On 25th December 2011 The Alumni Association of Gulmohur (A.A.G.) presented the first grand Reunion of ex-students of Gulmohur. ‘CONFLUENCE’- get together of all GHS Alumni from around the world. A one-day affair, this reunion took back everyone to the blissful growing years in school. The Staff and Faculty of Gulmohur High School and Alumni Association of Gulmohur (AAG) cordially invited all ex-students to the first Grand Alumni Meet in the school premises spanning Alumni from across the globe (USA, Europe, Middle East and different parts of India) and from as far back as 1979 to as recent as 2010 to be a part of an experience of a lifetime.
Those were the best days of my life. This song kept playing in my head throughout the programme on the 25th and if you were there probably you were singing it too or purani jeans aur guitar or those were the days my friend etc.
What a wonderful afternoon. The attendance was healthy. We had teachers - current and ex from as far back as the inception of the school, alumni from 1980 and current students from the senior classes. It's hard to say what was the high point meeting with the teachers or meeting with the batchmates but what I can say for sure is it was a very emotional afternoon.
We started off with the welcome address and the lamp lighting ceremony. This was followed by a cultural programme where the students of the school performed. This was followed with introduction of alumni and in the interest of time alumni handed over the memento to the teachers who were felicitated for their contributions to Gulmohur School . This was the best part of the evening as both alumni and teachers remembered incidents of yesteryears very vividly as if it happened yesterday. This was followed by a hilarious performance by the Gulmohur school band which was followed by an informal meeting of ex-
faculty, ex-students and alumni followed byAll this would not have been possible without and I thank them in no particular order, the school staff, the ex-teachers and the alumni.
Below is the speech of Mr. T S Prakash and Mr. Abhijit Gope on the Confluence 2011.
Speech of Mr. T S Prakash (Senior Coordinator, Gulmohur School)
Good evening respected Ex Principal, Ex Faculty members, Principal Mrs Sunita Sinha, Faculty members.
On behalf of AAG I would like to personally name Mrs Santoshi Toppo, Mrs Manjula Chatterjee, Mrs Nishi Suri, Mr Samir Hore, Mrs Sanghamitra Hore, Mr Manash Banerjee, Mrs Sapna Chakraborty, Mrs Krishna Sharma, Mrs Nandita Sinha, Mrs Nina Basu, Mrs Punita Chouhan, Mr Dhananjay Das, Mr Dinesh C Srivastava, Mrs Neeru Dua, Mrs Meera Paul and Mr Raju Nair. We are extremely honoured to have you amongst us.
I would also like to thank Mrs M Datar, Mrs Vijaya Vasudevan, Mrs Shobha Nair Pandit, Mrs Lalita Srinivasan who although not physically present but conveyed their wishes.
The AAG team is thankful to Principal Mrs Sunita Sinha for supporting us.
The people who made this happen are Abhijit Gope, the President of AAG, Kamran Ahmed, the Vice President, Rahul Ojha, the treasurer, Pradip Agarwal, the HR head, Ashok Nayak And Tanmay Bhadra, the Advisors to AAG, dear alumni who have come from far and near and present council members of the school.
Gulmohur School being the oldest in the colony has always been evolving over the years. A gathering of this order is first of its kind in Jamshedpur. A lot of credit goes to Abhijit Gope of ISC 2005 for his untiring effort, Sumanto Ghosh of the 1984 ICSE batch, the 1986 alumni Ashok Nayak, Tanmay Bhadra and others, the other alumni who pitched in with their valuable contribution. In the period 1996-98 Debdulal Mohanty of ICSE 1994 had developed and hosted the first school website. In the period 1999 to 2005 Arup Shome had taken first framed the organization structure to get the Alumni body registered and open a bank account. The alumni body which used to fund the education for poor children was named GULSHAN and was subsequently merged with AAG. Many more students have given their time and energy to keep this organization going like Kingshuk Bhadra, Suraj, etc. Sumanto Ghosh of the ICSE 1984 batch purchased both the domain names www.gulmohurschool.com and www.gulmohurschool.org. Next, the 1986 ICSE batch took the initiative to expand the features of the website in a systematic manner along with the help of Sumanto Ghosh, Navin Dutta, Abhijit Ghosh and transferred the ownership to the school in October 2010. The AAG members are at present funding for the domain.
Kamaljeet Singh Vilkhoo of the 1982 ICSE batch had donated a sum of Rs 50,000/- in 2010 to set up the Public Address system that we have in our school. Recently Navin Dutta of ISC 2003 batch in Delhi has been giving valuable inputs and has been instrumental along with Nishant Prasad, in setting up the Learning Management System (LMS) for the school.
Unfortunately he and many others were unable to attend this meet due to delay in flights and train. Many have made it overcoming all hurdles. We are extremely touched by your commitment. We at Gulmohur are trying to be the best school and your inputs in terms of adding value to the present and future students shall go a long way in achieving this target. We are extremely proud of every person who is or have been a part of the Gulmohur family. It is your zeal that will take our school forward.
The AAG team wishes to thank the students of class IV for putting up such a wonderful dance, School Band, School Choir, Sudesh Tent & Decorators, Sonu DJ, Mr Sanjay for Light, Mr Biman for catering, Raja Photo gallery, Ashok, Tanmoy, Kamran and team for the mementos, brochures & badges and also the school support staff. The AAG team requests you to kindly overlook any shortcomings in our hospitality.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.
Speech of Mr. Abhijit Gope (President, AAG)
Good evening and merry Christmas to All, 1) Over these few years we have held career counseling and talk shows for our dear students...
2) In year 2010 AAG partnered with school in providing it online presence and also implemented learning management system. I am pleased to inform you that the first round of online exams was conducted in November 2011 for present class 8 students through learning management system.
3) We also got AAG registered as a Charitable trust with Govt. of India.
4) In the 3 years of its existence, the AAG's assets have grown from a mere 5000rs in 2008 to 134000rs in 2011.
5) Today YOUR AAG has a formalized structure with different wings like care-takers wing, website team and the HR team.
We are working on a long TO-DO list of tasks which we are keen to undertake in the coming years. And here we require your co-operation for accomplishing it.
Finally a special thanks to the core group who helped AAG reach new heights- to Mr. Ashok Nayak, Tanmoy Bhadra, Pradip Agrawal, Navin Dutta, T.S Prakash, Nishant Prasad, Rahul Ojha, Rahul Kumar and Sumanto Ghosh. Also to AAG vice- president Kamran Ahmad for all his dedicated support...
And a special thanks to volunteers who made this Meet a reality... to Mr Nikhil Kumar, Sushil Kumar and team...
Finally I congratulate all our fellow Alumni and teachers who are present here and whose well-wishes are with us and declare the First GRAND ALUMNI MEET OPEN. I am sure this evening will add back to your school memories of blackboard and chalks, of untied shoe laces of last benchers, of corridors and of the words that still ring at our hearts “Gulmohur Gulmohur Forever….”
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Certainly a very memorable afternoon. The memories will live through for months / years
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