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Citation Dr Alman CHAN Siu-cheuk Dr Alman Chan has been working as an educator in Hong Kong for three decades. In 1995, having taught at a mainstream secondary school for ten years, he joined Christian Zheng Sheng Association, and subsequently became the founding principal of Christian Zheng Sheng College. Apart from nurturing youths with drug problems like spring wind and rain nurturing seedlings, he does his best to shelter them from wind and rain: at present he is still knocking on doors to seek help in the hope of moving the campus to Mui Wo. Working in the past two decades to provide education for these marginalised young people, he has received thunderous applause and endured furious condemnation. He was selected as one of the “Ten Young Outstanding Young Persons”, but also came under fierce attack from society. Someone has described his experience as “going up to heaven and down to hell”, but a smiling Dr Chan likened the experience to surfing: sometimes riding atop the wave, sometimes inside the wave; luckily he has managed to keep moving forward. When Dr Chan received his university education in Canada at the age of 19, he was still a self-centred young man. In Hong Kong his school results were unsatisfactory, and he blamed fate. At school he doubted his teacher’s ability, and questioned why he was not the one who gave assignments to his teacher. At home, he complained that his parents favoured his two elder brothers over him. At his aunt’s home in Canada, he resented having to mow the lawn and keep his cousin company…In a nutshell, the world was unjust to him. Yet within a few years, the cantankerous youngster changed thoroughly into a dedicated educator committed even to serving marginalised youths abandoned by society. It was not only because of his Christian faith, but also because he met two great teachers at Trinity Christian College: mathematics teacher Dr Byle