June 2026 Blogs

The School From St Josephs Convent

View of School From YMCA Corner

View From the Assembly Hall

 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

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

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

✨ Major Updates – May & June 2026 ✨

🏆 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) created history by winning the Tata IPL 2026 on 31 May 2026, lifting their first-ever IPL trophy and sending fans across the world into celebration.

🏛️ Political Updates

Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister: C. Joseph Vijay
Party: TVK (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam)
Assumed office: Sunday, 10 May 2026 (Oath at Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai)

Kerala
Chief Minister: V. D. Satheesan
Party: Indian National Congress (UDF)
Assumed office: 17 May 2026

West Bengal
Chief Minister: Suvendu Adhikari
Party: BJP
Assumed office: Saturday, 9 May 2026 (Oath at Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata)

Puducherry
Chief Minister: N Rangaswamy
Party: AINRC & BJP
Assumed office: Wednesday, 13 May 2026

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 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/

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