The year in review · 2023
Seventy-seven programmes, fifty volunteers.
The year the Club stopped reading its activities aloud at the AGM — there were simply too many — and switched to showing them. It also won the Yale Alumni Association's Excellence Award for a fifth consecutive year.
- Annual General Meeting
- November 2023
- Venue
- The Hong Kong Club
- Guest speaker
- Zhiwu Chen
- 77Programmes
- 50+Volunteers
- 106In the Lunch Club
The year
- A fifth consecutive Excellence Award
- Cited for the Club's large number of officers and volunteers, and the diversity of programmes they make possible.
- A club that answers when called
- When students were trapped at CUHK during the protests, a call for housing went out and was answered within the hour. The same instinct turns up in smaller ways all year.
- The Ivy Ball returns
- Held for the first time in at least three years, with the largest Yale attendance on record — five tables — and alumni singers and a violinist performing.
- Speakers
- Gregory May, the U.S. Consul General; Joan O'Neill, Yale's Vice President for Alumni Affairs; Nelson Cunningham on U.S.–China relations; Henny Sender and Anthony Neoh on the capital markets; James A. Fok on the financial cold war; and Taisu Zhang on Qing taxation.
- Virtuoso Fiesta
- An ensemble formed after two members met at a Lunch Club lunch, and went on to play at the Fringe Club and the Conrad. The Chamber Music Society also performed at a hospice.
- The new admits reception
- Alumni musicians performed for Hong Kong students admitted to Yale. Every admit who attended accepted Yale's offer.
- Service in the rain
- The annual Lantau tree planting went ahead in a downpour, and Impact HK kindness walks continued through the year.
2023 in pictures
