September 2026 Journal of the Stanes Coonoor Alumni Blog

 

✨ September 2026 – New Beginnings, New Challenges ✨

The monsoon of 2026 has been intense across India. While several regions enjoyed steady rainfall, others faced severe flooding and landslides. Bangalore experienced intermittent waterlogging, traffic disruptions, and scattered power outages — thankfully not as severe as the 2025 floods.

 Monsoon clouds over the Nilgiris – September 2026

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🇳🇵 Nepal Floods – 26 August 2026

Nepal witnessed one of its worst natural disasters in recent years when catastrophic floods struck on 26 August 2026. Cloudbursts and glacial lake overflow submerged entire valleys, washed away bridges, and cut off major highways. Rescue teams from India, Bhutan, and international agencies worked round the clock to reach stranded families.

Flood-hit region in Nepal – August 2026

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🌍 Middle East Roundup – Gulf of Hormuz Tensions

The Gulf of Hormuz remained a global flashpoint throughout 2026. Naval standoffs, drone interceptions, and disruptions to commercial shipping created volatility in international energy markets. Several nations issued advisories for vessels passing through the narrow strait, while diplomatic channels worked overtime to stabilize the region.

Gulf of Hormuz – Strategic chokepoint

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🏆 RCB – Continuing the Wave of Celebration

The celebrations from RCB’s historic IPL 2026 victory continue to echo across Karnataka. Fans marked the anniversary with special events, charity drives, and commemorative gatherings.

RCB’s 2026 IPL Trophy Moment

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🏫 Stanes School Coonoor – 2026 Updates

Stanes School continues its legacy of excellence. The academic year saw several important milestones:

• June 3–5, 2026: School re-opened for Classes 1–12, LKG & UKG.
• May 8, 2026: Class 12 board exam results released.
• May 20, 2026: Class 10 board exam results announced.
• Annual Prize Day 2026–27: Celebrated with grandeur at Rajendran Sports Arena, honouring academic and sports excellence.

Stanes Prize Day 2026–27 – Celebrating Excellence

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🌐 Global Events – 2026 Highlights

2026 has been a year of dramatic global developments — climate extremes, geopolitical tensions, and humanitarian challenges. The world continues to adapt to rapid changes across continents.

• Extreme weather events across Asia and Europe
• Rising maritime tensions in the Middle East
• Major humanitarian operations in Nepal
• Global focus on climate resilience and disaster response

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📬 Stanes Coonoor Alumni Group

Those wishing to join the Stanes Coonoor Alumni Google Group may send your details to: stanescoonooralumini@googlegroups.com with your name, year of entry, year of leaving, class studied, and email ID.

We start September 2026 with the Monsoon clouds play their magic, torrential rains in some parts with accompanying floods and regular woes in some parts, Many Areas in the world hit by drought and heavy rains...  Himachal, parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim  been in the news with  landslides, torrential rains etc, rescue operations to bring succor to the flood affected people. 

 
Bangalore has also had its tryst with the monsoon, some Roads have had water logging the last few days but not rivalling last year's floods.

Our School has been very active with Inter school competitions students bringing laurels. The School is now the anchor for many events, kudos to the Principal, Staff and Students.

lets start September Comments Here.
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

Group Photo 1957 or 1958
(My Guess could be Centenary Celebration)

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. 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 3^rd  Row

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

Boys Standing 5^th Row 1-17

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

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/

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 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