昌縣，畢業於廣東省立勷勤大學，獲 土木工程學士學位。廣東省立勷勤大學（SoengKen University of Canton，是一所曾經設立 在廣州市的大學，是陳濟棠(前廣東省政府主席、海南特別行政區行政長官)為紀念國民黨元老 古應芬在1934 年7月創辦的。勷勤大學只存在了四年，1938年由於日本帝國的侵略停辦。但 其建築工程學系對嶺南早期現代主義有一定的影響，延續至現今中山大學建築工程系及華南理 工大學建築學院，為華南建築學科的發端。 1949 年吳多泰在香港成立國際鴻星投資集團有限公司(International Hung Hsing Holding Ltd.)，任董事長，主營業務為房地產投資。 除了扶輪社外，吳多泰也熱衷參與多種社會組織—尖沙嘴街坊福利會理事長、何文田街 坊福利會會長、港九各區街坊會協進會主席、香港至德總會會長、世界至德總會名譽主席、香 港地產商會會董、香港物業商會會董等等。曾任東華三院總理、顧問；南華體育會永遠董事； 香港童軍東九龍地域名譽會長。 在政治參與領域，吳多泰曾任中國人民政治協商會議全國委員會第六、七屆委員；香港基 本法諮詢委員會委員。 吳多泰十分關心興學教育，多次慷慨解囊捐資，造福鄉梓— (1) 吳多泰曾任香港中文大學聯合書院董事會董事，在書院設立「吳多泰學業優異獎」 。 (2) 吳多泰曾任香港童軍總會東九龍地域名譽會長，設立「吳多泰童軍基金」 ，以輔助東九龍 地域童軍運動之發展。 (3) 吳多泰十分關心海南發展，獲海南省「赤子楷模」榮譽稱號。曾擔任海南大學理事會名譽 理事長、原海南大學籌委會副主任。曾向原海南大學捐贈 130 萬港元和 100 噸鋼材，修建 泰堅樓；後又向學校捐贈人民幣 26…
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Two provisional clubs in China – Shanghai & Beijing – get charters
AUGUST 2006 | THE ROTARIAN 57 Stenhammar applauds service in China IMMEDIATE PAST RI PRESIDENT CARL WILHELM STENHAMMAR celebrated the growth of service opportunities in mainland China 21-23 May with the Rotary clubs of Beijing and Shanghai. – At the Board’s request, Stenhammar appointed a special representative to China in November. Christopher Bo Bramsen of…
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Beijing Rotary Club (Provisional) heads AIDS Charity Event
Provisional club heads AIDS charity event Members of China’s provisional Rotary Club took a significant step toward raising AIDS awareness by hosting the country’s first major AIDS charity event. The black-tie affair, organized by members of the Provisional Rotary Club of Beijing, established in 2001, featured a formal dinner and performances by some of the…
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Dr. Gary C. K. Huang (Taipei) #1 黃其光博士(臺北) #1
國際扶輪新社長黃其光 Meet Rotary’s New President: Gary C.K. Huang Rotary’s new president, Gary C.K. Huang, shows us the meaning behind the family of Rotary. Gary Huang played a lot of sports when he was younger, but basketball was his favorite. He was captain and point guard of his high school team. “I’m not tall, but I…
