Warm wishes from distant shores than my usual, for a super 2010 to all my classmates - passing-out batch of 1960 from St Aloysius College High School Mangalore....

Wishing you the very best in 2010, even though we are yet to usher it in. For it's still the 31st morning as I am selectively trying tocatch up on my New Year mail. While looking out of my window I see the glorious sights of snow steadily settling on the branches and covering all the green and the brown of the trees even as it has covered already the ground for miles around.

Woke up to fresh snow today to compensate all my howls over the sleet and and rain on the 27th that washed away the white to bare the grounds and treees naked from the feet deep snow that had given us a beautiful white Christmas. It's been snowing heavily for the past three hours. Only negative aspect of this at the moment is the hovering uncertainty this development is casting on the prospect all those invited - frommaking it to my daughter Indira's party this evening to bring in the new year at her home in Trumbull, Connecticut. She's expecting a rather large gang of crazy friends, and all the family - especially those who could not make it to Kolkata for the wedding. The TV is already reporting shutting down of couple of highways, clogged tunnels and major access bridges.

Hope the festive season will continue to shower on you abundant blessings in 2010 and the years to come too.

Wishing all of you once again a super 2010....

Maxwell

091228: Raphael to Maxie

Raphael Maliakal to Maxwell Pereira
28 Dec 2009
I got your phone message. I tried to call you yesterday but nobody picked up the phone. Happy new year to you.

You are doing a great job with your blog. I am here in Norfolk MA today. I go to Dallas TX tomorrow for a week.

I talked to Arun yesterday. He is all excited about the reunion.

Ozzie told he acted in the first Konkani movie after he returned from Africa. The film was a not a great hit. But will we be able to see it during the reunion? I will try to call you today.

Sincerely, Raphael Maliakal

091225: Christmas Day - 2009

Bottom row: (left to right)....Allwyn Lobo (expired in 5th std), Joseph Lobo, Rector-Fr.Jaques, Maxwell Pereira, Headmaster-Fr.JB D'Souza, the next two not identified at this stage..
Middle row: (left to right)...Percy Menezes (1 yr senior to us), Norman Lobo S., Norman Lobo J, next can't remember, Joaquim D'Souza, & last Canute Machado
Top row: (left to right)...Julius Pereira & Patrick Saldanha.
It was amazing to hear from Norman J Lobo literally on Christmas Day with an explanatory note as to the identities of most if not all of those of us in the scanned image of the picture he sent me of my First Holy Communion - a picture in which he too featured, along with a few others - especially ones like the other Norman Lobo (S), Canute Machado, Patrick Saldanha... such of who remained together literally for the next ten years as part of the same group that passed out in 1960.
I wrote to Norman, that this piture with the explanatory note conveying his wife's query "why is it that when all you people are in half chaddis, Maxwell alone is in a shirvani outfit?" was the best Christmas gift I got this year.
Do access http://maxwellpereira.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-boxing-day-today-and-christmas-day.html for an update on my Christmas Day -2009 in the company of my loved ones in Trumbull Connecticut/ USA.

091224: Terrence Mathias: Re: Reunion

Terence Mathias to Maxwell Pereira
24 Dec 2009
Dear Maxie,
One thing this reunion has done is bring us all together after a lapse of 50 long years. I clearly remember you and your brother Manohar. I think Auri and I have come to your place a couple of times when we were in middle school. But those days I never thought that you were police material. I was proud to read about you in Saudi Arabia during Indira Gandhi's time. I worked there for 17 years and then immigrated to Canada in 1993. I have two boys who are both married and working in London, England. I had the good fortune of knowing your two nieces Nalini and Shalini in Toronto. I look forward to the reunion. I missed the group photo in 1960. I don't know for what reason. I regret it now. I hope to see you in person at the reunion. Till then keep young and smiling.Wish you and all my classmates a very merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.
Terence

A Greeting e-Card to Maxwell Pereira from Norman Lobo

To Maxwell Pereira from Norman J Lobo

To All My Dear Classmates and their Family.

the ecard that [njlobo@hotmail.com] sent you.
You can view it by clicking here:http://www.123greetings.com/send/view/12825309506245751246
From Norman, Maisie and Family

091221: Re: hola

leocunha to maxiepereira

21 December 2009 : 09:12

hi maxie
Hope u had a good flight stateside. i lived in east texas from 2004 to 08. small town called huntsville, 70m north of houston on I-45, en route dallas. in the pine woods of the national reserve. only two things there: sam houston state university, and the tx prison system.
I worked fr the state govt at their prison hq. very tiring, the winters did not agree with phil, then our daughter from az moved to warsaw. we lost interest, packed our bags, flew back home. life is a whole lot more comfy here. but we hv to deal with congestion, filth, pollution, rampant corruption. this city is turning uglier by the day.
Reminiscing, i recall ur family lived just across the gate of our middle school. my bro joe & i were boarders from '53, he moved to bangalore his last 2 yrs. u & manohar became boarders maybe the last couple of years?
I've a boarding house photo somewhere (i'll fish it out, scan and send u,) which has u & manohar in smart shirts. It has brian albuquerque too. must look fr it, this reunion gig has got me pretty nostalgic.
btw, my dad was from bajpe too. his step brother was sacristan of the parish church. he was called piad baab, i think. i did my 1st communion there. small world.
..... take care

.......... leo

Maxwell Pereira to Leo D’Cunha
18 Dec 2009
Dear Leo,
Good to hear from you...
The copy of my mail to Cyril that you received, was also copied to you and the rest of our batchmates -- so it did not land in your mailbox by accident. So as not to clutter the recepient's inbox and the message frame on the computer screen, when it is more than one or two who are to be copied (CCd) a message, I only Backgound Copy (BCC) the mailing list. If everyone followed this email protocol/etiquette, one is saved of the series of comets of email addresses that clutter messages in every Forward or a Reply - and more importantly would secure to some extent against piracy the sender's and the Recepients' email addresses.
And Leo, I am quite regular at accessing my mail, and alert at clearing the follow up within the same 24hrs, as I pay dearly for a slip when it occurs - at times detrimental to the health of my varied interests, apart from incurring the wrath at times of my friends who feel ignored.
Thanks a ton for updating me on your address and other contact details.
If you are on Milton Street, you must also be close to where Rex lives (I forget the name of the street, but used to visit often the house where his mother lived. Haven't had any contact with Rex after we left school, but have been in touch with his bro-in-law Orville and some of the family. I will make it a point to meet you and the rest in Bangalore (Prabhakar, Rex, any more? etc) when I visit the city next.
As regards our proposed reunion activity, I have contained all the messages and relevant information to my Blog specially opened for information and interaction between all the batchmates of our class that passed-out of St Aloysius School in 1960. I will be sharing the web-link URL with all of you shortly.
I am off to the US for Christmas with my children – and will return only in February 2010.
A very Merry Christmas to you and the family. May the Star of Bethlehem Light up your lives with Joy, Peace and abundant Blessings.
With warm regards,
Maxie

091220: Peter to Maxie - Good Old Days!

Peter L. Fernandes to Maxwell Pereira
20 December 2009 02:12

Hi Maxie,
Remembering those good old days in middle school and High school, I think you will beat any of our other classmates! My hat off and salute to you.
Glad to note that you continue your music hobby and sing for God even after becoming a Senior Citizen finding time for it notwithstanding your other multifarious activities.
Praise the Lord!
Now recalling those days of band practice under Fr. Castellino I recall Rossy Rego and Conrad who were an year or two senior as playing the brass instruments and I was given playing the flute. I feel it won't be difficult to pull out and scan our relevant snaps from our school annual magazine of 1959-60.
Having hardworking stalwarts like you, Arun, Stany and others at the core of affairs the engine is running at a greater speed than one could normally imagine.
All the best. I am so happy to note that you will be able to make it to the RE_UNION.
Best regards,
Peter

091220 - Re: hola

Maxwell Pereira to Leo Cunha

20 Dcember 2009 19:52

Re: hola

Hi Leo,
Thanks for your mail....
Terence Pereira is a Bajpe Pereira, so a daiji - a distant cousin of mine. He never was a classmate of ours - unless of course he had failed in his class and become our classmate - tho' I do not really recall this as having happened. Also in later years he had been in touch with me, and never ever mentioned to me about he ever been my classmate. For in actual fact he was a year senior to us. But his younger brother Mohan was a classmate of both my brother Manohar and your brother Joe.

Do not recall Brian Albuquerque either, with us in Mangalore; He became my classmate later, though in a different section - he in BA and me in B.Sc. PCM - in Bangalore at St Joseph's for clooege studies
Wonderful to hear about your children. Thanks for the updates. I am so glad both your children with their families are with you for Christmas.
Off tonight to the US - more from there. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you...
Maxie

091220: Ist Holy Communion picture...

Maxwell to NormanJ:
20 Dec 2009
Dear Norman...
I was looking forward to getting from you, a scanned copy of our first holy communiion photograph...
I am travelling tonight to my children in the USA _ world haveen woderful for me to share this photograph with them.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Warm regards,
Maxie

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From NormanJ's son Ashwin to Maxwell Pereira:
20 Dec 2009
Hi,
Daddy was trying to get the photo scanned yesterday... he didn't realise our scanner isn't working at the moment (we can't seem to find the installation software)... I'll have the photo scanned from the office and send it across tommorow...dad isn't computer savvy at all (inspite of our constant prodding) ...though he loves playing solitaire even after all these years at it. Otherwise healthwise; everyone's doing well at home
Rgds
Ashwin

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From Maxwell to Ashwin(NormanJ):
20 Dec 2009
Thanks a ton, Ashwin... very kind of you..
A big hi from me to your dad.
uncle Maxie

091220: hola.....

leocunha to maxiepereira

20 Dec 2009 09:55

hi maxy

nice hearing from u. we are diagonally across the road from the don bosco provinciate, bang opposite the holy cross convent of chavanod. next to us, the mariam nivas school. a very hallowed precinct, as u can see. it is in cooke town.

rex built a flat atop his mother's house in cox town, which is just across the tracks. she passed away last month. he lives there with his wife lennie. it is on 24 wheeler rd, 1st cross, less than a km from us.

there's a terence pereira, a close neighbour, who says he was our classmate till IV form, then transferred to hubli. do u remember him? i hv no recollection of him. other than that i hv just begun communicating with hector. plan to visit him soon.

both our kids have arrived, preethi 33 from warsaw, nikhil 30 from sydney. we are having xmas together again after many many years. we last met 2007, for preethi's wedding in warsaw. she is married to wiktor komorniczak, a 6'4" tall Pole who weighs 225lbs. a giant.

and that's our news in a nutshell .... do keep in touch. ............

best wishes ............. leo

091219: Good Old Days!

From Peter Fernandes to Maxwell
19 Dec 2009
Hi Maxie,
Remembering those good old days in middle school and High school, I think you will beat any of our other classmates! My hats off and salute to you.
Glad to note that you continue your music hobby and sing for God even after becoming a Senior Citizen finding time for it notwithstanding your other multifarious activities.
Praise the Lord!
Now recalling those days of band practice under Fr. Castellino, I recall Rossy Rego and Conrad who were a year or two senior as playing the brass instruments and I was given playing the flute. I feel it won't be difficult to pull out and scan our relevant snaps from our school annual magazine of 1959-60.
Having hardworking stalwarts like you, Arun, Stany and others at the core of affairs the
engine is running at a greater speed than one could normally imagine.
All the best. I am so happy to note that you will be able to make it to the RE_UNION.
Best regards,
Peter

091218: Remembering a friend

Leo D’Cunha to Maxwell Pereira
18 December 2009
Hi Maxy
This is leo. I think this mail was intended for Cyril but u hit the wrong email id.
Anyways, nice to hear from u. I sent u mail recently which reached someone, coz it did not bounce. Maybe it is lurking somewhere in the depths of ur inbox.
So how r keeping, and what is ur news? Are u still settled in Delhi? Do u travel this side at all? I said in my last mail, and I repeat, when u r next in Bangalore, please give me a call, do drop in for drinks and a meal with us at home.
address
F4 renaissance, 11 milton st, cooke town, b'lore 5,
few bldgs uproad fm margaret alva's houses.
phns
res: 412501148 mob: 97427 63970
I wd love to meet u again and hv a good chat, like i said we don't hv a lot of time left, do we?
Our best wishes to u for a nice xmas season
Leo

091218: How many teachers do you remember?

Maxwell Pereira to Peter Fernandes
Friday, 18 Dec 2009.... 02:22am
Hello Peter...
Sorry I did not reply to you earlier. Like mentioned in my mails and postings, I sing for the Capital City Minstrels of Delhi and we have just concluded a string of our Christmas Concerts of this season - which kept me extremely busy this past fortnight. In addition, many of us from CCM who live in Gurgaon have joined hands to form a new Gurgaon chapter of CCM calling ourselves "Incidental Art" to fill the void for choral singing that was being felt in this millennium city - and we have just finished the first ever concert of "IA" just 2 days ago at Gurgaon's Epicentre auditorium.
From your mail, I gather you celebrated the wedding of your son recently. Over the last week of October, I too was heavily preoccupied with the wedding of one of my two daughters. She and her now husband met in the US, the boy who owns a well known IT company in the US, is by ethnic origin a Rajastani Marwari whose parents live in Surat/Gujarat and the Bride's parent lives in Delhi - but the couple chose Kolkata for their wedding. It wasn't easy doing every thing by remote control and proxy.
Thank you for sending me updates on you. Perhaps you too do not recall that I was also in the "engineering" section in the High School, where we learnt carpentry, eletrical wiring, backsmithy, lathe and grinding/filing/fitting works - and exempt from the regular routine classes of history, Geography and other humanities. I am sure a little more interaction will jingle the memory cells better.
Our Headmaster in Middle School was Fr Bertram Sequeira (not Bertrand). Somehow, I do not recall any Denis Albuquerque. The ones I remember from the earliest days are:
1st class: Isobel teacher
2nd class: Cecy teacher
3rd class: Hilda teacher
4th class: Saver (Xavier) mistry (class teacher), Delphine teacher, Benna Monteiro; Rasquinha (Geography)
5th class: Delphine (class teacher), Benna Monteiro (Maths), Rasquinha (History and Geography); Delphine teacher took special classes to coach us in English for those of us who had opted for and with extra fees, to join the "D" section English Medium in the Ist Form. From the IIIrd Form (and onwards) when we moved from the Middle School to the High School, the English Medium class became the "E" Section.

Ist Form (English Medium): do not recall any one specifically
IInd Form: do not recall anyone specifically
IIIrd Form: Acchu Mistry (class teacher)
IVth Form: Do not recall anyone particularly
Vth Form: Fr Michael Saldanha (class teacher & Asst Headmaster); Fr Stany Coelho (English); Fr Denis Rasquinha (English non-detailed); Aithala (Kannada)
VIth Form: Fr Stany Coelho (class teacher & Headmaster); Aithala - Kannada; Kasappaiyya- ; Bhandary-Maths & Physics; Salu Fernand-Chemistry; Alexander (Acchu) - physical Director.
My interactions with the rest of my classmates suffered to a great extent once I joined the Boarding House, IIIrd Form onwards. Fr Ligoury Castelino who was my Boarding House Director was also the College Bandmaster - who bullied and coerced me into joining the College Band (where I played brass instruments for five years continuously) by denying me permisssion to join coaching classes for the school teams for Hockey and Football in which I had great interest.
Happy to touch base with you.. Will look forward to meeting you in person.
Warm regards,
Maxie

091212: Cyril's pictures

091212: Cyril's pictures

091212: Cyril's pictures

091212: Cyril's pictures

Remembering a friend

Cyril Veliath to all classmates

16 December 2009

Subject: Remembering an old Friend

Dear Friends

This is just another message from Tokyo. I discovered this snap shown below a few days ago while I was looking through my old letters. The couple in the picture are the late Dr. Alexander Mathai and his wife Esmie. Alexander was our companion in the third form. He died in the Kanishka plane crash, that Air India plane from Canada that was blown up by terrorists. He is one of many innocent victims of terrorism. I am sure he would have loved to be with all of you in India.

Take care, and God bless.

Cyril Veliath SJ

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Maxwell Pereira to Cyril Veliath

16 December 2009
I vaguely recall the face from your photograph - though can't really picture in my mind's eye the person or associations with him.
Whoever would have imagined the tragic Air India Kanishka crash would come home to roost so close to us.
Like many across the world, in some small measure I too was associated with the peripheral investigations of this case at the Indian end. Reason enough for my blood to boil when the Canadian courts acquitted and released both the main accused arrested in the case (Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik) not too far back in the resent past.
My condolences to Alexander's family wherever they are. May the Lord grant his soul eternal rest.Regards,
Maxie
PS: Details of the Kanishka case are available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
and at http://www.thehindu.com/2005/03/18/stories/2005031815900300.htm (article in Hindu dt 18 Mar 2005)

Do you recognise me?

15 Dec 2009

Fancy dress during Halloween party at home. There is no lady sitting on my head. That picture is on the wall.

img_0105 was taken in Masada, Israel last month.

Raphael Maliakal

Oswald Sequeira to Rafael (CC-d to all)
16 Dec 2009
Hi Rafael, Nice photo. but you look like Ravana and your wife looks like Seetha, how come you are married for so many years? ha ha haa!!!!!!joking please do not be offended. Thanks
fond regards to all
Ozzie

Amended Confirmation - Peter Fernandes

Peter L. Fernandes to Arun: and CCd to all

14 Dec: 2009

Subject: AMENDED CONFIRMATION

Hi Arun,
I for one, appreciate your quick and great job in contacting each one possible in particular. In fact I too had felt that it may be necessary to postpone the date in order to facilitate those abroad to be present at our golden alumnus re-union.
By ALL making it to the event only can we term it as a big success.
By the way, your tentative programme schedule seems very appetising!
Best wishes,
Peter

P.S.
Am enclosing herewith your format for information completely filled in.

091213: Amended Confirmation - Arun Talwar

Arun Talwar to the whole Group
Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:14 PM
Subject: CLASS RE-UNION: Amended Confirmation

Dear friends,
I hope you all are keeping well.
I have been in touch with two of the three musketeers,Harry the convener and Stany and having spoken to Ozzie, Terence, Adolf, Hector, Peter, Bopayya and Norman J ( I tried to get hold of Raphael - wrong number: Prabhaker - wrong number: Trilochan - no reply) it has been decided to hold the re-unon on the 19th and 20th.June.2010.
The change of date will enable all the friends in the US, Canada and Japan to make it for the big get together This postponement also will give time Rex and Lennie to get over their recent bereavement.
We have decided the event to take place at the Mangalore Club -Jeppu ( Harry treated Subodh, Denver and me for a meal there November 2007 - the food was good and is a nice venue).

the proposed Itinerary - subject to changes - your suggestions are welcome.
SATURDAY THE 19TH. JUNE 2010
11: 00 am Meet at SAC for group photographs - one with the wives and one without.(pavoos permitting)
12: 00 pm Head for the venue by coach - singing all the way starting with our school anthems - "comrades raise a joyful chorus and Bhuvana salahuwa karuna nidhi".
1:00 pm LUNCH
TOAST TO OUR DEPARTED FRIENDS AND OBSERVE A MINUTE'S SILENCE.
GRACE - Fr. Walter Andrade SJ
Lunch to be served
Each classmate by turn gives a brief resume of what he has done since leaving school.
Anthakshiri ( divided into two teams - after the 1st team has sung the last syllable the 2nd team picks it up with
another song (English, Hindi, Konkani, Tulu, Coorgi, Kannada and Malayalam).
4:30pm Tea
6:30pm DINNER
Toast to our good ladies.
Bingo.
Quiz ( 2 teams - questions relating to our school days, Mangalore etc)
SUNDAY THE 20TH. JUNE 2010.
12:00 noon ASSEMBLE AT THE VENUE.
LUNCH.
Karaoke ( songs from our good old days)

4:30 pm TEA
Whist Drive.
7:00 pm DINNER
Each one to relate the most embarrassing moment of their life or a joke (including the wives).
Lucky dip.
More singing and dancing.
Vote of thanks.
Auld Lang Syme.
Harry being a member of the club will book the hall etc. (thank you Harry) he will also a book of couple of rooms so that the ladies can use to powder their noses and dress etc. Chand and I would like to stay at the venue and this room will be also at the disposal of the ladies.( thank you, again Harry).
The three musketeers and me, the fourth mosquito will need all the advice, help from now till the end of the do.
Postponing the get together will give enough time to trace the 10 classmates we cannot trace (Vasanth Kamath was not on the list(had mazar eyes and came from Kulshekar and was with Sudhir Rao most of the time)
please keep in touch keep well
love
Arun
please complete the form below and send it to Harry by post, if you have access to e.mail send it directly to me - AS SOON AS POSSIBLE -
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wife's Name: ..................................................................................................................................................................................

Children's names :......................................................................................................................................................................................

names of grandchildren...............................................................................................................................................................................

Postal Address :...................................................................................................................................................................................
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Telephone Number :.............................................................Mobile :...............................................................................................
e.mail address.
Postal Address :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I can / cannot make it for the grand re-union with/without my wife.
we are hoping to publish a little booklet with all the contact details,photographs etc. which will be handed on the day, and sent to the others who cannot attend.
p.s. : I am pleased to inform you that Harry has booked the venue.

20091211: Cyril to Maxie - data and memorablia

Dear Maxie

Thanks a lot for your kind letter. I am very glad to know that you are still in touch with Andrew and Susheela. As a matter of fact both of them speak highly of you. I still recall the time when you suddenly landed up in Tokyo. On that occasion I was so surprised that I was in a sort of a daze for a few minutes. Sometime when you are in Delhi it would be nice if you could meet my cousin, RADHIKA DORAISWAMY. She is a top-ranking official in the Indian postal department, and I am sure you would enjoy talking to her. In accordance with your request I have sent you a brief write-up of my past fifty years, and about 15 photographs. Please don't feel obliged to use every photograph that I have sent you. Use only what you need and throw away the rest. I have sent the photographs is a single folder, and I have included in the folder that write-up about myself. However, just in case you have a problem opening that write-up, I have also pasted it below for you.

Take care, and God bless.

Cyril

Friday, December 11, 2009

Dear Maxie

As per your instructions I typed out a few lines about my life, from the time I left school until today. As you know, after leaving school I joined the Karnataka Regional College of Engineering (KREC), but within a year I realized that it was a bad choice. Yet I struggled on there for seven years, before finally quitting and joining the Jesuits. In the past I felt bitter about those lost years, thinking that God had been unjust to me through no fault of mine. Now however I see it as a part of some mysterious plan, because after joining the Jesuits life has by and large been smooth-sailing for me. I joined the Jesuits in 1968, and after 2 years of training in Jesuit spirituality in Bangalore, I studied Indian and Western philosophy for 3 years in Pune. Then, after teaching a year at St. Joseph's in Bangalore I went to Japan, and there, after two years of Japanese language study in the city of Kamakura, I taught English at Sophia University in Tokyo. While teaching at Sophia, I simultaneously studied Indian Philosophy at Tokyo University, as a Research Student. In 1979 I returned in Pune, and in 8 years I finished my theological studies, and also my doctoral studies in Indian Philosophy. In 1982 I was ordained a priest, and in 1987 I returned to Tokyo to work at Sophia University. Since that time I have lived in Tokyo, and currently I am professor of Indian Studies in the Department of Asian Cultures of Sophia University.

Well Maxie, life these past 50 years has not been perfect for me, but in all honesty I must say that things have gone on relatively well. I pray that God gives each of us the strength to accept what has occurred in the past, and what is likely to come in the future. By the way, if ever any of our guys happen to come to Tokyo, tell them to contact me. Please remember however that Sophia University is always referred to by its Japanese name of JOOCHI DAIGAKU. If you ask for Sophia University no one will know the place, but if you say JOOCHI DAIGAKU every Japanese will know it.

I shall now give a brief explanation of the snaps I have sent you.

(1) My priestly ordination. I am the guy with the big Afro hairdo standing at the extreme right, at the altar.

(2) This too is my ordination. I am receiving a chalice from Bishop Arulappa of Bangalore.

(3) This was taken at De Nobili College in Pune in 1970. The person seated in the middle is Walter Andrade, and the person seated next to Walter and wearing spectacles is Aveline D'souza. Aveline was also of our batch, but he belonged to one of the Kannada divisions. His name was on the role of honor at School. The person standing at the extreme left is myself.

(4) This is at a wedding anniversary party of some Manglorean friends in Tokyo in 1976. I am seated at the extreme right. The couple that celebrated the anniversary were Julian and Cecy Fernandes, of Santa Cruz West in Bombay. Julian is now dead, and Cecy is in the USA.

(5) This is a picture of my wild student days in Tokyo in 1976.

(6) This is a photograph taken in the house of a Japanese family, who are friends of mine.

(7) This is myself with some University professors, taken in 2001.

(8) The little daughter of a friend is trying to teach me some Japanese.

(9) I am with some researchers at Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 2003. I am the person standing second from the right.

(10) This snap was taken at the reception party of a wedding that I had blessed. The bride was a student of mine. The snap was taken in 2006.

(11) This is myself with my graduate students (MA and PhD), in 2006.

(12) This snap was taken in 2007. I am talking to a newly wedded couple. The bride was my student.

(13) This snap was taken in 2004. I am with a little Japanese friend.

(14) This is myself with my five brothers. The person second from the right is Basil, and third from the right is myself. The names from the left are: Andrew, George, Dominic, Cyril, Basil, and John.

(15) This is a wedding snap of one of our classmates who left the school after the third form, namely DR. ALEXANDER MATHAI. His wife was called Esmie. Alexander died in that terrible Air India disaster of 1885, where a plane from Canada, the Emperor Kanishka, was blown up by terrorists.

20091211: Cyril to Maxie - data and memorablia

Dear Maxie
Thanks a lot for your kind letter. I am very glad to know that you are still in touch with Andrew and Susheela. As a matter of fact both of them speak highly of you. I still recall the time when you suddenly landed up in Tokyo. On that occasion I was so surprised that I was in a sort of a daze for a few minutes. Sometime when you are in Delhi it would be nice if you could meet my cousin, RADHIKA DORAISWAMY. She is a top-ranking official in the Indian postal department, and I am sure you would enjoy talking to her. In accordance with your request I have sent you a brief write-up of my past fifty years, and about 15 photographs. Please don't feel obliged to use every photograph that I have sent you. Use only what you need and throw away the rest. I have sent the photographs is a single folder, and I have included in the folder that write-up about myself. However, just in case you have a problem opening that write-up, I have also pasted it below for you.

Take care, and God bless.
Cyril
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Dear Maxie

As per your instructions I typed out a few lines about my life, from the time I left school until today.

As you know, after leaving school I joined the Karnataka Regional College of Engineering (KREC), but within a year I realized that it was a bad choice. Yet I struggled on there for seven years, before finally quitting and joining the Jesuits. In the past I felt bitter about those lost years, thinking that God had been unjust to me through no fault of mine. Now however I see it as a part of some mysterious plan, because after joining the Jesuits life has by and large been smooth-sailing for me.

I joined the Jesuits in 1968, and after 2 years of training in Jesuit spirituality in Bangalore, I studied Indian and Western philosophy for 3 years in Pune.

Then, after teaching a year at St. Joseph's in Bangalore I went to Japan, and there, after two years of Japanese language study in the city of Kamakura, I taught English at Sophia University in Tokyo. While teaching at Sophia, I simultaneously studied Indian Philosophy at Tokyo University, as a Research Student.

In 1979 I returned in Pune, and in 8 years I finished my theological studies, and also my doctoral studies in Indian Philosophy.

In 1982 I was ordained a priest, and in 1987 I returned to Tokyo to work at Sophia University. Since that time I have lived in Tokyo, and currently I am professor of Indian Studies in the Department of Asian Cultures of Sophia University.

Well Maxie, life these past 50 years has not been perfect for me, but in all honesty I must say that things have gone on relatively well. I pray that God gives each of us the strength to accept what has occurred in the past, and what is likely to come in the future. By the way, if ever any of our guys happen to come to Tokyo, tell them to contact me. Please remember however that Sophia University is always referred to by its Japanese name of JOOCHI DAIGAKU. If you ask for Sophia University no one will know the place, but if you say JOOCHI DAIGAKU every Japanese will know it.

I shall now give a brief explanation of the snaps I have sent you.

(1) My priestly ordination. I am the guy with the big Afro hairdo standing at the extreme right, at the altar.

(2) This too is my ordination. I am receiving a chalice from Bishop Arulappa of Bangalore.

(3) This was taken at De Nobili College in Pune in 1970. The person seated in the middle is Walter Andrade, and the person seated next to Walter and wearing spectacles is Aveline D'souza. Aveline was also of our batch, but he belonged to one of the Kannada divisions. His name was on the role of honor at School. The person standing at the extreme left is myself.

(4) This is at a wedding anniversary party of some Manglorean friends in Tokyo in 1976. I am seated at the extreme right. The couple that celebrated the anniversary were Julian and Cecy Fernandes, of Santa Cruz West in Bombay. Julian is now dead, and Cecy is in the USA.

(5) This is a picture of my wild student days in Tokyo in 1976.

(6) This is a photograph taken in the house of a Japanese family, who are friends of mine.

(7) This is myself with some University professors, taken in 2001.

(8) The little daughter of a friend is trying to teach me some Japanese.

(9) I am with some researchers at Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 2003. I am the person standing second from the right.

(10) This snap was taken at the reception party of a wedding that I had blessed. The bride was a student of mine. The snap was taken in 2006.

(11) This is myself with my graduate students (MA and PhD), in 2006.

(12) This snap was taken in 2007. I am talking to a newly wedded couple. The bride was my student.

(13) This snap was taken in 2004. I am with a little Japanese friend.

(14) This is myself with my five brothers. The person second from the right is Basil, and third from the right is myself. The names from the left are: Andrew, George, Dominic, Cyril, Basil, and John.

(15) This is a wedding snap of one of our classmates who left the school after the third form, namely DR. ALEXANDER MATHAI. His wife was called Esmie. Alexander died in that terrible Air India disaster of 1885, where a plane from Canada, the Emperor Kanishka, was blown up by terrorists.

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On 2009/12/09, at 11:01, Maxwell Pereira wrote:
Thanks Cyril,
But do send me also a short self-profile on you - covering the last
fifty years, not everything one would for one's CV, but in gist, yes.
I would like to put it on the Blog I intend to start for everyone to
interact with each other, where it would be nice to hace a seperate
frame each each of our fifty numbers with information, oersonal
memorablia, anecdoles, and most importantly photographs ols & new.
Met Andrew and Sushila a couple of months back when I was in Pondicherry.
Hope life's treating you well..
With warm regards,
Maxie
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2009/12/9 Cyril Veliath <c-veliat@sophia.ac.jp>:
Dear Maxie
As per your request I have included some information about myself and sent
it over to you.
Thanks for the good work.
Cyril Veliath

091211: Ctril responds with self-profile

From: Cyril Veliath to Maxwell Pereira

11 December 2009

Subject: Re: data and memorablia
Dear Maxie
Thanks a lot for your kind letter. I am very glad to know that you are still in touch with Andrew and Susheela. As a matter of fact both of them speak highly of you. I still recall the time when you suddenly landed up in Tokyo. On that occasion I was so surprised that I was in a sort of a daze for a few minutes. Sometime when you are in Delhi it would be nice if you could meet my cousin, RADHIKA DORAISWAMY. She is a top-ranking official in the Indian postal department, and I am sure you would enjoy talking to her. In accordance with your request I have sent you a brief write-up of my past fifty years, and about 15 photographs. Please don't feel obliged to use every photograph that I have sent you. Use only what you need and throw away the rest. I have sent the photographs is a single folder, and I have included in the folder that write-up about myself. However, just in case you have a problem opening that write-up, I have also pasted it below for you.
Take care, and God bless.
Cyril
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Maxie to Cyril: Friday, December 11, 2009
Dear Maxie
As per your instructions I typed out a few lines about my life, from the time I left school until today. As you know, after leaving school I joined the Karnataka Regional College of Engineering (KREC), but within a year I realized that it was a bad choice. Yet I struggled on there for seven years, before finally quitting and joining the Jesuits. In the past I felt bitter about those lost years, thinking that God had been unjust to me through no fault of mine. Now however I see it as a part of some mysterious plan, because after joining the Jesuits life has by and large been smooth-sailing for me. I joined the Jesuits in 1968, and after 2 years of training in Jesuit spirituality in Bangalore, I studied Indian and Western philosophy for 3 years in Pune. Then, after teaching a year at St. Joseph’s in Bangalore I went to Japan, and there, after two years of Japanese language study in the city of Kamakura, I taught English at Sophia University in Tokyo. While teaching at Sophia, I simultaneously studied Indian Philosophy at Tokyo University, as a Research Student. In 1979 I returned in Pune, and in 8 years I finished my theological studies, and also my doctoral studies in Indian Philosophy. In 1982 I was ordained a priest, and in 1987 I returned to Tokyo to work at Sophia University. Since that time I have lived in Tokyo, and currently I am professor of Indian Studies in the Department of Asian Cultures of Sophia University.
Well Maxie, life these past 50 years has not been perfect for me, but in all honesty I must say that things have gone on relatively well. I pray that God gives each of us the strength to accept what has occurred in the past, and what is likely to come in the future. By the way, if ever any of our guys happen to come to Tokyo, tell them to contact me. Please remember however that Sophia University is always referred to by its Japanese name of JOOCHI DAIGAKU. If you ask for Sophia University no one will know the place, but if you say JOOCHI DAIGAKU every Japanese will know it.

I shall now give a brief explanation of the snaps I have sent you.
(1) My priestly ordination. I am the guy with the big Afro hairdo standing at the extreme right, at the altar.
(2) This too is my ordination. I am receiving a chalice from Bishop Arulappa of Bangalore.
(3) This was taken at De Nobili College in Pune in 1970. The person seated in the middle is Walter Andrade, and the person seated next to Walter and wearing spectacles is Aveline D’souza. Aveline was also of our batch, but he belonged to one of the Kannada divisions. His name was on the role of honor at School. The person standing at the extreme left is myself.
(4) This is at a wedding anniversary party of some Manglorean friends in Tokyo in 1976. I am seated at the extreme right. The couple that celebrated the anniversary were Julian and Cecy Fernandes, of Santa Cruz West in Bombay. Julian is now dead, and Cecy is in the USA.
(5) This is a picture of my wild student days in Tokyo in 1976.
(6) This is a photograph taken in the house of a Japanese family, who are friends of mine.
(7) This is myself with some University professors, taken in 2001.
(8) The little daughter of a friend is trying to teach me some Japanese.
(9) I am with some researchers at Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 2003. I am the person standing second from the right.
(10) This snap was taken at the reception party of a wedding that I had blessed. The bride was a student of mine. The snap was taken in 2006.
(11) This is myself with my graduate students (MA and PhD), in 2006.
(12) This snap was taken in 2007. I am talking to a newly wedded couple. The bride was my student.
(13) This snap was taken in 2004. I am with a little Japanese friend.
(14) This is myself with my five brothers. The person second from the right is Basil, and third from the right is myself. The names from the left are: Andrew, George, Dominic, Cyril, Basil, and John.
(15) This is a wedding snap of one of our classmates who left the school after the third form, namely DR. ALEXANDER MATHAI. His wife was called Esmie. Alexander died in that terrible Air India disaster of 1885, where a plane from Canada, the Emperor Kanishka, was blown up by terrorists.
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Note to Cyril from Maxwell
Dear Cyril,
Thank you so much!
(Unfortunately, the pictures that you have explained about have not transmitted)
Yet, you are the only one who has responded to the self-profile request.
To a small extent, Rafael has also posted a little info on himself, in his mails to one or two…
I am posting your profile on my Blog for the rest to see…
Thanks once again..
Maxie

091211: from Pedro Fernand..

Peter L. Fernandes to Arun Talwar11 December 2009
Subject: Re: Reunion
Hi Arun,
You sprung a surprise by calling me by my nick name (known to only a few) and that too after 50 long years without having met or heard from each other in the meantime. Great!!!
My apology at the outset for not replying to your mail earlier than this. The reason for it was mainly I was a bit busy with my son's wedding being concluded.
Right now I am slowly returning back to normal life.
Yes Arun, I remember I was sitting next to you always in the same bench with Rex.
Also, while the lectures of Monteiro Sir were going on, as he was writing on the board 'PHOTO-SYN-THE-SIS' for example, some from the rear benches under the leadership of Terence Mathias used to make us laugh and I being not able to control it used to be caught in the end. We used ot look upto our School Leader Victor for the extra curricular activities.
The best Teacher I remember was Bhandari Sir who made Science and Maths subjects easy and palatable to us. Who can afford to forget Mr Vishnoo Bhatt our deep Kannada lecturer whose class was drowned with noise by the students. The versatile Mr Aithala also taught us and it was in our year that he had composed a new School Anthem. We cannot forget young Fr Walter Albuquerque who taught us music and I was proud to be a part his College Band during the last 3 years. I can still vividly recall to my mind Rev. Fr. Stany Coelho then appointed as our new Headmaster walking into our class with solemn dignity to take up his 1st class of 'English' subject for our "E" Division. Time does not permit me proceed - the list is too long upto our P.T. Teacher.
God bless the current project on hand and all the stalwarts working at it. I wish all success for the ensuing "REUNION"!
My earnest request to all our batchmates is to make every effort to be present at our Alma Mater on the appointed days for our REUNION. Occasion like this is once in a life-time. There is ample time to advance your holidays if need be. Our batchmates have become shining stars all corners of the globe. The more we join in numbers the better enjoyment will we have together.
Best regards,
Peter Fernandes
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Peter L. Fernandes to Maxwell Pereira
11 Dec 2009
Dear Maxie,
It was a pleasure receiving your mail a couple of days ago. Sorry I could not reply to it immediately since I was a bit busy with the mariage preparations of my son. Now I am returning back to normal life.
In fact, I had joined the "E" Division from the 1st Form when Fr. Bertrand was the Headmaster in the middle school. I remember Mr Denis Albuquerque who taught us the "English" subject then and an additional special hour everyday before the normal school hours.
Going to the High School building in the last 3 years we were split into 3 carrier batches and I had taken 'Engineering' though I did not pursue this stream in my later College days. During the school days I was mostly reserved and did not interact with others like my other friends - maybe the reason you do not remember me.
So much for my schooldays. I meet Harry at times when I go down to Mangalore for holidays and keep in touch with Terence (Canada) with whom I used to go to school from Bejai.
Dear Maxie, I would love to meet you sometime.
Best regards,
Peter Fernandes

091210: Arun tries to give final shape to ReUnion

Arun Talwar to Maxwell Pereira and others

10 December 2009Subject: Re: data and memorablia

Dear Maxi and my Great classmates
Apologies for not replying earlier.
Yes, I was your classmate from 4th. class - Saar master's class, and I vividly remember the house opposite the sand pit .
You have done a fantastic job of putting all the names and contact details, I have added Ozzie's number and his e.mail address, only thing it is not dashes but underscores( ignorant me, I don't know how to do it)
and the same with Adolf Lobo's address. I have sent him an e-mail asking him to contact me giving his phone number so that I could see him in person, and I haven't had any joy as yet.
Sadly the deceased list has gone up to 13. I have learnt from Leo that Prakash Ipe is also no more.
Here's the tentative Itinerary for our re-union - subject to suggestions from you all and the organizers :
Maxie, Ozzie, Terence, Raphael, and Cyril...once you see our program that we are planning, you will be tempted to join us..so PLEASE make the effort to come down.
(Maxie, if you give me your US contact number, I`d love to speak to you.)
SATURDAY THE 30TH JAN 2010
9.55 GROUP PHOTOGRAPH AT SAC
11.00 PROCEED FOR LUNCH
2.00 PICK THE WIVES
4'00 LEAVE BY BUS TO THE VENUE - BIRD SANCTUARY RESORT OR ANY OTHER VENUE (venue large enough to accommodate all of us - 40+ I hope)
(non-stop singing starting with the school anthem - Comrades raise a joyful chorus and Bhuvana ------ karuna nidhi) then on to yippy aye aye yippy and others (compulsory)
7:30pm Meet for Dinner
Toast to our departed friends followed by a minutes silence.
Grace by Fr. Walty
dinner to be served
Each classmate in turn gives a brief resume what they have done since leaving school.
Housie Housie (Bingo)
Anthakshari (divided into 2 teams - after the the first team has sung the last syllable has to used used by the second team with a another song
English, Hindi, Konkani, Tulu, Coorgi, Kannada and Malayalam allowed(Raphael might be tempted to join us!)

SUNDAY THE 31ST JANUARY 2010
8;00AM BREAKFAST
10:am SUNDAY MASS (OPTIONAL)
11:30 VISIT TO THE BIRD SANCTUARY OR WHEREVER - PICNIC LUNCH
4:30 TEA AND SNACKS
7:30 DINNER - GROUP PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE WIVES
QUIZ (2 TEAMS - QUESTIONS RELATING TO OUR SCHOOL DAYS, MANGALORE, ETC.
KARAOKE
EACH ONE TO RELATE THE MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES OR A JOKE - COMPULSORY - INCLUDING THE WIVES.

MONDAY THE 1ST. OF FEBRUARY 2010
8:00AM BREAKFAST
10;00AM HEAD BACK FOR MANGALORE - MORE SINGING - DOESN'T MATTER ABOUT THE HOARSE VOICE !
Please contact each other in the meantime and come up with more ideas - 2 heads are better than one.
please come back soon
love
Arun

091209: Raphael & Cyril respond to Maxwell.......

Cyril Veliath to Maxwell Pereira
09 December 2009

Dear Maxie
As per your request I have included some information about myself and sent
it over to you.
Thanks for the good work.
Cyril Veliath
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Raphael Maliakal to Maxwell Pereira

09 December 2009; RE: data and memorablia
I hope our friends will contribute to filling up the spread sheet that you started. It will be a useful reference. I will see what I can add to my row.

Regards
Raphael Maliakal

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Maxwell Pereira wrote to Cyril Veliath:
09 December On 2009, at 11:01,

Thanks Cyril,
But do send me also a short self-profile on you - covering the last fifty years, not everything one would for one's CV, but in gist, yes.
I would like to put it on the Blog I intend to start for everyone to interact with each other, where it would be nice to hace a seperate frame each each of our fifty numbers with information, oersonal memorablia, anecdoles, and most importantly photographs ols & new.
Met Andrew and Sushila a couple of months back when I was in Pondicherry.
Hope life's treating you well..
With warm regards,
Maxie

Rudolph Edward Velu - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember Velu as a tall, simple and unassuming guy, also good in sports. Do not remember much interaction with him.
Where are you Velu?
Perhaps we used to call him Rudy then!?

Cyril Veliath SJ - Remembered 50 yrs after 1960

Cyril is one guy who has, I believe, endeavoured throughout to be in touch. Also, I had the privilege of knowing more than one member of his family, his younger brother Basil being my brother Manohar's classmate throughout, even later in St John's Medical College too. I wonder how many in our group remember that Basil also spent some time in our class when we were in Ist or IInd Form perhaps for familiarisation with the school and self-assessment for the level of entry, when the family first moved into Mangalore!

I was happy to spend time with Cyril in 1990 at the Jesuit House/Sophia University in Tokyo/Japan where he lectures on Indology, where I was amazed how up to date he was on all home town matters, including the latest gossip. I had occasion to befriend further his elder brother Andrew and his family too, when I was chief of police Podicherry from 1990-2000.

Lionel VasanthKumar - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember Lionel with his large specs quite distinctly.

Lost track of him completely though, once I moved to Bangalore for College

John Unger - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Another talented guy - and if I remember right, a good hockey player. Perhaps that's what made him neglect his studies.
Sorry to hear he is no more - God rest his soul

Jagadish Uchil - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do remember the name, but not the person. It is sad though he has left us to the nether world. May his soul rest in peace.

Jude Thomas - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

An outstanding sportsman and captain of the school hockey and football teams. Was so good that he was chosen for the College hockey team even when still in school.

Lost complete track of him once we finished school

Arun Sunder Talwar - Remembered 50 yrs after 1960

I remember Arun as the smart guy who came to school with a watch on his wrist. Perhaps there were others wearing a watch too, but I remember a wrist watch on Arun's hand even in middle school. And I had a fascination for bunts, and his surname Talwar - meaning sword, always wondering whether he possessed one. After I departed to Bangalore for College at St Joseph's have vague memories of being told that Arun had joined med school, and that the Talwar family was the one to whom my father sold Sukh Sagar our Mangalore house.

SubrayaV Shenoy - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

I remember both Subrayas for more reasons than one! ….but given the test, will not really be able to put correct face against name. Do remember that at least one of their families owned a grocery shop? Do not recall though any sensational interaction with either.

SubrayaB Shenoy - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

I remember both Subrayas for more reasons than one! ….but given the test, will not really be able to put correct face against name. Do remember that at least one of their families owned a grocery shop? Do not recall though any sensational interaction with either.

Sigismund Sequeira - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

An amazing set of brothers - Redmond and Sigismond, who belonged to a large family of countless brothers and sisters - all the boys' names ending with "….mund" and all the girls' names ending with "…berg". Both brothers were good on the field, especially football. Reddi I remember also had illusions of being a singer with the pop hit Pat Boone's "Louella" being one of his favourite renditions.
Sigismund was extraordinarily talented too, free hand art and illustration being his forte. Cannot forget how he had drawn on the blackboard the torso of a wrestler in combat stance with bulging muscles and super-imposed Mr Kasappayya's "Laxman head" on this wrestler Torso - just before the poor teacher was to take his period. I think we all know what happened after that. I had interaction with these Sequeiras off and on for some years after that, especially in Saklespur in the vicinity of which our parents owned coffee estates.

Redmond Sequeira - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

An amazing set of brothers - Redmond and Sigismond, who belonged to a large family of countless brothers and sisters - all the boys' names ending with "….mund" and all the girls' names ending with "…berg". Both brothers were good on the field, especially football. Reddi I remember also had illusions of being a singer with the pop hit Pat Boone's "Louella" being one of his favourite renditions.

Sigismund was extraordinarily talented too, free hand art and illustration being his forte. Cannot forget how he had drawn on the blackboard the torso of a wrestler in combat stance with bulging muscles and super-imposed Mr Kasappayya's "Laxman head" on this wrestler Torso - just before the poor teacher was to take his period. I think we all know what happened after that. I had interaction with these Sequeiras off and on for some years after that, especially in Saklespur in the vicinity of which our parents owned coffee estates.

Oswald Sequeira - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

I know Ozzie - didn't you walk to school all the way from somewhere in Kadri, Nantoor or Padav hills or nearabouts? May be that's what kept him lean and lanky, for that's how I remember him.

Here I would also like to remember the other Ozzie, for I had two Oswald Sequeiras as classmates. The other Ozzie (whose mother had perhaps returned with him to India from East Africa) was with me in middle school, don't remember when exactly he left school and town, but eventually returned to the fold back to St Aloysius in our PUC.

Have always wondered what happened to him.

Patrick Saldanha - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

I remember Patrick distinctly - as very quiet, mostly to himself, non-interfering...who appeared quite content to live and let live. Remember meeting him once at a wedding in Mangalore, but did not really get a chance to know him socially.

Harold Saldanha - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Loy's elder brother Harry, ever pensive, silent and appearing more sedate and sober when pitted against the vibrancy of his younger brother - was perhaps catapulted into positions of responsibility and proactive presence after the demise of his brother. I have been lucky to have known Harry and his family socially too. For our class, he has been a rock throughout, as a solid presence in Mangalore for each of us to interact or meet up with on our visits to Mangalore or otherwise - who true to form has now easily slipped into the role of a convenor for this great move of Reunion, dreaming up the project with a few others 50 years after our passing out. Thank you Harry.

Aloysius Saldanha - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Loy was a real star. Tall (tallest in our class) and stately, ever the energetic go-getter, do-gooder, a lovable guy, always the life and soul behind all class activity. After school, I met him again on my visits to Mangalore especially for the CSU camps and seminars where he was very active.

It was shocking indeed when we received news in Bangalore one Easter Sunday night, about the sea claiming his life at a beach picnic. He left a whole community and the town, in shock. A great soul, snatched from us in his prime.

I dare say Loy and all others who have gone before us are looking down from heaven and enjoying this moment of our intended togetherness as we also remember them.

Lancelot Rodrigues - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Very vague memory of the name, not of any characteristics nor features.

Sorry to hear he is no more. My condolences to his family

Sylvie Rego - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Very vague memory of the name, not of any characteristics nor features.

Do help me Sylvie

Jossy Rego - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Very vague memory of the name, not of any characteristics nor features.

Do help me Jossy

Raphael MJ - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Distinctly remember Raphael - another brainy guy among the lot of us. Don't remember though the exact year or class in which he joined the group.

Perhaps his dad was a professor in the College with ny dad?

It was lovely catching up with you Raphael, thanks to the tel no. provided in the list circulated by Stany.

Sudhir K Rao - Remembered 50 yrs after 1960

Cannot really justify why I cannot remember Sudhir - unpardonable.

Do forgive me Sudhir, and help me with some memorablia on you.

Melville Pinto - Remembered 50 yrs after 1960

I remember Melville distinctly - a quiet, unassuming guy.

Whatever happened to him? Anyone who can throw some light on how or why the so untimely demise? May his soul rest in peace.

Archibald Pereira = Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Dear old Archie, the only other Pereira in our class, but no relation of mine. For some reason memory throws up a picture of him always with an umbrella. Remember he telling me his house was bang on the gates of St Agnes Girls' School in Bendore. Ever since couldn't help envying him for reasons I do not have to elaborate. So sad he has gone before us. God rest his soul.

Claudius JM Pais - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Surprisingly, do not remember the two 'Claudy's in our class. And it's horrendous to realize I can neither picture them nor remember any interactions with them. Need some help here.

Hector Noronha - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

How can I forget tall Hector with his glasses, and his crany neck that made us naughtily call him names!

I see Hector's now in Bangalore. Haven't had occasion to meet Hector after leaving school. But I have been in touch with your brother Fr Ronnie, in recent years - mostly on email.

Claudius Nazareth - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Need your help Claudy, my memory is playing tricks.

Do have difficulty remembering any interactions with you or events/episodes concerning you. Pardon me.

Narayanswamy LR - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Absolutely at a loss trying to picture Narayanswamy, or remember interactions with him.

I suppose we will have to locate him first to know more.

Terence Mathias - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Sorry Terrence, remember your name vaguely, but have difficulty remembering interactions with you. Do help.

Melville Mascrenhas - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do not remember which exact year or class he joined our group.

But I do remember Melville vividly (weren't you living somewhere near Kottar past Urwa?) as the only enterprising guy in our class - to start a business venture even while we were still in school, by launching a newspaper vending business?

Lost track of him completely though, after we finished school.

Francis Mascarenhas - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Like many others, I do not recall when exactly Pfoka joined our class. I have a vague suspicion the majority of us were put together when the (in)famous English Medium section was created when we entered the Ist Form - I remember how we were prepared and groomed for this "English" medium class in our Vth class by our then Class teacher Delphine. In the Ist Form and the IInd Form the English Medium was the 'D' Section, and only in the IIIrd Form when we went from the middle school to the High School was our Section changed to "E".

I remember Pfoka as the wicked but lovable little devil incarnate, a good cricket commentator, who later in life got addicted to Bridge winning all the tournaments in and around Mangalore (that's what I had gathered - the northerly winds travelling up to Delhi would inform me off and on..) If I recall, he lived behind the Milagres Church.

How are you Pfoka?

Bonaventure Martis - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

A delightfully pleasant fellow, was the shortest in our class, who took in his stride all the snidy jibes about being the chicken of the class. Do not recall which exact year or class he joined our group.

He had no business to leave this world before many of us. God Rest his Soul. My condolences to his family wherever they are.

Subodh Malli - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do not recall the year or class in which Subodh joined our class.

Can't comprehend how and why I have difficulty picturing Subodh, especially when in the group photo between Walter and me he looks shorter than both of us; and by the same logic shd have been in our company more than with others.

My apologies Subodh, you better help charge my memory with adequate masala.

Canute Machado - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

The only one who joined St Aloysius Middle School with me in the 1st class and remained with me for 12 continuous years without break till PUC. We also were together in the school "Summer Club" during the summer vacations.

When we were still very small, I would picture him in King Canute's chair - for nowhere else before or after, have I known another Canute!

Canute had a stint with the Syndicate Bank in Delhi during the early 70s when I used to meet him often at his sister Olga's. Lost track of him since.

It is sad he is no more. The Lord grant him eternal rest.

Norman S Lobo - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember both the Norman Lobos - one more distinctly than the other, for the reason that as little ones we had our first holy communion together. Another reason being the same Norman's father who was a lawyer, was a great friend of my dad too. Would be grateful to the other Norman for some details to help my sad sad memory.

Norman J Lobo - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember both the Norman Lobos - one more distinctly than the other, for the reason that as little ones we had our first holy communion together. Another reason being the same Norman's father who was a lawyer, was a great friend of my dad too. Would be grateful to the other Norman for some details to help my sad sad memory.

Adolph Lobo - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

For some reason I recall vividly one Malcolm Lobo (whose name does not feature in the list) and not Adolph Lobo.

Grateful for some help Adolph.

Rabindranath Kini - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Have no recollection of the year or class in which he joined our class.

However, I remember Kini distinctly.

What happened to him? 'Am supprised to note he was with us only till Vth Form.

Yeshwant Karnad - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do remember we had a Karnad in our class, but not a clue now to the person. Was sorry to hear he has passed away. The famous Girish Karnad's prowess in public life was often a reminder to wonder whether our Karnad was any relative of Girish.

The good Lord rest his soul...

Wilbur Fernandes - Remembered 50 yrs after 1960

No idea of the year or class in which he joined our class.

But do remember Wilber with soda-bottle lenses on his spectacles - and even more, as the body-builder with rippling muscles rivalling those of any Mr.India. How could such a tough guy's breath of life be snuffed out so early? Shocking! God grant him eternal rest.

Orlando Fernandes - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember Orlando very well as one of the shorter ones like me. No idea though of the year and class in which he joined us.

Perhaps he had some background of the African Continent?

…I could not believe he has passed away, God rest his soul.

Peter Fernandes - remembered 50yrs after 1960

Vague recollections of the name, not of the person…
Peter, please help me.

Denver Fernandes - remembered 50yrs after 1960

Have no recollections of him whatsoever. Do not recall the year or class in which he joined us - nor any other particulars. Do feel very sorry.

Winston Farias - as remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do not recall the exact year or class in which Winston joined this group. Do remember him distinctly though. Totally lost track of him once I left Mangalore.
Really sad he is no more - the Lord grant him eternal rest

Prakash Eipe - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Remember Eipe's name vividly, but not his physical characteristics or other… Do not recall either, which exact year or class he joined this group.

Rex D’Souza - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Like most others in my class, do not remember the exact year or specific class in which Rex joined this group. He always stood apart as a soft-spoken decent guy with breeding.

Never got to know him well enough, as I got to know perhaps his mom and the rest of his family later in Bangalore.

Leslie D’Souza - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do not really recall which year and class Leslie joined our group. Remember him to have been active on the sports field. Can remember him sailing over the bar in high jump. His uncle Fr JB D'Souza taught us many a game and the finer points of football.

In later life it was nice to meet his sister married to a friend in Faridabad.

There is no detail about Leslie in the list circulated by Stany. Hope my worst fears are not true.

Leo D’Cunha - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Don't know which year or class Leo joined my class. All I remember is that I always envied the guy for his looks. He was indeed a very good-looking guy with light eyes! We were also fellow boarders - with more opportunity for comraderie and interaction. But for some reason we were always sparring; and we were great fibbers too, not losing a single opportunity for one-upmanship. I believe he used to beat me hollow; I stood no chance against whatever it was he could come up with.

Vaguely remember being told that his dad was distantly related to my dad, but never got down to finding out how.

Leo's younger brother Joe was my brother Manu's classmate - not only in school, but also in med school in the first batch of St John's.

Post school, had learnt he had joined some private sector in Calcutta. Some time in the early ninetees, from out of the blue had heard from Leo when his daughter was to visit Delhi for an interview. I had occasion thereafter to meet Leo in person in Bangalore on one of my visits there. Apparently he had settled down in Bangalore after he finished with Calcutta (?).

Victor Currie - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

School leader in our final year, a great sportsman and outstanding athlete, who brought many laurels to his alma mater; someone all of us - especially those in the 'E' section of which he was part of - were proud of. Was with me in the School Boarding House too - became BH leader there too - till he clashed with the BH Director on a minor matter of discipline and preferred to walk out.

Had the privilege of his personal friendship in later life when he and his wife Rosemary were generous hosts to me as a bachelor in Bangalore; and prior to that, his home in Madras was my pad when I visited that city for the UPSC interview that launched me into the IPS. Victor's son Vishal is on email with me, but unfortunately not Vishal's parents - which needs to be remedied.

Quite a delight it was to surprise Victor and Rosemany at their "White House" on Kadri Temple Road in Mangalore, and catch up on telephone - thanks to the numbers provided in the circulated list.

Stany Coelho - Remebered 50yrs after 1960

A lot could be written on this class monitor of ours! ....but discretion, I believe is better part of valour! Remember we made him our class monitor, despite some staff objections….. ? Do remember a few anecdotes whereby he justified his selection as monitor.

A strange co-incidence here - our school Headmaster Father Coelho's first name was also Stany. A total study in contrast, the two 'Stany's.

Thank you Stany for joining hands with Harry Saldanha in this great initiative for a Reunion of our batchmates 50 years since passing out.

Bopayya KW - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

No memory of which class and year he joined our group. Remember him as an unassuming simple guy - whose face and features for the love of me I cannot recall even with the name list provided for the group photograph.

Tried calling him, but apparently he was a bit busy to chat with an old classmate who popped up from out of the blue after 50 years. Where are you Bopaiyya?

Prabhakar Ullal Bhat - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Fair goodlooking guy, among the majority of our class who were blessed with brains - lost track of him after SSLC. Didn't his father run a clinic at the T-junction entrance to the approach road to Car-Streeet from Karnad Sadashiv Rao Road?

Thanks to the tel numbers circulated, managed to call him up and chatted with him. It was great to catch up and learn that while doing his MCom in Karnatak University he enrolled into the Indian Air Force from where after 30yrs of service he retired as a Group Captain and is now settled down in Bangalore's JalVayu Vihar. For some reason would never have thought of him in the Air Force. During our school days I would often wonder how he would have looked performing pujas in a temple, since in Konkani we would mostly asssocoate a 'Bhot' in a temple. Like we all were, Prabhakar was also over the moon at the thought of this Reunion of the batch after 50 years.

Trilochan Bailur - as remembered in 2009

I believe he joined me in the 3rd class - when Cecy teacher was our class teacher - and we continued together without a break till we finished PUC. Remember him as the brilliant one, among the taller and bigger guys in our class - and, always remained among the toppers. If I recall right, Trilochan's dad was a doctor, into whose shoes he wanted to step in always. 'Am glad he did. Remember meeting Dr Bailur in 1998 for a brief while when I visited Mangalore for my niece Sonia's wedding.

Walter Andrade - Remembered 50yrs after 1960

Do not really recall the exact year or class in which Walter joined us. But I do remember that he was in the ranks of my best friends - surely one among those who could be counted on the fingers of a single hand! ....till of course, life for him took a serious turn, after which even the rare and casual encounters we've had were nothing really to write home about! Wish you could let down your hair a bit Reverend!!!!

Invariably on the first bench with me in class - the other two so privileged being Chicky Bonaventure Martis and Canute Machado - the four of us forever vying with each other for the "shortest in height" honour! (None of the other three of us stood a chance with Chicky of course - so Walter comfortably slid into the second shortest slot, while Canute and I sparred for the third slot - sometimes he edged me out to the fourth slot, at other times I edged him out of the third slot.
Walter was always holy - he was the first assistant prefect in the sodality, while I was the second. Brilliant at his studies and a serious guy with "no nonsense" approach - it wasn't a surprise to any of us when he heeded the call of the cloth to become a Jesuit.

Maxwell Pereira - Memorablia

i) I'm afraid I was quite an insignificant small little guy in school, not special to be remembered uniquely, or worthy of attention… as perhaps Victor Currie or some other illustrious/ or "notorious for various reasons" ones in our group! Especially after my parents left Mangalore for better climes of the estates in the hills and Bangalore, and my brother Manohar and I were forced to join the College Boarding House and earn the sobriquet as "boardingache dukor", all existing inter-family social interactions had also died down in consequence; all adding up to making me I suppose a not-so-sought-after companion.
ii) I am ashamed now to confess, perhaps as a result of the background explained, that after finishing school I have not been in touch (more so in the recent decades) with 99% of my classmates - and even more ashamed that I could not remember more than half the names till the group photograph with the row-wise list of names came to my aid. Even then, memory has defied recognition of many, and I do not recall faces to fit names to, as I would like to. A few among the lot of classmates I have had a casual meeting or two, and maybe more with ones like Victor Currie, Harry, Canute etc.
iii) Hence do pardon me for attempting (as in the attachment to my email of even date) to record what I could remember or not remember about each (as mentioned in my previous Blog entry. Those of you whom I have failed to remember adequately please forgive me, and do help me recall. I will be grateful for whatever aide de memoir you could provide - in the form of unforgettable events & episodes or anecdotes, whatever..... Thanks.
iv) If memory has failed me, I do expect similar difficulty for many of you in remembering the inconsequential tiny me too. I have no great memorablia to come to my classmates’ aid other than to remind those who were with me in the middle school that my house “Sukh Sagar” was right across the school gates (across the sand-pit to be precise) where to, many would carry their mid-day meal tiffin boxes... for us all to eat our lunch together at my mother’s table.
v) Regarding later life the internet would provide some info, and those interested may access my personal website at http://www.maxwellpereira.com/ for more.
My family and I were blessed with an audience with Pope Joh Paul-II during his 1986 visit to India, when I had thr honour of being the Pope's personal bodyguard

vi) It would be wonderful to receive similar self-profile from each of you, even if it is just a paragraph. You could also click and access into the particular Blog entry with your name in the title of the post and post a comment detailing information on you.
vii) Similarly you can post your comment on the Blog entry of any other of our classmates - to record what you remember about that particular classmate, anecdote, episode, interaction or encounter... as you may perhaps remember..
This way we can have a vibrant platform for mutual interaction - for posting of photographs, exchange of memorablia etc etc. The sky is the limit

Data and Memorablia

From: Maxwell Pereira to All
08 December 2009
Subject: data and memorablia

Friends,
Some thoughts and action points for consideration:

i). In the attachment I have attempted an excel chart with the information available on each classmate - living or deceased. It would be wonderful if all of us endeavoured to fill in the vacant spaces 'cells' with the missing information - for self, or in respect of another - whatever is available with us/ or could be ascertained by us from others, friends and relations.

ii). There are nine in the list whose whereabouts are indicated as "not known". While keeping up the effort to locate the whereabouts of those indicated as "whereabouts not known", it is also necessary to ascertain/ locate the whereabouts of the next of kin of those indicated as "deceased"

iii). It is distressing to note that 12 of our classmates have already left us for their heavenly abode. Even though they are no more, at the reunion meet it would be appropriate to remember them and pass a resolution of condolence - to be passed on to their near and the dear they left behind. For this purpose it would be necessary to gather some details leading to their death and the present whereabouts of their nearest kin.

iv) I am attempting a personal memorablia on each of my classmates - as I remember or not remember them. This memorablia recorded by me (on the second worksheet of the excel document in the attachment to the email sent) is mostly in lighter vein, not meant to hurt or annoy any one. In the event someone or anyone finds anything therin objectionable, I apologise to them in advance.

With best regards to all,
Maxie

091207: Flurry of exchanges

Arun Talwar to Maxwell Pereira
07 Dec 2009

Dear Maxi

My sincere apologies for not getting back to you earlier than this . Lovely to hear from you after all these years. i am so proud of your achievements in the Police force and each time I read your name in the Indian papers, I would proudly boast that you were my classmate from class 4 to FormVI. Pity that you can't make it for the reunion in January. Please let me know your contact address while in the UK and telephone number.we hope to back in the UK after the reunion on the 4th or the 5th Feb the latest , and Chand I will make it a point to see you.

As regards your singing I still remember your rendering of CONSTANTINOPLE when you were in form 1. As for me, I still sing (only in the bathroom).

Please keep in touch ...........

love..... Arun

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Maxwell Pereira to Arun Talwar

07 Dec 2009 19:33

Hello Arun,
Was happy to hear from you...
Yes, memories of you are very vivid for more reasons than one!
If I recall right, your family also bought our house "Sukh Sagar" from my dad after we left Mangalore? ...or so I had gathered, I believe, when my brother Manohar and I were in college - studying at St Joseph's in Bangalore.
My son Prashanth (goes as Anthony in the UK) studied at the Imperial College in London, and is currently an investment banker with the Belgian banking company KBC in London. With his wife and little son, he lives in Manor Fields at Putney - SW15 3LU. His telephone number at the residence is 0208-780-2496. That's were I will be over the first week of February. Do give me a call when you are back from India. I will also remember to call you between the 4th and the 6th. Even though it is five years since I have retired from active service, my constant lament to people is that no one really lets me or wants me to retire. Apart from being dragged to the TV-channel studios for panel discussions and for commenting on all matters concerning internal security of the country (terrorism, Indo-Pak relations, Kashmir imbroglio, insurgency, or even matters concerning day to day policing - crimes, riots, rapes and murders), I am also a not-so-regular-now columnist in many of the Indian Newspapers; so would like to believe there is never a dull moment for me. One could interpret this both ways - good and bad!
But seriously, a medical query to you... what do I do about an attrocious memory? I feel so humbled when others can remember more, or better than me! I was horrified to note most of my classmates' names meant nothing to me, the memory cells refusing to throw up any images or episodes that'd help connect or recollect many of those in the group photograph that you sent. I am so ashamed of this fact.
Do tell me about yourself - family, children, migration, achievements of course, life in Enland, whatever...
I look forward to being in touch.
With warm regards,
Maxie

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Maxwell Pereira to Stany Coelho
07 Dec 2009 08:14:31 +0530Dear Stany,
At least four of the email addresses seem to be having a problem, for emails sent to them have bounced. They are, of Rex D'Souza, Leo D'Cunha, one indicated as *lourdes-judy-lobo*, and another. Raphael's too kept returning with an undelivered report from Mail Delivery System, but apparently the his email address is correct, only delivery problem there.
I am enjoying the exitement all around, which I sense from the flurry of email activity flitting across the globe and into our inboxes - even with the limited number of email addresses currently available with us.
Thank you guys, once again, for your pioneering initiative.
With best regards,
Maxie
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Arun Talwar to Norman Lobo

07 December 2009

Dear Norman - Kadalgundi,

Sorry about the mistake, I do remember he had the sexy slant 'come hither look' and lived behind the soda shop almost opposite the vas lane, whereas you lived well inside the vas lane not very far from Harry/Loy and Bopayya's house.Our dads used to know each other well and if I remember right your dad was a solicitor.Pity I didn't know you were in Bombay, my late mum and dad lived at Santa Cruz west - main avenue opposite St. Theresas Convent, and so did my late brother Nalin. Next visit we must have a drink or two together.I am so glad you are going to make it for the class reunion.let us make it grand.

keep in touch

Love....... Arun

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Arun Talwar to Prabhakar Bhat

07 December 2009

Dear Prabhakar,

Great to hear from you after all these years. Like you Leo could not spot me till I pointed out to him to look for the one with Halo in the top row. I was in Bangalore for a class reunion in October' pity I missed seeing you, Hector, and Leo and I briefly met Rex on my way out to the airport. Never mind we are going to see each other with our good ladies in Jan 2010 (INSHA ALLAH). Let us keep in touch and make it a special reunion

love.....

Arun

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Arun Talwar to Peter L. Fernandes

07 December 2009

Hi Pedro

Great to hear from you after all these years. I wonder if you remeber we sat next to each other with Rex - same bench. i hope to see you and your good lady at the reunion. Let's get together and have great fun

love..... Arun

Peter, congratulations, you were the first one to reply to Stany's e=mail - well done

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Raphael Maliakal to Maxwell Pereira

07 Dec 2009
Glad to hear from you. Call me when you come to Trumbul, CT. I am only about 110 miles from there. I will be home after Jan. 3. I am excited about seeing you after such a long time.

Sincerely
Raphael Maliakal