Chikmagalur: St Joseph’s Boys’ High School Golden Jubilee Celebrations Held

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Daijiworld Media Network - Chikmagalur

Chikmagalur, May 21: The Golden jubilee celebration of St Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Jyothinagar, Chikmagalur was held here on May 19 with great fanfare. On the same occasion the new Kitchen Block of the school, donated by the old boys association of the school (St Joseph’s Boys’ Alumni) was inaugurated.

Rt Rev Dr T Anthonyswamy, Bishop of Chikmagalur blessed the new Kitchen Block and Ronald Colaco, NRI businessman, philanthropist and chairman of International Federation of Karnataka Christian Association (IFKCA) inaugurated the same. The kitchen block has been built to prepare mid-day meals for the students. Kishore Kumar Hegde, Managing Director of Life Line Feeds India Pvt Ltd., released the souvenir of the Silver Jubilee year. D.D.P.I of Chikmagalur Kantharaj V M was the guest of honour on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion Bishop Anthonyswamy said the 50 years of the existence of the school should be written in golden letters in the history of the school. “These days we find children losing values of life and education is the only means by which we can reinstate those values among the future generation of this country”, he stated stressing on the importance of the role played by the school in inculcating values among children. He also congratulated the management of the school and its faculty for maintaining the standard and traditions of the school in the 50 years of its existence.

Ronald Colaco who inaugurated the new kitchen block of the school lauded the efforts of the school management in its efforts to provide good education to the students of the locality, keeping in tune with the tradition of christian missionaries who are pioneers in the field of education in the country. Colaco expressed his happiness at the involvement of old boys of the school in the development of the school and said it is the bounden duty of all students to show a sense of responsibility and belongingness to the school from which they have educated and benefitted.

Ronald Colaco also called upon the people to make a firm determination to contribute a small percentage of their savings to show their belongingness to the society from which they have benefitted immensely. He said by helping the society they would be blessed immensely by the almighty in their entire endeavor. “Though there is worldwide recession which has affected the economies of the world I must confess my returns from my business have remained unchanged which shows that by giving we are only gaining and not losing anything”, he declared.

Earlier, the guests were brought to the stage in a procession accompanied by the school band. The programme was formally inaugurated by lighting the lamp by the guests. Old student of the school Narendra Pai welcomed the gathering. M S Jayaram gave report on the alumni  progress and faculty member Francis Lobo gave an account of the school history. The old boys joined the present students on the stage to sing the school anthem.

On the occasion Michael Baptist, old student of the school and the man behind for the formation of the Alumni Association of the school and S Julien D Souza, both achievers in alumni, were honoured by Ronald Colaco. Msgr George D Souza, Vicar General, Diocese of Chickmagalur and president of St Joseph’s Educational Society honoured the teachers of the school. Fr Agnel Fernandes, the Headmaster of the school honoured the first and second batch alumni of the school.

The stage programme was followed by entertainment programme by humourist Narasimha Joshi, Gangavati and Basavaraj Mahamani, Yadagiri.