From the Fall 2004 issue of Nexus.
The Faculty of Law gratefully acknowledges the gift of $100,000 from Mr. Gallant Ho, which was endowed in September to create the annual Gallant Ho Prize. The Prize will be awarded for the first time at the 2005 Convocation to the graduating student who obtains the highest cumulative average over three years at the law school.
Gallant Ho is the founder of Gallant Y.T. Ho & Co., one of the leading law firms in Hong Kong. Mr. Ho, who retired from the practice of law to focus on property development in Canada and abroad, is a strong proponent of scholarly excellence. Although not himself an alumnus, Mr. Ho has a number of connections to the Faculty of Law: his sister, Betty Ho, who teaches Business and Securities Law at the Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing, China, is a graduate of the Class of 1977, and his friend and lawyer, Walter R. Stevenson, for whom Mr. Ho endowed an earlier bursary, is a graduate of the Class of 1968.
"The Faculty of Law is honoured that Mr. Gallant Ho has chosen to recognize and reward the extraordinary achievement of the Gold Medalist in each year," says Dean Ron Daniels. "Such awards not only provide an extra incentive to excel but create an atmosphere of added excitement in the law school learning environment."
