We have already mentioned the French and secular education in Hong Kong, and its turbulent history from 1964 to the Present ( here). Before the Second World War, there are already learning French, mostly bilingual also run by clerics. French Brothers schools know when a big success, so much so that in 1930 a new college was inaugurated. Br Aimar is the founder.
On 5 November 1930, the cornerstone of the La Salle College in Kowloon is placed in a newly urbanized area then. A very symbolic act, since in the words of George Dufaure Prade, Consul General of France in office at the time, "strictly speaking the first stone was sealed while the works of construction of the college are already pushed very far: two floors are [already] built. "Sir William Peel, Governor of Hong Kong, officiated at this inauguration day of work, with Bishop Constantini, the delegate Apostolic and Bishop Valtorta, bishop of Hong Kong. The event indeed deserves all these movements as it is an ambitious project which aims to anchor more French religious education in Hong Kong.
The Brothers of the Christian doctrine behind this new facility, opened their first school in Hong Kong in 1875. They moved many times to settle finally on Kennedy Road with St. Joseph's College in 1914; Brother Aimar, just arrived in Hong Kong was appointed Director. It is "one of the best educational institutions of the city, "Box of 620 students in 1930. With this reputation comes from the housing crisis: the numbers are rising and many of the school facilities are no longer enough to contain everyone. The consul returns to practice: "It is from 1924, the Director of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine, concerned by the narrowness of his school in Hong Kong and also in order to satisfy the grievances of parents students living in Kowloon, sought in the new districts and the party called Kowloon Tong, the site most suitable to establish a college. "
Dufaure La Prade said that the previous Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, was also enthusiastic about this project, it was he who helped the Brothers to acquire the land on which they set their sights. "This land has an area of 400 acres was acquired for the sum of $ 120,000 April 23, 1928, plans were immediately drawn up, and as soon as they had been approved by the Superior General of the League [...] Work began, and they represent an expense of $ 900,000. "In the end," he This is a significant building, reinforced concrete, with the location for the twenty classes for a meeting room, laboratories for physics and chemistry, seven hundred students will be able to track their progress and prepare for exams corresponding to our certificate of study and our degree. "It is far from the 35 students in 1964 ... because the ambition is not the same. The monks also want to reach the public continue to Aboriginal and consolidate their work of evangelization.
The financial issue of great concern to the Brother Aimar, Director of the two colleges. Resources are exhausted, "but he hoped that those interested in matters of education will help," says the Consul, "and then, above all, he knows he is in good French, as valiant heart nothing is impossible. "The Brothers" have received a $ 50,000 grant from the Government of Hong Kong, and the governor stressed that more aid would be granted if the resources were not as restricted cash . Perhaps it is, from the Consul, a disguised way to remind his superiors that Brother Aimar regularly address grant applications that remain, unfairly in his view, without réponse0. The only assistance the French government awarded the College of Saint Joseph, what are some packages of books, chosen by "Section literary and artistic works of the Service Abroad French Directorate of Political Affairs and Trade Ministry Foreign (sic) ...
In a telegram addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Consul quote whole passages of the speech laudatory of the Governor of Hong Kong about the brother Aimar. "At this eulogy, I am pleased to endorse with all my heart and I believe that any expression of interest that would give him the Government of the Republic is proudly hosted by the valiant and excellent French. "Repeatedly, the Consul-General proposes to the highest religious distinctions French. The work of Brother is considerable: "[When the building is completed] Brother Aimar will be less than 20 years doubled a work school, based on principles of order and discipline, which through a process of systematically assayed studies and sports is practiced the adage "mens sana in corpora sano '."
Today La Salle College still exists, in the same place, on a street now called La Salle Road ...! The statue of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, "father of modern pedagogy", a replica of the one described in St. Peter's is at the main entrance, not far from the school motto "fides et opera "(faith and work). Moreover, a bust of Brother Aimar is placed in the lobby. During the Japanese occupation, the college's founder Brother fled to Indochina ... and died soon afterwards. In 1966, his remains were returned to Hong Kong and buried his bust in the body for which he gave so much, with this epitaph: "Si Monumentum Requires circumspice", that is to say, "If you seek a monument [in memory of this man] Look around you." During the reconstruction of the college in 1982, his ashes were moved to the cemetery in Happy Valley, but the bust is always a place.
The Brothers of the Christian doctrine behind this new facility, opened their first school in Hong Kong in 1875. They moved many times to settle finally on Kennedy Road with St. Joseph's College in 1914; Brother Aimar, just arrived in Hong Kong was appointed Director. It is "one of the best educational institutions of the city, "Box of 620 students in 1930. With this reputation comes from the housing crisis: the numbers are rising and many of the school facilities are no longer enough to contain everyone. The consul returns to practice: "It is from 1924, the Director of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine, concerned by the narrowness of his school in Hong Kong and also in order to satisfy the grievances of parents students living in Kowloon, sought in the new districts and the party called Kowloon Tong, the site most suitable to establish a college. " Dufaure La Prade said that the previous Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, was also enthusiastic about this project, it was he who helped the Brothers to acquire the land on which they set their sights. "This land has an area of 400 acres was acquired for the sum of $ 120,000 April 23, 1928, plans were immediately drawn up, and as soon as they had been approved by the Superior General of the League [...] Work began, and they represent an expense of $ 900,000. "In the end," he This is a significant building, reinforced concrete, with the location for the twenty classes for a meeting room, laboratories for physics and chemistry, seven hundred students will be able to track their progress and prepare for exams corresponding to our certificate of study and our degree. "It is far from the 35 students in 1964 ... because the ambition is not the same. The monks also want to reach the public continue to Aboriginal and consolidate their work of evangelization.
The financial issue of great concern to the Brother Aimar, Director of the two colleges. Resources are exhausted, "but he hoped that those interested in matters of education will help," says the Consul, "and then, above all, he knows he is in good French, as valiant heart nothing is impossible. "The Brothers" have received a $ 50,000 grant from the Government of Hong Kong, and the governor stressed that more aid would be granted if the resources were not as restricted cash . Perhaps it is, from the Consul, a disguised way to remind his superiors that Brother Aimar regularly address grant applications that remain, unfairly in his view, without réponse0. The only assistance the French government awarded the College of Saint Joseph, what are some packages of books, chosen by "Section literary and artistic works of the Service Abroad French Directorate of Political Affairs and Trade Ministry Foreign (sic) ...
In a telegram addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Consul quote whole passages of the speech laudatory of the Governor of Hong Kong about the brother Aimar. "At this eulogy, I am pleased to endorse with all my heart and I believe that any expression of interest that would give him the Government of the Republic is proudly hosted by the valiant and excellent French. "Repeatedly, the Consul-General proposes to the highest religious distinctions French. The work of Brother is considerable: "[When the building is completed] Brother Aimar will be less than 20 years doubled a work school, based on principles of order and discipline, which through a process of systematically assayed studies and sports is practiced the adage "mens sana in corpora sano '." Today La Salle College still exists, in the same place, on a street now called La Salle Road ...! The statue of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, "father of modern pedagogy", a replica of the one described in St. Peter's is at the main entrance, not far from the school motto "fides et opera "(faith and work). Moreover, a bust of Brother Aimar is placed in the lobby. During the Japanese occupation, the college's founder Brother fled to Indochina ... and died soon afterwards. In 1966, his remains were returned to Hong Kong and buried his bust in the body for which he gave so much, with this epitaph: "Si Monumentum Requires circumspice", that is to say, "If you seek a monument [in memory of this man] Look around you." During the reconstruction of the college in 1982, his ashes were moved to the cemetery in Happy Valley, but the bust is always a place.
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Sources: Archives of the Paris Foreign Missions, Records of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Nantes www.lasalle.edu.hk Photo Credits: Archives of the Paris Foreign Missions for photos of opening day; www.lasalle.edu.hk for the photo of the inaugural stone.
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