Reunion 2013

Dear All Ex-students,

Like other past years, this year also we have organized a Reunion of passed out students of the school in Durgapur on the 5^th and 6^th of January 2013. The details of registration are as follows:

Type	Date	Time	Venue	Programme	Regn. rate per head till 28.12.2012	Regn. rate per head from 29.12.2012
A	05.01.2013	3pm --- 5pm	School	High Tea Party	Rs200/-	Rs300/-
B	05.01.2013	7.30 pm onwards	At a respectable hotel in Durgapur	Alumni fund raising Dinner Party	Rs500/-	Rs600/-
C	06.01.2013	10.30 am onwards	School	Reunion & AGM	Rs300/-	Rs400/-

                                                         Children below 5 years will not be charged.

If you want us to arrange accommodation for you, kindly call or send in an email.

It being the Golden Jubilee of the school, we expect a large turn up from all the batches that will surely make the gathering a vibrant and colourful one. You are requested to team up batch wise and send in your participation confirmation. Please do spread this message to as many ex-students of the school as possible.

You are requested to register early to enable us to run the show and organize variety programmes more efficiently. On spot registration for the 5^th and 6^th of January 2013 shall be limited to our capability to provjde and may not be possible at all. To avoid disappointment kindly register early. Please provide the details of your registration like the Type (A,Bor C) that you would like to attend. You may register by any of the following means:

[a] Cash payment to the Secretary /Treasurer  [ +919474401330]

[b] Account Payee Demand Draft/Local Cheque/At Par cheque  drawn in favour of The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association payable at Durgapur. Kindly mention your name and year of passing school at the back of the instrument. Also mention Type A,B or C.  You may send it to The Treasurer/Secretary, The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association, St.Xavier’s School, Bidhannagar, ABL Township Durgapur 713206.

[c] By NEFT to our registered bank account [ The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association, Savings Account No.  4767000100012499, IFSC Code: PUNB0476700, Punjab National Bank, Branch: Bengal College of Engineering and Technology (B.C.E.T) Bidhannagar, Durgapur 713212]. Kindly email your deposit particulars to this email id or to our new official email id at 1xavex@gmail.com

We would strongly encourage you to team up and sponsor a teacher of the school in the programme on the 6^th January 2013. In such a case kindly send in intimation to us to avoid the same teacher being sponsored by multiple groups!!

In case you have planned an event for the show, kindly let us know to help organize.

It is basically your programme and we would all like to have it with the purpose of re-living our fun filled school days. Spouses and children are more than welcome to the show too.

Feel free to contact the Secretary at +919474401330 for any clarification.

With warm regards,

Secretary

The Durgapur St. Xavier’s School Alumni Association.

04^th December 2012

AGM NOTIFICATION

Notice is hereby given to all  bona fide members of the Durgapur St.Xavier’s School  Alumni Association that the Annual General Meeting of the body shall be held in the school premises tentatively at 11am on the 6^th of January 2013 Sunday, in the plenary session of the Reunion of the ex-students of the school as per the following Agenda:

1.      1.  Future activities and scope of the Association

2.     2.   Election process to the Executive Committee of the Association

3.      3.  Miscellaneous 

Members are requested to make it convenient for themselves attend the Annual General Meeting.

Secretary

Dt: 29^th November 2012.

Golden Jubilee Cultural In School

The students of St.Xavier's School, Durgapur will stage a cultural show starting 5.30pm on the 1st and 2nd of December 2012 in school. The Primary school will have the stage to themselves on the 1st evening while the Secondary section will stage their show on the evening of the 2nd. This effort by the students is a part of the ongoing Golden Jubilee celebrations. It is strictly a school programme. Parents of all the students will be invited to watch the show. The Alumni will put up a small item also [ staged by local alumni members, for details of Alumni programme contact Secretary at 9474401330]. Rights of admission reserved, entry against passes only. A few passes for the old boys available from the Headmaster during school hours.

Alumni Membership Form

Membership Form for The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association

(Regd under W.B Act XXVI of 1961 vide No. S/1L/86140 of 2011-12)

Name: _______________________________________________________Batch___________

Email:________________________________________________________________________ (Please provide a personal mail id and not an office mail id)

Contact no.:(M)__________________________(Landline with STD code)_________________

Current Address:______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Permanent Address: _____________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Professional Info: Organisation____________________________________________________

 Stationed at ____________________________Designation_____________________________

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To

The Secretary

The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association

St.Xavier’s School, Bidhannagar, P.O. A.B.L Township, Durgapur 713206

Dear Sir,

Please enroll me as a Member of The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association. The information I have provided in the form above regarding myself is true to my knowledge and belief. I have enclosed a cheque/demand draft of Rs3000/=[kindly add Rs50/= for out station cheques] towards membership, payable to The Durgapur St.Xavier’s School Alumni Association, bearing number_______________dated _________, drawn upon ___________ _____________________________________________________payable at Durgapur.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

________________________________                            Dated:___________________

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For Office use only:

Date received on: _________Received by: _______________Membership No.______________

Next Alumni Reunion Dates Announced

The next alumni reunion has been scheduled on 5th & 6th of January, 2013.

We will be celebrating the Golden Jubilee of our school in style.

Please block your calendars from now.  Hope to see a great turnout.

Also, we would like to wish all present and former teachers, staff and students and their families a great festive season. Hope you all have a wonderful time during Durga Puja & Navratri.

Report of the Alumni Meet organized by Kolkata Chapter

 SXS DGP Alumni Kolkata Chapter hosted its maiden official meet GILLY WANDA I on the 15th of August 2012 at the Hotel De Sovarani at Salt Lake City in Kolkata. The name GILLY WANDA was coined in memory of our favourite childhood game of yesterdays, gilly-danda (danguli) – almost extinct now, but so nostalgic of the fun we had during our years in school. And, of course, in continual recognition of the two men – Fr.FY Gilson (Gillypa being one of his popular nicknames) & Fr.AJ Wautier, both priests from a very distant Belgium – who shaped us into men we are today and who spent selfless lifetimes doing just that. Their lives and contributions being the strongest foundations in history of St. Xavier’s School, Durgapur!! That the event happened right in middle of the school’s Golden Jubilee made it all the sweeter.

At the strike of noon hour on the day of the country’s independence, Xaverians across 27 batches (1975 to 2002) flocked to the reception & registration desk (so ably managed by Shaon Mazumder & Monsum Mukherjee) in the hotel lobby, thrilled at the prospect of being able to meet up with old friends and batchmates. With time having reduced the age differences between seniors and juniors to a large extent, everyone was just too eager to walk down the corridors of their alma mater in uniform white shirts and grey trousers. That most had brought their wives and kids along only added to the fun – to see their normally reserved husbands & dads behaving like kindergarten kids. 

And they came from near and far, across not just the length & breadth of the city, but all across from Durgapur as well. To re-live the good old days together!! Despite the heavy monsoon showers and few last minute cancellations there were 55 people in attendance. Amongst them, gracing the occasion with their presence, were two past teachers from the senior school Mrs.Jayanti Bhowmick (Geography) & Mrs Laxmi Dutta (Chemistry). And honoured guests included Mr.Naresh Gupta, President of JAAI, Mr.Firdaus Rehman Secretary, SXC Alumni and Mr Ramalingam, member  Governing Body, ALSOC. They came to share our joy with that wonderful feeling of brotherhood that exists between all Jesuit institutions of education. 

With Suman Bhowmik (Conveyor, Kolkata Chapter) taking on the role of MoC, the event kicked off with a formal report on all activities of the chapter and its achievements since inception by Kallol Mitra (Secretary). The assembled audience heartily cheered the core committee for all that it had managed to do, including breaking the glass ceiling with this meet. This was followed by our respected teachers addressing the ex students. Laxmi Dutta, who taught during the 1980s stated that although she taught in La Martinere for Girls for many years thereafter, her years with the boys in SXS DGP were her best and remain fresh in her mind.

The gathering was then addressed first by Mr.Gupta – who promised all support to the Kolkata Chapter from the Jesuit community as a whole – and then by Mr.Suranjan Kar (1980 batch) who has been an integral part of Alumni committee in Durgapur for long and was instrumental in the setting up of the Kolkata chapter. He spoke of the shared dream of weaving alumni scattered geographically throughout the country and the world by starting different chapters all over in much the same was as SXC Alumni has been.

By which time, the hunger pangs had become stronger and it was decided to take a break to indulge the taste buds. And there was much on offer – a 26 item long buffet spread, each of those finger licking delicious!! Quite expectedly the tasting seemed to be going on forever. Kids ran around at times a little confused by the options, the ladies weren’t sure how they would manage to retain space for the desserts and the men simply could not have enough of main courses. Even those that initially planned to do only a healthy soup & salad, gave up midway to the utter delight of all others!! And since good food loosens tongues, families who by now were getting to know each other had a rollicking time chatting. While the boys …… well they just became boys again!! 

If anyone had thought that the story would end on that high note, they were mistaken. Lunch merely gave way to wonderful entertainment. First, in line was some enthralling quizzing. The session was conducted by Souvik Basu (2000 batch) who kept the alumni and their families glued with his own, unique style and also managed to bring back the energy in people after a super heavy lunch. And then the stage, the hall and the audience were totally floored by Arnab Guha (1980 batch) & his troupe with musical extravaganza that mesmerized the audience with foot tapping english numbers, nostalgic hindi ones and sentimental old Bengali hits from the decades of the ‘80s & ‘90s, that had everyone clapping, singing and dancing.

When that left us quite out of breath, it was time for a round of formal introductions by all that attended the meet, managed in accompaniment of much laughter and leg pulling. Followed by formal thanksgiving by Suvojit Roychowdhury including special mention of the efforts of Sujit Guha & Parthasarathi Basu! Attendees in turn conveyed their heartfelt thanks to the organizing team for a wonderful outing with their families.

Finally, on behalf of the vast majority of alumni that have expressed similar wishes, the Durgapur chapter was requested to prepone the date of the Golden Jubilee reunion to 23^rd December, 2012 to enable the maximum numbers to participate and make that event a grand success. Suranjan Kar, on behalf of the Durgapur chapter, promised to ensure not only that but also that for the first time the reunion will be held within the school grounds itself. We are thankful to the Durgapur chapter for agreeing to both those long pending demands of the majority of alumni, specially from other parts of country and beyond.      

Like all good things in life, even this one had to end. But when people bid adieu that evening, it was not so much with sadness as the hope and joy of being able to share time and laughs with friends for life!!