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CLASS
XII FAREWELL 2009 AT ISM
Indian
School Muscat accorded a memorable farewell at a
function held at its New Multipurpose Hall on
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
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The
programme began with a symbolic handing over of lighted
candles by the Senior Students’ Council to their
junior counterparts. The significant achievements of the
Students Council were highlighted which include the
organization of ‘Parikrama’, the music extravaganza
that generated an amount in excess of R.O. 20,000/- for
the cancer patients of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
and an unprecedented raising of fund for the
rehabilitation of the Orissa flood victims.
Assistant
Boys’ Dean Gaurav Vinayak Honavar welcomed Principal
Mr. Achuthan Madhav, Vice Principals Mr. N.C.
Vijayachandra, Mr. S.I. Shareef and Mr. Anand Prabhu and
thanked the Class XII students for accepting their
invitation. The Principal along with the Vice
Principals, Boys’ Dean Aditya Kurian and Girls’ Dean
Nikita Benson lighted the lamp and inaugurated Farewell
2009.
Students
of class XI staged a variety of music and dance
performances resounding their feeling of inseparable
friendship. Representatives from each section of Class
XII recollected their sweet memories about the school
and thanked their teachers for their relentless support
and guidance. They were given mementos by their
respective class teachers during the function.
The
much awaited award ceremony organized by class XI
enthralled the outgoing students as some of them were
honoured for their outstanding calibre and personality.
Boys’ Dean Aditya Kurian and Girls’ Dean Nikita
Benson were adjudged for the most coveted awards Mr. and
Miss ISM respectively. Recipients of other awards are
Akshay Badrinathan (Sportsman 2009) and Disha Sadanand
Amin (Sportswoman 2009), Angad Singh Atwal and Jerryes
Pious Wisely (Mr. Talented) and Shalaka Pai (Ms
Talented), Angad Singh Atwal (Mr. Personality) and Nitya
Balakrishna (Ms Personality), George Cherian (Hidden
Gem), Savio Derrick Rodrigues (Mr. Congeniality) and
Raisa Ellen Carmen Gomes (Ms Congeniality), Jerryes
Pious Wisely (Mr. Genius) and Noopur Vinayak Joshi (Ms
Genius). Certificates were also given to the first and
second runners up in each of the above categories.
The
school also declared its awards in four categories: Best
Sports Personality Boys – Aditya Kurian (Winner) and
Rohan Negi (Runner up), Best Sports Personality Girls
– Disha Sadanand Amin (Winner) and Shalaka Pai (Runner
up). In the Best All Rounder of the year boys’
category, Aditya Kurian is the winner and Jerryes Pious
Wisely, the runner up. In the girls’ Best All Rounder
winner is Shalaka Pai and the runner up, Sowmya Vijayan.
Principal
exhorted the outgoing students to uphold the values they
have learned from the school. He also wished them best
of luck in their Board examination and hoped that they
would come out with flying colours.
Boys’
Dean Aditya Kurian and Girls’ Dean Nikita Benson in
their reply speeches thanked profusely the
Principal and all the teachers who painstakingly taught
them academic virtues and moulding
them to young adults, who can boldly face the challenges
of the world. They also thanked their juniors for
felicitating them with the wonderful farewell function.
All class XII students took a pledge, as Aditya Kurian
pronounced the words, that they would be ambassadors of
peace and brotherhood wherever they go and promised to
uphold and promote the values instilled in them by their
teachers and parents.
The
programme was compered by Taha Shah and Rachita Roy. The
function ended with the vote of thanks proposed by
Assistant Girls’ Dean Anjana Nanda.
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