Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1981

development plans of The Chinese University, which is made over and above his well-known benefactions to the Hong Kong community. I am also grateful to the Hong Kong Government for its great support towards this multi-purpose auditorium, which is a milestone in the provision of facilities for students' campus life. Finally, may I take this opportunity to thank you all as well as members of the community for your support and concern for the University. Thank you. Address by Sir Run Run Shaw Your Excellency, Dr. Ma, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great honour to have your Excel­ lency officiate at the Opening of the University Great Hall, and to see so many distinguished guests present today. The opening of this multi-purpose auditorium, with seating for 1,500 and fully equipped with com­ prehensive audio-visual and stage facilities, is ahappy and proud occasion for the Shaw Foundation. My sincere thanks go to the Government and the many people whose support has permitted the realization of this project. The hall has been carefully designed to provide a focal point in the life of the University, and I hope that, through the University, it will serve also as a significant stimulus to the cultural life of the growing local communities. The established disciplines have been expanded over the years with programmes in Fine Arts, Music, and Television and Audio-visual production. Students of these will particularly appreciate the range of audi­ torium facilities, but I am certain that the hall will soon be the prime venue for the many cultural and recreational activities which the University sponsors in order to provide a balanced education as well as academic excellence for its members. Address by H. E. the Governor Vice-Chancellor, Sir Run Run, Ladies and Gentlemen, To-day we celebrate the opening of this new auditorium. We as aUniversity have been blessed with many gifts that have made out of this headland such awell- equipped and beautiful place of learning. Here, in this hall, we see the most recent and perhaps the most munificent of these gifts—a magnificent addition to our University, a fine building, generously equipped and adapted to many uses, so that it may play a focal part in university life. Perhaps long wanted, but well worth waiting for. Such auditoria are still scarce in Hong Kong and while its primary purpose is to serve the Univer­ sity I am particularly grateful that the Management Committee plan to use it so that it would also permit exchanges between the University and the com­ munity at large. Sir Run Run has an extraordinary record of service in Hong Kong. All the world knows about his films and cinemas, but less is known about what he has done for the Red Cross and the Community Chest, or, in private for the Hong Kong Festival of Arts, and ， as Chairman of the Board of Governors, for the Arts Centre, and of the impetus thus given to the expansion of performing and visual arts in Hong Kong. Now, in partnership with the Government, he has presented this auditorium. I am sure we all share his hope that it will give to the performing arts in the University—where they are already of such a high standard—the same encouragement that he has given to the arts outside it. On behalf of the University, from the bottom of my heart, I thank him. I now have great pleasure in declaring open the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. 11