'austraLasia' #42

CHINA: SALESIANS HONOURED BY STAMP ISSUE

Peter Newbery

HONG KONG (29th January): -- The first Salesian work in Hong Kong, St.

Louis School, has been honoured with a souvenir 'First Day Issue' from

the Postal Service in that city. The stamp issue acknowledges 70 years

of activity by the Salesians of Don Bosco in St. Louis School. The

First Day Cover shows thumbnail photographs of all 14 Salesian

principals on one side, and a brief history of the College on the

other. Fr. Simon Lam, the present principal, claims that St. Louis

School has the profile that it now has because it has stuck by 'the

spirit of St. Louis', a cluster of virtues that its staff and students

have consistently embodied.