YEAR |
EVENTS |
|
1924 |
Wah Yan College
Kowloon Branch opened by Mr. Tsui Yan-Sau on December 1 at 70 Portland
Street with two classes of 24 students |
|
1928 |
School moved to 8
Nelson Street on April 26 with 800 students |
|
1929 |
First graduating
class with 8 students, among them were The Hon. Mr. Eugene Li Yiu-Bor and
Mr. Tso Kwok-Cheung who is still residing in Toronto as of
2002 |
|
1933 |
Wah Yan College Kowloon Branch operating
as an independent grant-in-aid school Wah Yan College, Kowloon Investiture
of 11th Kowloon Boy Scouts Group |
|
1936 |
The first Sports
Meet held on April 24 at Kowloon Football Club |
|
1941 |
Senior school opened at 103 Austin Road
on September 8 with Fr. R. W. Gallagher, S.J. as Prefect of Studies School
interrupted during Japanese occupation |
|
1945 |
School reopened
on Nelson Street on September 8 |
|
1946 |
School
administration transferred to the Society of Jesus, renamed the College of
the Sacred Heart Fr. P. Grogan,
S.J. appointed the 1st Jesuit School Supervisor and Fr. Patrick
Toner, S.J. the Co-respondent |
|
1949 |
56 Waterloo Road,
with an area of 41,000 square metres, selected as site of new
campus |
|
1952 |
Staff and
students of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong PM School and Nelson Street
transferred to new campus on September 15 New school officially
opened by The Governor of Hong Kong Sir Alexander Grantham on December
12 Fr. Fr.
Patrick Toner, S.J. appointed the 1st Rector |
|
1953 |
The first volume
of school magazine, The Shield, with 120 pages, published; edited by Fr.
L. Egan, S. J. and Mr. Liu Ki-Ming |
|
1955 |
School Auditorium opened
|
|
1959 |
St. Ignatius
Chapel consecrated by Bishop Lawrence Bianchi |
|
1964 |
School newspaper,
The Signum, published |
|
1966 |
Student
Association founded |
|
1967 |
Mr. Anthony Ho
became the first lay Assistant Principal |
|
1968 |
New East Wing
opened |
|
1970 |
Wah Yan College
Kowloon Past Students’ Association founded |
|
1988 |
Swimming Pool
opened |
|
1989 |
New West Wing
opened |
|
1992 |
Fr. Alfred
Deignan, S.J. retired as the last Jesuit School
Principal Mr. Norman So of
the class of 1965 appointed School Principal, the 1st
layman since the Jesuits take-over |
|
1994 |
WYK
web site set up |
|
1995 |
Student
Computer Team formed |
|
1997 |
School-provided
e-mail service for teachers & students started |
|
1998 |
Fr. George Zee,
S.J. of the class of 1958 became the 1st past student appointed
School Supervisor |
|
1999 |
Parents’
Association founded |
|
2001 |
Ms. Eva Chau
became the first female Assistant
Principal |