February 2020 and we begin our blog for the new year here

February, another new month, a time to celebrate the  Birthday of Our John, look forward to our bloggers wooing their Valentines, month for some of our silent visitors to come out of the closet and mark their attendance.... We Missed out blogging in 2020  February starts with a Bang, a Proud Moment for the School and specially ISC Batch of 1979-80. Mr MC Wood Must be Proud of it, our Alumni, Arvind Krishna has been announced as the CEO Designate of IBM, he would take over the reigns once Ms Virginia Rometty steps down in April 2020.
Arvind's Sister Anitha was part of School Leaving Batch of 1980 ....

In the play Charlies Aunt
Homi Sethna, Kavaneet Singh, Annie Samuel, Mina Virk, Deirdre, Victoria Moses, Suman Kapoor, Reuben Miranda, Sunil, Arvind  Krishna, Mrs PM Wright, Mrs Ivy Miranda, Mrs Thomas, 

Peter Greene Publishes his book
Peter Greene's  book Tales from the Hills has been published and is available for purchase on Amazon.ca, Amazon.in, Amazon.com, Amazon global. If you do purchase his book, kindly write a review please!

Synopsis below

There is never a dull moment in this collection of short stories that will grab your attention and keep you spellbound! Peter Greene describes life growing up in the picturesque Blue Mountains of the Nilgiri District of Southern India.The pretty tourist towns of Coonoor, Ketti and Ooty will intrigue you with fascinating characters like Soosai the sorcerer and his black arts, Emily the maidservant's remedy to ward off "the evil eye", school students playing truant or a scary head-hunting tale of terror, encounters in a local flour mill and a teenage boy trying to sell his vegetables in a local market for the first time! Whet your appetite and enjoy this book!

About the Author

Peter Ernest Greene was born in 1951 in Cochin, Kerala, India. Peter belongs to the Anglo-Indian community. He left Cochin at the age of four and lived in Coonoor and Ketti in the beautiful Nilgiri District of Southern India.He studied at Stanes Higher Secondary
School in Coonoor and joined the Indian Navy in 1969 in the Electrical (Radio) branch. He saw action in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 and was awarded the Sangram Medal, The Poorvi (Eastern) Star and the Nao Sena Medal. In 1977 he was sent to the Soviet Union for training at the Naval Officer’s College in Izmail, Ukrainian Republic. He learnt to read, write and speak in Russian. He was part of the Commissioning crew of a Soviet built minesweeper at Riga in the Latvian Republic. Peter left the Navy in 1980 as a Petty Officer. He met and married June Yates in Bangalore, India and has two sons. Peter
and his wife June now live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Peter works for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

" Wishing you lots of Happiness, Success, Love n Good health"

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We, Stanes Coonoor Alumni have created a google group, 

stanescoonooralumini@googlegroups.com   

  those of you wishing to join this group may send a mail on stanescoonooralumini@googlegroups.com giving your name, year of entry into Stanes, year of leaving, class upto which studied and email id,we shall add you to the group. http://stanescoonoorblog.blogspot.in/p/blog-page.html
also the School's Official Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/StanesSchoolCoonoor?ref=br_tf

The web site of our school is available at http://www.stanesschoolcoonoor.com/

For those wanting to remit contributions to the school Alumni Fund, here are some details

 Send in contributions to the Alumni Corpus as under

By Cheque to:

 President/Treasurer, Stanes Alumni Association,
Stanes Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School,COONOOR 643 101 Nilgiris, Tamilnadu
On line transfer:
Stanes Alumni Association, Coonoor A/c No.10490100005508
Name of Bank: Bank of Baroda, Coonoor Branch.
IFSC CODE : BARB0COONOO {(BARB0(Zero)COONOO (OH)}
SWIFT CODE: BARBINBBCOI (BANK OF BARODA, COONOOR) 

MICR Code: 643012002