Word has just reached me that the original plan to hold the Founders' Day Church ervice and programme on Thursday, 12th November, 2009 has been scrapped and it will now be held on Saturday, November 14th, 2009.
The Church Service at the St. Thomas Cathedral is scheduled for 17:30 on the Saturday evening.
Watch this space for more info as it reaches me.
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
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
