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HKU Centennial Campus Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony

15 Mar 2010

 

One hundred years ago, on 16 March 1910, the foundation stone of the Main Building of the University of Hong Kong （HKU）was laid. This year, on 16 March 2010, HKU will celebrate its Foundation Day with a Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony for its Centennial Campus.

The new campus will stand as a physical symbol of University's ambitious plan for research, student learning, development and community outreach in the next century.

The ceremony will reprise the ceremony for the Main Building 100 years ago, when Sir Hormusjee Navrojee Mody, key donor of the Main Building, presented a trowel to the then Governor Sir Frederick Lugard for him to lay the foundation stone of the Building. At the ceremony tomorrow, Professor Christopher Mody, the great-grandson of Sir Hormusjee Mody, will present a trowel to the Chief Executive and HKU Chancellor Dr the Honourable Donald Tsang to lay the first stone for the new campus.

HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui and the University's four former Vice-Chancellors Dr Rayson Huang, Professor Wang Gungwu, Professor Y C Cheng, and Professor Ian Davies, will all be present at the ceremony. Some 800 guests and students will also be attending.

Media representatives are cordially invited to join the event:
Date:     16 March 2010 (Tuesday)
Time:      3 pm （registration at 2:30 pm, photographers are reminded to bring their long lenses）
Venue:   the Centennial Campus construction site (near Haking Wong Podium, HKU)

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk or Ms Melanie Wan (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk.