30th-year Reunion Dinner

There are not too many 30 years in one's life, and therefore the Class 71 old boys threw a big reunion dinner party on July 7, 2001 at the Happy Valley Racecourse of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Thirty nine of them showed up, of whom seven flew in from overseas primarily for this occasion. They were Au Fun Kuen, Clifton Chiu, Anthony Kong, Tung Man Kwong, Lai Cham Fai, Kent Yeh, Patrick Li, Kingston Tseng, Paul Wang, Robert Fong, Peter Wong, Or Chun Wo, Edward Kwong, Alan Cheng, Bernard Chan, Gordon Loch, Patrick Mok, Dick Chan, Richard Leung, Johnny Loh, Chanindh Homsilpakul, Jimmy So, Wong Kwong Chung, Peter Yin, Chan Yam Chung, Raymond Lo, Richard Yau, Ng Chi Chuen, Wong Shek, Alex Ko, Max Tong, David Auyang, Henry Leung, Anthony Tang, S.A.L. Rahman, James Lau, Yeung Tak Ming, Ken Loh and Shabbir Hoosenally.

Teachers of those good old days were of course also invited, and it was the honor of the Class 71 that six of them came to the party. Among them were three school headmasters, wow! They were Mr. Jimmy Lowcock, Mr. Jacland Lai and Mrs. Mimi Lai. Mr. Jacobson, accompanied by his better half, was busy trying to identify the students that he had taught. They flew a long way from Vancouver, where they are enjoying their retirement life. Mr. Wai Tong Chow took time from his busy schedule to join the party and returned from his overseas assignment only on that day. Mr. Bobby Wan was never forgotten (or maybe never forgiven) by many of the Class 71 old boys because they claimed to be sent to caning by him.

A crowd of old boys gathered in front of the screen on which old pictures were projected. Some of them scratched their heads from time to time trying to figure out every face in the photos. Instead of going through the boring process of asking everybody to present an update of oneself, Gordon Loch did it in a very amusing way by asking old boys to identify themselves by the number of children they had, the youngest and oldest age of getting married, the biggest increase in weight since graduation, their youngest and oldest children, the number of caning, the number of women they had, and others that were not suitable for being put into print.

It was a very memorable evening, and the pictures and videos taken during those few happy hours will be distributed to the participants in a CD. Yes, it will be in a CD, and no more paper. Does it surprise you that even those old boys (or old men) of Class 71 could be so hi-tech and environmental conscious?

In case you do not know, our official website can now publish class notes. If you do want to post news/gathering to our site, just send your information (with photos) to mail@dsoba.org or directly to Amy at amy@dsoba.org.

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You can also initiate a group distribution list through Yahoo Groups. The suggested name if you are starting a group is "DBSXXXX", XXXX being the year at which the class year at which you want to register. For example "DBS1971" invites subscription to all classmates who are of Class of 1971.