05/04/2025
This afternoon at the St. Stephen’s College Chapel, the St. Stephen’s College Alumni Choir presented an ensemble team with ten singers to sing two hymns at the memorial service of Revd Handforth, who served the College and the Preparatory School as Warden and Supervisor, as well as the College Principal from 1965 to 1973. He passed away at this home in U.K. two months ago.
It’s our honour to paid tribute to Revd Handforth for his legendary contributions to St. Stephen’s with particularly two milestone events, the College and the Preparatory School transformation from a boys school to a coeducational school, and the College from a private school to a government subsidiary school.
All singers from Alumni Choir this afternoon were born after Revd Handforth’s departure from St. Stephen’s in 1973, yet it’s our responsibility to recognize his leadership and contribution as part of our enriched heritage.
Also it’s our great privilege to sing at The Chapel in memory’s for those who fallen, in action or during imprisonment as POW in Stanley Internment Camp, POW camps in Argyle Street and Sham Shui Po, Lisbon Maru Tragedy and other POW camps across the Pacific Theatre, during The World War II.
It was emotional when the organist from the St. John’s Cathedral played Elgar’s “Nimrod” before the service.