To Serve and to Lead – A History of the Diocesan Boys′ School Hong Kong

Fung Yee Wang has teaching/administrative experience spanning the whole spectrum of formal education, having taught in the Chi Lin Primary School, the Diocesan Boys' School, the University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a total of 36 years. He was Sports Master at DBS, Warden of Old Halls at HKU and Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at CUHK. Moira Chan-Yeung has over 40 years of experience in research and scholarship, having published 350 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters and several books. A world authority on occupational asthma, she was instrumental in having it recognized as a compensable disease and setting up criteria for assessing respiratory impairment/disability in patients with asthma. A student of the Diocesan Girls' School, she studied physics and chemistry for three years in DBS before entering medicine in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She returned to HKU in 1998 as Chair Professor of Respiratory Disease. Dr. Chan-Yeung is currently a Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of British Columbia, an Honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine, HKU, and a consultant to the World Health Organization.

The DBS story over the past 140 years tells us not just the school's hard struggle to become one of the best in Hong Kong, producing many outstanding alumni who lead in the professions and actively serve the community. It is also a testimony to Hong Kong's trajectory towards success as the most international city of China - a process in which education has played such an important part. -- Anthony Bing-leung Cheung, President of The Hong Kong Institute of Education and Member of the Executive Council, Hong Kong The history of DBS has reflected an era of social change and educational development in Hong Kong. Throughout its 140 years, the school has encountered many major conflicts: between the school and the government, within the School Committee and between the school administration and the staff and/or students. The freedom, openness and tolerance in the school culture, as exemplified in the democratic way these conflicts were handled, are values that we, as educators, should promote. -- Cheung Man Kwong, President of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union and Member of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong