June 2021 Posts

The School From St Josephs Convent

View of School From YMCA Corner

View From the Assembly Hall

Another month . Two Bloggers, 6 comments, the writer in John has surfaced with lovely tales of the Corona War in Uganda, Africa, thanks we look forward to your musings again

 Junes here, the second wave also caresses the country. The Monsoon clouds are around, Kerala has started getting rains in abundance,  Bangalore has been treated to some unprecedented showers and development woes...Coonoor is not far behind but the dams are still to fill up.. ...Do we have more bloggers coming in or only the faithful five keeping the blog rolling? Teddy our original Blog Master has deserted the Blog...
   

Featured Pictures of the month from 1963

The Union Church, Boys Sunday School group of 1963 . ( Seniors and Inters)

 

Front row  : David Vardon,    Glen Furnell, Leon Reilly ,   Sheiger Kanniah,   Richard Scully,  Simon Oomen,   Ninan Zachariah,   Alexander Oomen,   Ninan Oomen,  Chacko Kurien.

Other rows :

Richard Green (seen between Leon Reilly and Sheiger Kanniah), Jacob Mani ( between Richard Green and Sheiger Kanniah), Rev. Richard Strom ( Our Sunday School teacher, Asst Pastor of Union Church and Stanes School Board Member) , Denzil Furnell ( seen next to Rev. Strom) , Thomas Trencher (between Richard Scully and Simon Oomen), George Kurien (between Thomas Trencher and Simon Oomen), Peter Green (between Simon Oomen and Ninan Zachariah), Dicky Staples (between Simon Oomen and Peter Green) , Vijayakumar Kanniah (just behind Peter Green and next to Dicky Staples) , Gerald John (between Ninan Zachariah and Alexander Oomen) , Peter Swain (next to Vijaykumar and between Ninan Zachariah and Gerald John) , Unknown- can't identify (between Alex and Ninan Oomen) , George Eapen and Eustice Johnson (between Gerald John and "Unknownen".) ,  Neville Dixon (between Ninan Oomen and Chacko Kurien),  Wilfred Johnson (between " unknown" and Neville Dixon), Shanmugasundaram ( standing behind Wilfred Johnson), George Webster ( standing behind Chacko Kurien)

Mrs. Cornelius along with, Pastor Aruldasan and Mrs. Aruldasan who were incharge of the boys Annexe during 1963.

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 2021 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 2021- The Corona Virus with Mutations has begun its assault with renewed vigor

Its May and despite of the COVID-19 Shut down, the blog still remains abandoned,  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???

Featured Pictures of the month: Pictures from 1962

9^th Std 1962

Last row: 1. Vijayan Gopalan, 2. Ashok Gupta, 3. Stephen Thomas, 4. George Eapen, 5. Rajan Samuel, 6. Rajamani Venkatraman.

Middle row standing : 1. Rajeswari Rajarathinam 2 Parvathy 3.Audry Staples 4.Dorris Knight,5.  Noelene Dawes 6 Valsa Eapen.

Sitting  1.Ruby Hutton, 2. Nirmala Panikker(Kozhikote), 3. Mr. Behrent 4 Mrs. Rajan, 5. Crystal Godfrey, 6. Thilakavathi Pillai.

Squatting floor 1. Kalyani Seshan, 2 Sheila James 3. Santa Rani Santhanam,4  Norma Martin  .

Football Team 1962

Mr. Behrent, principal from New Zealand

Front Row: L to R-1.  Denzil Fernell, 2. Winston Archer 3. Krishna Moorthy  4. Vijayan Gopalan

Back Row 1 Jim Mani , 2. George Eapen 3.  George Webster 4. Kalyanaraman Chettiar 5. Ramprasad Ramachandran 6.  Ramkumar Ramachandran,7. Name Forgotten 8. Name Forgotten 9. Charles Scoffield

Class 6 of 1962

Standing top row: 1. Robbie Mani, 2 Kalyana Ramu, 3. Vijaykumar Subramaniam 4. Peter Greene, 5. Carlton Archer,6 Hugh McNeil, 7D. Venkatesh, 8 George David, 9. Vinod Krishnan, 10. Narsimhan Gopalan, 11. Gopal Vaidyanathan 12.Ramamoorthy Sundaram, 13 N Joghee Krishnan, 14 Sheiger Kanniah,

Standing second row: 1. Rajkumar Samuel, 2. Ivan Lamech, 3. Joseph Franklin, 4. Surendran Vaidyar, 5. Edward Peters, 6. Colin Charlesworth, 7. Another Lamech?

3rdRow: Standing Reena Hutton, last girl name forgotten

sitting 1. Alice Schofield, 2. Phyllis Godfrey, 3. Deidre McNeil, 4. Colleen Archer, 5. Miss Joseph, 6. Mr. Behrent, Principal  7. Godfrey?, 8. June Walsh, 9. Janaki Bellan,10.  Name Forgotten..

In between Vimala Kurian Anne Jones (Dutch girl)

Sitting: 1. Name Forgotten, 2 Irene James  3. Annette Arlick, 4. Janaki Devi Suganchand, 5. Shobha Panikker, 6. Ruby Swain, 7. Amy Sheeran, 8. Phoebe Victor, 9.Yashoda Gowder

Cricket Team 1962

Ground :  1. David Vardon, 2. George Eapen, 3. Ramkumar Ramachandran, 4. Ronald Dawes.

Standing: 1. Tushar Dutt, 2. Paddu, 3. Jim Mani,  4. George Webster,  5. Nanick Berumal,  6. Kalyanaraman,  7. Thomas Verghese,  8. Ramprasad  Ramachandran,  9 Charles Coffield.

The Principal seated is Mr. F. L. Behrent.

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR May 2021 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 2021 Posts

Feb 2006 was when we started. March 2021 We still are blogging.  Its April and despite of the COVID-19 Vaccination drive, new variants of the virus have started surfacing in India.  New Curbs may be introduced this month to address the spread/ resurfacing of the virus.  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???

The Next phase of CoWin2.0 gets rolled out today with registration being opened across government apps. People above 45 years will start getting the vaccine. (citizens will be able to register and book an appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the CoWIN 2.0 portal or through other IT applications)

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 2021 Posts

Feb 2006 was when we started. March 2021 We still are blogging.  March is a cruel month in India because of the rising temperature, water shortage, and year ending financial operations. Many of our bloggers have abandoned visiting the site, we have had only 1comment in February and faithful Peter marking his attendance every month.

The CoWin2.0 gets rolled out today with registration being opened across government apps. People above 60 years and those with co morbidities in the 45 to 59 age bracket will start getting the vaccine. (citizens will be able to register and book an appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the CoWIN 2.0 portal or through other IT applications)

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

Featured Photograph of the month

Net Ball team

Standing L to R: Doma Yanki, Sonam Chozem, Norma Vint, Yvonne Johnson, Premila (Chrissy)Miranda, Andrea Mitchell, Margaret John.
Sitting L to R : Yanchen, Tsering, Loretta Julien (Married Wilfred Johnson), Sarah Joseph.

1957

3rd row standing: 1, 2. Nirmala Panikar,3. Gomathy Margabandhu 4. Indra Ramachandran 5.Dorris Knight 6. Shanta ,7. Noelene Dawes 8 Norma Martin

2nd row:1,Unknown 2. Paras,3,Unknown4,Unknown5,Unknown

First row: 1. 2. Balasubramaniam,3.  Unknown 4.  Shanthilal Jaitmul, 5. Mrs Rozario,6. Unknown7. Ishwar Subramaniam, 8. Pattu,9. Unknown

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR MARCH 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 

February 2021 And We continue to Blog on

February, another new month,  look forward to our bloggers wooing their Valentines, month for some of our silent visitors to come out of the closet and mark their attendance.... We Missed out blogging in Jan 2021. On January, 17, 2021, we started our whatsapp group as Stanes High School-Global and a proud moment for us with many Alumni coming together. The group is almost full with representation from around 1955 onwards.

Added a alumni registration form please fill in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJ5AcjZBA6VnN86avRoi2EUdgGCcYfLyqw0kiRgN2Ru1buJQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 

  Last year February started with a Bang, a Proud Moment for the School and specially ISC Batch of 1979-80 our Alumni, Arvind Krishna was announced to be the CEO Designate of IBM, he took over the reigns once Ms Virginia Rometty stepped down in April 2020.
Arvind's Sister Anitha was part of School Leaving Batch of 1980 ....

Some memories of Aravind

In the play Charlies Aunt
Homi Sethna, Kavaneet Singh, Annie Samuel, Mina Virk, Deirdre, Victoria Moses, Suman Kapoor, Reuben Miranda, Sunil, Arvind  Krishna, Mrs PM Wright, Mrs Ivy Miranda, Mrs Thomas, 

Peter Greene Publishes his book
Peter Greene's  book Tales from the Hills has been published and is available for purchase on Amazon.ca, Amazon.in, Amazon.com, Amazon global. If you do purchase his book, kindly write a review please!

Synopsis below

There is never a dull moment in this collection of short stories that will grab your attention and keep you spellbound! Peter Greene describes life growing up in the picturesque Blue Mountains of the Nilgiri District of Southern India.The pretty tourist towns of Coonoor, Ketti and Ooty will intrigue you with fascinating characters like Soosai the sorcerer and his black arts, Emily the maidservant's remedy to ward off "the evil eye", school students playing truant or a scary head-hunting tale of terror, encounters in a local flour mill and a teenage boy trying to sell his vegetables in a local market for the first time! Whet your appetite and enjoy this book!

About the Author

Peter Ernest Greene was born in 1951 in Cochin, Kerala, India. Peter belongs to the Anglo-Indian community. He left Cochin at the age of four and lived in Coonoor and Ketti in the beautiful Nilgiri District of Southern India.He studied at Stanes Higher Secondary
School in Coonoor and joined the Indian Navy in 1969 in the Electrical (Radio) branch. He saw action in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 and was awarded the Sangram Medal, The Poorvi (Eastern) Star and the Nao Sena Medal. In 1977 he was sent to the Soviet Union for training at the Naval Officer’s College in Izmail, Ukrainian Republic. He learnt to read, write and speak in Russian. He was part of the Commissioning crew of a Soviet built minesweeper at Riga in the Latvian Republic. Peter left the Navy in 1980 as a Petty Officer. He met and married June Yates in Bangalore, India and has two sons. Peter
and his wife June now live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Peter works for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

" Wishing you lots of Happiness, Success, Love n Good health"

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2020 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