St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore Celebrating 150 Years Of Excellence On behalf of the Managing Committee of the OBA, the Rector, the Principal, Staff and Students of St. Joseph's Boys' High School, we request the presence of your family and you for the OBA Sesquicentennial Anniversary Celebrations to be held at the school from the 5th through the 7th of September 2008. 150 years for the school has been truly eventful. In this period, we changed our location once, our name twice and, last year, assisted in building a grand new set of buildings for the school. Along the way, the school has nurtured whole generations of Josephite diaspora who have done the institution proud. Several have achieved national and international fame in their chosen fields. As a school, the primary task was to prepare young children to play their roles in life with success and make them true world citizens. Every year, a fresh batch of students leaves the portals, bearing the unmistakable Josephite traits of strength of character, quiet confidence and total integrity. In honour of our reaching 150 years, the OBA has chalked out a weekend of festivities for the OBA Sesquicentennial. As alumni of the school, your presence at the celebrations will make the occasion a truly memorable one. In celebrating such a momentous occasion in our history, we would appreciate having everyone join us, whose good wishes and support have brought us this far. We do hope you take the time to make it to this grand occasion. We look forward to enjoying your company at the Sesquicentennial Anniversary Celebrations. In Faith and Toil, A.G. Krishnaswamy Brian D'Lima Old Boys’ Association - St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore President Secretary Annual Report 2007 - 08 OBA St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore Annual Report 2007 - 08 OBA St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore Annual Report 2007 - 08 PROGRAMME NOTICE SATURDAY 30th August 2008 The 90th Annual General Meeting of the OBA will be held at St. Joseph's Boys School Hall on Sunday 7th September, SEMINAR - CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT – (for Std 9 to 12) 2008 at 9.30.a.m. to transact the following business. THURSDAY 4TH September 2008 INTER SCHOOL SPORTS (School Ground) FRIDAY 5th September 2008 AGENDA 9.00 a.m. Athletic Sports Day 1 (School Ground) 90.1 Prayer and one minute silence. 1.00 p.m. OLD BOYS SPORTS ( School Ground) 90.2 Special welcome to outstation Old Boys. 7.00 p.m. RE-UNION OF BATCHES (School Hall) 90.3 Messages from Old Boys. SATURDAY 6th September 2008 90.4 The Presidential Address. 7.30 a.m. WALKATHON– Focus - Climate Change (Around school) 90.5 Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation. 9.00 a.m. Athletic Sports Part 2 (School Ground) 90.6 To confirm the minutes and Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting held on 3rd September, 2007. 7.30 p.m. BLUE AND WHITE BASH at (Catholic Club) 90.7 To consider and if approved to adopt the committee's report on the working of the Association for the year 2007- Band in attendance THE MANTRA (From Goa) 2008. 90.8 To consider and pass the statement of Accounts for the period 1st April 2007 to 31st March 2008. SUNDAY 7th September 2008 90.9 To consider and adopt resolutions of the Managing Committee with the permission of the Chair. 7.15 a.m. Holy Mass 90.10 To consider ordinary resolutions if any from individual members after providing sufficient notice and with the Placing of Wreath at war Memorial permission of the Chair. Unfurling of the Flag and singing of School Anthem. 90.11 Principal's Address. 8.30 a.m. Breakfast 90.12 Release of History Book and Souvenir. 9.00 a.m. Group Photograph 90.13 Distribution of plaques and certificates. 9.30 a.m. Annual General Meeting 90.14 To appoint an Auditor for the year 2008-2009. 12 Noon Hockey Match Past v/s Present on School ground 90.15 To consider, any other business, with the permission of the chair. BEER SESSION (No Lunch) 90.16 To elect Office Bearers for the year 2008-2009. 7.30 pm GRAND SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS 90.17 Vote of Thanks. Please Note: Breakfast and Dinner tickets may be purchased from the O.B.A. Office in the school during working hours, Bangalore BRIAN D' LIMA 9.30a.m. & 4.00 p.m. 8th August 2008 Secretary Rates Breakfast Rs.100 per head (O.B.A. members only) Dinner Rs.500 per head Children - Rs.300 (Under 12 Years) Senior Citizens Rs.300 NOTE Sale of tickets will definitely close on Friday, 5th September 2008, 5 p.m. Late comers will be charged Rs.150 per head for 1. Questions pertaining to the report and accounts should Breakfast and Rs.700 for Dinner for adults and Rs.400 per head for children (Gate sales will be subject to availibility). For the 3. Last date for filing nominations is Monday 1st be sent to the Secretary by Friday 29th August 2008, Blue and White Bash at Catholic Club the ticket is Rs.200 per head in advance (Rs.300 at the gate) and Rs.50 per child September, 2008 by 4p.m. for consideration by the Managing Committee. No below 12. (Dress Informal). For Fridays Batch Reunion there no ticket sales. Light dinner will be available. Outstation Old 4. Last date for withdrawals is Tuesday 2nd questions will be taken up after this date. Boys please book in advance. Patron member tickets will given to the patron member only or against an authorization letter September 2008, 2. Members desirous of standing for election to the for Breakfast only. 5. All nominations to be handed over in a sealed Committee may collect their nomination forms from the enveloped to the secretary/ OBA office. COMMITTEE MEMBERS Secretary from 25th August 2008, during working hours. Committee Members Co-Opted Committee Members Rev Fr. Terrence Farias s.j. Rector Mr. Joe D'Mello (Jt. Secretary) Mr. Zaki Khaleeli RESOLUTION OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE Mr. A.G. Krishnaswamy President Mr. A. Franklin Mr. Oscar Menezes Mr. Nandu Shivappa 1st Vice President Mr. C.V.Nagaraj Mr. Gopal Bengeri 1. Resolved that the funds of the OBA of SJBHS be Justification: The return on investments right now is Mr. Pramodh Naidu 2nd Vice President Mr. Rajesh Lund Mr. Sajju Jain managed by a professional wealth management sufficient to meet the current need. Inflation is not Mr. Brian D'Lima Secretary Mr. Harish Advani Mr. Rabindra Nayak firm/s and that an investment policy be formulated catered to. If we are to pay out amounts and still Rev. Fr. Celestine Sera s.j. Treasurer Mr. Sunil Pichamuthu Mr. Ramprasad Alva with guidelines for the management of the fund by maintain corpus which caters to inflation then the Dr. Bryan Nobbay Past President Mr. Christopher Rego Mr. Akshay Mallappa an investment committee appointed by the general return on investments needs to be higher than the Mr. Lakshminarayan body. current Bank rate of return. With a professional body Mr. Gregory de Nazareth to help, returns could be better. OBA St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore Annual Report 2007 - 08 OBA St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore Annual Report 2007 - 08 OBA ACTIVITIES 2007-2008 addition Principals, staff and Old Boys from as far back On behalf on all the President, Managing Committee as the late 1920's have been interviewed and have and all the Old Boys we thank Chris Rego for the time The committee places on record the excellent work Once again this year the OBA contributed 75% contributed their memoirs. effort and money that he has put in for his Alma Mater done by the previous committee in conducting the Blue (Rs.2,76,000) of the total insurance premium paid towards The entire manuscript has been vetted by to bring out this History Book. and White Ball in the Catholic Club and the OBA Medical Insurance for Serving Staff and 100% Rev. Fr. Hedwig Da Costa and Mr. Alec Alvarez who celebrations in September last year. Like the previous (Rs.1,27,000)of the premium for the retired teachers. With Brian D'Lima have spent long hours reading the manuscript and year the out going President Dr. Bryan Nobbay identified a total outflow of Rs.4,03,000 and over 50 new teachers Secretary making suggestions and corrections. nine Old Boys to contribute towards paying the pension yet to be covered it is becoming extremely difficult to of nine retired teachers for one year. We are extremely manage paying of the premiums. Sumir Hinduja the brain THE OBA WISHES TO PLACE ON RECORD ITS THANKS TO THE PREVIOUS PRINCIPAL REV. FR. GODWIN SERRAO grateful to the Batch of 1993 who sponsored the behind the Insurance Scheme is still supporting us but FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCHOOL AND WISHES HIM HIM ALL THE VERY BEST IN HIS NEW POSTING. Breakfast on Old Boys’ Day last year. we need a lot more Old Boys to chip in and take the corpus past a Crore to be able to continue paying the premiums. Below are some of his achievements 10. Renovation of the Old Concert Hall 1. Installing Computers and LCD TV's in all classrooms 11. Computerisation of the entire Administration of the SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS 2. Networking and installing Internet connections in all School classrooms. 12. Software for Online Interaction with Teachers and As mentioned in the last report we started the an Inter School Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament for Old Boys 3.