ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HOLY FAMILY EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION FROM JANUARY 2009 - DECEMBER 2009.

The Holy Family High School Ex-Students Association continued its efforts as a bridge between the school and its Alumni in the year 2009.

The Association had earlier drawn up its association and had pledged to meet at least once a month on the third Sunday of each month at 11.00 am in the school library. Over the period January 2009 – December 2009, this association has met 9 times. And as on December 31st 2009 has 2247 registered members. The latest entrants being 300 members from 2008-09 pass-out batch.

The Ex-Students Association would like to place on record the unstinting support given by Fr. Swamy (Principal), Sister Iona (Vice Principal), Helene George (Teacher), Mrs Bina Varghese (Teacher) & all the teachers of the school, Office staff and peons through out the past year.

John Neelankavil was elected as the President of the Association. Fr. Francis Swamy, the Principal of Holy Family High School, is the Ex-Officio vice-President of the association. Sister Iona (Vice Principal) is a permanent member of the core committee as also is the Headmistress Sister Jacintha Cutinha.

The Core Committee Office Bearers were elected as follows:

President John Neelankavil

Vice – President

Harbinder Singh

Other Core Committee Active members

Secretary Biju Jose Joint Secretary

Raj Gite Joseph Nathan, Cecil Fernandes, Pawan Pruthi, Lakhbeer Singh, Ramesh Waghela, Sandeep Narayan, Daniel, Reyaz Malik, Titmus Rodrigues

Treasurer Ganesh Krishnan

Joint Treasurer

Margaret Vaz

Some of the highlights of the activities from January 2009 to December 2009 are as follows:

1) Vocational Guidance Program and Career Counseling – Your association organized a Vocational guidance program in August’2009 in the school Hall. Ms. Shailaja Mulay, a professional Vocational Guidance and an expert

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counselor, conducted this program. The program was a huge success judging by the attendance of parents and students of Std Xth. 132 English medium and 105 Marathi medium students attended the program. The speaker gave details on the choices available for students after finishing school. Basic faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, post graduation courses and career prospects were covered. Subsequently a written Aptitude test was arranged for the student in the school. A final counseling with each student and their parents was conducted.

2) Inter School Inspirational stories competition– Your association organized Inter-School Inspirational stories competition on 6th Sept 2009. This year being the silver jubilee of the marathi medium it was a combined competition of both English and Marathi medium schools. Teams from 9 schools from the Andheri & Vile Parle participated in the competition. The Rolling Shield was won by Holy Family High School and individual prizes were won by students from other neighboring schools. This time your association was able to procure sponsorship for the event from R K SWAMY BBDO.

3) Adopt a child and Nutrition program – The nutrition program now provides breakfast to 30 students. The program is running successfully for the last few years. In the year 2009 year the program offered breakfast to students from January to April & from August to December.

4) Retirement of School Staff – Mr Rajaram Essai retired in the year 2009 after 42 years of glorious service. Cecil Fernandes had attended the farewell ceremony . A token amount by cheque was presented to Mr Rajaram Essai as a souvenir for their service towards the school and their students.

5) Holy Family Ex-Students Website – In December 2006, the association tied up with an application service provider to launch its very own website – www.holyfamilyexstudents.org . A basic website was up and running. However it was not being maintained due to lack of technical support personnel. We would like to continue with the website, and would appeal to members to come forward and help in maintaining it.

Sd/-President

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