Welcome to the Annual General Meeting of the DSOBA.

The Association continued its role in providing events that promote and encourage social interaction among members and DBS old boys, and maintained close ties with DBS during the past year.

The last Annual General Meeting was held on 30 April 1999. During this year, Patrick Sun and Robert Fong resigned from the General Committee. The vacancies were filled by Thomas Ho (83) and Sunny Lee (77). Sunny has been actively involved in the Newsletter Sub-committee in the past year while Thomas participated in the Ball Committee in the past. Norris Yang, one of our past presidents, Ronald Lam who for years served as the Race Box Convenor and Frank Li who focused on the Sports Club activities are retiring from the General Committee at this Annual General Meeting. I would like to thank them for their dedicated service and support to the Association.

We have 26 new members joining the Association during the year. The total number of member as at end of 1999 was 1,215. A New Members and Class Agents Party was held in August 1999. We continue to have the monthly luncheon on all first Thursday of the month. Desmond Fung (63) was invited to speak in one of the monthly luncheons during the year. A new edition of the Membership Directory is issued for year 2000.

The Social Function Sub-committee, headed by Peter Yam (78), produced a number of programmes in the past year. This included the Pool-side Party, Games Day and Golf Tournament, a joint function with the Sports Club. The participation by members and guests was reasonable.

As in the past, we had the DSOBA stall in the school fete. We managed to raise some HK$29,896 for the school through sale of mechandise specifically arranged for the occasion.

A Millennium Ball was held on 31 December 1999 at the Conrad Hotel to celebrate the turn of the century. The function was well attended with 45 tables. We dedicated our care and love to the next generation by featuring the younger generation of our old boys in a fashion parade. The performance by Eliza Chan was well received as well. The surplus from the event was HK$ 79,852. We appreciate the efforts put in by the Ball Chairman, Desmond Yip (82) and his committee members.

We remain the only secondary school in Hong Kong to maintain a race box at both the Shatin and Happy Valley race courses. Chow Kee Wing (63) took up the position of Race Box Convenor in April 2000 while Eldon Chu (64) continued to serve as Deputy Convenor. Ronald Lam (54) had been most supportive in managing the race boxes over the past years and we must thank him here again for his hard work.

Our Sports Club had membership of over 80 number this year. There were two major tournaments, tennis and squash, held in the year. The tennis and swimming facilities in DBS are much liked by our members.

Upgrading of our web-site is an on-going exercise. We are putting more information on the web-site for easy access by members. Please check the web-site for the latest development. In parallel, we published two issues of the DSOBA Newsletter during the year, a traditional mean of communicating with our members.

During the year, we participated in the preparation of the DBS Homecoming Concert back in July 1999. Over 100 old boys and family attended the concert. We all felt proud of the musical achievements of the students and the leadership of Ronnie Cheng (83), Head of the Music Department. We continued to organise the English Summer Course for new students jointly with DBS. 150 new DBS Form One boys spent a week's time during the last summer to prepare themselves for the new environment.

Mr Jacland Lai, our Vice President and Headmaster of DBS, will retire in the summer of 2000. Mr Lai has served DBS for well over 30 years. I would like to thank Mr Lai for his support and encouragement to the Association through the years and we truly hope that Mr Lai will continue to participate in the Association's activities after he retires.

I would like to thank the DBS School Committee for their continued support. I would also like to recognise the efforts of all members of the General Committee, Sub-committees and our Secretary, Amy during the past year. Lastly, I thank all members of the Association for their participation and continued support.

Wilfred Kam (78)
President

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