Old students go down memory lane

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Old students go down memory lane


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KORAPUT: For B.R. Jagannath, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Care Hospital, Hyderabad, it was a heart- touching moment to meet people who had risen to great heights in their lives with their roots grown with V.S.Vidyalaya at Sunabeda in Koraput district at some point or the other in their lives. He was on the school premises on Sunday to attend the first-ever alumni meeting organised jointly by some former students and the school management.
While joined as a student of Standard VI in 1967, Dr. Jagannath had spent a good number of days in the school before leaving for higher studies in 1975. The school was in its formative stages and was known then as DAV Public School, Dr. Jaganath added. There were only four students in his batch and had hopes to meet them in the meeting after so many years. But even though they had not reached the venue, meeting other students who had similar roots at the school like Sabid Sayed, a doctor in Indian Army at Gangtok, was one of the rare moments in his life, he added.
There were more surprises even from overseas with friends reaching from as far as USA, Malaysia and Gulf countries even though it was for the first time that such an event was organised, S.S. Pujari, vice-principal of the school, said. While the students of the school were inspired to meet so many successful personalities on a single platform, an inner confidence to grow high despite living in a remote corner of the country was instilled in their mind, he said.






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