Tuesday, 1 July 2025

July 2025 Posts




July is around.The Monsoon have hit the country in most areas

Another year and we have some more Alumni joining the whatsapp group.


Stanes Then










STD 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 Magrabandhu


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)





*Group Picture 1956?*

Sitting on Floor 1. To 30

Front row seated( L to R):  1 Mr. Ramalingam(Hindi master), 2 Mrs Clay Warden, 3-Mrs. Hyacinth Bird, 4.  5-Mrs.Pell, 6. Miss.Noronha 7-Miss A. Cherian, 8. Mrs Smith ( Board member), 9. Mrs. Fox. 10. Mr. Fox ( Pastor Union Church), 11.  Mrs.N.Barnard ( Principal), 12 Mr McLaughlin ( Chairman of the School board)  13. Mrs McLaughlin 14. Miss Uma Paul, 15. Mrs Harriet Matthew's. 16. Name Awaited 17. Miss. Martelli 18-Miss Rozario, 19- Mr. Matthews, Accountant.

Girls Standing First Row 1. Name Awaited  2. Name Awaited      3.  Name Awaited       4. Name Awaited     5. Valsa Eapen 6. Hemalatha John 7. Banumathi Margabandhu 8. Gwen Saunders, 9. Maureen Archer,10. Louisa Hart ,11. Margaret Sundara, 12. Joyce Poole Archer 13. Name Awaited   14. Kumudini Christine, 15. Joan Saunders 16 Maureen McFarland, 17 Kamala Nair,18 Mabel Dudley,19. Agnes Yu, 20. Padma Natarajan, 21. Anne Cole craft, 22. Lillian Archer, 23. Deidre Fegin,24. Esther Dawson 25.  Gita Samuel, 26. Name Awaited   27. Tandy John

Girls Standing Second row:1.  2.  3.   4.   5.    6.    7.     8.      9.     10.    11.to  32. Shrimathi Seshadri. 33. Shanthi Ranganathan. 34. Grace Watts 35. Rohna McFarland 36. Meera Pillai 37. Hema Varadachari 38. Averil Boesinger

Boys Standing 3rd  Row

Boys Standing 4th Row1. 2.    3.    4.     5.  Shantilal Jaithmull 6.      7.        8. Ishwar Subramani 13. Patturangam

Boys Standing 5th Row 1-17

Boys Standing 6th Row  1.    2.      3      Malcolm Archer. 4.       5.       6.    7.    David Rao. 8-13





Here are some pictures captured in school during the first week of July 2024 by Andal Sri Shankari
















































































































PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR July 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/

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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/
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 





July 2025 Posts

July is around.The Monsoon have hit the country in most areas Another year and we have some more Alumni joining the whatsapp gro...