Happy 96th Birthday Mr. Goss!

We wish you many happy returns of the day Mr. Goss! Thanks to Mrs. Goss for posting a message on Facebook and reminding us! Gurrinder [Indi] Singh Khanna wrote, and sent this photo: How well I remember Mrs Goss. Motherly and so very caring. Ma’am, just want to thank you for seeing me the other […]

Adam Drobot [BCS from 1956-1959]: Found!

Dear All, I am not sure how many of you remember Adam Drobot. I have just located him on the net (30) Education | Adam Drobot | LinkedIn I have downloaded a picture of him from the net. He is an accomplished techy !! His biodata mentions the years at BCS from 1956-1959 Dear Adam, Yesterday, prior […]

Happy birthday, Mr Goss – 94th 

May 3rd 2023 My dear Mr Goss, Warm and sincere wishes on this your 94th (Ninety Fourth) birthday. My friends, I and our respective families wish you a wonderful day. May the years ahead, and may there be many, many more, continue to bring you good health, great happiness and tons of laughter. Looking back […]

Update – people we knew. Message from Mr Goss

Dear All, I received the following message from Mr Ronald Goss I regret to inform you. that Mr. Das Gupta‘s daughter phoned me several months ago to inform me that he had died.  I was sorry to get the news, although it came as no surprise – he sounded very feeble the last time he spoke to me.  […]

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS [and the exchange of emails with Mr and Mrs Goss

16th Dec 2022 Dear family and friends. Ron and I found the isolation over the past three years very tough. Especially Ron who felt that three years of his travelling life was taken away. Ron is 93 and a half, and I turned 83 last month. We did take a short cruise from Vancouver to Alaska on […]

Letter to, and reply from Mr. Goss

Letter to Mr Goss from Vijay Khurana and OCs: My dear Mr Goss, On behalf of my friends, the Old Cottonians, and myself, we wish you every happiness and good health on your 90th birthday. Congratulations. You were instrumental in affecting the lives of so many of us. You taught us a lot of valuable lessons […]

My pet rabbit and Mr. Goss

(Editor’s note: The exchange with Mr Goss is, as expected, lively. Here is an amusing yet poignant incident which seems to have ended happily after 50 years!! Little boys do carry grudges, real or imagined. !! A background introduction is given to lend the correspondence a perspective The intervening mail from Badal inducts a spot […]

Correspondence with Mr. Ronald Goss :

Correspondence between OC Vijay Khurana and Mr. Ronald Goss for your reading pleasure: From: vk@devats.com To: rygoss@hotmail.com; Subject: I am a Cottonian – class of 1963 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:36:43 +0530 Dear Mr Goss,  I am taking the liberty of introducing myself as former student of yours from BCS. I was a boarder and finished with […]