candidates Ken Ball
(Hong Kong Trade Development Council), Michael Fleis-
chmann
(Freeway
Industrial and Trad-
LH. Fredricks Ì inÐ, O]É. Fredricks &
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I
t Cynthia Hydes
David Thurston
and history at the Beijing Central Academy
of Fine Arts. He joined the FCC in 1980, first as guest
ì,
Humble
(Mollers
Insurance Brokers),
Rachel I-avigne (Quebec Government), David
Michael Fleischmann
LH, Fredericks
Shairp (UBS Phillips & Drew), Mike Smith (I.B.M.), and Ross
University and holds a degree which, she says,
Way (\4ana Investment)
became quite useful in her line of work. David Shairp, the Pacific Region æconomist for the brokerage firm UBS, Phillips
.
has been a member of the FCC
for the past eight years. Before setting up her own public relations consultancy seven years ago, Hughes worked with the
Hong Kong Tourist Association and Japan Airlines. She
ago. Besides studying
in Beijing, Thurston
spent four-and-a-half years with Japan Airlines in Toþo before
was also educated at the l¡ndon School of Economics and
coming to Hong Kong. UK-
Oxford University.
Derek A.C. Davies
Stuart Wolfendale
clock-
making, sheep-farming and photography in the UK.
Karl Wilson, an Australian, says that his education "came from working with multi-media around the world". He is at
present the editor
Associates), Peter
\Mendy Hughes came to Hong Kong 12 years ago and
member and then as active member when he became an assistant editor o|the Asia Magazine five years
He says he studied
Õ
\
Karl Wilson
to study Chinese art
journalism,
\.g¿
of the Sunday
Standard, a post he has held since January 1989. Before coming to Hong Kong in 1986, first to join the South China Morning Posú as foreign editor, Wilson worked at the l¡ndon Bureau of.The Awstralian for eight years as well as with the Telegraþh in Sydney. He is also the coauthor of the book, Marcos and Beyond. Stuart Wolfendale worked with the Hong Kong Government during his earþ years in Hong Kong. Moving away from civil service, he went into freelance writing and became noted for his commentaries
several publications including some US magazines. In Bangkok, he was an editor
ature from the University of Wales. Hughes has been a member of the
and writer at the Bangkok Post. Davies studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. In the associate member governor cate gory, 10 candidates are contesting for four seats. They are incumbentsWendy Hugh-
Board since 1987. Dorothy Ryan also has her own firm,
es (Wendy Hughes Ltd) and Dorothy Ryan (Shetland Investments), and new
London,
Bangkok and Tokyo before arriving in Hong Kong in 1980. In London, Davies worked with BBC, writing and taking pictures for travel books. In Toþo, he freelanced as a writer and photographer for
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British-born and Australian educated Ryan came to Hong Kong 12 years ago
and has been a member of the Club since 1978, three of which she spent
a
FCC because he
,¡1
Ken Ball
Mike Smith
serving on the Board. Currently, she is the Club's honorary treasurer.
Ken 8a11, a long-time journalist who worked both in his native Australia and Hong Kong is currentþ the senior manager of publicity services at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Ball first moved to Hong Kong in early'70s and worked successively with the Honghong Standard and the South China Morning Posú. Leaving the Post and after a few years' spell in Australia, he returned to Hong Kong and became the editor of the Hongh,ong Standard - a position he held until joining the TDC. He was on the Club's Board for two terms starting 1986. a
the consultancy firm, I. H. Fredricks & Associates Ltd, as well as a liJe insurance Dorothy Ryan
member of the FCC the fol-
lowing year. He joined the
Michael Fleischmann has been
columnistfor W and, Entertainment Times, The South China Morning Post, and the Time and Tide of London. He is also a theatre critic for RTHKs "Hong Kong Today" programme. Derek A C Davies, editor-in-chief of Emphasis, publishers of Cathay Pacific's Discouery magazine and other quality
in
Shetland Investments Ltd, which provides accounting and financial services.
three years ago and became
member of the FCC for the past 15 years. He is now a director of Freeway Industrial & Trading, which specialises in industrial projects and promotions in Southeast Asia. Born of Russian parents and educated in China, Fleischmann is a longtime resident of Hong Kong. He says that he "loves the FCC, has always been interested in its activities, and it is about time I did something about it." IH (Fred) Fredricks, a US tax consultant who has been living in Asia for the past 33 years, has a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He came to Hong Kong more than two decades ago and founded
and critiques. He is a
journals, had worked
born Hughes has been living in the Far East since 1973. She holds a degree in French Liter-
& Drew, came to Hong Kong
agency, The Life Agency Ltd. He is also the Hong Kong coordinator for the stress
management system, The Silva Method of Mind Control. While Fredricks, a member of the Club since 1969, has not been on the Board before, he feels it is about time he did because, he says, "the Club has given me a lot in the 21 years I have been a member, and I feel that I ought to contribute something to the Club. Perhaps, I can do so by serving on the Board of Governors". Fredricks has a wealth of experience working in professional organisations. As a charter member of the
of Commerce in Hong Kong, he served on the Board of AmCham for five years, tlvo of which as treasurer. He was also Vice ChairmanTaxation of the Asia Pacific Council for the American Chambers of Commerce in American Chamber
1985.
Peter Humble, managing director of Mollers Insurance Holdings Ltd, arrived in Hong Kong about 10 years ago. He has
been a member of the FCC for about seven years. It was his father, George Humble's, association with the FCC that inspired him to join the Club and now to stand for election to the Board. The FCC, says Humble, has always been good to him and he believes in reciprocating by serving on the Board. Rachel lavigne was born in Montreal, Quebec and works for the Ministry of Immigration of the Government of Quebec. Prior to her Hong Kong assignment, which began last July, she worked with the Quebec government in Montreal.
Lavigne studied linguistics at Quebec
enjoys spending time with, and talking to, journalists whom he sees as a valuable source of information especially where his job is concerned. London-born Mike Smith has been based in Hong Kong since 1965. Working for IBM's Asian headquarters Smith travels widely. In the mid '70s, he was president of the Hong Kong Chess Federation, got to know Bobby Fischer well and played for Hong Kong in the 1974 World Chess Olympiad. Smith enjoys good Asian food and knows where to find it. He has many collections, and his cur-
rent interest is sorting 200 kilograms of old cigarette cards he found in the Bangkok flea market. These form the source of his column, It was in the cards, which appears regularly in The Corresþondent.
Australian Ross Way is the managing director of Mana Investments Ltd. Doing business in Asia for the past 25 years, Way previously managed a South Australian company. He feels that his commercial experience, especially his expertise in the food and beverage industry for the past five years (he manages several pubs and restaurants in addition to the investment business), would be a definite plus factor for the FCC if he were elected to the board. A passionate golfer, Way
won the Richard Hughes Memorial Golf Trophy in the FCC Golf Society's premier event of the year, held in February at the Discovery Bay Golf Club. Ballot papers, which have already been
forwarded to all active members, should be returned notlater than May 10. I
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