Rotary International, Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East

Luncheon Meeting at Regal Hotel, Causeway Bay on 28th October, 2009.

Then came the highlight of the meeting with Hon Secretary Eric being asked to formally introduce the speaker, Mr. William Leung, to us for his talk about dermatoglyphics.
Mr. William Leung processes a practitioner license of Psychological Consultant in mainland China. He was the first one from Hong Kong to acquire the qualification of dermatoglyphics counselor from Master Lien in Taiwan. Mr. Leung was awarded the 2007 Chinese Innovated Entrepreneur in Beijing. He is now practicing as a Senior Dermatoglyphics Counselor in Asia Dermatoglyphics Development Centre. He has been interviewed by some major media such as ATV, RTHK, Metro Radio, HLCTV.net, HK Economic Times, Apple Daily and Sing Tao Daily News since the last few years.

The talk on Dermatoglyphics began with a Chinese folk fingerprint formula. "One whorl indicates poverty, two whorls indicate riches……" The speaker, William Leung said that Chinese has noticed for hundreds of years that finger prints are somehow connected with their strength, weakness, character traits, career and destiny.
However, there was no scientific or statistical study, until Purkinje, a Czech physiologist, writes the first paper on finger prints. Later in the first few decades of 20th century, some researchers have put their effort on studying relationship between human brain and finger prints. Among them is Cummins, who published a study on Human acephalic monster in 1923 and Down syndrome in 1936.

The speaker then introduced finger prints can be simply classified to five types: whorl, loop, radial loop, double loop and arch. Whorl indicates goal-oriented, loop indicates empathy, radial loop indicates deviant, double loop indicates multitasking, while arch indicates practical and safety. He then showed members to identify the finger prints of both thumbs. Before he finished his part of speech and passed to his colleague, who actually is his wife, William mentioned that Dermatoglyphics is a very fast, accurate and convenient method to understand a person's strength, weakness, learning style and personality.

Another speaker, Ms Eunice Chan, continued with the speech with demonstration of understanding character traits of several members, just by studying their finger prints. For example, the speaker confided that one of the volunteers, Dr. Eric Chin would enjoy lifelong learning the most, and explained why he would become a doctorate. All volunteers, including IPP Andy, PP Tim, Dir. Nancy, PE Heman and PDG Uncle Peter, were surprised with the accuracy and instant of the assessment just in a minute. All of them claimed the accuracy was 80% or above.

Lastly, Eunice concluded that dermatoglyphics could be applied in commercial sector like management, human resource and interview, in which interviewer could understand the interviewee's true character traits and strength.

Our speakers, Mr. William Leung and Ms Eunice Chan are both senior counselors of Asia Dermatoglyphics Development Centre and more information can be obtained via their website at www.asiaddc.com.
Rotarian Tony was then asked to formally thank the speaker. All members were welcomed to stay behind after the meeting in case they have more questions and Mr. William Leung and his colleagues Ms Eunice Chan and Ms Monnie Wah, were very kind to promise to stay behind to answer questions.