YES! IT FINALLY HAPPENED!

Ladies & Gentlemen, Presenting to you, The First Ever Alumni Meet of Prabhu Dayal Public School

Hello Everyone

The alumni meet finally happened! Despite all odds the meet did happen as scheduled, on 15th July '06, in the newly renovated Shanti Auditorium in our beloved school, Prabhu Dayal Public School.

Just to give you a quick summary:


Core Team: Dr. Shashank Chauhan, Aman Sareen, Abhisek, Nikhil, Sagar, Rahul, Niket, Monika & Vaibhav
No. of People who had confirmed presence: 125
No. of people who actually showed up: 300+ (After 240 people had already arrived, the core team members stopped taking contributions)
Estimated funds generated (& spent): Rs. 12,500

The Core Team with Das Sir, Anu Ma'am & Mrs. Bhardwaj

Now, needless to say, all the work at the ground was done by Shashank & his team.
Time was short, and things to be done many. Nonetheless, in al this melee, the event, which did have a few shortcomings, was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who was present.







The registration desk was manned by --------. Have a look at all that they had to manage!

The Registration Desk

I am presenting below an edited excerpt from Shashank's post on orkut/yahoo about this event:

Shashank writes that 'making 5000 people dance to his tune (he was the DJ during 'Pulse'-for the uninitiated, 'Pulse' is the annual, and really really rocking, multi-dimentional meet organized by AIIMS and invites participation from over 12000 medical students across India and other SAARC nations) was easier than making 300 people listen to him! Well! Well! For those of you who want to don the mantle of the organizer next year, this is a useful tip indeed.





Shashank (in the black shirt) with Das Sir and teachers.







However, Mrs. Anu Chikara, a PDPS alumna herself, and a teacher in school currently, helped him throughout the event to make the unruly mob listen to instructions every now and then. So, don't panic - help is at hand!:)




That's Mrs. Anu Chikara taking charge

Like I mentioned earlier, there were only a handful of alums working for the meet. This did lead to a few problems - like obvious shortage of manpower in handling the stalls, organizing the musical chairs event, food distribution & procurement, et al. But, for this being the first effort, and that too one attracting overwhelming participation, 'sab khoon maaf':)



People trickled into the auditorium as late as 6 p.m. Well! Well! That's Indian Standard Time for some people:) But as long as they came, 6 p.m. was fine as well!







People trickling in - This is the Shanti Auditorium

Some people didn't get a place to sit!

The class notes were read out as well. Anu Ma'am, Monika & Vaibhav were the ones to initiate this. I sure am glad that this was done since people came to know who was where, doing what!

As it is, many people were surprised to learn that majority of the alumni (class notes also included those who were not present in the meet) are in IT.


The game session followed the Class Notes update. The core team had planned for Tambola & Musical Chairs. Now how these guys managed sooo many people for musical chairs is anyone's guess! Nonetheless, here are the winners both the games (all names to be filled in gradually)
Tambola First (Full House) prize Winner: ------ Won 2 movie tickets to PVR for the Tuesday 7:40 show to 'Golmal'
Tambola Second, Third prize Winners: ---- Won Parker Pens
Musical Chair Winner: ------
Musical Chair Runner-Up: ------



The Open House was really - an Open house! The 2004 batch alums appeared to be in a real 'mastiwala' mood and fully utilized the cordless mike Shashank had brought along. They sang songs - yes yes - songs! 'Purani Jeans', 'Pal' and 'Summer of '69' simply ruled the roost!
Others went around chatting with their teachers. Some students went to their classrooms and clicked pictures there. I am sure they would have loved that classroom now, what with no tensions of a teacher coming in to ask them what they were upto, and questions about Organic Chemistry!

All in all, the general feeling was the everyone enjoyed every bit of their time there. Some students remarked that the school premises have improved a lot! I guess waiting until the Shanti Auditorium was renovated was, after all, a good idea.














Das Sir (Shashank in the background)
Mr. Parshottam Das, Principal of PDPS, remarked, "It was an evening well spent".

I am sure all present had similar views to share! Here's a look at all the teachers present:

(From Left to Right:)
Mrs. Ruchira Panda, Mrs. Anu Chikara, Mrs. Annie Mini George, Mrs. Shubhra Gupta, Mrs. Anita Aggarwal, Ms. Shanno & Mrs. Parminder kaur

In the end, everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and looked forward to participating in the next alumni meet.

















Three cheers for all alumni who participated and made this event a grand success!
Hip Hip Hurray!
Hip Hip Hurray!
Hip Hip Hurray!