Today is Founders Day and the Church Service at St. Thomas Cathedral should be starting in a few minutes.
I got this email early this morning from fellow Savageite and my former School Captain, and one of my few idols: 56er HS Uberoi.
Dear Jacob,
Just read your blog entry of Sunday 12th November.
We owe you a huge debt of gratitude!!
I have already made plans to send you the details of the week of celebrations that started on 7th November. As soon as 14th November is done I shall send you full details of each and every function, photographs of all (that were possible) the 56 classmates "then and now"! I shall also forward to you the photographs taken at each function. A copy of the Yearbook, and XL size T shirts produced for the occasion will also be couriered to you.
Do you want any for your wife or anyone else?
The Reunion has gone absolutely dreamlike so far. We too had our share of shouting and slanging prior to the week commencing! True Cathedral Spirit. We did sort out all the differences also in the same spirit.
More later, and thank you for your good wishes which I shall convey to all concerned at this evening's dinner where we are expecting 70+ people!
Ubi
It is not very often that I develop goosepimples.
Here I am sitting in a cold cellar (about +17 C) at 4:30 am, in my lungi and shirtless, my pot belly representing my years of computer staring, and I am covered in them, not because of the -10 C outside, but because of a feeling of being one with all my Cathedralites, from 45ers to present day boys and girls who take the time and trouble to write to me.
When the 54er Sadhana Madhusadan (née Shah) and others honoured this blog on the CD made of their reunion two years ago, I was deeply moved.
Now, I thank this 56er for giving this blog such kind words.
When I looked in my 56ers photo file, I only had one solitary picture. (Maybe this situation will change in the course of time!) It was a scan of a letter from a 56er from the US who had sent a beautiful gift for Annikki and me.
Click on image to see an enlarged readable version.
This is what she wrote to me in August of this year about attending the reunion:
I finally overcame my demons about the horrors of the long flight to Bombay, and made my bookings to fly there for the Class of '56 Reunion in November. Will break my journey by spending two nights with a friend of mine in London on the outbound trip, and about two weeks in London on my return from Bombay. This, so that I can see my Aunt, who lives near Bristol, for her 93rd birthday at the end of November, and attend the wedding of my cousin's granddaughter in Harrow on the 2nd of December.
I think I mentioned to you that in anticipation of my trip to the Reunion, I had my knee replacement surgery last October (had put it off for 6 years), and three weeks ago, I went under the knife again for an abdominal (ventral) hernia surgery, which I'd put off for four years.
Am making a good recovery from both those ordeals.
Doreen
So you can see how important a class reunion is to many friends around the world. Although I am 7000 km away, I too am there in spirit and through the many blog readers who are representing me out there!
Remember this blog is NOT ME - IT IS YOU!
Have a great reunion 56ers.
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