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Annikki was Chairperson of The English Club of Oulu almost 2 decades ago. We were also the first Life members of the Club. The Finn-Brits Magazine is the publication of The Federation of Finnish-British Societies under which English Clubs function all around Finland to promote the English Language and the cultures associated with English speakers.

Cover of Autumn 2007 edition.

The magazine decided to do a special feature about Oulu in the Autumn 2007 edition and they asked us for a couple of articles.

The first was an article about the Chamber of Assistance for Finns and Foreigners which was founded by Jacob and a few friends a couple of years ago. The article was authored by the present CHAFF Monitor, Ildikó Hámos-Sohlo, along with Jacob.

The second, a highly controversial one was authored by Annikki and Jacob about the lack of Free Speech in Oulu.

Hope you enjoy them!

Reunion 2007 Delhi Chapter Dinner

Thank you to 49ers Yezad Kapadia and Jamshed Desai, as well as 64er Deepak Deshpande (Palmer) for this input.

Isn't to see how great our 49ers are keeping the school flag and our school spirit flying high, even as far as Delhi!

Standing: 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla, Commander Ranvir Khosla, Jaidev Ranade, Sunita Khosla, Vinita Ranade, 49er Jamshed Desai, Malti Sayal, Commodore Jaipal Sayal, Krishna Jaitly, 49er Raj Bhandari, Dellinder Kohli, 49er Yezad Kapadia, Rati Kapadia, Kersi Dubash & 54er Ravi Jaitly Sitting: Prakash Bhandari, Jaya Bhandari, Madhu Gurtu, Kuldip Gurtu & Manya Patil Seth

Dear Jacob,

As you are aware, the Delhi Chapter had organised our Founder's Day Dinner at Jamshed Desai's home. Jamshed had very kindly agreed to host the occassion.

The Dinner was very well attended - 24 of us old Cathedralites & spouses got together to celebrate !

On behalf of Yezad Kapadia, I am sending you herewith photographs of the Dinner, with a request that these may please be posted on your 'Seventh Heaven' blog.

Deepak A Deshpande
Managing Director
METLLOY Overseas Private Limited


Commodore Jaipal Sayal, Rati Kapadia & 49er Silla Dubash (née Vakil)



54er Ravi Jaitly, 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla, 49er Raj Bhandari & Kersi Dubash


Malti Sayal, Krishna Jaitly & Commodore Jaipal Sayal


Dellinder Kohli, Madhu Gurtu, Kuldip Gurtu & Malti Sayal


49er Yezad Kapadia & Prakash Bhandari


54er Ravi Jaitly 64er Deshpande & 49er Raj Bhandari


54er Ravi Jaitly, Jamshed 49er Desai (our host) & 49er Raj Bhandari


49er Raj Bhandari & Kersi Dubash


Prakash Bhandari & Rati Kapadia


54er Ravi Jaitly, Jaya Bhandari, 49er Jamshed Desai, Kadhambari Chintamani, Jaidev Ranade & Kuldip Gurtu


Prakash Bhandari, Rati Kapadia & Madhu Gurtu


55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla, Commodore Jaipal Sayal & Malti Sayal


49er Silla Dubash (née Vakil), Vinita Ranade & Jaya Bhandari


Kadhambari Chintamani, (hidden - Jaidev Ranade & Kuldip Gurtu), 49er Jamshed Desai & 54er Ravi Jaitly


Prakash Bhandari, Rati Kapadia & Jaya Bhandari


Kadhambari Chintamani, Kuldip Gurtu & 49er Yezad Kapadia


(Background - 49er Silla Dubash (née Vakil) & Kuldip Gurtu), 54er Ravi Jaitly & Kadhambari Chintamani


Jaidev Ranade, Krishna Jaitly, 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla & 49er Jamshed Desai


Malti Sayal, 49er Silla Dubash (née Vakil), 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla & Manya Patil Seth


54er Ravi Jaitly, 49er Jamshed Desai, Prakash Bhandari & 49er Yezad Kapadia


Kadhambari Chintamani, Jaya Bhandari, (Background - Kuldip Gurtu), 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla & Rathi Kapadia


Standing: Sunita Khosla, Jaidev Ranade, 64er Deepak Deshpande, Commodore Jaipal Sayal, 49er Jamshed Desai, Malti Sayal, Krishna Jaitly, 49er Silla Dubash (née Vakil), Dellinder Kohli, 55er Anil (Bobby) Bhalla, 49er Yezad Kapadia, Kersi Dubash Sitting: Rati Kapadia, Commander Ranvir Khosla, Prakash Bhandari, Jaya Bhandari, Madhu Gurtu & Kuldip Gurtu

Wish I had been there as I am sure several others around the world would have been so wishing.

Founders' Day Photos coming in

Dear 69er Barbara Rossi from Milan, Italy, was at this years Founders' Day in Mumbai. She has sent me this great collection of shots which sets the mood.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

This was who was my correspondent and my eyes in Mumbai this year. :-)



Here is what Barbara wrote soon after she touched down in Italy:

Dear Jacob ,

I am back in Milan, grey and cold and naturally have downloaded the photographs I took during the past few days into my computer and am sending them to you, before anyone else, "in anteprima" as they say in Italy because from the very first of the beautiful Mrs Isaacs standing in front of the entrance of the Saint Thomas Cathedral
to the last in which I captured Fleur when she turned around for a moment as she stood in the group of ladies of '57 (!)

I thought I could act as your virtual eyes at the Founder's Day celebrations.

My photographs are not exceptional, but they surely help you to see the fantastic tradition of school repeated over and over again in its minutest details
and of course the photograph of those joyful choirboys is dedicated to you.

I missed Mr. Velu greatly, but the incredible size of the choir this year and the innocent enthusiasm of the singers did make up for that in part

lots of love

Barbara

Mrs. Meera Isaacs waiting to welcome the guests.

































As I was in school and took part in several Founders' Day services, was part of the Cathedral Church Choir, and was also one of those who read the Bible Lessons, etc., this set of photographs is especially nostalgic.

I remember wearing those choir costumes, walking down that aisle, sitting and listening to sermons and doing lots of mischievous things that we boys would do.

I wonder how we would have behaved if we had had girls in the choir?

Palmer House wins Golf Tournament

The results of the Golf Tournament associated with the 2007 Founders Day have been kindly sent to me by Cat Alumni President, 81er Rajiv Bhatia.

I am not a golfer, but I love to watch the game. I prefer to walk up to 20 km a day, but not swinging a club!

Palmer wins the 13th Annual
Cathedral Alumni Golf Tournament

The 13th Annual Cathedral Alumni Golf Tournament held at the Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai, on Sunday, 11th November 2007 was a runway success.

There were a total of 38 participants including six current students.

Palmer House won the Tournament with excellent showings from Akshay Kilachand, Siddharth Thakker, Mihir Doshi and Rohan Jacob.

The Chief Guest Mrs. M Kochar, the popular English teacher in school in the 60s & 70s, gave away the prizes.

The following were the results :

Akshay Kilachand Salver for Best Gross Score:
Winner Riaz Batliwala
Runner Up Nohar Nath
2nd Runner Up Jamsheed Mehta
3rd Runner Up Krishna Kilachand

Rohit Poddar Salver for Best Nett Score Medal:
Winner Rahul Sood
Runners Up Chirag Doshi
2nd Runner Up Navroze Marshall
3 rd Runner Up Jamsheed Pundole

Anil Goyal Cup for Best Gross Stableford:
Winner Sidharth Thakker
Runners Up Rohit Poddar
2nd Runner Up Anand Jhaveri
3 rd Runner Up Rishav Mehra

Meher Amersey Cup for the Best Nett Stableford:
Winner Mihir Doshi
Runners Up Akshay Kilachand
2nd Runner Up Shaan Mehta
3 rd Runner Up Anil Goyal

Best House:
PALMER

Present school boys:
Winner Dhruv Toshniwal
Runner Up Kunal Bhatia

Max Pars
Madhan Soi

Max Birdies
Rohan Jacob

Oldest Alumni present
Mr Ajay Bhatnagar

The Alumni Association would like to thank Mr. Gopal Vazirani for his generous contribution of golf balls, Rajiv Bhatia (Barham '81) for his gift of towels and Akshay Kilachand (Palmer '88) for the T-shirts and water bottles as give aways.

Also the Alumni Association would like to thank Mr. Rohit Poddar for donating a new prize for the Best Nett Score.

The efforts for organizing this wonderful tournament is thanks to Meher Amersey (Barham '60), Pushpa Bhatia (Barham '53), Akshay Kilachand (Palmer '88) and our Hon. Alumnus - Mrs. Kiran Kanwar, who every year does a sterling job in making this tournament a success.

A big thanks to all who played.

The list of participants this year were :

BARHAM:
Jamsheed Mehta, Rohit Poddar, Anand Jhaveri, Shaan Mehta, Vishal Jhunjhunwala, Harsh Amersey, Jamsheed Pundole, Krishna Kilachand, Rajiv Bhatia, Rishav Mehra

PALMER:
Akshay Kilachand, Rohan Jacob, Siddharth Thakker, Chirag Doshi, Anil Goyal, Mihir Doshi, Viral Doshi, Manoj Mehra

WILSON:
Pheroze Dubash, Riaz Batliwala, Nohar Nath, Dr Ajit Deodhar, Kaikushru Dinshaw, Behram Gamadia, Rahul Sood, Pankaj Kalra, Madhav Soi, Ravi Toshniwal

SAVAGE:
Navroze Marshall, Harit Mehta, Ajay Bhatnagar, Suneet Kothari

Congratulations to the winners. A great shout out to all who took part, organised and ran the event and also to all who have supported this tournament over the years.

57ers Reunion Programme - Final

57er Pramila Shivdasani has sent me the final version of their 50th Year Reunion programme. I hope that all of you will join me in wishing it a huge success.

I also hope the organisers will send me the report and the photographs to create a special web page to add to my collection of 50th year reunions.

Program for Reunion Week Cathedral Class of 1957

November 12 - 18, 2007

DAY	DATE	Time	FUNCTION	HOST
Monday	Nov 12		Free time to connect with classmates
Tuesday	Nov 13	8.00 pm	Dinner at Dome (Intercontinental Hotel, Marine Drive)	Ranjit and Namita Mathrani
Wednesday FOUNDERS DAY	Nov 14	9.00 am 10.15 am 10.30 am 1.00 pm 8.00 pm	Church Service Cricket Match (BGym) Tea at Middle School Tour of Schools Class Photos Lunch (Contributory) "Social" Dinner/Dance Band sponsored by Dinner hosted by	St Thomas' Cathedral School v/s Alumni Bombay Gym For classmates only Joss – Kala Ghoda Tom Holter and Biloo Bhatnagar Pramila Shivdasani, Saker Mistri, Charu Shah, Dharini Anand Rupa Shah
Thursday	Nov 15	8.00 pm	Dinner at Willingdon Club, Cabbage Patch	Sunil Sahni Bhup Anand
Friday	Nov16	8.30 pm	CATALUMNI Dinner & Dance	Blue Sea (Worli) Tickets can be collected from Rhythm House, Kala Ghoda
Saturday	Nov 17	8.00 pm	Dinner at The Rooftop (Taj Hotel)	Arjun and Judi Waney
Sunday	Nov 18	8.00 pm	Farewell Dinner at Petit Hall (66 Napean Sea Road)	Homi and Tan Commissariat

Bombay Contacts in case of need

Arun Mahimtura 98210 19772 Dharini Anand 93225 91328

Bhupinder Anand 93225 91202 Fleur Madnani 0 93731 37964

Pervez Antia 98200 70509 Pramila Shivdasani 98200 46783

Sunil Sahni 0 98232 17541 Saker Mistry 98200 99544

Founders Week Programme

The Alumni Association has just sent me the programme for Founders Week this November:

November 2007 - Founders Week Schedule

Sunday November 11th, 2007

10 to 11:30 am Tee Off - Alumni Golf Tournament (includes present students) at Willingdon Club followed by a high tea and prize giving ceremony.

Wednesday November 14, 2007

9:00 am to 10:00am - Founders Day Church Service at St. Thomas' Cathedral
10:15 AM onwards - Cricket Match - Old Boys V/s Present Students at Bombay Gym
10:30 AM to 11:30am - Founders Day Tea and Alumni Association General Body Meeting at the Middle School & Release of the new Alumni Association Magazine

Friday November 16, 2007

8:30PM onwards - Founders Day Dinner & Dance at the Blue Sea, Worli Seaface, AG Khan Road Worli, Mumbai

Contact Information

Sponsorships - Rajiv Bhatia - rajiv@catalumni.com - HelpDesk 99203-21463
Cricket Match - Sanjay Shah - 98210-15871
Golf Tournament - Akshay Kilachand - akshaykilachand@hotmail.com - 98210-27000
Dinner Event & Branding -Gopika Saran -98195-13698
Decor - Nazneen Gamadia - 98200-45100
Magazine - Sunaina Murty - sunaina001@hotmail.com - 98190-75553

Dinner Dance Donor Passes:

Chitra Rajkumar 22-23519897
Shyla Boga shyla_boga@yahoo.com
Rohita Doshi doshi.rohita@gmail.com
Sonal Modi 98201-84762
Radhika Shums 98702-04615
SoulKurry Art Point Gallery, Gr. Fl., Chowpatty, Mumbai 7 (11am to 6pm)
Rhythm House Kala Ghoda,Mumbai 1 (11am to 6pm)

All queries to Rita Vaswani
Administrative Help Desk
catalumni_helpdesk@yahoo.com
99203-21463

I have also received two files, one which speaks of Sponsorship Opportunities for the Founders Day Dinner and the other which offers advertisement space in the Magazine which will be released at the time of Founders Day and will have a circulation of around 5000 alumni.

Contact me and I will send you these files.

I need volunteers who will attend the various events and rush me digital pictures for this Blog.

As you know "Seventh Heaven" is one of the oldest established web sites for our school and serves our alumni in all six continents. I have been pushing the nostalgia button for over 10 years. I have helped various years organise their reunions and have carried pictures and reunion reports of many of them.

Your help in getting the news out to those who are unable to be present in Mumbai at that time would be greatly appreciated.

Acknowledgements for all material contributed will be given.