Thank you and Organising a Reunion

(This entry was sent out by email as a TRIBUTE to several who have tirelessly helped me over the years and to many who are no more. Sorry for the several errors in the email which have been more or less corrected in this entry. Also, I forgot to send copies to the Staff Members of my time who have been helping me over the years - Thanks especially to Willie and Pushpa Shiri!)

Dear Gracie, Sara, and many others,

Dearest Gracie - You never fail me in locating people, - thank you, thank you, thank you.

Dear Sara, don't dream. You can have your reunion.

Two of your 62ers are married to 59ers (Purnima Mazumdar to Viney Sethi and Sucheeta Assomull to Vijay Shivdasani). 62er Monty Wilson in Canada is a tireless worker and organiser. Seeing your zeal, you can have a great reunion, and that is what the Seventh Heaven Blog has been helping in doing for many others.

As a start I am copying this to your fellow 62ers who are already waiting for a move like what you suggested.

I have helped the 54ers (Gracie's Group), 56ers (Ubi's Group), 57ers (Pramila Shivdasani & Fleur Ezekiel's Group and the wonderful late Behram Badhniwalla). The 58ers are presently using it to reach their classmates as also the 64ers. Many later years as the 67ers, 69ers, etc. all use this forum to reach their friends.

But Seventh Heaven is not ME - Jacob Matthan in the frozen Arctic.

It is YOU.

Without people like

45er David Sopher,
47er Farookh Metha,
49ers as Yezad Kapadia and Naval Patel,
54ers Gracie Hayeem, Sadhana Shah and Suhas Phadke,
56er Ubi Uberoi and Meena Bhatt,
57ers as the late Budni Behram Badhniwalla and Pramila Shivdasani and Fleur Ezekiel,
58ers Homi Khushrookhan,
63ers as Mithoo Malani,
64ers as Deepak Deshpande and Rustom Dadabhoy,
67ers as Shoba Jhunjhunwalla,
69ers as Barbara Mont Ros,

and many many more strung out around the world - this Blog would be nowhere.

We 59ers held a great 30th year Reunion in 1989, a 40th Year Reunion in 1999 and our 50th year Reunion will be held as the Mother of all Reunions in November 2009.

In addition we have mini reunions all over the world as our network over the years has been linked through this Seventh Blog (which was a website before) and a Google Group which I started some time ago.

The Seventh Heaven Blog is, however, no longer the centrepiece of 59ers. Cathedralites all over the world read it faithfully to get info and share info. The Cat Alumni uses it to reach Cathedralites around the world.

So Sara, let us get your reunion plans started - What Ho Monty, Judy, Purnima, Sucheeta, Surtaj, Anita....?



And finally - let us all observe A MOMENT OF SILENCE in memory of a great Cathedralite who left us on this day last year - 57er Budni.

--
Jacob Matthan
Kampitie 6 B
90150 Oulu, Finland

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