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Joint Installation Ceremony 2020
CP & Leaders Training July 4, 2020 Yuen Long Community Hall
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Hong Kong District Under Construction Y’s Men’s Club of Hong Kong was founded in 1932 as the second oldest service club in Hong Kong. English was chosen to be the Club’s official language. The Club hosted the 1st Asia Area Conference in association with the Kowloon Y’s Men’s Club inNovember 1957. In its early days, the Club sponsored schools for ‘street kids’, often in partnership with the YMCA and the ‘Boys and Girls Clubs’. Other notable projects sponsored by the Club over the years included Chinese YMCA’s youth camp facilities on the island of Wong Yi Chau, the ‘Physically Handicapped and the Able Bodied Project’, Chinese culture lectures by ‘Hok Hoi Library’, the building of two new primary schools in Hupei Province in mainland China and a charity concert to raise HK$1 million for the ‘Home of Loving Faithfulness’. While the ‘Y’s Menettes Committee’ of the Club was replaced by the formation of the Y’s Men’s Club of Bauhinia in 1979, the membership of the Hong Kong Club itself has been all men until 2001, when lady members were first admitted. Many distinguished members from the Club have taken up posts at the international level such as International Vice President (the late Y’s Man C S Lam), Area President (Y’s Man C L Kung) and Regional Directors (Y’s Men S Y Lam, B L Wong, Tony Chan, Kenneth Sit, Cary Fung and David Wong). In 2012, Hong Kong Club celebrated its 80th Anniversary. For the past eighty years Hong Kong Club has brought up four generations of distinguished members. It might be the only service club in Hong Kong that cultivated a tradition of succession. Many of the Club members’ Y’slings (children of Y’s Men) grew up with the Club, and some of them have followed their fathers’ footsteps to join the Club. There have been 6 cases of Y’s Man Benjamin Lam after Y’s Man CS, Y’s Man Eric Li after Y’s Man KH, Y’s Man David Wong after Y’s Man BL, Y’s Man Jane Lam after Y’s Man SY, Y’s Man Kristine Chung after Y’s Man Robert and Y’s Man Cleo Ng after Y’s Man Norman. A new generation of distinguished Y’s Men in their own rights. Also, there are husband and wife members in the Club, Y’s Men Jennie and Shiu Lee and Y’s Men Alison and PL Lau. Clubs chartered in 50s and 60s Three other Y’s Men’s Clubs were chartered in the Hong Kong District during this period namely Kowloon, Victoria and Tsuen Wan. The Kowloon Club was chartered in 1952, and for many years operated a children’s welfare club in a resettlement estate and provided scholarships for needy students and special Christmas programme for patients of the Ruttonjee Geriatric Day Hospital. During SARS in 2003, the Club organized voluntary help to clean the flats of the elderly living alone. In 2003-04, the Club helped set up the YMCA ‘FARM’ project, a trendy flea market concept to develop the creative and entrepreneurial talents of youths. The Club nurtured the 2nd Y’s Youth Club in Hong Kong, namely the Y’s Youth Club of Kowloon in 2010. The Y’s Men’s Club of Victoria was chartered on July 6, 1962. In 1967, Victoria Club supported the establishment of ‘Y’s Men’s Centre for the Deaf’. Since 1975, the Club also supported young deaf people to join the ‘International Summer Camp for the Deaf’. Club Past President CHOU Wing-ping took up the post of Asia President in 1998. In 2001 and 2002, Club members participated in environmental protection and plantation programme in China and Hong Kong. The Y’s Men’s Club of Tsuen Wan was chartered on June 16, 1967. It established brother clubbing with Y’s Men’s Club of Osaka-Nishi in 1979, Y’s Men’s Club of Kaohsiung in 1989, and Y’s Men’s Club of Malaysia in It also sponsored the chartering of the Y’s Men’s Club of New Territories. It organized the first Canoeing Competition in Hong Kong on January 1, 1968, and the first Dancing Competition in the New Territories in Due to a conflict at Tsuen Wan Club election, the board of directors was vacant during the year 2010/11 and the Tsuen Wan Club was dissolved in Hong Kong in the year 2011/12. The Y’s Men’s Club of Peninsula was chartered on December 3, 1968. It served as a silent partner for the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong on various projects and community activities for the past 46 years. It is notable that for the last 16 years, the Club participated in the fund raising project ‘Bike Marathon’ organized by the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong to raise funds for deprived students at Qingyuen in the Northern Guangdong Province, China. Clubs chartered in 70’s, 80’s and 90’s After the chartering of the Y’s Men’s Club of Peninsula, there was a long period of time with no new extension. On October 20, 1979, the first all ladies Club, Y’s Men’s Club of Bauhinia, was chartered in Asia. Notable social service project in the club’s early year included sponsorship of a mini bus for transport of the elderly in St James Settlement; and jointly with the Y’s Men’s Club of Hong Kong a mini bus for Mary Rose School in 1997, and facilities for various social service agencies and schools including YMCA Wong Yi Chau […]
Joint installation ceremony 2020
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