Curzon House photos : 1954 & 1962

Dear All, RS Sodhi has been kind enough to loan me photo album and I am now forwarding for your records, the Curzon House photographs for the for the years 1954 (Amar Singh Gill as House Captain) and the one for 1962 when RS was House Captain. Incidentally Amar Singh Gill became a commercial pilot. […]

Old Cottonian “Bambi” S K Majumdar (batch 54-55) has passed away

I have some more sad news – please place on the Web Margaret took the call last evening & I have been trying to make contact with Susan from this morning – finally. Old Cottonian “Bambi” S K Majumdar (batch 54-55) has passed away, struck down by a heart attack on 9th June at his […]

Lefroy House 1954 and a table tennis game in progress circa 1954

Dear All, I am forwarding, as attachments to this mail, two photographs forwarded to me by Baldev Hundal. His comments are indicated at the bottom of this mail. Boring table tennis!! I had requested Baldev to identify the faces in the Lefroy House photograph. His efforts have enabled me to piece a little more in […]

MESSAGE OF THE CLASS OF 1954 – those who attended the Sesquicentennial

This is the message from the ten members of the 1954 class who gathered at Shimla from the four corners of the globe for the sesquicentennial celebrations of Bishop Cotton School.

55 Years Ago, the school equipped us with the qualities of character, courage, resource, honesty and dedication of purpose and sent us out into the world to take our places as citizens of society. After 55 years we have now come back to compare notes on what we did, where we went and to tell our “Alma Mater” that where ever we went we tried to live up to the expectations of this great Institution, the BCS.

These are the individual stories of the boys of the 1954 class who having battled against overwhelming odds to establish their niches in their own spheres and have come to pay homage to their Alma Mater and tell their stories……

Class of 1954 Golden Jubilee 2004

THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE CLASS OF 1954 23-26 SEP 2004, BCS, SIMLA 50 eventful years have mellowed the Class of 54- a class of 29 boys for the Senior Cambridge. The fairytale reunion coincided with Speech Day from 23-26 Sept 04 in School. Most of  the class had left at the age of 16 & […]