A meeting was held in the offices of Messrs.. I. Ezra & No., No. 14 Kiukiang Road, on Tuesday to discuss tue proposition of arranging a memorial to the late Mr. George Lanning m recognition of the services that he rendered to the Shanghai Public School during his tenure of office as headmaster.
Mr. Ezra took the chair, and Mr. G. B. Fryer was elected secretary of the meeting, and amongst those present were Mrs. Stewart, Misses Patterson and Cardwell, Messrs. W. J. Gande, T. Youngson, H. O. White, R. D. Abraham, A. W. Olsen.
In opening the meeting, Mr. E. I Ezra stated that they were there to consider the subject of a memorial to the late Mr. George Lanning, on the part of his former pupils. For Mr. Lanning all former pupils of the Shanghai Public School had an affectionate feeling, and an appreciation of his good work. It was as long ago as 1889 when Mr. Lanning took charge of the School, and the speaker was one of his pupils. It was needless for him to say what good Mr. Lanning had done. In the days when Mr. Ezra joined the School the foreign population of Shanghai was very small, and there were Chinese pupils. Mr. Lanning had to work very hard to bring the system of the school to its present standard, He had a remarkably magnetic influence with the boys, and all of them loved and respected him. He had valuable qualities developed in a remarkable way. After referring to the excellent work Mr. Lanning had done for Shanghai as a Volunteer, the speaker referred to his work as a writer of the history of Shanghai, mentioning the fact that his excellent knowledge of Shanghai history and people must have made this a "labour of love," and his careful secretaryship of the Shanghai Recreation Fund. He was always a man of broad common sense, was impartial in his review of Shanghai affairs, and a thorough sportsman in every respect.
The speaker suggested that the memorial to Mr. Lanning should take the form of an annual scholarship for the Girls' and Boys' de partments of the Public School; that a sum of, say, Tls. 5,000 shoud be collected, "to be invested in Municipal debentures and the 1n-
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