MCC School alumni take trip down memory lane

At the recent Golden Jubilee reunion, alumni from batches as early as 1940 took a stroll around the campus and met the students.
MCC School alumni take trip down memory lane

The key event on the second day of the Golden Jubilee Reunion of the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School involved a visit of the alumni to their alma mater. The agenda for the day was to tour around the campus and interact with the present students.

Most of the alumni arrived with their spouses and family members. An informal interaction among themselves and with the students was really a pleasure trip down memory lane for all of them.

The alumni shared about the ‘self-pay self-service’  counter at the institution, during their time, when students would take peanuts from a tin kept at a corridor and deposit the required amount at a cash box next to it. “It taught us the honesty, which formed the basis of our character at later stages,” they said. The alumni advised the present students that discipline was the core factor for a holistic development.

The oldest alumnus who was there strolling on the campus accompanied by his daughter and his grandchildren was Vijayagopal from the 1940 batch. The other one was Venkataraman of the 1946 batch.

The event was organised by Roy Sekhar, who runs his own consultancy in New Jersey. He had come to the school last year in September to get permission to organise a get-together of his 1956 batch students. But the school management convinced him to make it a Golden Jubilee reunion by inviting his juniors up to the 1962 batch and all his seniors who were in touch.

Dr Kamal Sheriff, former Dean, TN Dr MGR Medical University, was among the alumni who visited the school at the reunion.

RK Krishna Kumar, director of Tata Sons board, and MK Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal, who attended the meeting at Taj Vivanta on Thursday, recalled how their school helped them achieve better position in life. They also remembered their Headmaster Kuruvilla Jacob, who inculcated moral values in them.

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