May 2026 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. The Nilgiris gears up for the month long Summer festival 

With the festival the traffic restrictions also come in

one of our Oldest Alumni , Averil Haidar Ali Boesinger passed away in April

She completed school in 1960

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

Her article in TOI

*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 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

Group Photo of 1956 copy presented to school a couple of years back by Averil during her last visit to Coonoor. She fell ill shortly after this 

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR May 2026 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