MASTER’S MESSAGE 院長致辭
Professor Nicholas Rawlins 汪寧笙教授 It is a particular pleasure for me to write this, my first Master’s Report, and to welcome all our newly arriving students, our new Junior Fellows, and our returning students to the start of the academic year. I know that the newcomers will already have been greeted and made to feel at home at Morningside, just as Lalla and I were when we arrived last December. This welcoming spirit even extends to the senior dog who has generously shared with two very much smaller interlopers the space and attention that were formerly his alone, despite finding that his treats get shared out as well. I am equally confident that returning students will experience a feeling of coming home. The location and its views, and the people who work, study and live here, all combine to make Morningside a place that feels like home, as it already does to Lalla and me. The best universities constantly evolve yet still retain their souls; and so, of course, do the best colleges. Morningsiders owe a great debt of gratitude to all those who provided the foundations for the place that we have inherited but who then stepped aside leaving us to carry on. First and foremost are our Founding Master, Professor Sir James Mirrlees who with Lady Mirrlees did so much to establish Morningside’s genius loci, and the Committee of Overseers who supported them. Daniel Auerbach, Leonie Ki, Anthony Neoh, Jesús Seade, and Alex K. Yasumoto have demitted their roles, but their memorial remains. It is all around us, and the College is immensely grateful to them all. Gerald Chan and James Lin have remained on the Committee and are joined by Adriel Chan, Sebastian Man and Professor Nelson Chen, who retired from CUHK and Morningside College this summer but has taken on this new connection to the College: I salute them all and very much look forward to working together. Professor Chris Gane also retires this summer. He had been the Acting Master for almost a year before my arrival. The College could not have been in wiser hands and I could not have had better counsel as I learned my way around. He and the team who worked with him – particularly Professors Ann Huss and Colin Graham, and the College Secretary Dora Dai – looked after the College and its interests in an exemplary
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