Abu Oriole
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Scene 1963-1972 |
11/25/2009
This update originated from an inquiry I made
with Chris Joseph('56) about photographs mentioned in the obituary of
his classmate Trevor Gilby.
The photographs are embedded in the PDF diaries of his last year in
school, which are located in the Articles
section of www.dgrc.ca/sms. But their
thumbnail size and indirect access do not do justice to this treasure
trove of memories of that era. Thank you Chris for allowing me add them
to this site and providing the details behind each picture.
08/01/2009
Thanks to the following persons for the photos
in
this
update:
- Craig Philips(2001) - His last two years in school and a
final trip to Mt. Abu in 2007 before emigrating to Canada.
- John Whelan - February trip to India after
25 years that included a couple of days at SMS and meeting two of his
1971
ex-students.
- Bob Amore(1957) - Made a stop in Toronto during his round-the-world
vacation in May and had a reunion with other 50's ex-students.
02/01/2009
Pictures from my "pilgrimage" to the "Holy
Land"  during the week of
Christmas 2008.
With many thanks to John Whelan for his tremendous hospitality and for
letting me raid his photo albums for pictures of people with a St.
Mary's connection.
08/25/2008
- Some entries from
Alvito Viegas' ('71) school autograph book.
- 10 year reunion pictures of Batch '97 from Milton Ribeiro ('97). It
was held during Parents Week 2007 in Mt. Abu.
- 70's ex-students partying around the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA).
04/13/2008
Parent's Week October 2007
photographs contributed by Bob Amore('57).
05/20/2007
Amita Patel (Sophia, 1994)
sent me pictures of her January holiday trip to Mt. Abu.
11/04/2006
Great contributions by Val
Noronha(1973) of the Class of '73 in their last few weeks at SMS and at
a mini-reunion in Los Angeles.
09/01/2006
The Abu Oriole section is
updated with issues from 1977 to 1981. Andre Rasquinha ('81) mailed me
these magazines from
Australia earlier this summer. Older Orioles
are out of print. The few that must exist, are priceless for the
memories and recollections that they evoke of our childhood years in
SMS. So they are quite understandably hard to part with. Thank you all
the more Andre
for your generous contribution!
08/01/2006
- Added New
photographs.
- The Abu Orioles with the asterisk have been
updated to display the dude's name when you mouse over his visible
area. Try it first on the tie/chest and then the face. My memory
and Val Noronha's Student Directory helped
me with the names, but there's still a few unknown. Please email me artb956@aol.com the names of the "?" or
single letter first name, if you recognize them (or the ones I got
wrong).Thanks.
12/18/2005
Added New photographs.
For optimal viewing set your resolution to 1024 x 768 pixels:
- Minimize all apps to view the desktop: Press and hold the Window key.
Press M.
- Right click mouse -> Properties -> Settings Tab -> Screen
Resolution.
08/21/2005
Some messages
posted on the Yahoo Group got me
thinking about music in SMS during my time and how I'd become such a
music afficianado, well...er, headbanger! Added the Music Scene
1963-1972.
06/01/2005
- More
photographs contributed mainly by Sunil
D'Souza(1990) and Bob Amore(1957).
- Since there are now
close to 400 photographs on the site, frequent
visitors can follow the New
trail to the latest additions. It will be cleared or updated on the
first of each
month.
05/01/2005
Added photographs
in
1967, 1968, 1969 courtesy of Ainsley Priestman(1969).
01/20/2005
The 2004 section
has
been updated with photographs from the SMS Platinum Jubilee
celebrations held during
Parent's
Week (10/24-10/29).
The school put up a fabulous show! The organization, events and
hospitality to ex-students was superb! Highlights of the week included:
- Meeting many
ex-students -
classmates (Daivat Singh, Anil Babbar, K(?).Asarsa), guys during my
years there (Satish Almaula('63), Edward Alva('67), Walter Aubert('67),
Ainsley Priestman('69, my house Captain), David Starr('70), Satnarayan
Rathore('71), the Jani clan('70-'76), Dhanjay Singh('73), Baljeet
Singh('73), Roland Coelho('74), Mahavir Rathore('75), Cornel
Roxburgh('76), Leonard Annett('77), Sunil Noronha('78) and several
others from before and after my time.
- A school building back
to
it's original granite facade. Thanks to Daivat Singh('72) for donating
the labor and cost of a 6 month project to get rid of that fugly
yellow!!! It does look kind of new, but I guess a couple of monsoons
will take care of that.
- The Annual Concert and
variety entertainment. Held on the tennis courts on two evenings, with
a sound system that ex-students on a walk
could hear all the way to Tiger Path/Lime-Orchard!!. The rains held off
and we had perfect cool evenings for outdoorsy functions! Afterward,
fireworks
over the main building which was outlined with lights!
- The "Back to School"
event
was a riot!! - and the special breakfast was great! They made the
mistake of electing me "Principal" to conduct the daily inspection :-)
In class, (need his name please) taught us a nifty way of doing
arithmetic operations on long numbers within seconds; but that was the
only learning that morning!
- Climbing Plummy with a
terrific bunch of guys from '95-'96. (Donald, thanks for hanging back
and making it look like you were having the hardest time getting up
there!!). Apparently, another group of past and present students, AND
CB's (ok, I'll rat - Ward and DeSa), flouted the rules and conquered
Golden Horn once again!!
- Swimming in the new
pool,
instead of School Lake/Shallow Bay. It was great not to have cow cakes
floating in front of your face when you surfaced from a dive, but I
kind of missed the jumping off rocks and feeling moss under your feet
in the shallows.
- Ex-students 200m
race
won by Bob Amore('57). It started off with a 10 foot lead for the
earlier batches. Word was passed around to "let the old guys win", so I
thought it was between me and Anil Babbar! Then someone whizzed by us
like a
hornet!! Old?? Talk about ringers!!!
- Dinner/Dance at the Hilltop
Hotel. It is opposite the Tourist Bungalow on the road to town. They
forgot to invite the Sophia girls, at least the senior class ones, so
there weren't enough women to pair with. :-( But the live band and DJ
got the floor packed nonetheless!!
Hope the pictures capture
it...
06/20/2004
- Added "Zoom+/-"
function to the Oriole Viewer.
- Added a few photos in 2003.
04/04/2004
The Photographs
link is
now enabled. The frames are resizeable and can be restored to the
default setting by clicking the browser Refresh button.
You can see the pictures magnified by following these browser dependant
steps:
- IE 6.0 and higher: Drag the photo to the Address (URL) bar.
Then click the magnification icon. Click the Back button when you're
done.
- Netscape 6.0 and higher: Drag the photo to a blank section of
the tab bar. Move the mouse over this image and
click the magnifier.
Thanks to all the contributors for the photographs.
02/19/2004
This is hopefully the first
install of several issues of the SMS Abu
Oriole magazine.
I discovered them in a box a couple of years ago in badly deteriorating
condition. As you will see several covers and pages are missing. When
it seems to prematurely say "This is the last page!", it really is and
not a bug in your browser :-) To make matters worse, some kids I used
to know had decided to "enhance" some of the pictures with
moustaches, hairstyles, autographs and other artistry!
But it was a blast to see the faces of people, remembered and
forgotten, from all those years. So drawing inspiration (and major
plagiarism) from Val Noronha('73) and his fabulous
site, I decided to
scan the magazines,
clean them up and offer them for public viewing.
Thanks to Alvito Viegas('71), Keith Angelo('72), Marc Correa('72) and
Mark Fernandes('74) for contributions to get this site and domain,
which will be available for at least the next two years.
If anyone has issues of other years (or the missing pages of these)
please contact me artb956@aol.com. I'd also like to put
photographs under the
Photos link..
So here it is! Hope you enjoy reviewing them as much as I did.
-Ashley D'Souza(1972)
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