Lance Jones celebrates his 90th birthday

4th January 2014 at the open invitation for all Old Cottonians UK to celebrate the 90th birthday party of Lance Jones (L 35-39), wife of late Bobby Reed (R 41-46) Sheila, Maggie & I attended with a large gathering of his relatives and friends in the local pub at Pirton, HERTS. Daughter Lorna and son […]

OCA India Reunion

Date: 9th Feb 2014 Time: 12.30 pm Venue: 1, Sri Aurobindo Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 10016, India. A special menu and catering by ITC, Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi. We hope to have a record attendance! Best regards, BM SINGH SEE BELOW LINK with additional information: Annual OCA Lunch – 9 February 2014 4th March […]

Jai and Joe Joshi’s sister Meera Joshi passed on

My dear sister Meera Joshi passed away Jan 7, 2014. She had cancer. Meera’s daughter and son-in-law in Washington DC are flying to India Jan 9 to offer Hindu prayers and take Meera’s ashes to the Ganga River. Joe Joshi News Editor TV Al Jazeera (English) Doha, Qatar My dear Joe Jai, This is terrible […]

Huppy Grewal of 1963 Batch at Mt. Abu

Prabhsharan Singh Kang and his wife had been to Mt. Abu as guests of the CRPF’s Internal Security Academy. While doing the rounds of the campus and buildings (which for nearly a century used to be the Lawrence School, Mt. Abu) they saw the honours board, with Huppy’s name as the best officer in 1972 in Outdoor activities.  […]

From the wine country of Bordeaux to the Pillars of Hercules . . .

”from the wine country of Bordeaux to the Pillars of Hercules, on the autopista desde Gibraltar hasta Malaga” …The month of November in Sweden is a month of darkness, and for some, time to reflect on the setting of autumn and the onset of winter. It is that time of the year when the windows […]

Gurmukh Singh Gill [C-90] passed away

OC Gurmukh Singh Gill (C-90) aka Boxer Gill , passed away in New Delhi on the 27th Nov 2013. I’ll send more info as it becomes available.  Simratt Singh Grewal EDITOR: We picked a photo of Gurmukh Singh with his family from his FB page. May his family find the strength to bear this loss […]

Ravi Charanji / Curzon 1964-1969 / passed-on

Dear OCs We are saddened to announce that RAVI CHARANJI passed on at New Delhi India this morning after he took ill suddenly and various complications caused multiple organs failure. He is survived by his wife, Kavita, his son and daughter Rohan [also an OC] and Aditi. Kavita and Aditi are in Delhi while Rohan is […]

OCA INDIA AGM, Minutes of Meeting 30/9/2013

Minutes of AGM – 30th September 2013 [34 OCs present at the meeting]: President’s Address – Mr. B.M. Singh welcomed all the OCs present and spoke about certain aspects of the school’s infrastructure which required attention of the members as the funds of the OCA would be used for its augmentation. Minutes of the last […]

School days stories / David Mitchell

In March, 1941, when I was 7 years old, Bill and I had to go away to boarding school at Bishop Cotton’s School in Simla. My mother took us on the first journey by train to Calcutta, an overnight stay in a hotel and then two days of trains up the Ganges valley to Delhi, […]