GOLDEN JUBILEE

Dear past students, parents and friends of  Rosaryhill School,

In August 2008 the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, and a few weeks thereafter we will start with our 50^th Anniversary Celebration. It is time that we inform all of you about the activities that we have planned for our Golden Jubilee celebration.

1.      Opening Ceremony, in the form of Solemn Mass in the Bernard Charnwut Chan Hall, in the morning of 6 October 2008 (the feast day of the school is the following day, Our Lady of the Rosary). We will invite our past students, parents and friends to join our staff and students to officially open our Golden Jubilee celebration and to pray to God, through the intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary, to continue bestowing on all of us His blessings.

2.      Gala Dinner, on 30 November 2008, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This celebration aims to gather our past students and friends, with the past and current Supervisors, Principals, teachers, staff, and parents. Our target is to gather more than 1000 persons for this dinner. The dinner also aims at raising funds to cover part of the expenses of the celebration and to start a scholarship that will be called the GOLDEN JUBILEE SCHOLARSHIP.

3.      School Open Days, on 6 and 7 December 2008. The official opening of the School Open Days will be held in the morning of 6 December. We have targeted the Open Days closed to the Gala Dinner so those students who may come from abroad can also enjoy this occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebrations.

4.      Music Gala, towards the end of March 2009, at a venue to be confirmed. At this Music Gala we will bring together the many talents of the past and the current students, parents and staff who will perform in a Musical that is being commissioned and written by persons related to our school. I can advance to you the title, Noah’s Ark, or “the vision of a mission”.

5.      Academic Activities, we will have four during the next school year, when we will invite past students to deliver talks on topics of interest for current and past students. We will let you have further details on these academic activities soon.

6.      Publications: we have already approached some of you about one of the publications, the History Booklet that we plan to publish. There will also be two DVDs presenting the school and the activities to be held during the Anniversary.

7.      Closing of Anniversary Celebrations, in the month of July 2009.

Our Golden Jubilee celebrations will only be successful with the participation of all Rosarians and friends of the school. Please start making plans for the next school year so that you can be part of this important celebration in the life of the school, significant especially for those who have been and are part of her.

May God and our Patroness, the Lady of the Rosary, bless us all,

Fr. Francisco de las Heras

Supervisor