{"id":17143,"date":"2017-09-01T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=17143"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:33:19","slug":"convocation-for-new-students-201718-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/convocation-for-new-students-201718-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation for New Students 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 September 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Convocation for New Students 2017\/18 of HSMC was held on 1 Sep 2017. It was officiated by Dr Ho Tzu Leung, member of the Board of Governors of HSMC and Governor of the S H Ho Foundation; Dr Moses Cheng, Chairman of the College Council; and President Simon S M Ho. Over 1,400 new students and around 40 exchange students attended the event.<\/p>\n

In his address, President Ho elaborated on the importance of opportunities, attitude and transformation and wished the new students a fruitful and fulfilling journey of learning at HSMC. Ben Wong, President of HSMC Students\u2019 Union, also welcomed all new students to the HSMC family.<\/p>\n

Dr Ho Tzu Leung encouraged the students to have dreams and strive to pursue them. He then presented the Dr S H Ho Scholarship in Banking and Finance to the recipient, Wong Pak Yan, a BBA Year 1 student. The Scholarship, covering full tuition fees for four academic years and on-campus accommodation at the Residential Colleges, was established with a donation from the S H Ho Foundation and was offered for the first time in 2017 to students who intend to pursue a career in banking and finance, and meet the selection criteria of the Scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Simon Ho gave his welcome address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ben Wong, President of the Students\u2019 Union, welcomed new students to the HSMC family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The College Hall was filled with new students dressed in green gowns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Ho Tzu Leung, member of the Board of Governors of HSMC and Governor of the S H Ho Foundation, encouraged students to pursue their dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Ho Tzu Leung presented the Dr S H Ho Scholarship in Banking and Finance to Wong Pak Yan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Moses Cheng, Chairman of the College Council, presented a photo album of memoirs to Dr Ho Tzu Leung.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 September 2017 The Convocation for New Students 2017\/18 of HSMC was held on 1 Sep 2017. It was officiated by Dr Ho Tzu Leung, member of the Board of Governors of HSMC and Governor of the S H Ho Foundation; Dr Moses Cheng, Chairman of the College Council; and President Simon S M Ho. […]","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":17153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,126],"tags":[],"topics":[],"month":[307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17152,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions\/17152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}