I presented an opening speech to express the heart for all of us for 22 years and appreciated our strong unity as a group. The tradition will carry on every year and there will be a big celebration in 2009 having the 25th Anniversary. Our Class ’84 will continue to support DBS and DSOBA in the years to come.
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2-Jul-06 Sun Main event:
From the open prairies, somewhere south of Winnepeg, warm greetings to my DB/GS friends who have kept the faith to keep in touch, sometimes, or once in 50 years. Just want you to know that I’m thinking of you.
I imagine there are vast stretches out there where you can look 360 degrees all around to see only land that meets the sky. People here call it “God’s Country.” No small town in No Man’s Land, because Walmart has arrived, open 24 hours year-round.
I’m in Stromsburg with my wife, to celebrate Mom Avis’ 95th birthday. May we all live this long, in good health, to enjoy two huge cakes, which are now ready for the party to begin. I’m sure someone here will offer a prayer:
I Jesu namn,
Till bords vi ga,
Valsigne Gud
Den mat vi fa.
Amen.
So, we all come to the table, asking God’s blessings of food (and friendship) we receive. Amen.
“Tho’ much is taken, much abides: and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are:
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, and not to yield.”
— Tennyson, an abridge from BJ Monks poetry class.
No kidding. Can we once again find those youthful faces in the 50’s
and 60’s in the DBS hilltop? A guy with thinning gray hairs was
grinning at me from the mirror this morning. Do I know that guy?
Do not compute eternity,
As light-year after light-year.
One step across that line called ‘Time’,
Eternity is right here.
Time is of our own making,
Its clock ticks in our head.
The moment we stop thought,
Time too stops dead.
Come on, fellows. Let us dance. Let us chat. Let us reconnect.
Warm Regards,
Teddy ’58.
Alex Fong Chi-Wai (’73) is confirmed to become the new CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in August this year 2006. He left the HKSAR Government earlier this year, and his last post was the Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo.