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23 Jan22:47pm

Dear Fellow DBS boys,
 
Upon learning the news, I managed to make a quick visit to Toronto this weekend and joined my classmates (as shown from left to right: Daniel, Joseph, Manson, William, me and David) in attending the service at R. S. Kane at 6150 Yonge Streeton Sunday afternoon.  We met with Jimmy Farrington (he is a DBS boy but a good 10 classes or so behind us…

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William called and spoke with Jimmy a few times before Sunday), his mother and sister and several other old boys (Eugene Wilson and Clive of ’81, several really "senior” boys from class of ’54  to ’70 and in between).  I noted that there were wreaths from our class, class of 1981, and TWO identical wreaths from class of 1975.  There were some of the more recent pictures of Mr. Farrington posted at the funeral home.  His two toddler grandchildren were also there.  Apparently they family took it well and remained in decent spirit.
 
We took our picture (attached) as we left the building.  It was one of those strange moments we did not know whether to smile for the camera or not. Allow me to thank William for putting in his time and effort in organizing for our appearance, and spent more than a full day taking good care of me.
 
Happy New Year and

Best regards,

Peter Yam ‘ 78

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22 Jan23:57pm

Top CIO Award for DBS Old Boys
 
In this year's national awards for Chief Information Officers (CIO) /  individuals heading up IT functions, 2 DBS old boys - Daniel Lai of MTR Corporation Ltd and Sunny Lee of the Hong Kong Jockey Club were awarded top honours amongst the five recipients of 2007 China Distinguished CIO Awards (2007年度中国傑出CIO).

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They were also individually named one of fifty awardees of 2007 Top China CIO (2007 年度中国優秀CIO) at the Award Presentation Ceremony held in Beijing on 19 January.
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The event was jointly organised by IT Manager Magazine (IT經理世界) and IDC (China) and is regarded the Oscar award for top IT managers in IT users organisations for the whole of China. This year marks the 6th annual award since 2002, and has drawn over 1,600 entries throughout the country. The theme of the 2007 award is "managing changes and reforms" (應對变革). Judging was a rigorous process and lasted 5 months. The Judging Panel comprised of Head of Ministry of Information Industry Electronic Technology Research Institute, academia, IT analyst, IDC head researcher and organisers' senior executives.

Both Daniel Lai and Sunny Lee stated that it was their honours to receive the awards amongst such distinguished awardees and very sizable national organizations, indicating Hong Kong's strength in the innovation and application of IT.
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21 Jan22:14pm

Annual ball has been confirmed! We have booked the Hong Kong Club again by popular request!

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Availability: Raffle tickets are available for sales at School Fete on 2007-11-04. If early pick up is required, please contact Ms. Amy Au Yeung on 2713-5268 for details. Selling at $50 per ticket and $500 per book.

Special Note: The General Committee would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to our donors and our members for their continuous support.

Warmest Regards,
DSOBA General Committee

 

 

 

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19 Jan20:07pm

DPS Sportsday 08

DPS held its sports day at Kowloon Tsai Park on 19-Jan-08. Many new potentials were revealed from the strong performance shown.

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17 Jan23:49pm

Update on Thomas Lee (Cartoon Lo)
Cape Town

My family and in-law's family met Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee (car tung lo) in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 and 3 Jan 2008.

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Mrs. Camorie Ann, my in-law was a teacher at DBS from 1968 to 1974 and knows Thomas quite well. Thomas was very happy to see us since he has few visitors. He still remember quite a few of us like William Ong, Paul Chan, Edmund Choy, David Li and Pankee but he complains that we are naughty. We had dinner together twice and went to his house for watermelon.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gretchen.king/MeetingWithThomasAtCapeTown?authkey=-WjWdLBS94g

Kindly send this letter to class of 64.

Happy New year to you all.

William (64)

A note from William King on his recent meeting in Cape Town with Teacher Thomas Lee. 

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17 Jan23:38pm

Survived by his dear aunt Emily McKee and dear sister Elizabeth McAllister. Bob will be missed and lovingly remembered by his extended family and many friends.

Family and friends may call on Sunday January 20th, 2008 from 2-5 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). Funeral service will be held at the R.S. Kane Chapel on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 1 o’clock. Cremation to follow with interment at York Cemetery at a later date. 

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From: Jimmy Farrington

Date: Jan 16, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: Bob Farrington RIP
This message is to inform you that my father has passed away peacefully early this morning (3:45 am Jan 16 2008 Toronto Time).
 
We are in the process of making funeral arrangements, and we will inform you when we have more details. 
  
Take Care,
 
Jimmy, Jimmy’s mom, Jimmy’s sister.
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16 Jan03:11am

Class 78 Gathering 08

Hanif Barma was in town during the holiday season to celebrate his parent’s 60th wedding anniversary. Classmates were notified for a dinner gathering at Portland Café, owned by a couple of DBS boys, our classmate Casam Li being one of the owners.

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6 classmates signed up for the dinner with Hanif but we ended up with 12. another 2, Michael Pan, math professor in Missouri and Normal Lo, both not in photo, also showed up for a chat.

2008 is the 30th Anniversary for the Class of 1978. Planning for a reunion towards the end of the year is under discussion. Members of Class 1978 who have not signed onto our yahoo group: DBS1978@yahoogroups.com please do so to get re-connected.
Cheers,
Stanley Fong (78)

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