Here is what all of you have been waiting for. The letter from the Chairperson of your 50th Year Reunion Committee:
Reunion week – Cat ‘57
Hi Everybody !!
This message comes to you from our Beautiful Bombay !!
We have been working towards finalizing the programme for our Reunion Week. Many suggestions have come in from various classmates, and we thank you for your interest and enthusiasm, which we are sure will really bubble over when we meet in November.
Programme: One of the main suggestions that came from many of you was that the official functions stretching over seven days would leave little time for people to get together in smaller groups with your closest classmates, many of whom you would be meeting after 5 decades. After a lot of discussion, we finally decided to merge the dinner planned for Monday November 12 with the dinner on Wednesday November 14, reducing the official programme to six days.
We do know that many of you have planned your arrivals according to the original programme, but as so many have said, it will give you all an opportunity to touch base with each other on Monday 12th and also to catch up on your memories of the Bombay you knew.
Attached is the final programme summary. Timing of each function and some final venues will be confirmed later. Apart from the lunch on 14th Nov, which is for classmates only, your spouses are invited to all the other functions.
Function hosts will also be inviting Cathedralites they know well from other years.
Church service : Since the school can only reserve a limited number of seats for our class, we would all need to arrive early to be sure of getting seats. If not, we are all still young enough to stand if we have to !
Class Photo : All the “boys” should bring a jacket for the photo.
Catalumni Function : Everybody would need to communicate directly with the Alumni Association about their participation in this function on Friday. The details would be available on the Alumni website. It will be fun for you to catch up with Cathedralites from different years, so do join in. We hear last year's event was a big blast.
Budget : There is now only one contributory function, the lunch (for classmates only) at the Bombay Gym on November 14. The expenses for this lunch, together with other expenses to be incurred for the souvenir book, photographer, photo discs and other incidentals are estimated at Rs 1500 per classmate.
Dharini (Bhogilal) Anand has been appointed as Treasurer for collection of funds, her tel no is + 91 22 2281 3353. Those who live in Bombay are requested to give the money to her after 15 October, as she is currently out of town. Those who are arriving from out of Bombay or from overseas can give her the money on arrival in Bombay. If any funds are left over after the accounts are completed, it is felt that we should donate it to the school for an appropriate use.
Participation Form : Many of you have already sent in your RSVPs on the website created by Billoo Bhatnagar and some of you have sent it in various e-messages.
Unfortunately, the website has run into glitches (as many websites tend to do !). Also, Billoo had some surgery recently. He is much better now, but unable to sort out the glitches. We, therefore, request you all to send your RSVPs again, and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, but we do need it asap to put the numbers together for each function.
To make it simple, we have attached a participation / contact form - pl fill in the number of people attending each of the functions (keeping in mind that the Lunch on 14th November is only for classmates) and mail to avantico@bom4.vsnl.net.in - even if you are not participating at all, please do send us the completed form.
Once again, apologies for asking you to repeat this exercise, but all of you would have had your own experience of website glitches and how they can mess life up !
Best wishes from all of us in Bombay, we will be in touch with further info.
Pramila
I have set up special web pages of the PROGRAMME and the PARTICIPATION FORM that Pramila had sent by email. But she informed me that many emails bounced.
You can see, either by clicking on this link, the detailed PROGRAMME or by visiting this URL:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=djgrxzs_4ff4bvm
You can see, either by clicking this link, the PARTICIPATION FORM or by going to this URL:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=djgrxzs_3fzw6hq
Please act fast to remove the suspense of the Organising Committee who have done a grand job of getting this far.
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