Monday 2 May 2022

May 2022- We continue to blog after a gap of 2 months







Its May and despite of the COVID-19 easing up, 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 1963

The Union Church, Boys Sunday School group of 1963 . ( Seniors and Inters)

 

Front row  : David Vardon,    Glen Furnell, Leon Reilly ,   Sheiger Kanniah,   Richard Scully,  Simon Oomen,   Ninan Zachariah,   Alexander Oomen,   Ninan Oomen,  Chacko Kurien.

Other rows :

Richard Green (seen between Leon Reilly and Sheiger Kanniah), Jacob Mani ( between Richard Green and Sheiger Kanniah), Rev. Richard Strom ( Our Sunday School teacher, Asst Pastor of Union Church and Stanes School Board Member) , Denzil Furnell ( seen next to Rev. Strom) , Thomas Trencher (between Richard Scully and Simon Oomen), George Kurien (between Thomas Trencher and Simon Oomen), Peter Green (between Simon Oomen and Ninan Zachariah), Dicky Staples (between Simon Oomen and Peter Green) , Vijayakumar Kanniah (just behind Peter Green and next to Dicky Staples) , Gerald John (between Ninan Zachariah and Alexander Oomen) , Peter Swain (next to Vijaykumar and between Ninan Zachariah and Gerald John) , Unknown- can't identify (between Alex and Ninan Oomen) , George Eapen and Eustice Johnson (between Gerald John and "Unknownen".) ,  Neville Dixon (between Ninan Oomen and Chacko Kurien),  Wilfred Johnson (between " unknown" and Neville Dixon), Shanmugasundaram ( standing behind Wilfred Johnson), George Webster ( standing behind Chacko Kurien)







Mrs. Cornelius along with, Pastor Aruldasan and Mrs. Aruldasan who were incharge of the boys Annexe during 1963.


Featured Pictures of the month: Pictures from 1964


Staff 1965

Seated ( L to R) : Mrs. Samson, Ms. Thomas, Ms. M. Verghese, , Rev. Enright ( Union Church Pastor and School Board member), Ms. A. Cherian(Principal), Rev. Strom (Asst Pastor and School Manager) , Mrs. J. Rajan, Mrs. Ranji Mammen, Mrs.Cornelius,

Standing - Ladies (L to R) :Mrs. Bird, Sister Angeline, Mrs. Zavier, Mrs. Peacock ( John), Jeniffer Swain, Crystal Godfrey, Ms Kripalini Dharmarajan, Mrs. Miranda,.

Standing- Men ( L to R) Mr Benjamin Gnanamanikam, Mr Oomen Samuel, Mr Gunasingh David), Mr.Brian Wintle, Mr. John ( Office Manager), (????), (????), Mr. Chandrasekar ( Hindi Master)



1964 Class 11 (Farewell to Ms E Cherian?)

Standing left to right , 1. Rameshbabu  2. Rajamani Venkatraman ,3. Shanthilal Jaithmul,  4. Baldev, 5.Vijayan Gopalan

Kneeling : 1. Norma Martin, 2. Rajeshwari,3. Valsa Epen, 4. Kalyani Sheshadari, 5. Ms E Cherian(Mrs Kuruvilla)  6. Ms A Cherian ( principal at that time ) 7. Beryl Fregrado, 8. Nirmala Kozhikote(Panikkar) 9. Shantharani Santhanam,


Class 7 of 1964

Top row Standing. 1. Hillary Edwin,2. George David,3. Ragunath,4. Muthu Balakrishnan, 5. Manuel Franklin, 6. Unnikrishnan, 7. Edward Peters, 8. Nanda Kumar, 9. Kalyana Ramu, 10. P.G.Mathew.
Second row Standing. 1. Naganand, 2. Ramachandran,3. Alice Varghese, 4. Phyllis Godfry, 5. Chandra Balakrishnan 6.Dinesh.
Sitting Row. 1. Shirley Figrado, 2. Vimala, 3. Janaki Bellan, 4. Ms.Thomas, 5. Indrani Bhojan, 6. Sundari, 7. Phoebe Victor.
Squatting . 1. Girija Nagarajan, 2. Giegie George, 3. Sunitha Lawai, 4. Bhagirathy.






Class 5 1964

last row from left 1. Sudhakar  2. David Anthony, 3. Aslam Sait,4. Rajkumar Munu, 5. Subramani 6. Calvin Ritchie, 7. Jacob Varghese, 8. Suresh Sundarrajan, 9. Ramesh Vittal Rao 10. Unknown11. Thulsi Das 12. Terence Figrado, 13. Ramkumar Raghupathy,14 Augustine Fernandez 15.Prabhakaran Iyyapan

Middle row 1. Jacob Varghese,2.  Sunny Lonapan,3. Tashi Dondup, 4. Sasi Kumar, 5. Bakdo Sonam, 6. Sundar Vedachalam,7. Dorje Dadul, 8. Sonam Togyal, 9. Unknown, 10 Kalsang Dongshi, 11. Zacharia Sait, 12. Thupten Dorje, 13. Raja RamMohan Subbarao 14.  Basavaraj 

Sitting 1. Mary Joseph/Eunice Stephen, 2. Cynthia Saywell, 3. Gayathri Devaraj, 4. Chandrika, 5. Janaki Devi Mudaliar, 6. Mrs Ivy Miranda 7. Zubeda Begum 8. Nazreen Omar Sait, 9. Valsa Varghese, 10. Kathleen Elthem 11.  Chithra Moracha

Squatting  1. Premchand Balchand, 2. Sudha, 3. Jaya Shakila (Karunakaran) Balakrishnan 4.  Rita Edwin, 5. Annie Samuel 6.Raghuram 7. Lambert Cornelius

To be identified-  Ramkumar Mahalingam





PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR May 2022 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, 
  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 



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