August 2024 posts

It's August 2024 and yet another month gone by. The Monsoon clouds are around, Fairly heavy rains in the country with connected devastation in many places. Dengue cases are on the rise. Many parts of the country have been facing nature's fury with floods, landslides etc in Himachal, J&K, Uttarakhand and North East. Waynad in Kerala has been battered with landslides and related loss of life, reports of heavy rainfall and related floods landslides and loss of life.

Stanes Then
Pictures from 1980-81 Posted below

CLASS 11 1960

Standing: 1. Margaret Sundara; 2. Louisa Hart

Sitting 1.Philomena 2. Hema Samuel; 3. Averil Boesinger ; 4. Mrs Barnard Principal 5. Janet Dowley 6. Sreemathi Seshadri 7. Bhanumathi Margabandhu

CLASS 3 1960

Top row from L  1. Ramesh Yesuthasen 2. Name Forgotten 3. Donald Meggi 4. Jerome Balraj 5. Narayanmurthy  6.Peter Godfrey 7.Kasim 8. Richard Skully  9. Gerald John  10,  Harichand 11. KK Rajan 12. Ranjan Chacko  13. Ravi Punch  14.Nandakumar Devaraj

Middle Row standing: 1.Krishnamurthy 2. Glenn Clarke 3. William  Swasbrook  4. Sheik 5. Neville Dixon 6. Richard Scully 7. Name Forgotten 8.Jenifer Swain  9. Name Forgotten 10. Hemavathy 11. Susheedi Pathodian 12.Pamela/ Colleen Jude

Sitting : 1. Shanthi 2. Mercy Samuel 3. Girija Nagarajan 4. Usha 5. Vijayalakshmi 6. Mrs. Bernard  7.  Miss Kanaga 8. Giegie George  9.Sara Bapat  10. Name Forgotten  11 Fathima  12. Ingrid Scully

Floor :1. Balasubramaniam J B 2. Shanker 3. Eric Cornelius 4. Name Forgotten 5. Hillary Edwin 6. Name Forgotten 7. Ralph Forgard 8. Pussy 9. P.G.Mathew 10 Gopinath

* CLASS IV 1960*

Last row: 1. Vijayakumar Subramaniam, 2. Sheiger Kanniah, 3. Name Forgotten, 4. Name Forgotten, 5. Vijaykumar Thomas, 6. Edward Peters, 7. Ivan David 8 Ramamurthi 9. Roby Mani, 10. N. Krishnan Joghi, 11. Rajkumar Samuel, 12. Name Forgotten, 13. Peter Greene.

3rd row Standing :1.  Vimala Kurian, 2. Joyce Swasbrooke, 3. June Walsh, 4. Collette Pell, 5. Maureen Swain, 6. Pamela Jude, 7. Name Forgotten, 8. Glenn Furnell, 9 Colin Charlesworth..

2^nd Row Sitting : 1. Shobha Panikker,2.  Ruby Swain, 3. Janaki Devi Suganchand, 4.  Irene James, 5. *Principal Mrs. Barnard, 6. Class Teacher Miss Noronha,* 7. Brenda, 8. Colleen Archer, 9. Name Forgotten, 10. Janaki Bellan.,

First row Seated : 1. Vinodh Krishnan, 2. Name Forgotten 3. Carlton Archer, 4. P Vaidyanathan, 5. George David, 6. Naganand, 7. Vincent Samuel, 8. Name Forgotten. 

CLASS Vl of 1960

Back Row (Standing)  1. Ninan Zachariah, 2. Vijayakumar Kanniah (Joshua),3.  Ralph Swasbrook, 4. Justifus Paul, 5. Denzil Furnell, 6. Nanak Berumal, 7. Kalyanaraman, 8. George Rowland, 9. Ramprasad Ramachandran, 10. Jacob Kunenkeril,

Third Row (Standing) 1. Audrey John, 2. Maureen King, 3. Iris Walsh, 4. Gilda Ignatio, 5. Wilcy Wilson, 6. Delphine Carter

Second Row (Seated) 1. Geetha Vaidyanathan, 2. Saraswati Tinatti, 3. Katherine Stewart, 4. Jennifer Godfrey, 5. Mrs. N. Bernard (Principal), 6. Miss. Gwen Sanders (Class Teacher) , 7. Susheela Jaithmull, 8. Nargis Narayandas, 9. Indu Panicker , 10. Jeane Furnell.

Front Row ( Ground)  1. K. C. Venugopal Nair , 2. Richard Greene, 3. Archibald Hutton,  4. Eric Sopher, 5. Venkatesh Raju, 6. Gopal Vaidyanathan, 7 Jacob Mani.

CLASS 8 of 1960?

3rd Row:1. Malcolm Archer, 2. S Kumar 3. Wren Johnson 4. Christopher Hart 5. Raghubir Singh 6.  Stephen Thomas  7.    Manohar  Prakash(from wellington, died while swimming in grand anicut while swimming) 8. Raj Kumar Narayandas

2nd row: 1 Amelia Dowly,2. Cynthia Walsh 3. Gomathy Margabandu, 4 Doris Knight,5. Christine Brown 6. Irene David  7. Loretta Johnson 8. Beryl Fegrado ,9. Anjela Roberts , 10. Nirmala Panikkar.
1st sitting:1. Hilda Pithavadian, 2. Indra Ramachandran, 3. Santa Rani Santhanam,4.  Mrs N. Bernard (Principal),5. Miss. Rozario (Class teacher) 6. Hema Nair, 7.  Crystal Godfrey, 8. Anne Thomas.

Sitting Floor  1. Jim Mani, 2. Shanthilal Jaithmul, 3. Ishwar Subramaniam,4. Tushar Dutt 5. Pattuingam ( Pattu)

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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/
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  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/