Clementi Secondary School

Clementi Secondary School (Chinese: 金文泰中學), a secondary school in North Point of Hong Kong. Founded by Hong Kong Government, the school has the longest history in using Chinese language as medium of instruction in Hong Kong. The motto of the school is cited from the Analects of Confucius,"Letters, Ethics, Devotion of soul, and Truthfulness."(《論語．述而》:「子以四教：文、行、忠、信。」)

History

The Governor of Hong Kong Cecil Clementi, who had a profound interest in the Chinese language, decided to establish a school using Chinese as the medium of instruction. In 1926, Government Vernacular Middle School (官立漢文中學) was founded. Government Vernacular Middle School is the first government school to use Chinese as the medium of instruction. Li King Hong, the then-Chinese language inspector of schools, was appointed the first principal of the school.

During World War II, the school suspended its operations under the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. After the war, the school was renamed Government Vernacular Senior Middle School (官立漢文高級中學). It was renamed again in 1951 to Clementi Middle School (金文泰中學) and in 1988 to Clementi Secondary School, after the governor.

The school has been relocated several times and its current site at Fortress Hill Road was established on 23 September 1961.

The school Principal now is Ms. Li Sui-wah, who succeeded Mr. Li Kwok-kai upon his retirement in 2010.

Notable alumni

Politicians, government officials, and legislators

• Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan, Former Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in Urban Council, Executive Council and Legislative Council.
• Tsang Yam Pui, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.
• Lee Ming-kwai, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.
• Leung Kwok-hung, Politician, Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, executive committee of the League of Social Democrats.
• Tam Goossen, Politician, New Democratic Party of Canada.
• Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Chairman of Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA)

Academics

• Prof. Daniel Chee Tsui, Physicist, Graduate of university preparatory class of Clementi. Nobel Physics Prize Laureate for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, adjunct senior research scientist in the Department of Physics at Columbia University
• Prof. Sau-Lan Wu, Physicist, Enrico Fermi and Vilas Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and winner of 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for "the first evidence for three-jet events in e+e- collisions at PETRA"
• Prof. Chan Hon Chuen, Civil Engineer, Honorary Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The Institution of Structural Engineers, United Kingdom and of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
• Prof. Wong Cheuk-Yin, Physicist, fellow of American Physical Society,former chairman of Overseas Chinese Physics Association, U.S.A., now working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Prof. Ng Cheuk-Yiu,Chemist, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Davis
• Fung Kwok-Pui, Biochemist, Dean of United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chairman and Professor of Biochemistry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Prof. Hak-Fun CHOW, Chemist, Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, England and Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Leung Pak-wah Edwin, medalist of Ellis Island Medal of Honor and Professor of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University, U.S.A.
• Wong Ming Hung, Biologist, Chair Professor, Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Director of the Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences
• Leung Yee, Geographer, State Natural Science Award 2007 laureate , Professor of Geography and former Dean of Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Loy Michael Ming-Tak, Physicist, Chair Professor, Department of Physics and Dean of Science (1998–2004) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Martin Oei, Political commentator, Lecturer of Government and Public Administration at Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Cheng Yin Cheong, holds a doctorate from Harvard, Vice President and Chair Professor of Leadership and Change of Hong Kong Institute of Education, President of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA), panel member of University Grants Committee, Research Grants Council and Quality Education Fund Steering Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government,former associate director of the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research and former professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
• TAM Nora Fung Yee Chair Professor of Biology, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
• Lo Wai-luen aka Siu Sze, renowned writer and educationist in Hong Kong, former professor of Chinese at Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Chow Hing-Lun mathematician, former professor of mathematics at Chinese University of Hong Kong, teacher of Shing-Tung Yau who received the Fields Medal in 1982
• Lam Yi-yuen mathematician, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of British Columbia
• To Cho Yee educationist, Professor of Education at Faculty of Medicine of CUHK and Professor of Education and Research Scientist at University of Michigan

External links

• Official website