Isn't she sweet?

I have pleasure in bringing you this photograph of those curly locks that 63er Ian Deane spoke about. I vouch that this baby is just as she sweet was at the time the picture was taken. 54er Gracie Hayeem in San Francisco is going to love this picture of her student and vouch for what I have written!

69er Barbara Rossi - as 63er Ian remembers her!

This was Barbara checking in yesterday from Italy!

here is the Barbara with those curly locks

lucky to be the daughter of those two very special parents who gave her the possibility to be brought up and educated in Bombay, at Cathedral

a life she loved from when she woke up and got ready for the school bus to when she filled her school bag at the end of the day, with text books exercise books pencil box, compass-set (yes Globe!) gym shoes (Bata) etc etc.. in anticipation of the next wonderful day to come

the badge...........hell where on earth have I misplaced it.........this is worse than when the watch was ticking, the bus was arriving, the lift had already been called up to the 6th floor............

hehehe I'll find it I promise!

love, Jacob

have a lovely day, and keep doing your "homework"!

Barbara

I am sure that the omission of punctuation marks was something she did not learn in Cathedral! At least she capitalises MY NAME!!!! Love you too, Barbara. :-)

Another 69er Zahid Parkar submitted this scanned extract from the 1969 School magazine. (Quality of the original was not good, but hope it is readable.)



And Ubi fed me with the info which gives you the reason why I did not even know about CJO's wife!

Hi,

C. J. Olliver married very late. In fact, he only got married after taking over as Principal of St Peter's Mazagon, well after he left Cathedral.

After Bernard Gunnery, Rev. G. Ridding took over as Principal. To the best of my recollection, he did not stay for his full tenure-but I could be mistaken.

CJO left at that point of time.

Kuruvilla Jacob I think came after Ridding.

Ubi

This is not a very good picture of the staff in 1965 where, obviously Rev. Ridding is there as Principal and Ollie is not in the picture!

Last night I had dinner in Oulu with someone from Mumbai, and although not a Cathedralite, knew many Cathedralites. Amol Shah, one of the owners of MJ Pharma, which has bought a Finnish company. He knows 52er Yusuf and 56er Muku Hamied of Cipla, as also 59ers Ashok Kapur, Ooky Elijah Elias and also Vijay Shivdasani! Amol plays a good game of badminton, Ashok says!

Very small world.