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158. Jonathan Sweeting - 2009-01-02 22:23:16 |
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157. Wilma Chan - 2008-12-30 02:49:55 |
Dear Sansan,
My very belated condolences to Professor Sweeting. It is blessing that you had overcome this difficult time.
Take Care!
Wilma Chan |
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156. Kathy Wong - 2008-11-14 22:17:48 |
I am so sorry to hear about the death of your husband. It must be very hard for you and your family. I hope that you will walk through this difficult time peacefully and have a fresh new start. Take care!
Thanks also for your help to forward the message too.
Warm wishes,
Kathy
Playright
Director
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154. Prof. Clive Whitehead - 2008-10-23 21:52:08 |
Dear Sansan
I have just received news by email of Tony’s death back at the end of July. We have never had the pleasure of knowing each other but I have known Tony since I first visited Hong Kong Uni back in 1981. I can still see him now returning to the University dressed in sporting attire, including hockey boots, waving a bundle of hockey sticks and pads after an afternoon on the sports oval, and also equally remember a very enjoyable fish lunch that we had together during my visit. Only towards the end of last year Tony was in Perth, Western Australia, and we spent several mornings together over coffee discussing all that is right and wrong with education and universities in today’s world. A pity our politicians were not listening in. I knew, of course, that Tony had not been well for some time but his infectious enthusiasm for everything in life was still present. We talked about British education policy in Hong Kong in the past - I complained to him that my personal copy of his monumental PhD was coming apart because of the temporary style binding - and we both agreed on the need for many more detailed case studies of British education policy in the colonies if we were to counter the armchair theorists who all seem to subscribe to the view that colonial education was little more than ’cultural imperialism’. We also talked of Welsh rugby! What else would a Welshman and an Englishman brought up in New Zealand talk about?
During one of his visits to Perth Tony agreed to write a chapter on teacher education in Hong Kong in a book that I co-edited with Tom O’Donoghue, which was published several months ago.
I shall always remember Tony as both an outstanding scholar and a gentleman. The academic world is the poorer for his passing and I shall long miss his friendship and his valuable contribution to scholarly debate.
Sincerely
Clive Whitehead
A/Prof. Graduate School of Education
The University of Western Australia
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153. Johnnie To - 2008-10-09 07:53:01 |
Tony has been our neighbor in Sai Kung for almost 20 years, he was a good friend.
My wife and I don’t speak fluent English, but everytime we saw Tony, he came off as a kind and sincere person.
We know Tony has been battling his illness for a while, and he demonstrated incredible courage and thoughtfulness.
He will always be an inspiration for us.
Johnnie & Paulina To |
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152. Terri Li (daughter of cousin) - 2008-09-29 22:35:21 |
This is Terri. Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the passing of your husband Hob. Having so recently lost my father, I have a special empathy for your loss.
I really resonated with your description of his dying. I have been present for a few other deaths, and every time have found it to be incredibly powerful and a blessing to have witnessed it. What a wonderful final gift for you and the children to have shared with each other and Hob.
While we are worlds away from each other, know that I am thinking of you. If there’s anything I can do to be of support to you, please let me know. I hope our paths will cross again some day in the future.
With much love,
Terri |
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151. Ora Bray - 2008-09-26 11:03:41 |
Quoted from "Streams in the Desert" :
Why yield to gloomy anticipations?
Who told you that the night would never end in day?
Know you not that day follows night, that flood comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter?
Hope you ever!
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150. Kevin MacKeown - 2008-09-21 08:03:08 |
It was sad to hear of Tony’s passing, in the end so unexpectedly sudden. We arrived at HKU within a year of each other, so our friendship was not of short duration. I would rib him on the performance of the hockey team, and who was responsible for so many goals against, he would often have his revenge when the performance of the Irish rugby team hit the headlines.
He was an opinionated, and generous man, and over a glass, or three, of claret in the SCR we often solved problems that seemed to perplex the rest of humanity. In recent years when I took a parvenue’s interest in colonial history he would come up with informative and helpful insights. On more serious issues, like how the history of the SCR should be written, I fear his ideas are now past realisation.
I already miss him. Unfortunately I probably will not be around for the memorial service, let me just add an old Irish cliche,
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149. Lyn Draeger Bourke - 2008-09-19 13:27:18 |
Hello San, Susie rang me the other day, and told me your sad news, and gave me your email address.
It wasn’t very nice to hear what happened to Tony and you must have had a very traumatic time and must be still trying to come to terms with your new situation, and the memories.......
I can’t think of anything to say to console you about Tony, the devastation must be awful, I hate to think of myself in the same situation. Over the years I have thought about Susie and yourself often, and always send you love and best wishes for all things - so love again, Lyn.
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