Philly provides setting for 2001 alumni by Lauren By Lauren TannerTanner ’01
The class of 2001 had a mini-HKIS reunion in Philadelphia on February 10 th , 2003. Andrea Kean drove out from Penn State (thanks, we know it was a trek) to find Mike McCoy, who currently attends American University, Lauren Tanner who is interning at the Department of State for the quarter, and Alexis Cuddyre, studying at UPenn, holding a prime parking spot for her. The weekend was joined by T homas Bispham (who also attends UPenn) during which everyone had a great time and many mornings were spent at the yummy Philly diner!
Thomas Bispham, Alexis Cuddyre, Andrea Kean, Mike Mccoy and Lauren Tanner.
Boston alumni warm up in Chinatown Miltinnie Yih organized the annual Boston Reunion on Friday, February 6, 2004 at East Ocean Restaurant, in Boston’s Chinatown. Despite the freezing cold, 13 people at dinner had a fun time reminiscing about old times. “I even had one of my students Ed Flanagan'00 there! It was a terrific time, Miltinnie said. Organizer and former HKIS Director of Community and Resource Development Miltinnie Yih (who was a counselor and also taught english for many years at HKIS), head of school Bill Wehrenberg, his wife, Jane and high school principal Jim Handrich met with alumni Jens Buckler ’92, Dana Park ’00, Ed Flanagan ’00, Nicole Pang ’00, Cheryl Mainland ’00, Ivy Chen ’93, her husband, Kam Ota and Yuen Ping Wong ’03.
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Hong Kong International School
30 Glorious years - The class of 1974 Rejoices as their HKIS legacy continues
by Anne Kwok Tang ’74
All six members of the class of ’74 residing in Hong Kong gathered together to celebrate their 30th HKIS Reunion at the Hong Kong Country Club on April 15, 2004. Guest of Honor, Susan Oh, visiting from Sydney won the prizes for “Furthest Traveled” and “Youngest to Retire”. She and husband Jimmy Cheng who also recently retired, now enjoy golf three times a week in beautiful Down Under weather. Mark Kwok is now seriously tempted to retire after hearing about their wonderful retirement lifestyle. Mark and Rose’s son, Gareth ’00 is now studying marketing at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and their daughter, Robyn ’04 will attend School of the Art Institute in Chicago to study animation next fall. Margaret Kwok won the prize for “First to Marry” husband Allan Wong almost 26 years ago. Their son, William runs his own company and daughter Wendy is attending Occidental College. Alison Chow won the most “Technologically Savvy” as she is now in her 9th year running an internet website which focuses on listed company investor relation information serving the global investment community. Walter Loh won the prize for “Youngest Looking”. Did you know he still gets carded? He also was the only one who knew what he wanted to be (a dentist) in high school. Walter and Anne’s daughter Erica is now a 10th grader at HKIS and son Nicholas is in 8th grade.
Top Low L-R: Walter Loh, Suzie Chi, Alison Chow, Mark Kwok. Bottom row L-R: Anne Kwok, Margaret Kwok, Amy Kwan.
Living in Hong Kong since ’96, Amy Kwan and Henry’s daughter Jennifer Chan ’03 is attending Seattle University where she’s enjoying home away from home with aunt Mabel Kwan ’79 and her children Allison 18, Andrea 17, Alexander 15 and Andrew 6. Anne Kwok and husband Martin Tang just celebrated their 25 th anniversary and travel extensively now that they are empty nesters. Their daughter Nicole will graduate from Stanford in 2004 and son Christopher ’03 is at Cornell Hotel School and will be working at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong this summer. All bought HKIS Annual Fund Ball raffle tickets and are hoping to be lucky winners and that our reunion will inspire other class ’74 reunions so we can get updated news! By the way, did you notice that four HKIS class ’74 alumni produced 6 HKIS students!
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