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Wednesday, 18 December 1996

Eugene Power

I was associated with Loyola School for forty-one years and it seems like only yesterday that I arrived there in 1954 on the Bombay Mail at about 2.00 o’clock in the morning, while the Jesuit Fathers were still in the arms of morpheus. Fr. Dincher picked me up at the Tatanagar Railway Station. The date was Feb. 22, George Washington's birthday. I had embarked on the S.S. United States from New York on Feb. 12, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Therefore, both days were blessed by the two greatest presidents of the United States.

I was welcomed by the bright city lights of Jamshedpur and the brand new, spick and span, dazzlingly bright Loyola building. It had just opened for classes in January 1954, but some work was still going on in cleaning up the building and putting the final water-proofing surface on the terrace.

I remember ...

Wednesday, 18 December 1996

Joseph Currie

My dear (old) friends and (former) colleagues,

What a great joy and privilege to be invited to share some of my memories of Loyola School on this graced occasion of its celebrating its half-century mark — golden years indeed!

Who could forget Loyola Sports Days and March-pasts, the highlight of the Jamshedpur winter? Or the picnics at Rivers’ Meet and Dimna Lake? Or the JYOTI leadership camps each December? Or the old boxrooms of Loyola’s initial make-shift hostel?

Loyola, I salute you...

Wednesday, 18 December 1996

Eric Cassel

When I graduated from Loyola in 1958, I was just plain Eric Cassel. Thirteen years later after studies in Hazaribagh, Bombay, Kodaikanal and Pune, I was ready to celebrate MY FIRST MASS on Loyola’s Red Stage along with Fathers Joe Lacey and Rocky Vaz, as a JESUIT PRIEST. Sixteen years later, I was appointed PRINCIPAL of Loyola. I had come a full circle : STUDENT to PRINCIPAL.

Regardless of what I have been and am since I left Loyola, the LOYOLEAN in me still remains — firm as ever. The ideals that Loyola instilled in me, the values that Loyola imparted to me, are still with me. Therein lies the greatness of Loyola School; therein lies Loyola’s ability to make you different from others; make you truly a person to serve God and your fellow beings selflessly.

History

Wednesday, 18 December 1996
Quinn Enright 1945: In a sleepy little township situated around the then 37 years old steel plant, amidst a growth of trees, lies the Chota Nagpur Club. It has one main building and a large campus in which there are two tennis courts . The members are mostly British. Not too far from it, across the field, is the Sacred Heart School; co-education had just begun. Loyola is yet to be born …
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Reminiscences of a grateful student

Wednesday, 18 December 1996

Cherian Thomas

I always had a desire to write about the school, and 38 years after leaving it, I got my chance. All my boyhood memories of school life, of friends, of teachers, of Jamshedpur gushed up from the sub-cortial area of my brain. How do you describe 10 years of your life in a thousand odd words? Would anyone be interested in what the Senior Cambridge class of ‘58 did that was different from the class of ‘57 or ‘56 or ‘59? But there was one question that nagged me the most, and that was, “What will Fr. Eugene Power think of my article?”

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