The Annual Magazine of St. Jude's School, Dehradun
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THE ANNUAL MAGAZINE OF ST. JUDE’S SCHOOL, DEHRADUN 2013-14 R AU E DI DN TO R RIU GA M THE JONTY MULTIPURPOSE AUDITORIUM L A I R Editorial O T I D – Ms. Michelle Gardner E Vice-Principal Dear Students, Parents and Well Wishers; we hope you enjoy flipping through the colourful pages which are a reminder of yet another memorable and special year for us. A year that saw new buildings being constructed, a new Cafe, excellent academic results as well as outstanding achievements both on the stage and the field. It’s also been a year when our state experienced a tragic natural disaster. We stood by our people and began Project Vidya and adopted a village called Saturi and we have travelled many hours to ensure our village gets the help it requires. We have become aware of our surroundings and will work hard to ensure a better future for the invest in planning to lessen the impact of climate generations to come. Be it garbage on the road or change. traffic light not working. There is a new found I hope our theme for this year’s dividers will awareness and a need to be the change that has empower our students with the powerful tool, become a priority within the Thaddeusian family. knowledge; they must analyse and decide for This year’s magazine is dedicated to the themselves if our situation is indeed grave and if it is, inconvenient truth of Global Warming. I turned my we must leave no stone unturned in our quest for a attention to Global Warming as I personally have world that is safe and that we continue to treasure and experienced significant changes in weather patterns look after. all over the world that perhaps no one can deny, freak We would also like to let you know we are working weather, flooding, the seasons getting mixed up to me on a website: www.stjudes.co.in. The website is under are alarm bells that are ringing loud enough for me to construction and soon we hope it will provide our sit up and take notice. We must observe, analyze, school and its family of students, teachers, parent and introspect and then be ready to act in order to ensure well wishers with an identity as well as a platform to the future generation will be able to experience and interact regularly with us. appreciate nature like we have. We hope you enjoy this edition of The Our challenge today is that the number of natural Thaddeusian. Please feel free to email your feedback disasters have increased by more than 4 times in the and suggestions at: [email protected]. last 20 years. Our planet, as aptly expressed by Prince I would thank Mr. Deepender Mehra, Mr. G.S. Charles, is like a dying patient. Bartwal, our team of Teachers & Students, Mr. R.V. Our leaders now must aggressively attempt to Gardner and the Jain family at Vikalp Printers for reduce greenhouse gas emission. The common man their valuable help, guidance and support. must now be forced to make changes for the greater Here’s hoping that the year 2014 is your best year good of mankind. Governments the world over must ever. God Bless. S J S 2013-14 ST. JUDE’S SCHOOL, DEHRADUN THE THADDEUSIAN 2013-14 1 S R E R A E B - Our Torch-Bearers H C R O T R U O Mrs. V.R. Gardner, Principal Ms. Michelle Gardner, Vice-Principal Mr. Kamlesh Sundriyal, Middle School Coordinator Mrs. Amita Chaudhary, Junior School Coordinator Mrs. Geeta Kohli, Primary School Coordinator 2 THE THADDEUSIAN 2013-14 ST. JUDE’S SCHOOL, DEHRADUN ST . JUDE’SSCHOOL Senior & Middle School Staff , DEHRADUN THE THADDEUSIAN 2013-14 Sitting (L to R): Mrs. V. Chandel, Mrs. N. Ahuja, Mrs. N. Mehra, Mrs. S. Kaul, Mrs. S. Tuli, Ms. M. Gardner (Vice-Principal), Mrs. V.R. Gardner (Principal), Mr. K. Sundriyal (Middle School Coordinator), Mrs. S. Rana, Mrs. S.S. Khanduri, Mrs. G. Joshi, Mrs. H. Kukreja, Mrs. S. Chakraborty Standing 1st Row: Mrs. B. Sharma, Mrs. R. Anand, Mrs. S. Thakur, Mrs. M. Bhardwaj, Mrs. N. Chaudhary, Mrs. S. Kapoor, Mrs. A. Bhatia, , Mrs. H. Raizada, Mrs. S. Sacha, Mrs. I. Manuel, Mrs. A. Gupta, Mrs. P. Charles, Mrs. R. Saklani Standing 2nd Row: Ms. M. Singh, Mrs. G. Arya, Mrs. S. Kapoor, Mrs. A. K. Kohli, Mrs., S. Singh, Mrs. S. Arora, Mrs. T. Pant, Mrs. J. Aggarwal, Mrs. N. Vinod, Mrs. L. Tripathi, Mrs. M. Oliver, Mrs. V. Dhingra Standing 3rd Row: Mr. B.M. Bhatt, Mr. A. Singhal, Mr. A. Jaiswal, Mr. V. Dhan, Mr. A.K. Pant, Mr. J. Singh, Mr. R. Bhatt, Mr. H. Uniyal, Mr. B.S. Bisht, Mr. R.S. Rawat 3 Standing 4th Row: Mr. A. Singh, Mr. V. Kumar, Mr. J. S. Panwar, Mr. D. Purohit, Mr. R. Singh, Mr. K. Kapoor, Mr. N. Chandna STAFF PHOTOGRAPHS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHS 4 Junior & Primary School Staff THE THADDEUSIAN 2013-14 ST . JUDE’SSCHOOL Sitting (L to R): Mrs. V. Nagpal, Mrs. N. Kapoor, Mrs. R. Jaraut, Ms. R. Verma, Mrs. A. Nagarkoti, Mrs. P. Dass, Mrs. G. Kohli (Primary School Coordinator), Mrs. V.R. Gardner (Principal), Mrs. A. Chaudhary (Junior School Coordinator), Mrs. D. Dawar, Mrs. J. Shepherd, Mrs. S. Oberoi, Mrs. R. Thapa, Mrs. M. Arya , DEHRADUN Standing 1st Row: Mrs. S. Charles, Mrs. J. Tindale, Mrs. M. Jadora, Mrs. R. Massey, Mrs. M. Kapoor, Mrs. S. Jhaldiyal, Ms. R. Machal, Mrs. D. Gupta, Mrs. N. Saharan, Mrs. T. Meiselbach, Mrs. S. Rawat, Mrs. K. Naithani, Mrs. M. Mittal, Mrs. M. Chachra, Mrs. R. Bhatia, Mrs. R. Hashmi Standing 2nd Row: Mrs. M. Kapoor, Mrs. N. Upadhaya, Mrs. M. Dangwal, Mrs. P. Kaur, Ms. R. Ahluwalia, Mrs. S. Ahluwalia, Mrs. J. Samuel, Mrs. S. Arora, Mrs. S. Sharma, Mrs. R. Thapa, Mrs. G. Chauhan Standing 3rd Row: Mrs. S. Prabhakar, Mrs. A. Sharma, Ms. C. Bhatt, Mrs. N. Bisht, Mrs. R. Ghanshyala, Mrs. M. Mehra, Mrs. H. Bansal Standing 4th Row: Mr. S. Thapa, Mr. W. Lakhra, Mrs. P. Kaur, Mrs. J. Tindale, Mrs. J. Kapoor, Mrs. N. Chauhan, Mrs. R. Tyagi, Mr. D. Chetri S H P A R The Administrative Staff G O T O H P F F A T S Sitting (L to R): Mr. M.S. Rawat, Mr. B.S. Chauhan, Mrs. V.R. Gardner (Principal), Mr. G.D. Devrani, Mr. D. Lal Standing 1st Row: Mr. A.S. Rawat Standing 2nd Row: Mr. S. Pokhriyal, Mr. D. Mehra, Mr. R. Pant, Mr. D. Purohit, Mr. D. Malcom The Support Staff Sitting (L to R): Kiran, Rajrani, Bernadett, Mr. D. Malcom (Estate Incharge), Mrs. V.R. Gardner (Principal), Mr. A.S. Rawat (Estate Incharge), Hemlata, Devashwari, Phoolwati Standing 1st Row: Vinesh, Rakesh Kumar, Girish Chandra, Bonyfus, Sushma, Sunita, Poonam, Bhagwati Prasad, Pradeep, Naveen, Navaldeep Standing 2nd Row: Dhanveer Rawat, Meena Kumar, Prakash, Ajeet, Prisca, Jerom, Pintu Morya, Jagdish, Anand Bhatt, Rajkumar-II Standing 3rd Row: John, Sompal, Bharat, Raja, Kishan Raj, Shambhu, Rakesh Chandra, Surendra Singh-I ST. JUDE’S SCHOOL, DEHRADUN THE THADDEUSIAN 2013-14 5 T R O P E R S ’ L A P I C Principal’s Annual Report N I R P – Read during the 20th Annual Speech & Prize Day, 2013-14, held on 10th May, 2014 In the last 20 years our School has grown in a very positive way. At St. Jude’s we have 3478 students getting education under 127 Teaching staff with 48 Support staff and Ayahs. We try and help as many students as we can and assist Parents in their needs. We provide free education to the · Kargil War martyrs · Martyrs of the Uttarakhand Movement for a separate State · For the children who suffered due to the ‘Himalayan Tsunami’ on 16th June 2013 · and also to the students whose parents are going through financial loss, separation and tragedies. 200 students get 100% fee concession, 185 students get 50% fee concession and our Staff wards get free education. I am proud to announce that this year the total Academic Prize Winners from Nur. to Class XII are 384. I would like to congratulate our ICSE and ISC students, Teachers and Parents for the excellent Board Results, 2014. his/her lessons clearly and effectively and this in turn SJS achieved 100% result in ICSE (Class X) and the catches the attention of the pupils. average percentage was 80. Out of 177 students 26 St. Jude’s also hosts the annual Academic and Creative students achieved above 90% and 34 students between Festival ‘MindSpree’ organised by our Vice Principal Ms. 85-90%. Michelle Gardner. It includes Debate, Art, Mega Poster Our Top scorer in ICSE was Varun Gupta who got 97% Making, Quiz, ProwerPoint Presentation and Singing. followed by Ritika Srivastava with 96%. During the tragic time when our hills were hit by the In ISC (Class XII) out of 158 students who appeared, unprecedented tragedy – we tried to help our fellow our average Class percentage was 79. 27 students scored members. These words guided us: above 90% and 14 students scored between 85 and 90%. “Can I see another’s woe, Siddharth Negi topped by scoring 97.2%. and not be in sorrow too? As per the Magazine ‘Education World’ of September Can I see another’s grief, 2013, St. Jude’s School’s National Ranking when taking into and not seek for kind relief? account English and the Best 3 Subjects is 39th in regards to St. Jude’s School has undertaken ‘Project Vidya’ (in the number of students who have achieved 90% and memory of Vidya Bisht, a very special child of Class XII who above, amongst the best 100 Schools as per the ISC - 2013 lost her battle to cancer on the 3rd of August 2013).