Slide Show of 56er Reunion

Finally it is finished!

Combined Group Photo of 56ers at their 50th Year reunion.

With 56ers Ubi and Meena working round the clock at the Mumbai end, and with me thumping away at my Macintosh, I am glad to say that I have been able to create the web pages of almost 200 images taken at the Reunion of the 56ers held between the 7th and the 14th of November 2006.

You can also see the permanent link in the column at the side of the main entry.

The two written reports of the reunion submitted by Ubi and Meena are also on the Page 5 of these web pages.

If you click on any thumbnail you will be able to sit back and enjoy a slide show of these 200 images. I have set a 7 sec gap for slide changing, but you can see additional controls above and below the images.

It is interesting to note that each year the reunions are getting more and more intensive as each year tries to outdo the previous one.

The 57ers led by Behram Badhniwalla (Budni) and Fleur Ezekiel in Pune are very far advanced in organising their reunion for next year. They are going to have a tough time trying to meet the standard set by the 56ers.

I hope my fellow 59ers will outshine all else, especially as we have the power of the Internet behind us.

In order to make the 59ers Reunion in 2009 the most outstanding, some decisions have to be made. We have a head start on everyone else as we have had 2 great reunions already (1989 and 1999).

Now we lead all others with our internet contact.

Using me as the link coordinator, we have to start working NOW.

59ers Piloo Dastur, Elijah (Ooky) Elias, Ashok Kapur, Anjula Mansukhani, Viney Sethi and Vijay Shivdasani, all in Mumbai, have been nominated (by me) as the Primary Organising Committee.

Assistance could be provided by Renuka Batliwala, Adi Cooper, Vikram Kamdar, Venkat Kurma, Delbar Mendis, Ramesh Mirchandani, Percy Mistri, Phiroze Mistri, Naubir Mohindar, Vijay Nayar, Farahana Poonawala, Anil Ruia, Indarjit Shah (Pune), Ratan Singara, Gita Vasvani.

International assistance could be provided by

John Beddow (Australia),
Abdilwahab Zayani (Bahrain),
Hasnain Chinwala (Canada),
Shabir Ahmedbhoy (Karachi),
Bashir Currimjee (Mauritus),
Sudhir Anand, David Colaco, Deepak Kaikini (UK),
Narayan Acharya (née Seshachar), Armeane Choksi, Noel Ezekiel, Jack Haskell, Ellis Hayeem, Peter Miovic, Arvind Thadani (USA).

Two 59ers who should be invited are 1959 School Captain Bhupinder Singh Anand and School Vice Captain Abe Hayeem.

Family members of those who have left us should also be invited to attend our reunion.

Respected staff members such as Shiri, Pande, Gregory, Patel should also be invited to attend te Reunion.

If we start now, and set up a budget, we should be able to organise a reunion which like all that we have done in the last 55 years will remember unsurpassed.

We still have to track about 35 missing 59ers. If someone will provide me a list, I will try to track them down.

Come on 59ers - let us wake up!