ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Objectives of the Association</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> </head> <body> <h2><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000050" size="5">&nbsp; <u></font></u></h2> <table border="0" width="768" id="table1"> <tr> <td width="56"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"> </font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="5"> &nbsp;The Association is an apolitical, non-profit organization.</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"> </font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="5"> &nbsp;</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </body> <body> <h2><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000050" size="5">&nbsp; <u>Objectives of the Association</font></u></h2> <table border="0" width="768" id="table2"> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To support the goals and activities of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To promote, support and protect the common interest of the members of the Association.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To encourage and sponsor intellectual and cultural activities among the members.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To participate in intellectural and cultural activities in the local community.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To promote intellectural and cultural exchanges between this Association and other university alumni associations.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To make grants and awards of scholarships for meritorious achievements or otherwise.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To establish, undertake, administer or contribute to any charitable or benevolent funds from which may be made donations or advances or deserving persons, who shall be or have been members of the Association.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To acquire or to receive or to dispose of any land or other form of property for the purpose of or related to the objectives of the Association.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56" align="center" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> *</font></td> <td> <font color="#800000" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> To undertake and execute any trusts which may be conductive to any of these objectives.</font></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>