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Malhan ’88 TSA Effects www.tsa.in Front cover: Woodstock campus, photo by Alex Manton ’84 Photos: Woodstock students and staff Any ideas for improving Alumni services? Write to us at [email protected] - Quadrangle From the Principal Of Kings and Lyre Trees Dr Jonathan Long, Principal Storms of a hundred years have bent your branches, tional fatal blow which has only now become apparent as a devastating Snows of a century have crowned your head, one. We still have an “expert” advising us on a possible remedy but, as Over the hills you’ve watched Spring’s soft advances, is the fate of all things natural, the tree is in terminal decline. Summer and winter under your boughs have spread Needles of green and needles of gold that shower Of all the challenges we face at Woodstock, the demise of the Lyre Tree Over the students passing beneath your shade. may prove the most insoluble. Its transition from symbol to metaphor You have been waiting this Centennial hour may well be inevitable – at least if the experts are to be believed. Facing your life of struggle unafraid. Some of the pine cones have been collected. In fact, a good friend of Teach us your steadfastness, your quiet growing, mine who is a senior executive in Nestle was visiting us some months Sending your roots deep into the living earth. ago – he took a number of seeds and promised to see if he could have Tell us the sacred peace you gain in knowing them “cloned” and grown at the Nestle research laboratory in Vevey, Sunshine and sorrow, solitude and mirth; Switzerland! It’ll be cloned school Principles next, I know it! Mary Burgoyne’s poignant poem, Miracle of modern science aside, the Lyre Tree remains a powerful “the Lyre Tree” prompts vivid emo- symbol of some fundamental Woodstock “truths”. It’s no surprise that tions these days. Written in 1954, at metaphors drawn from the natural world often accompany careful re- the time of Woodstock’s centenary, it \[ [ good nourishment; to recognise the secret rhythms of seasonal change held to choose a new symbol for the and the potential for growth reaching ever upwards and outwards. school. Before 1954, the Woodstock These are the enduring qualities which characterise the essence of a symbol had taken various forms – at Woodstock education. And if we are looking for meaningful symbols, one time a Deodar tree and at another, we are surrounded by them – for in these inspiring Himalayan foothills a maiden with a torch. [ These days, the once splendid Lyre When Charles VII ascended the French throne in 1422 after the death Tree carries the weariness of age in its of his father Charles VI, the crowd chanted, “Le roi est mort, vive tired limbs. The thorough concreting le roi!” (The King is dead, long live the King!). One King died and of the surrounding area many years sovereignty transferred immediately to the next. The Lyre Tree may ago may well have been an uninten- be dead and dying – but “long live the Lyre Tree!” Quadrangle - Around the Sundial Ben Bowling, Head of Communications A summary of the academic year 2013- of being a younger sibling with the help of side to take part in the inaugural Pitt in the 2014 senior schools students. *#+* Centre, these students take part in a variety June Multi-day cloudbursts cause catastroph- In collaboration with Mussoorie Church Fel- of academic courses and excursions into \ lowship and Landour Community Hospital, Himalaya, including village stays and treks Thousands of lives were lost. Kedarnath and Woodstock raises adequate funds to provide emergency supplies and monthly rations to 4100 families affected by cloudbursts in the Cross country and badminton competitions July Woodstock Staff return to campus and to Thatyur area. are among the sports events this month. The [ Board of Directors and General Assembly Woodstock students visit the Doon School for are welcomed to the campus for the annual &' meeting. August Students return to the hillside and en- $ "" Kush, written and directed by Woodstock Flood relief efforts continue as Woodstock dance. A performing arts troupe from the Alumnus Shubhashish Bhutiani. Sports are in engages private schools in Mussoorie to # full swing including interschool competitions educate them about the situation at Thatyur Independence Day. During the celebrations, in squash, badminton, basketball, volleyball, and encourage them to help provide ongoing Chaplain Brian Dunn presents a message table tennis and soccer. The month ends with rations to the affected families. about embracing the Indian way of life and the ever popular Goal-a-thon which raised Sohail Das, the longest attending Woodstock money for the Flood Relief Fund and the October Woodstock Alumni meet on campus $% Employees Benevolent Fund. and around the world to celebrate World Wide Woodstock Day. Events of this month include The annual Big Brother Big Sister day is held September A group of 15 students from the the Grade 7 and 8 RE retreat, parent-teacher #- conferences and the fall play Our Town, /3 students a chance to shine. Woodstock students go far and wide across India and abroad for the annual activity week. Grade 10 students go on trekking expedi- Urinetown captivates the audience Glow in the dark at Sadie Hawkins Students enjoying Sadie Hawkins Students enjoying the newly renovated Alter Ridge Woodstock 1/2 Marathon runners Goal-a-thon - Quadrangle Cross Country Celebrating Independence Day $6: Woodstock welcome the members of the William Dalrymple, who shares about his in Garhwali Villages while others go on a Board of Directors to campus for the second book The Return of a King: The Battle for <$<' time in the semester. Several groups of stu- Afghanistan. The Mussoorie Half Marathon Park, learn about the religious diversity in dents visit New Delhi including those on a is hosted over the same weekend, with many Dharmsala or serve in Manali. The lucky [%* staff members and students participating and members of the Jazz Band go all the way others who participate in the New Delhi Half volunteering. to Austria to play some gigs and attend the Marathon. Senior School students revel in Vienna Jazz Festival. the radiance of the glow in the dark theme >?- of Sadie Hawkins. During Interhouse Fun ployee’s Day, where they spend the afternoon Woodstock adopts the villages of Dunda =\ competing in sports at Hansen Field, tea at and Nikurchi in the Tathyur region. The their houses in basketball, squash and table Alter Ridge with an Awards Ceremony and 75 families in these two villages lost their tennis competitions. Condors top the Eagles a movie in the evening. cash crop of the year and their irrigation and Merlins. system was extensively damaged, making Through a cash-for-work programme, the any further agricultural farming impossible. Woodstock hosted the annual Mountain Writ- irrigation system is restored at Dunda and Woodstock raises INR 8.5 lakhs to buy pipes ers’ Festival where music, literature, poetry Nikurchi.
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