November 12 miavked tue 25th anniversary of the founding of th: Public Schoo! for Chinese at Ely'n end Cunningham Road and the event. was suitably celebrated by a dinner of the alumni in the new building of the Yih Ping Shang restaurant on Thibet Road.
Over 100 old boys attended and the chair was occupied by the President of the Alumni Association, Mr, Jabin Hau, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Iodustry, Commerce and Labou Among the other notables seated ith him on the dais was Mr. G.
Foster Kemp, hend master of the school, where acquaintance with the institution dates back just twenty five years when he came out from Home to take up the assistant head mastership and had to wait for the Building to be completed before accepting his duties, Since 1904 over 4,000 pupils have completed its courses and at present the student body numbers some 440. Graduates are particularly desired by many of the leading firms and many of them will take all the boys graduating. and anxious to take up commercial careers, The school was the first of the present four educational institutions the Settlement for Chinese and since its founding it has occupied the same Luildings.
In speaking at the dinner, Mr. Poster Kemp recalled that when "he first tock up his duties in 1904 there was some question us to the location of the building as it was considered then to be "away out in the country" but with the growth of Shanghai it is now verity able buried in a maze of dwellings and shops and is the centre of a busy community,
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