Dr Loretta Yam Yin Chun, BBS

Chairman Yang, University Council Members, President Tong and Honoured Guests,

I am most honoured and very happy that, upon retiring from the Council, the University has deemed it proper to confer upon me an Honorary Fellowship.  I must first thank Chairman Yang, President Tong, and the Members of the Council for their largesse.  I must also thank the HKSAR Government for appointing me to the PolyU Council in 2007.  Until that time, I had focused my efforts on medical and health services, healthcare organizations and management, and professional bodies in medicine.  My tenure on the Council enhanced this experience and enlarged the ambit of my work to higher education.  Such an adventure into the highlands of academia was most exciting and instructive.  I was inducted into a community of world-class brains dedicated to the development of knowledge and its real-world application.  Over the years it has been my privilege to witness a great take-off in growth and innovation, which not only advanced the frontiers of research but also exploited and implemented new ideas and new technology to support social and economic development.  I was especially fortunate to have participated in the PolyU’s 75th Anniversary Celebrations, and to bask in the glory of its seminal contributions to Hong Kong, to China, to the world, and indeed to outer space.

I must again thank Chairman Yang, President Tong and the Council for the opportunity to contribute to academia and to learn from the pundits.  It has been a life-enriching episode that I will long remember and treasure – ‘the great things of which I was a part’, to translate a few words from Virgil.

Thank you!   

Miss Clarea Au Suet Ming

Mrs Nina Lam Lee Yuen Bing, MH

Mr Peter Sun Kwok Wah, MH

Dr Jimmy Tang Kui Ming, MH

Dr Loretta Yam Yin Chun, BBS

Ms Belinda Yeung Bik Yiu

Mr Johnny Yeung Chi Hung

Mrs Betty Yuen So Siu Mai

(in alphabetical order of last name)