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Eastleigh Secondary School Alumni ESS cover Page 14-Sep11:Layout 1 21/9/11 15:12 Page 1 Eastleigh Secondary School Alumni Third International Reunion Holiday Inn, Brentford Lock, London 25th September 2011 ESS cover Page 14-Sep11:Layout 1 21/9/11 15:12 Page 2 IndividualIndividuual hotels for individuali peoplepeop oplep © On behalfbehhalf of the SarovaSaarova Group,Groupp, the VohraVohhra family passes paasses on their theeir best wisheswiishes to all thet past andd presentpresent Eastleigh SecondaryS School students andannd teachers. The Abbey Great Malvern Worcestershire The Bull Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire The Rembrandt Knightsbridge London Sir Christopher Wren Hotel and Spa Windsor Berkshire sarova.com Contents Eastleigh SeconfE Executive Committee Eastleigh Secondary School Alumni Jayant Tanna - Chairman 23 Scot Grove Third International Reunion Pinner Middlesex, HA5 4RT Tel: 020 8421 5536 [email protected] Contents Vijay Patel - Secretary Pinaki Oxhey Lane, Hatch End Contents page Page 1 Middlesex, HA5 4AN Tel: 020 8428 2345 Executive Committee member photos Page 2 [email protected] Nisar Butt - Treasurer Message from the Chairman Page 3 109 Granville Road Southfields Report of the Secretary Pages 4 - 5 London SW18 5SF Tel: 020 8874 2180 An Ode to Education by Parvin Syal Page 6 [email protected] Tribute to Mr Mendonca Page 7 Varinder Seth 27 Sandringham Close Profiles of Mr K Lal, Mr PL Uppal Page 8 Enfield Middlesex, EN1 3JJ Tel: 020 8366 4044 Profiles of Mr Jones and Mr Sharma Page 9 [email protected] Statement of Accounts Pages 10-11 Satwinder Dhand 123 Ardleigh Green Road Report of 2006 Reunion Page 12 Hornchurch Essex, RM11 2LF Profiles of members Pages 13 – 57 Tel: 020 8594 4384 [email protected] Goodwill Messages 35 Pradeep Luther Rules of ESS Alumni Pages 58 _ 59 14 Spencer Road Wembley Nairobi ESS photographs Pages 63_64 Middlesex, HA0 3SF Tel: 020 8904 8587 [email protected] Any queries, suggestions or comments may be sent to: Jayant Tanna Harish Luther Chairman, ESS Alumni 15, Rathlin 23 Scot Grove Hemel Hemstead Pinner Herts., HP3 8TP Middlesex Tel: 01442 211683 HA5 4RT [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.essalumni.org.uk 1 Eastleigh Secondary School Alumni Executive Committee 2010-12 Jayantilal Tanna - Chairman Jayantilal Tanna is from the ESS year of 1963. The current Chairman of ESS Alumni, Jayant is an Education Consultant. He was one of organisers of the 2006 Reunion and edited the ESS Reunion 2006 and the Supplementary 2007 magazine. Vijay Kant Patel - Secretary Vijay Kant Patel is from the ESS year of 1968. Vijay is a retired Certified and Chartered Ac- countant and is the Secretary of ESS Alumni. Nisar Ahmed Butt - Treasurer Nisar Ahmed Butt is from the ESS year 1963. Nisar is a Chartered Accountant. He was one of the 2006 organisers and in-charge of all financial matters. He is the current Treasurer of ESS Alumni. Pradeep Luther Pradeep Luther is from the ESS year of 1968. Pradeep is an academic researcher working on cardiac muscle structure at Imperial College London and an ESS Alumni committee member. Varinder Seth Varinder Seth is from the ESS year of 1956. Varinder, a retired teacher, was a major force in the 1996 and 2006 Reunions and continues to work tirelessly for ESS Alumni. Satwinder Singh Dhand Satwinder Singh Dhand is from the ESS year of 1965. A retired IT manager, Satwinder is the ESS Alumni committee member. Harish Luther Harish Luther is from the ESS year of 1965. Harish is a professional photographer and an ESS Alumni committee member. 2 Message from the Chairman Jayantilal Tanna Greetings! It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Third International Reunion of ESS Alumni. Thank you for coming! We started working on this Reunion 12 months back and booked this hotel. The progress was worryingly slow and we were unable to plan in advance. However, after some hectic effort, undying persistence, tons of patience and tremendous faith, we are able to see this day today. I hope you like what we have organised for you on this occasion and look forward to receiving your helpful feedback. As far as this magazine is concerned, we have profiles of around 80 alumni. I found reading their profiles a fascinating experience. What dedication! What effort! What sense of adventure and achievement! I hope you find the reading equally enthralling. Many congratulations to all of you. You have done ESS proud and have sincerely lived up to the school motto ‘Industry and Integrity'. In my editing, in spite of my best efforts, if there are any errors, omissions or inaccuracies, I respectfully apologise. We have attached a statement of accounts for the period. We hope you find the details clear and informative. I would like to thank Nisar Butt for all his efforts in keeping very accurate financial records and producing a very clear set of accounts. We have also included a Report of our work which I hope is useful. I would like to thank all the advertisers most sincerely. This publication would not have been possible otherwise. I thank Sandeep Ruparelia of Spot Colour Ltd for their wonderful co-operation in producing this magazine. I also thank Mukesh Naker for printing our banners free of cost to us. Finally, I would like to thank all committee members – Vijay, Satwinder, Harish, Pradeep and particularly Varinder and Nisar for all their hard work and for their ideas, advice, encouragement and support. This made my task so much easier. Finally, I say a big ‘THANK YOU’ to all of you for your attendance, friendship, co-operation, loyalty and support. It is always such a pleasure! Jayantilal Tanna Chairman 25th September 2011 3 Report from the Secretary Vijay Patel 1) Eastleigh High School We were very keen to help EHS in Nairobi but our plans were thwarted by the upheaval caused by the election riots in Nairobi. There was widespread looting, killing and vandalism. Many were injured; others lost their lives, including many of the pupils and their families at EHS. The school numbers went down dramatically. Pupils went missing without paying their fees. The whole system was in turmoil and we therefore put our plans of IT support on hold. Since then, things have slowly settled down. The IT project took a back stage when other more pressing needs came to the fore. There was a change of leadership and the new Principal brought about many changes. We have recently received more comforting news from the new Principal) and the school is returning to normal. We have not made any further contributions since the last one of 31 computers in July 2007 but we hope to help in any way we can. Your ideas are welcome. 2) Membership According to our records, we have 125 paid up members at present. This is a low figure considering the actual size of our membership. Money, as we all know, is the backbone of any organisation and ours is no exception. We will therefore try our best to increase this membership substantially next year. 3) Financial Report A set of accounts for the period is enclosed. I must pay tribute to Nisar Butt, our Treasurer, for all his efforts in this area. We are in a very healthy situation with a surplus of £4719. Most of the Income has come from donations for the school, which we have not made because of the uncertain nature of the political situation in Kenya mentioned already. But we can now look at it again as things have settled down. In order to assess the climate in the school and make a decision on the donation, I think we have to make a preliminary fact finding visit to the school first. 4) Social Events In the mean while, many members felt we needed to do more for our own members’ needs and interests. As a result, we organised the first Sunday Lunch on Sunday 18th May 2008 at the Sun and Sand in Finchley. We had a modest turnout. We organised our second Sunday Lunch with Karaoke music on 1st February 2009, which was a big success. 5) News of our members and teachers We used mainly email communication with the membership to save on postage. We are aware that many of our members are not on email and therefore can miss out. We have relied on word of mouth as well because we do not have any regular income to afford the postage. We have kept the membership informed of any significant news of our members, e.g. the deaths of Mr PL Uppal in Simla (Jan 09), Khurshid Ahmed Butt in Mombasa (Mar 09), Rashpal Singh Devgun in Nairobi (Nov 09), Kugi Vohra – an ardent supporter of the Alumni – in London (Jan 10) and Aziz Luhar in Nairobi (March 2010). We were also recently informed that Mr V.S. Bhardwaj, one of teacher s of English at ESS, died a year back in 2009 in Sarnia, Canada. And we lost our Historian, Mr AN Sharma (Nabh) in 2010, another sad event. It came to our knowledge that one of the above bereaved families was going through a great deal of hardship trying to repay debts from hospital bills and other medical expenses. I am pleased to report that through the generosity of friends from that Year of Leaving, we were able to send £1100 to help the family! 4 6) Report of the AGM, Lunch and Karaoke – 11th July 2010 We started arriving at 12:30 pm onwards. The event was a big success. We had 40 attendees including spouses.
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