Excellence in Education and Service to God and Man
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VISION EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AND SERVICE TO GOD AND MAN MISSION STATEMENT “The Crossland College strives to educate the rural and economically backward students of the community, providing them excellent training for their total development, with the ultimate objective of bringing about the empowerment and enrichment of the community, through their service to God and Man” 1 CONTENTS 1. Editorial - Chief Editor 2. Annual Report of Crossland College for the Academic year 2017-18 3. We move on - Principal 4 . Tributes Mrs. Alice Abraham : Etched in my memories forever - Prof (Mrs.) Reebu Samuel Mrs. Lachu…a good human being - Prof. Samuel K. Samuel Prof. Sanjeeva Shetty….my English teacher……. a memory… - Mrs. Jyothi A Tribute to the founder Principal of crossland college, late Prof. Sanjiva Shetty - Mr. T. I. Mathai Prof. K. Samuel, Member College Governing Council - Crossland Family. 5. Felicitation to Mr. Prabhakaran K. S. - Dr. Robert Clive, G 6. My experience of attending AIACHE training programmme - Ms. Wafa,I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 7. A Cloud’s Love - Mr. Akhil M Chacko I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) Burning Love To my Love 8. My World - Ms. Yashwi Mariyam Das II B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 9. You are an adventure story - Ms. Wafa I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 10. Impact of Social Media on Consumer Buying Behaviour - Ms. Hephzibah Mathew III B.Com. 11. Budding Journalists - Competition conducted by Dept. of - Ms. Yashwi Mariyam Das, II B.A. (Soc. Sc.) Management Science - Ms. Sheba James, I B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 12. Conference proceedings - Mrs. Jyothi, Co-ordinator 13. Building Sustainable Communities: The Role of Colleges in - Ms. Sowjanya Raju Poojary I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) Nurturing Student’s Social Responsibility through Best Practices - Mr. Akhil M Chacko, I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 14. Your role towards the safety and security of women as a - Ms. Wafa, I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) responsible Indian citizen - Ms. Anju Mary, III B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 15. Lost love in syriya - Ms. Salwa Mohd. Qasim, I B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 16. Proud to be a ... - Mr. Sulaiman Faizal, I B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 17. Hidden Secret Behind Every Successful Story - Ms. Sanjulatha III B.A. (Soc.Sc.) 18. Reports 19. My sweet mom - Mr. Premjoy Narzary 20. I have five fingers for a reason 21. The beauty bruised - Mr. Joshua Reji Palathingal, III B.Com. 22. Rita and her lesson - Ms. Somi Sara Mathew, III B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 23. “Winners don’t do different things. They do things differently” - Ms. Anjali Tresa Robin, II B.A. (Mgt. Sc.) 24. Life of an Indian woman - Ms. Wafa, I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 25. Silence - Ms. Anjali Tresa Robin, II B.A. (Mgt. Sc.) 26. Invisible and unrecognized woman work force - Ms. Archana Somanath Nairy, I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) - Ms. Salwa Mohd Qasim, I B.A. (Soc. Sc.) 27. Crossland College ranked 78th best college in India 28. PHOTOS 29. KANNADA SECTION 30. HINDI SECTION 31. MALAYALAM SECTION 32. ENDOWMENT AWARDS 2 EDITORIAL The modern world is dynamic and fast-paced. Thanks materialistic needs. Also, spirituality must not be to technology, life is far simpler, less complicated and confused with religion. Spirituality is about one's journey more convenient these days. On the flip side though through self-awareness, value-building, and growth, not and among other things, family dynamics has taken a about an established religious order. If we desire to huge hit. There has been a noticable deterioration in the strengthen our nation, we must have a system of quality non-virtual time being spent with family and education based on spiritual values. Spirituality can friends, especially with the advent of mobile phones and sustain morality in individuals. The real purpose of social media. My question therefore is, can the education education lies not in imparting superior quality of system play a role in reversing situations like these? academic excellence but in overall character development founded on spiritual and moral values. In an ideal scenario, yes. The model of education that Mahatma Gandhi envisioned included morality and We, who are in the field of education, have a critical righteousness as an essential part, making knowledge role to play in shaping the behavior, attitude and belief and spiritualism two proportionate halves of a whole. systems of the younger generation. And this process of Unfortunately, the current education system largely transformation has to start within ourselves first. For neglects the emotional and spiritual aspect. The soul of instance, to teach students to love one another, we must our education has been sold to acquiring skills that make demonstrate and inspire the same value through our one employable instead of focusing on all-round behavior. development of a worthy individual. Late. Dr. APJ Abdul Let us take the initiative to bring about a change in Kalam was a huge advocate for reforms in the system this world plagued with hatred, selfishness and inhuman that would include both spiritualism and practicality in attitude. Let's set an example for the younger generation education. to follow. The greatest curse we face today is the Personally, I feel that true education must help in absence of people who walk the talk and talk the walk. changing our attitude from a "Culture of Materialism' to Be a catalyst for change. I have faith that one person a 'Culture of Spirituality'. As Swami Vivekananda said, can indeed make a difference. "Every soul is potentially divine, the goal of life is to manifest it". Education should enable an individual in @ Prof.Samuel K.Samuel his/her personal growth and not just in meeting some Chief Editor 3 Annual Report of Crossland College for the Academic year 2017-18 Esteemed Chief Guest of this afternoon function, Faculty & Staff Dr.A.M.Khan, Respected Mg. Trustee of PEF Prof. One of our faculty members is in the BoS and 2 in Mathew C. Ninan, Beloved Correspondent Dr. Roy Philip, the BoE of Mangalore University. One is a member of Mr. Varghese Daniel, Correspondent (PUC), Trustees, the BoS and 3 are members of the BoE of autonomus Invited Guests, members of the Students' Council, Colleges. Mr.Biju Jacob,Physical Director was the coach Parents, Alumni, Faculty & Staff and dear students. of the Mangalore University Football team which We strongly believe that the purpose of education participated in the South Zone inter University should not revolve around the acquisition of a pre competitions held at Calicut. determined set of skills, but rather the realization of one's Mrs. Lachu, our sweeper who was discharging all full potential and the ability to use those skills for the her duties sincerely with a smile left us to heavenly abode greater good of society. Realising these facts, we are on 03/08/2017. A condolence meeting was arranged on committed to focus on the development of mind and to 07/08/2017. some extend the body and more importantly the Mr. Prabhakaran K. S., Watchman attained emotional and spiritual side of our students as envisaged Superannuation on 30th November 2017. We thankfully by our beloved founder. acknowledge his selfless service of more than 30 years Results and wish him a healthy and happy retired life. Our students as usual produced excellent results in the Tribute to Mrs. Alice Abraham April-May, 2017 University exams. The final year B.A. Mrs. Alice Abraham who always stood by her husband, students secured 84.8% and final year B.Com secured our beloved founder, was called to heavenly abode on 74% pass percentage. Ms. Supriya S K becomes the 29/07/2017. Crossland family thankfully remembers the top scorer in B.A. by securing 91.11% and Ms. Chithra great sacrifices made by her along with late Dr. C. T. in B.Com by scoring 84.67%. In the II PUC Board Abraham in building up this institution. examination Mr. Kiran with 88% in Commerce and Ms. Library Archana Somanath Nairy with 83% in Arts were the top scorers. 731 books costing 2,81,012 were added to the library. We have at present a collection of 12,449 B.A. volumes costing 23,18,811. VI SEM 84.8 % Students Council IV SEM 80.75 % The following students were elected to different II SEM 76.45 % posts in the Students' Council B.COM VI SEM 74 % Chairman - Mr. Anil Kumar, III B.A. IV SEM 71.43 % Secretary - Ms. Anju Mary, III B.A. II SEM 54.17 % Jt. Secretary - Ms. Shwetha, III B.A. PUC Leader - Mr. Shashank Rank Asst. PUC Leader - Ms. S. Prajna Prakash Ms. Supriya S K. made us all proud by securing the Jayanthi first rank in the April-May 2017 University exams. She The activities of the Students' Council were is the 31st rank holder from our College. She will be inaugurated by Dr. John Thomas, Principal, LRIS, felicitated for her achievement today. Brahmavar on 22/07/2017. 4 Mrs. Savitha Kumari, Principal Milagres PU College, students staying in the hostel. We are thankful to Kallianpur inaugurated the PU council activities. Mrs. Prof.(Mrs) Reebu Samuel, Chief Warden, Mrs. Mariamma Jyothi, Lecturer in Business Management and Mr. Poulose, Warden and the Hostel advisory Committee Naveen Kumar, Lecturer in Kannada are to be appreciated for their committed service. The deficit in the hostel A/ for giving proper guidance to the Council members. c is met by the faculty members to whom I am extremely thankful. N.S.S. Placement Linked Special Training Mr. Girish Rao, Lecturer in Commerce gave excellent leadership to the NSS volunteers. Mr. Adithya, II B.A. The second batch of students are undergoing training and Ms.