MY FIRST ALUMNI MEET!

As I climb up ‘The Slope’ of Fr.Agnel Ashram, I notice a new security cabin (they keep on renovating continually for reasons unknown) & more importantly, I notice a smile on the security person’s face (the situation was different 2 years back. Then, the same person had confiscated my college ID, (many-a-time), for reasons such as ‘Rolling a football down The Slope’ & for a “Sahi hai!!!” smack on a friend’s back”). Before I ask for directions to the venue, he says “Today, you can go ‘this’ way. No more confiscations for this. Go straight up & Enjoy the Meet”.  One has to be a CRCEite to understand what ‘this’ way means in the above case.

On 2^nd January, 2010, the CRCE Alumni Association organized the 20^th Edition of the Annual Alumni Meet at the swanky “Samvad” Auditorium at Fr.CRCE,Bandra. After a few hugs& “Abey, tu toh Uncle ho gaya be!” kind of statements, everyone settled down for the gathering to begin.

The dignified occupancy on the dais constituted Fr. Diniz, Fr.Victor, the Principal, the ‘most regular alumni’ and the ex-Principal of CRCE, Dr.R. Sesha Iyer.  

The Chairperson, Sapna Ma’am welcomed the alumni and explained the purpose of the alumni association .And then came the array of speeches by the dignitaries. Iyer Sir was at his witty best. I admire at his way of conveying an important ‘thought of life’. He spoke about his experiences as the Principal, juxtaposed it with “3 Idiots”, leaving the audience in splits. An opportunity was given to a few alumni (Production people, in particular, aur kaun??) to share their experiences at CRCE & how graduating from there has done wonders to their lives & careers. Some of them reminisced about their awful time with the completion of journals & the ‘last but not the least’ submissions. While completion is one thing, submission is a different ball game altogether. Not to forget the Gruesome VIVAs. One of the alumni mentioned how he badly missed a student hostel. Of course, he missed it in the sense of the fun quotient.

Few suggestions were made regarding the future of the alumni movement and the ways to improve it. Of which, the most plausible suggestion seemed to be “Display of names of all Alumnae likely to attend the event”. HAHA!  My suggestion is “Display of names & photograph of all Alumnae & an e-mail of the database so formed to all”. Fayde hi Fayde!

In her closing address, Sapna Ma’am thanked the Alumni for investing their time and

for their active involvement.

A scrumptious dinner and a few photographs ended the Meet on a pleasant note.

Met Joshi Sir, Jorapur Sir.

CRCE is not complete without MD Sir & NC Sir. And so was the Meet.

PRODEVILS of 2009 who could attend the meet can be seen in the following photo with the man, himself  Iyer Sir.

The PRODEVILS missed are many.

But more obviously missed ones were,

HAHA!  I am so funny. Not.

‘You can take a CRCEite out of CRCE, but you can’t take CRCE out of a

CRCEite!!’  


                The story that I promised in the last posts comes in the next posts. Till Then, Take Care.
  
                                                                                                          
                                                                                                          Yours Truly.