Ladies and Gentlemen
It gives
me great pleasure to welcome an old .student of mine, Mr.Vinod Mohota, as Chief
Guest today alongwith his charming wife. Vinod was an excellent student then, he
is still the same excellent person now. Presently the Director of the century
old family textile RSR Mohota Mills in Hinganghat, which together with his
brothers, he strives to strengthen & modernise to face upcoming competition &
globalization. Vinod is a worthy sort of an illustrious father, Dr.R.D.Mohota
who is an eminent personality in industrial & academic circles in Vidharba - a
man versatile, from flying planes to Sherlock Holmes interests, and lecturing in
Management & Business Administration. Over 25 years ago in 1975-76, when Viniod
was in Class IX, Dr.Mohota organized courses for S.F S IX Class boys called
Managers for the Nineties The success was such that in the Nineties many of
these boys had indeed become leading Managers, a credit to Dr.Mohota
far-sightedness & enterprise. We are sorry, Dr.Mohota cannot be present here
today, but we are happy to give away every year at this Concert, a trophy in his
name to the Best all-round student of Class X, introduced by his son Vinod,
since his passing school 25 years ago. While publicly thanking the Mohotas today
for these annual Trophies, we honour them by once again warmly welcoming Mr. &
Mrs Mohota as Chief Guests today for our Annual Concert, this year by the
Primary, & our Prize-Distribution ceremony.
Ladies &
Gentlemen, I also welcome you most heartedly to today function. As I am getting
ready to soon say goodbye to S.F S also take the opportunity to thank all
parents & guardians past & present, and ex-students too, for the love &
cooperation I have enjoyed for the last 32 years as Teacher, as Vice-Principal
and finally as Principal. On this occasion I also express my profound gratitude
to every single member of our teaching and non-teaching staff, past & present.
Special thanks today to Sr Jolly Primary Headmistress, and her band of dedicated
teachers for this concert production.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES QF THE
SCHOOL
Many parents seek admission to
S.F.S. without knowing what this Christian School stands for. I would request
you to read carefully the objectives as spelled out in the issues of the School
Bulletin, as well as the School Calendar or Diary, for The Profile which
explains in detail what S. F. S. intends to form - a young man with a Total and
integrated personality who stands for 1) Moral and Spiritual Values 2) Human and
Personal Values 3) Academic Excellence Values 4) Social Awareness Values and 5)
Leadership Values.
STRENGTH OF SCHOOL
This year we have 2563
students on the rolls, a reduction of 438 Since I took over as Principal in Nov.
1995. The number then was 3001
STAFF
We have 64 members on the
teaching and 16 members on the non-teaching staff
Pre-Primary 05
Primary 13
Middle and High
School 36
Jr.
College 05
Computer
Teachers 03
Clerical 05
Non-teaching 11
Other
helpers 02
Total 80 members
Results : This
year in the S.S.C.Examination 217 students appeared, 210 were successful a
percentage of 96.77%. 33 in Distinction Grade & 71 in 1st Grade.
Paresh Naik Vaswani stood
first with 88.53%.
In the H.S.S.C.Examiriation 61
students appeared we had a percentage of 75.40% passes. Lloyd Mohan Palikandy
stood first among our school boys with 84.50%.
In Maharashtra
Talent Search EXAM. Chaitanya Amol Joshi was awarded STATE Scholarship (
181/200) and Debanjan Chatterjee was awarded District Scholarship129/200)
AIMS & OBJECTIVES QF THE
SCHOOL
Many parents seek admission to S.F.S. without knowing what this
Christian School stands for. I would request you to read carefully the
objectives as spelled out in the issues of the School Bulletin, as well as the
School Calendar or Diary, for The Profile which explains in detail what S. F. S.
intends to form - a young man with a Total and integrated personality who stands
for 1) Moral and Spiritual Values 2) Human and Personal Values 3) Academic
Excellence Values 4) Social Awareness Values and 5) Leadership Values.
STRENGTH OF SCHOOL
This year we have
2563 students on the rolls, a reduction of 438 Since I took over as Principal in
Nov. 1995. The number then was 3001
STAFF
We have 64 members on the
teaching and 16 members on the non-teaching staff
Pre-Primary 05
Primary 13
Middle and High
School 36
Jr.
College 05
Computer
Teachers 03
Clerical 05
Non-teaching 11
Other
helpers 02
Total 80 members
Results : This year in the S.S.C.Examination 217 students appeared,
210 were successful a percentage of 96.77%. 33 in Distinction Grade
& 71 in 1st Grade.
Paresh
Naik Vaswani stood first with 88.53%.
In the H.S.S.C.Examiriation 61 students appeared we had a percentage
of 75.40% passes. Lloyd Mohan Palikandy stood first among our school boys with
84.50%.
In Maharashtra
Talent Search EXAM. Chaitanya Amol Joshi was awarded STATE Scholarship (
181/200) and Debanjan Chatterjee was awarded District Scholarship129/200)
NEW APPOINTMENTS : Mrs.Michelle Barneto was appointed in place of
Mr.S.M.Hussain who retired on Superannuation on 30.06.2002. Mrs.M.Row retired on
superannuation on 31.10.2002. Temporarily, Mrs.A.Gazula is helping in her place.
Mrs.N.Ghanekar who is on extraordinary leave, since Feb.1999 is substituted by
Mrs.M.Salpekar this year.
Brothers
Binoy and Praful of Nagpur Diocese, students from St.Charles Seminary have been
appointed by the Archbishop for a year of regency training to assist in School
activities.
SEMINARS AND.
RETREATS
At the
opening of the school academic year, an Orientation Programme for the staff was
conducted by Rev.Fr.Baptist Monteiro S.D.B from Betul. The topic was Teacher’ s
attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs about students . It was important for
teachers to change from negative criticism to positive praise.
Education. Seminar for
Unity, Harmony and Peace
Acceptance, Tolerance, Respect and Dignity, Justice, and Love
provide the only road to peace. These values must he bestowed on all students by
our Teachers becoming Role Models and True Gurus to all our children, each of
whom spends nearly 14, 400 hours of time during 12 years of school Life with
Teachers. With this message Fr.Laurie Fernandes and Fr.Joseph Quadros visited
our school. The staff and students were well prepared and involved, by making
charts, collages and models depicting current situations and trends the world
over.
RETREAT
Fr. Ivan Rodriques
S.D.B. conducted a Retreat for our VIIth to Xth Class Catholic boys from 12th to
17th Aug.2002, the theme being “Know your Bible’, and ‘Growing in the Love of
Jesus”,
P.T.A Meetings
A P.T.A.Meeting
was held on 12th Oct.2002. Mrs.Rita Agarwal, a Psychotherapist was the guest
speaker. She spoke about Mental Health Awareness and suggested several useful
guidelines for parents and teachers to follow when dealing with children. At
this meeting ideas and suggestions by Parents, Teachers and authorities were
shared and discussed for necessary consideration and action. Mr. Sunil Gangwani,
Secretary, has been coordinating P.T.A meetings with parents of other schools.
O.B.A ( Old Boys
Association)
During the year many
ex—students visit the school, among them distinguished old boys like
Mr.J.J.Irani, former M.D. of T I S C 0 (Jamshedpur) and now of Tata Sons
Mumbai).
In January the O.B.A
organised a student Vs. ex-student football match. The ex-students won 3-1.
Later they organised a
Fellowship Dinner. 5 ex-students were felicitated that night.
1. Air Vice Marshal Gordon
D’souza
2. Justice Pratap Hardas of
Mumbal High Court.
3. Dr.Prasad Dhurjati,
eminent scientist from the U.S.A.
4. Dr.Vispy P.Mehta,
Cricketer and International Coach.
5. Mr.S.P.Singh, Chairman,
Centre Point Group of Hotels.
6. Mr.Ajay Patni, Arun
Automobiles.
INTER-SCHOOL GAMES AND
SPORTS
FOOTBALL :On the whole, 2002 was a glorious year for S.F.S.iN Football and
Hockey. In the Mermier (U-15), Y.M.C.A (U-12) & Y.M.C.A. (U-16) S. F . S were
runners-up.
in the
Anthony and Daisy Memorial Football, S.F.S won the Championship trophy beating
arch-rivals St .John’s 1-0, in the finals.
in the
Z.P Sports Office Football (U-17) S.F.S. were the City Champs beating
St. Joseph’ s Vidhyalaya 2-0.
The Foothall Highlight of the year 2002-2003
was our UNDER-14 TEAM in
the ZP.District Sports Tournament, S.F.S. were City
Champions heating Dinnath 5-0. They were
District Champions beating M.M
Rabbani 5-0, Divisional Champions beating
Chandrapur 3-2 in the semi-finals and Wardha 3-0 in the finals, and finally,
S.F.S. were the Maharashtra
State Champions after 20 years. In
the Inter-divisional tournament in Mumbai they beat Aurangabad 3-0 in the
quarter finals, Nasik 4-2 in the semis, and Mumbai in the finals by a solitary
deciding goal.
4 S.F.S.
boys have been selected to represent Maharashtra at the Nationals in Jammu and
Kashmir. Arvind George, Athar Mirza, Chiranjiv
Mookerji and Irshad Mirza.
Two boys
Athar Mirza and Irshad Mirza also went to
Jamshdepur for India Football Selection Camp
HOCKEY
: In the under-17 Z.P..Tournament S.F.S. were
City Champs beating Mahatma Gandhi High School by 4-2.
Fulsunge Memorial Hockey Tournament
S.F.S the
headlines in the Press everyday, winning match after match on their way to the
finals where sadly the headlines announced that the excellent S.F.S. team
leading 3-0 to Tidke Vidhyalaya at half time, produced a repeat of a recent
India-Pakistan match, allowing Tidke Vidhyalaya to shoot 4 goals in the second
half. Due to complacency arid over-confidence, S.F.S. donated the championship
to Tidke Vidhyalaya, and drooped away Runners-up
We record
our gratitude to Mr.C.Alvares and Mr.V.Francis for the interest and trouble
taken to coach our Football and Hockey teams.
Chess
Kshiraj
Shambarkar of Class II won the 3rd prize in the U-8 Category of the Mini Chess
Tournament organised by the Vidharbha Chess Association.
Table
Tennis
Mrinai
Madas of Class VI was twice runners up in the Nagpur District Table Tennis
Tournament. He also represented Nagpur District Table Tennis Team for Inter
District and Maharashtra State Table Tennis Championship held at Aurangahad.
Cricket
In the
Karnewar Cricket Tournament, S. F. S . beat Bhosla Military School. Kwaja
Ramizuddin was declared the best fielder.
Fencing
Anup
Tambe of Std. XII won the gold medal in the inter-school fencing competition.
He won gold and silver medals at the Divisional fencing Championship.
N.C.C
(AIR WING)
In the
A.T.C camp 57 cadets participated. S.F.S. were declared 2nd BEST TROOP.
In the March-past and drill S.F.S. got the 2nd prize. Various competitions were
held. Debanjan Chatterjee won the 2nd prize for Elocution. Sandeep Singh Padam
and Debanjan Chatterjee jointly got the 2nd prize for the Quiz
Competition. Lorenzo Azavedo got the 2nd prize and was awarded a
silver medal for the Cross country sprint of 2.5
N.C.C.(
Army Wing)
In the
A.L.C. (Advanced Leadership Camp) held at Jamnagar Gujarat Sgt Mahesh Barde was
the best shooter.
In the
camp held at Ahmednagar TSM, Saurabh Bhoyar took part in the N I P (National
Integration Programme) in which our Maharashtra Group came 1st out of 7 other
groups.
INTER-SCHOOL ELOCUTION
In the
Tehrnuras Doongaji Inter-school Elocution Competition 2002. S.F.S stood 1st
among 10 schools. Marcello Azavedo stood 1st and Nikhil Elenjickal got the 1st
Consolation prize.
In the
Archbishop Eugene D’ souza Inter-school Hindi Elocution S.F.S.stood 2nd. Among
the individual prizes, Varun Sibal got the 1st Consolation prize and Chave
Adtani got the 2nd Consolation prize.
In the
Archbishop Eugene D’souza Inter-school Hindi Essay Competition Nilesh Balani got
the 2nd Consolation prize.
PAINTING
Shashank
Kotangle of Class VII won the 1st prize for his painting on saving the
Environment conducted by Chitrakala Prashikshan Shibir. He received a
certificate and a shield.
General Knowledge Competition conducted by Kavi Kulguru Kalidasa Sanskrit
University. Debanjan Chatterjee stood 1st and received a cash prize of RS.
1,000/- and a certificate. Rohit Taharia received Rs.100/- and a certificate.
He stood 4th.
COLLECTIONS FQR
CHARITY 2002
Holy Childhood for
poor Rs 8,200.00 Misson Sunday for poor and needy Rs
16,370.00
Mother Teresas home for the
poor and handicapped Rs 5,000.00 Hunger and disease Rs
7,200.00 Archbishops Episcopal Silver
Jubilee Celebrations Rs 25,000.00 from S.F.S.Society.. S.F.S Staff
and Students Rs
33,000.00 Global Cancer Relief (S.F.S
PRIMARY) boys 45,154.00 Helpage India ( S.F.S.
Middle School ) boys 49,038.00. TOTAL
1,88,962.00
PROJECT AN MAJOR REPAIRS
Front Face of the School
building and side facing the park. Rs 4,22,817.00 Toilet block of
Pre-Primary Rs
1,73,040.00 Repairs to Kitchen
block Rs 1,49,937.00 Repairs to Cycle stand Rs 45,800.00 Repairs to S.F.S.Annexe Roof
etc. Rs
80,619.00
Miscellaneous Repairs
Pipeline on big ground Repairs
to office floor,IV C Cleaning school flooring,
opposite canteenroof over III C, Class room
etc Rs
93,888.00 Construction of staircase to
auditorium
Rs 8,27,068.00.TOTAL Rs 17,93,169.00
Works
on grounds & building since Diwali Rs
4,50,000.00
Tarring
of the inner road from Residency Road to Church gate was done by the kind favour
of Mr.Vaswani of N.I.T.and Mr.Ghani-Khan of N.M.C. The inner compound tarring
will be shortly completed.
COMPUTERS
The new
computer lab is built on a place which was a dead space on the first floor at
the right hand side of the school building facing the S F S Cathedral Sacristy
and can now accommodate maximum 60 Computers It has centrally air-cooled
system. 7( PIll) and 1(P IV) Computers were added to this lab. Together, our 3
Computer Labs can hold 100 Computer. You are invited to visit our S.F. S.
Website on the Internet
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2002:
Besides
our Football and Hockey triumphs, S.F.S. made news in some other fields of
success:
1)
E.S.P.N OLYMPAID:
S.F.S. were runners-up in the Zonal Finals at Delhi beating the
Mumbai champions in the semi-finals and losing to the Pune champions in the
finals.
2)
ITALIAN ADVENTURE
Net P.E
M. the local body which promotes Preventive Environmental Management(PEM)
strategies in Asia, with its operative secretariat at Nagpur, chose 4 students
from S. F. S. Manish Bodhankar, Jerome John, Rohit Gadkhel and Mubashir Ahmed
to participate at G . E . Y. C. (Global Environment Youth Convention) held at
Turin in Italy . They presented a paper on “Moving towards sustainable mobility
patterns for the future: Case of Nagpur City” . They were accompanied by Mrs.
Bharti Deshraj.
3)
NAGPUR TERCENTENARY
As part
of Nagpurs Tercentenary celebrations, Floats went down all roads , converging
on Kasturchand Park grounds. S. F . S. arranged one “The Catholic Church in
the service of Nagpur since 1800 with collaboration of 7 other schools from this
zone. The chief organizers for S. F . S . were Mrs . Bharati Deshraj and Mrs .
Joscelyn Fernandes.
4)
NEW AUDITORIUM STAIRCASE
On
Teacher s Day , 2002, we had the blessing of the much needed new staircase to
the S.F.S.Auditorium by the Most.Rev.Dr.Abraham Viruthakulangara, Archbishop of
Nagpur, -- a beautiful honeycomb structure. Here I may record my thanks to Mr.
Zaffar Iqbal, ex-student, for arranging & supervising our construction of
building & ground repairs works.
Conclusions Before I conclude, let me thank you once again for the keen interest
you have been taking in our school welfare and for your moral support. Whatever
our achievements and progress, I myself am conscious of many shortcomings, some
of which are due to factors beyond our control. We appreciate your understanding
and tolerance, we are also open to and welcome your constructive suggestions. We
request your continual prayers and moral support so that we can do our best to
continue the glorious traditions of S. F. S., and produce young men true to our
motto. – “ Dare to be wise”
Thank you
and God bless you.
Principal
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