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| Calling all Alumni
We welcome all in India and abroad to the Alumni Community of Adarsh Public School (ACAPS). Due to a strong motivation and popular demand by the outgoing students of the past few years, the school laid down the charter of its Alumni Association body on 26th October 2003. The students hailed such an effort by the management. The role of the Alumni Relations’ Office headed by Ms. Shalini Sharma, and ex-student and a part of the faculty now, would be to facilitate the ongoing relation of the Alumni with the Adarsh family. The Alumni Relations Office in the Vikas Puri branch itself would take local responsibility for creating and maintaining networks of the students, thus, would create programs or activities to support the ex-students of the School in developing and maintaining links particularly into the careers of their interest and later into the business community. Regular social functions would be held to complement and strengthen bonds among fellow batch mates. Each quarter the Alumni Relations Office will send out a News Bulletin via email to all the members of the Alumni Community of Adarsh Public School with information on the achievements of your School, upcoming local and international activities and profiles of fellow batch mates so that our ex-students who are overseas can still be informed and be made aware of listings of their fellow batch mates. As part of maintaining your relationship with Adarsh Public School, we are putting together the Alumni Community of Adarsh Public School Directory soon. This directory would list your contact details, current employment or educational qualifications. This directory would be available to your fellow batch mates, teaching staff and the current students of the School. Welcoming you once again, the school would be very proud to have you join the ranks of our membership. We look forward to meeting you at some point in the future. The following are some of the activities and their pictures with ACAPS members in action. Workshop
on ‘Emotional Intelligence’ The ACAPS Governing Body led by the Chairperson, the Chairman of the school, Mr. P.K. Sahgal, organized a workshop on ‘Emotional Intelligence’ on 7th August, 2004. Dr. Samir Parikh, Consultant Psychiatarist, Max Hospital was the Guest Speaker on the occasion.
Mrs. Pooja Malhotra (Secretary) welcomed the esteemed guest and read out the report of the previous activities organized by ACAPS. The workshop witnessed the reunion of the old students of the school. The topic was dealt delicately and the session proved to be an immense success as Dr. Parikh substantiated it with examples from day to day life. He emphasized on the need of emotional intelligence in these days of stress and tension and also suggested ways to achieve it.
He said that life is like a “Pizza” & one should cook the whole Pizza. The pieces in the Pizza are like facets of our life – one deals with careers, other with family, social relationship etc. If our relationship with another person (XYZ) affects our studies, relation with family members or hampers any other facet, then it is better to leave that relationship. It was followed by a query session where in the participants expressed their concern through various questions.
Ms. Anushree Kamath, Vice-President of ACAPS, proposed the vote of thanks and stressed that such workshops should be conducted frequently.
A Basketball match on the new Basketball cum Roller Skating Rink between the Alumni and current Student Council members, followed after the session. New Year Bash The vibrant ex-students of the school celebrated the season of peace, love and enjoyment when they gathered for the second Alumni meet on December 27, 2003.
It was truly an occasion for the members of the growing Adarsh family, not only to share their joy with each other but also as a symbolic expression of their togetherness.
Mrs. Pooja Malhotra, Secretary of the Alumni Community of Adarsh Public School, delivered the welcome speech and formally introduced the charter members. The atmosphere of the fully packed auditorium was charged through the medium of songs when the melodious Bollywood numbers were sung during the various rounds of Antakshari. Lady luck smiled at many of them when they played Tambola.
The get together was turned into an action packed fiesta and everybody danced to the groovy music after enjoying a sumptuous dinner in the form of a varied buffet.
They also won various prizes under the Best Dressed and Best Dancer categories and proved their substance. The vote of thanks was presented by Mr. Vipin Gupta, President of the Alumni Association who sincerely admired everyone’s presence in spite of the chilly weather. Charter
Meet
‘ACAPS’ as it has been christened is the brainchild of Mr. Prashant Sahgal and is a much awaited plenitude of the persevere requests by the old students of the school. The ceremony commenced with the ‘Lighting of the Lamp’ by the Chief Guest, Respected Past Distt. Governor Rtn. Ranjan Dhingra and the members of the Managing Committee of the school followed by the floral welcome of the Chief Guest by Chairman sir, Mr. P.K Sahgal, Madam Principal Mrs. Usha Sahgal and the President of the ACAPS, Mr. Vipin Gupta. There was a sense of immense pride and at the same time some thawed hearts as the old students were taken through a journey of what’s new in their school and what added to the joy was the “school-song” presented by the choir.
Mr. Prashant Sahgal accentuated on the motto of the forum which symbolizing the ‘coming together of the old and the new members of the APS family to ignite the lamp of togetherness and harmony’, while introducing the members of the governing body.
President, Mr. Vipin Gupta expressed his gratefulness towards the school on behalf of all the members to have taken a step in the direction to unite all Adarshians. Chairman Sir, who is also the Chairperson of the ACAPS, voiced out the sentiments of all teachers as he commemorated the days of these ‘grown-ups’ as ‘kids’. Rtn. Ranjan Dhingra’s words of wisdom and encouragement will indeed remain a perpetual source for one and all.
The exciting games were really a pleasant surprise and all enjoyed thoroughly acknowledging the fact that ‘coming back’ to school was so much fun. We thank the school for giving us an opportunity to reunite and repay something for everything we are today. Ms.
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