40 yrs thru the time tunnel

I started teaching right after graduating from CTSS. As a greenhorn, I learned through making mistakes. If the saying ‘Practice makes perfect’ is true, then it should apply to me after all these years, though I can’t say I am perfect－I am just striving to be perfect. The concept of pursuing perfection penetrated through the subject of Chinese Classics which was well interpreted by a number of teachers, Mr Yim, Mr Ching and Mr Tong. Mr Tong has been working hard to promote Confucianism in Calgary. His lessons at CTSS were attractive to a young mind, whether it was Chinese Classics, Chinese History or Chemistry. Mr Tong was an extraordinary teacher, proficient in both Science and Humanities subjects.

Among all the other teachers, Miss Choa and Miss Ho were the two teachers who inspired me and shaped my mind for my profession of teaching English and paraprofession of counseling at CTSS and after leaving CTSS. Without their awareness in those days, they sowed the seeds in me. Isn’t it amazing that teachers and students can be friends? I have them to thank for my personal and career developments all these years. I have even made friends with some other alumni through contacts with these two teacher－friends.

Miss Choa	Miss Ho

On the first day I arrived at school and looked at the board for my class allocation, Dr Cheng came up to me and asked me my name and then she introduced me to the other new students standing nearby, ‘This is Or Sau Chun’. I had never ever felt so important as I did at that moment. I was not only a name on the board, I was a living being. I looked up to Dr Cheng and listened to her teaching through Activity Class, Morning Assembly, and her coaching us Form One students to recite the poem My Mother for a stage performance. She taught through her example. It all paved the path to my career, choosing to work with people rather than anything else.

Mr Yim	Mr Ching

Mr Tong

Do renew friendship with us. People say when you are old, you would think of the debt your friends owe you and I would say when you are ‘old’, you would think of your old friends.

Seize the day and renew contacts with us, 1971 CTSS graduates. Remember we are the ‘House of the rising sun’. We are at the beginning of another phase of life, time to sit and sip a coffee and sing a song of freedom, reaping the harvest from our hard work all these 40 years.

Or Sau Chun
1971 graduate of Confucian Tai Shing Secondary School