Clementi Secondary School
Clementi Secondary School is a secondary institution in Fortress Hill, North Point, Hong Kong. Founded by the 17th British governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, the school was the first to use Chinese as the primary medium of instruction in Hong Kong.
History
Hong Kong governor Cecil Clementi had a profound interest in the Chinese language and decided to establish a school using Chinese as the main medium of instruction. In 1926, Government Vernacular Middle School was founded. Government Vernacular Middle School was the first government school to use Chinese as the principal language of instruction. Li King Hong, the then-Chinese language inspector of schools, was appointed as the first principal of the school.During World War II, the school suspended its operations under the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. After the war, the school was renamed Government Vernacular Senior Middle School. It was renamed again in 1951 to Clementi Middle School and in 1988 to Clementi Secondary School, after the governor.
The school has been relocated several times:
- 1926–1927 26–28 Hospital Road
- 1927–1941 Pok Fu Lam Road
- 1945–1946 Bridge Street
- 1946–1948 Wood Road
- 1948–1961 28 Kennedy Road
The school principal is currently Mrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee, who succeeded Ms. Li Sui-wah in 2013.
Notable alumni
Politicians, government officials, and legislators
- Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan, Former Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in Urban Council, Executive Council and Legislative Council.
- Tsang Yam Pui, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.
- Lee Ming-kwai, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.
- Leung Kwok-hung, Politician, Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, Chairman of the League of Social Democrats.
- Tam Goossen, Politician, New Democratic Party of Canada.
- Roy Ho, Member of Executive Council, Green Party of Ontario.
- Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Government, Member of the Executive Council, Former Chairman of Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority
Academics
- Prof. Daniel Chee Tsui, physicist, a graduate of the university preparatory class of Clementi. Nobel Physics Prize Laureate for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall Effect.
- Prof. Sau Lan Wu, physicist. Enrico Fermi and Vilas Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and winner of 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for "the first evidence of three-jet events in E+E-collisions at PETRA"
- Prof. Wong Cheuk-Yin, Physicist, a fellow of American Physical Society, former chairman of Overseas Chinese Physics Association, U.S.A., now working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Prof. Ng Cheuk-Yiu, Chemist, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Davis
- Prof. Leung Pak-wah Edwin, medalist of Ellis Island Medal of Honor and Professor of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University, U.S.A.
Business
- Peggy Cherng, Chinese-American billionaire businesswoman and electrical engineer