Dear Claudy,
Wonderful to hear from you...
So we have three of you from our batch of classmates so far located in Canada - Terrence Mathias and Oswald Sequeira in Toronto, and now you in Vancouver. Do share with us your coordinates: address, telephone numbers, email addresses, website, blog...whatever!
From info gathered so far - and apart from you three, we have Raphael in the USA (Boston); Arun in the UK (Cardiff); and the rest of us in India.
About me... after school leaving in 1960 I spent the next ten years in Bangalore doing College at St Joseph's, then did Law and practised Law in bangalore Courts. Since 1970 I have spent the last 40-years in North India serving in the Indian Police Service till 5 years ago - mostly in Delhi, with short interludes elsewhere too... like Sikkim (4-yrs as the its first Supdt of Police); Mizoram (2-yrs as its Asst Inspr.Genl); and Podicherry (3-yrs as its Chief of Police). I retired from Delhi 2004 November, as its Joint Commissioner.
Currently I live in Gurgaon (almost next to Delhi's international airport), in the house I managed to construct and move into (in 2005) just in time to surrender the Govt accommodation that had sheltered me for 35 years in one place or the other.
Like you, I now try to keep myself occupied (not busy) with one thing or the other, travel a lot - for lectures, consultancy, hobbies(choir), and pleasure... but mostly because of children who are based abroad: both my girls in the USA (Connecticut and California), and my son in London (from where I am keying in these few lines to you at the moment).
Well, since you relatively are a late entry into our little cocoon of email circuit, you may want to catch up on what's transpired in the interregnum since Harry our Central force in Mangalore started placing individual calls to each of us - at which exercise he has been relentlessly on followed by Arun in England, I believe since last September/October. I received my call from Harry in November.
To the extent possible, I have tried archive all the mails and interesting stuff that was exchanged between the lot of us in a Blog I maintain, accessible at http://sacclassof1960.blogspot.com/
By clicking on links in the index provided in the leftside column, you will be able to read how it all started, or whatever other stage that interests you, and view photographs old and new that some have shared...
Welcome to our "class of 1960" blog. You yourself can also post whatever you'd like to, directly on to the blog by just emailing the content to mfjpkamath.gorilla@blogger.com
With warm regards,
Maxie
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From: Claudius Pais to Maxwell Pereira
From: Claudius Pais to Maxwell Pereira
On 24 February 2010 06:48,
Hello Maxie,
It was nice to read your email. Yes, Harry is doing lot of work by contacting our classmates. I live in Vancouver, Canada at present, am retired, but am busy as ever doing various things. So where do you live at present.
I am sorry to say that I cannot make for the class reunion, due to the distance, and my prior committments. But when I come to Mangalore next will certainly make it a point to meet all our classmates who live in Mangalore.
So long Maxie, you take care and best of regards.
Claudius Pais
Hello Maxie,
It was nice to read your email. Yes, Harry is doing lot of work by contacting our classmates. I live in Vancouver, Canada at present, am retired, but am busy as ever doing various things. So where do you live at present.
I am sorry to say that I cannot make for the class reunion, due to the distance, and my prior committments. But when I come to Mangalore next will certainly make it a point to meet all our classmates who live in Mangalore.
So long Maxie, you take care and best of regards.
Claudius Pais
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