The
Alumni Association meeting of the Department
of Botany was held on 28/11/2004. This meeting
was organized on I short notice as a preliminary
one. About thirty students
including MLA Sri. Johny Nelloor and
Sri. T. K. Ramakrishnan, the President, Nirmala
Alumni Association participated in the meeting.
It was decided to organize another Alumni meeting
by contacting all the students of Botany from
the very beginning.
This
committee took much interest, collected the
addresses of all the students of the Dept. of
Botany and contacted all the students. Thus
a second meeting was organised on 20/3/2005.
About 80 participants were there, I which included
students from 1964 onwards.
The
Alumni gathered were from various parts of
Kerala and they really enjoyed meeting their
old
friends after long years. They discussed the
need for a strong Alumni Association. They also
suggested that regular Botany Alumni Day should
be fixed on the Diwali Day every year I
and
they should bring their families too. A 12 member
executive committee was elected with Mr. Biju
A. Paulose as the President and Miss. Swapna
Chandrasekharan as the secretary. It was indeed
a memorable occasion. |