June 2025 Blogs

The School From St Josephs Convent

View of School From YMCA Corner

View From the Assembly Hall

Another month . None of our regulars surfaced for long and we plod along

 June is here, the Monsoon arrive early creating havoc in Nilgiris and most hill areas in the south with red alerts being sounded in last week of May, Kerala has started getting rains in abundance,  Bangalore has been treated to some unprecedented showers and development woes...

In the whatsapp group we have had some long forgotten seniors being discovered and golden treasures being unearthed. Here are some pictures.

1975 4th Std

Seated 1st row Left to right: Ravi Lakshmanan, Satyanarayanan, Stanny Siluvaimuthu, Charles, Sylvester, N. Kumar

Seated 2nd row: Asha Chellarani, Banita Mohan, Florencia, Vinita Priya, Mrs. Rajan (Principal), Mrs. Cornelius, Shoba Menon, Crystal Lobo, Aruna, Suhasini Repuri

3rd Row: Marjorie Greig, Preeta Srinivas, Amulyajit Kaur, Shaheen Patel, Vasanthi Munu, Mary 4th Row: G. A. Vikram, Ravishankar, xxx ,Issac ,Rajan David ,Ashok Joghee, Vetriselvan, xxx Manoj Srinivasan, Zeno Philip, Vicky, Sriram

5th Row: Vijayakumar, Carlton Benny, Mubeen Patel, Ramakrishnan, Rocky Swain, Ali Zakhi, Ramesh, Tashi Dondhup, Jerald, Johnson, Brian James, Jayaprakash

   

Std 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.

Stanes Block under construction

L to R: Amy Sheeran, Mary Joseph, Jackie  Suganchand, Usha Suri, Mr. Wills

5th of 1959

Standing Last Row- 1 Ramkumar Ramachandran 2 Sherry Lukose 3 Trevor 4 Joseph Franklin  5 Eustace Johnson  7 Peter Swain 8 Surendran 9 Jitendra 10 Edwin Rajarathnam 11 D Venkatesh

Tall Boy- Arif Sait

Standing middle row 1 Dorothy  2  Rani  3  name awaited 4 Maureen 5  Annie  6  Jennifer  

Sitting1 Suguna Pathudian   2 Subadhra  Narayanan 3 Mercy Samuel George (Ragland)  4  Uma Panch 5. Mrs Bernard 6 Teacher name awaited 7 Colleen Archer 8 Preethi Sridharan 9 Geetha Margabandu 10 Reena Hutton 

Sitting Floor 1 Dorothy Martin 2 Sushima 3 Usha Suri  4 Phoebe Victor (Chakravarti) 5 name awaited 6 Phyllis Godfrey (Mrs Brian Wintle) 7 name awaited 8 name awaited

Sheiger,  Leon, Dayanand. Vijay Kumar. Denzil & Sundaram at fruit show

1960 Std 4

Standing Rear Row 1. name awaited 2 name awaited 3. name awaited 4. name awaited. 5. name awaited. 6. name awaited 7. name awaited 8. name awaited 9. name awaited 10. name awaited 11 Peter Greene

Standing Middle Row 1. name awaited 2. name awaited 3. name awaited 4. name awaited 5. name awaited 6. name awaited 7. name awaited 8. name awaited 9. name awaited

Sitting Chair  1. name awaited  2. name awaited  3. name awaited  4. name awaited 5. Principal Mrs.N. Bernard. 6. Teacher Miss Blanche Noronha 7. name awaited 8. name awaited 9. name awaited

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

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR June 2024 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/

A group mail id exists, Do subscribe and be a part of it
stanescoonooralumini@gmail.com;

Stanes as a group is available on facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=2214025179; also the School's Official Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/StanesSchoolCoonoor?ref=br_tf

The updated 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 

May 2025 Posts

The Climate this year till now is varying from very dry to dry and wet, the rain gods have been kind fairly good rains.  However, Water crisis looms and some areas in Namma Bengaluru have started depending on water tankers to quench the peoples thirst/ Where are our regular Bloggers are they listening. We have had missed Peter and John Visiting the Blog.
We are Looking for more visitors this Month. Will they join in???

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR May 2024 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 

April 2025 and the summer starts with the new Financial Year

Feb 2006 was when we started. April 2025 and We still are blogging.   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???

We request Alumni to update their contact details Click->  here  

Featured Photographs of the month Classees in 1960

This is from 1957

Class 3 1960

Top row from L  1. Ramesh Yesuthasen 2. Missing 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. Sheik5. Neville Dixon 6. Richard Scully 7. Missing 8.Jenifer Swain  9. Missing 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. Missing  11 Fathima  12 .Ingrid Scully

Floor :1. Balasubramaniam j.b 2. Shanker 3.Eric Cornelius 4. Missing 5. Hillary Edwin 6. Missing 7. Ralph Forgard 8. Pussy 9. P.G.Mathew 10 Gopinath

Std. 6. of 1960

Last row L to R: 1. Ninan, 2. (Joshua) Vijaykumar (Kanniah,) 3. ?, 4. Justifus Paul ( with his face torn off), 5. Denzil Fernell, 6? 7. Kalyana Raman 8-9 ?, 10. Malcolm Archer.

3rd row Standing, 1. Audrey John 2-3.? 4. Crystal Godfrey. 5.? 6. Annie Thomas.

2nd row sitting: R to L: 1-4.? 5.Mrs. N. Bernard (principal). 6. Ms Gwen Saunders (teacher), 7. ? 8. Nargis Naraindas 9. Indu Panikkar 10. Jean

Sitting ground: L to R: 1. K.C. Venugopal Nair (deceased), 2. Richard Greene (deceased), 3. Archibald Hutton, 4. Eric Sopher, 5. Venkatesh Raju, 6. Gopal. 

Class 8 of 1960?

3rd Row:1. Malcom,2. (Name) 3. Wren 4. Manmeet Chadda 5. Raghubir Singh 6.  Stephen 7.  Thomas  Manohar (from wellington, died while swimming in a river) 8. (Name)

2nd row: 1 Norma Martin,2. Gomathy Margabandu,3. (Name) 4 Doris,5. (Name) 6. (Name) 7. (Name) 8. Beryl,9. Anjela, 10. Nirmala Panikkar.

1st sitting:1. Hilda, 2. Indra Ramachandran, 3. Santa Rani Santhanam,4.  Mrs Bernard (Principal),5. Mrs Rozario Class teacher, 6. Hema Nair,7.  Crystal Godfrey, 8. Anne Thomas.

Squatting: 1. Jim Mani, 2. Shanthilal Jaithmul, 3. Ishwar Subramaniam,4. Wilfred, 5. Pattuingam

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR APRIL 2021 HERE.

FOR POSTING PICTURES AND STORIES PLEASE CLICK ONTO THE RESPECTIVE LINKS.

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 

March 2025 and we march on in the 18th Year of our blog

Feb 2006 was when we started. March 2025 We still are blogging.  March is a cruel month in India because of the rising temperature, water shortage, and year ending financial operations, plus the rising inflation and infections due to changing weather. Many of our bloggers have abandoned visiting the site, we have had no comment in February and faithful Peter also not marking his attendance this month.

We request Alumni to update their contact details Click->  here  

Featured Photograph of the month

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR MARCH 2025 HERE.

FOR POSTING PICTURES AND STORIES PLEASE CLICK ONTO THE RESPECTIVE LINKS.

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