May 2021- The Corona Virus with Mutations has begun its assault with renewed vigor

Its May and despite of the COVID-19 Shut down, the blog still remains abandoned,  are our regular Bloggers are listening. We have had only Peter and John Visiting the Blog.
We are Looking for more visitors this Month. Will they join in???

Featured Pictures of the month: Pictures from 1962

9^th Std 1962

Last row: 1. Vijayan Gopalan, 2. Ashok Gupta, 3. Stephen Thomas, 4. George Eapen, 5. Rajan Samuel, 6. Rajamani Venkatraman.

Middle row standing : 1. Rajeswari Rajarathinam 2 Parvathy 3.Audry Staples 4.Dorris Knight,5.  Noelene Dawes 6 Valsa Eapen.

Sitting  1.Ruby Hutton, 2. Nirmala Panikker(Kozhikote), 3. Mr. Behrent 4 Mrs. Rajan, 5. Crystal Godfrey, 6. Thilakavathi Pillai.

Squatting floor 1. Kalyani Seshan, 2 Sheila James 3. Santa Rani Santhanam,4  Norma Martin  .

Football Team 1962

Mr. Behrent, principal from New Zealand

Front Row: L to R-1.  Denzil Fernell, 2. Winston Archer 3. Krishna Moorthy  4. Vijayan Gopalan

Back Row 1 Jim Mani , 2. George Eapen 3.  George Webster 4. Kalyanaraman Chettiar 5. Ramprasad Ramachandran 6.  Ramkumar Ramachandran,7. Name Forgotten 8. Name Forgotten 9. Charles Scoffield

Class 6 of 1962

Standing top row: 1. Robbie Mani, 2 Kalyana Ramu, 3. Vijaykumar Subramaniam 4. Peter Greene, 5. Carlton Archer,6 Hugh McNeil, 7D. Venkatesh, 8 George David, 9. Vinod Krishnan, 10. Narsimhan Gopalan, 11. Gopal Vaidyanathan 12.Ramamoorthy Sundaram, 13 N Joghee Krishnan, 14 Sheiger Kanniah,

Standing second row: 1. Rajkumar Samuel, 2. Ivan Lamech, 3. Joseph Franklin, 4. Surendran Vaidyar, 5. Edward Peters, 6. Colin Charlesworth, 7. Another Lamech?

3rdRow: Standing Reena Hutton, last girl name forgotten

sitting 1. Alice Schofield, 2. Phyllis Godfrey, 3. Deidre McNeil, 4. Colleen Archer, 5. Miss Joseph, 6. Mr. Behrent, Principal  7. Godfrey?, 8. June Walsh, 9. Janaki Bellan,10.  Name Forgotten..

In between Vimala Kurian Anne Jones (Dutch girl)

Sitting: 1. Name Forgotten, 2 Irene James  3. Annette Arlick, 4. Janaki Devi Suganchand, 5. Shobha Panikker, 6. Ruby Swain, 7. Amy Sheeran, 8. Phoebe Victor, 9.Yashoda Gowder

Cricket Team 1962

Ground :  1. David Vardon, 2. George Eapen, 3. Ramkumar Ramachandran, 4. Ronald Dawes.

Standing: 1. Tushar Dutt, 2. Paddu, 3. Jim Mani,  4. George Webster,  5. Nanick Berumal,  6. Kalyanaraman,  7. Thomas Verghese,  8. Ramprasad  Ramachandran,  9 Charles Coffield.

The Principal seated is Mr. F. L. Behrent.

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR May 2021 HERE. Pictures are available for viewing at http://stanescoonoorphotoalbums.blogspot.com/ , Catch up with stories and memoirs on http://stanescoonoorstories.blogspot.com/ , that site is waiting for your attention too!! Bring out the poet in you at http://stanescoonoorpoems.blogspot.com/

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