BISHOP HEBER HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Teppakulam, Tiruchirappalli.

Years Frus
Nisi tra

The Quarter-Millennial Year Souvenir

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1762-2012
Convenor, 250th year Annual Day Celebrations
Dr. A. JOHN DORAI, M.A., B.D., M.Th., Ph.D.,
Correspondent

Convenor, 250th year Annual Day Celebrations

Dr. M. ANBURAJ, M.A., M.Com., M.Ed., M.B.A., Ph.D.,
Headmaster

Editor
Y. ROOSEVELT, M.A., M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., P.G.D.P.M.
B.T. Asst. in History

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V. VELLAISAMY, B.A., D.T.P.,

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CONTENTS
Page No.

1. Muhammed Ali Khan - 01

2. Major Preston - 03
3. History and Geography of our School - 10
4. Chapel - 33
5. The Choir - 34
6. Fine Arts - 35
7. Heber Sunday’s School - 36
8. Library - 37
9. Staff Association - 38
10. Tamil Literary Association - 42
11. Literary Contribution - 44
12. Visitors with Exemplary Distinction - 46
13. Amazing Facts of our Institutions - 56
14. Sports - 61
15. N.C.C. - 69
16. Scout - 75
17. JRC & RSP - 79
18. Heber’s Heritage - 80
19. Hostels - 83
20. Tour - 91
21. N.S.S. - 94 I
22. National Green Corps - 98
23. Articles - 99
24. Feather Friends in Bishop Heber’s Nest - 134 A
25. ∂[ÆD ÷[ÆD - 134 C
26. Rarest of the Rare - 134 G
27. The Quarter-Millennial Year Teams - 176 A
28. Complimentary - Advertisements -
29. Art - 177
30. Reminiscence and Record- breaking events - 188 A

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HIS HIGHNESS MUHAMMED ALI KHAN
(Nawab of Carnatic 1765 – 1795)

The Nawab kingdom was

established by Aurangarzeh in the year
1690. Muhammed Ali was the fifth
Nawab in the Ordinal list of the rulers
in Arcot. He was made as an independant
ruler in 1765. His rule was long and
mostly peaceful compared with the other.
He had a good relationship with the
English. The growing influences of the
English and the French and their colonial
wars had a huge impact on the carnatic.
Hyder Ali, supported by French, imposed
a heavy fine which placed him in heavy debt. As a result he had to
surrender much of his territory to the East India company. So the
English supported and protected the Nawab and also Trichirappalli.
His constant rivals are Hyder Ali of Mysore, the Marathas, and Nizam
of Hydrabad.

During his reign he had to take part in many wars with the
support of English and got victory in those battle. All the Majors and
Commanders – in – Chief, Captains were very close to him.

Nawab Mohammed Ali could be very courteous, immensely hospitable

always emulating English customs and manners, such as taking breakfast
and tea, sitting on chair rather than cushion. Because of the relationship
with the English especially Major Preston and Newton.

For the defence of his territory, the Nawab paid to the British
4,00,000 pagodas (140000000 rupees per year) because 10 battalions
of the Madras army were stationed here to protect the fort of Trichinoploy.
The British derived income from his jagirs ie… land grants.
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Our school is in the status of number 1
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On the other hand Nawab played an important role in the Westminister
politics. During the election, he influenced the England politics. They
acclimatized themselves because of their intimacy with the English. With
the result that a group of above a dozen members of parliament formed a
discernible “Arcto interst” as it was called. So the relationship with
English in inland and abroad was good. So, in Trichinopoly also he
had a close contact with Major Preston, who took part in Madura expedition
and believed him fully.
At the right time in the year 1762, Major Preston invited Rev.Schwartz
and influenced Nawab to have service in the fort itself then he bought
Nawab’s land and helped to construct Christ Church and a school with
in the fort wall. Nawab generously donated and permitted to do the
ministry in his territory.
That Mohammad Ali Khan breached his promise failing to
surrender Trichinopoly to Hyder Ali in 1751 was the root cause of many
confrontations between Hyder and the British. God’s plan had been
worked out and the good news was spreaded amidst incessant confusing
wars between the forces, but God alone won the war.
Nawab of Arcot, died of gangrene development in Madras on 13th
October 1795 his mortal remains were buried outside the gate of the
Gunbad of Shan Chand Mastan, Trichinoploy.

‘WE SALAM YOU’

Source :
1. Records of ORME
2. Bishop Heber School Magazine April 1926, P.20
3. Nawab of Arcot

Guidance to Greak King

“ People will pay you as many compliments as you may wish but if you expect more you find
yourself disappointed. But true and genuine hope in God. Almighty never disappoints us. There
is not an unhappy man on earth, but he owes his misery to his pride. Pride hinders us from
hearkening to good advice which our friends offer us, Pride makes us deaf, but true humility
enables us to make the best use of friendly instructions. Pride makes us indolent, so that we
are loth to exert ourselves. I shall be happy to hear from the Rev.Gericke that you hate and
detest stubbornness, idleness, and haughtiness. If you will read and ponder the proverbs
written by Solomon, you will be instructed in the points” “God is willing to make us happy, but
He desires likewise that we should choose the path that leads to happiness”.
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz - A.D.1795
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2 Schools are named for his remembrance Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School.
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MAJOR PRESTON
During the year between 1732 and 1760 in Trichinopalli continuous war
went off ten miles around and many Majors took charge in this wars in support of
Nawab of Arcot, Mohammad Alikhan. Among the Majors, Lawrance, Dalton, cailaud,
Joseph smith and Preston were very brave and efficient to lead the warfare. Among
the English Officers, three of them identified as “Best Officers”. They were major
cailaud, Preston and Joseph smith who took strenuous effort to save Trichirappalli.
Major Preston was able and intelligent man and he was evidently a very
strict officer, very loyal, brave, modest and God-fearing Christian. He was assigned
to suppress Yusuf Khan in Madurai.
In Mr.Kamal Hassan’s film ‘Maruthanayagam’, he is a hero and Major
Preston is a villain but here Preston was a hero and Yusuf Khan was a rebellion.
Maruthamayaham pillai alias yusuf khan in the early fifties joined to support
English army under stringer Lawrence and Robert Clive in the year 1752. In the
year 1754, yusuf khan saved Lawrance in Trichy. So Yusuf Khan’s fame reached
to St.George Fort and the English officials recognished him and permit him to
collect taxes in Madurai and Tinnevely district for English in the year 1757. At
that time pulithevan and Mafus Khan took war against English and the English
Army was unable to face without the help of Yusuf Khan so Majors Preston and
Cailaud called Yusuf Khan and seek his help and won the war. So the English on
2 nd March 1759 gave 300000 rupees to Khan for his support.
Reasons for war against Yusuf Khan :
1. Yusuf Khan demanded 5 lac rupees for the first year, and second year onwards
6 lac rupees from English in Feb 28th 1759 and the English officials has accepted
this demand.
2. When Nawab was suffering from Jaundice in March, Yusuf Khan was asked
to go back Madurai
3. On 25th April Preston issued the order to Khan, to go through Pudukkottai
route. But he hesitated. Preston firmly refused to cancel the order.
4. In the year 1761, June, Governor Pigot wrote a letter to Khan to pay the tax
collection to the Nawab and the company flag should be hoisted in Madurai
and Tirunelveli Forts.
Immediate Cause
On that day Khan pulled down the company flag and unfurled his flag and
was ready to oppose the English army.

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There are institutions renamed as Bishop Heber and renowned still are 3
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In this crisis Major Preston collected the news about the number of soldiers
in Yusuf Khan’s army and his financial position and sent the details secretly to
company on 7 th March . Already the first attempt made by English against on
18th Jan 1764. When Preston sending the messages to Madras, the fire accident
in the garrison of thousand pillar hall in Rock fort took place.
In the midst of tension Preston helped Rev.Schwartz to get permission
from Nawab to construct An English and Tamil School near the Madras gate
near the northern wall of the fort of Trichinopoly. (now it is known as Mangai
Mahalir Hostel & Christ Church Cemetry).
On 14th July Preston left Trichirapalli and received the message on 19 th
August 1763, England and France made a Treaty on 10th August 1763. Preston
adviced the company not to take an assault. But they refused (preston letter
dated 07-12-1763). Instead of Marchant sterenson and Bernard, Preston was
sent to lead the army. On 26th May 1764 the war went with heavy attack. Preston
bravely fought at the fort at Madurai, On 26th June 1764 Preston was shot
dead by Yusuf Khan, when Preston tried to climb the fort wall.
The major, who took effort to invite Rev.Schwartz, who initiate to collect
money to construct church and school passed away.
Major Preston invited Schwartz in keeping with the advice of his friend,
Major Berg, who was also a major serving for the English in Tanjore to console
and comfort the soldiers and lead them in christ’s way.
“We Salute you Sir”
Source :
1. \VT´[ \Ú>ÂVBÔD, #ϬÔV>V¸, ®¸.ºÔ. ¸kVt
2. Trichirappalli District Gazetter.
3. The Government of India, Gazette, Education. P.26
4. With clive in India - G.A. Henty.
5. Diary of Anantharengapillai.
6. Records of ORME & INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY.
7. Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School Teppakulam - Library
8. Bishop Heber College - Library
9. St. Joseph’s College - Library
10. St. John’s Higher Secondary School - Library

40 Years of reminiscence:
“ How many thousand, benefits have I received from a merciful God!. How grateful I ought to have
been! But Alas! I must say, “Forgive all my multiplied iniquities. For the sake of Jesus”
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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4 Higher Secondary schools are the feathers on the Diocesan crown.
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THE BEST SCHOOL OF ALL
It’s good to see the School we knew,
The land of youth and dream,
To greet again the rule we knew
Before we took the stream:
Though long we’ve missed the sight of her,
Our hearts may not forget;
We’ve lost the old delight of her,
We keep her honour yet.
We’ll honour yet the School we knew,
The best School of all:
We’ll honour yet the rule we knew,
Till the last bell call.
For, working days or holidays,
And glad or melancholy days,
They were great days and jolly days
At the best School of all.
The stars and sounding vanities
That half the crowd bewitch,
What are they but inanities
To him that treads the pitch?
And where’s the wealth I’m wondering
Could buy the cheers that roll
When the last charge goes thundering
Beneath the twilight goad?
The men that tanned the hide of us,
Our daily foes and friends,

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In 1931-1932 additional sections were opened in our school, the No. is 5
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They shall not lose their pride of us,

Howe’er the journey ends.
Their voice, to us who sing of it,
No more its message bears,
But the round world shall ring of it
And all we are be theirs.
To speak of Fame a venture is,
There’s little here can bide,
But we may face the centuries,
And dare the deepening tide:
For though the dust that’s part of us
To dust again be gone,
Yet here shall beat the heart of us
The School we handed on!
We’ll honour yet the School we knew,
The best School of all:
We’ll honour yet the rule we knew,
Till the last bell call.
For, working days or holidays,
And glad or melancholy days,
They were great days and jolly days
At the best School of all.
- Adopted from
Poems New and Old - Henry Newbolt

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Slum areas were adopted for Schwartz community outreach programme No. is 7
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8 letter name ‘schwartz’ means ‘black’ born is Sonnenberg for the Parent George and Grunerin.
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Greeting Message

C.STANLEY B.Sc., M.A., M.Ed.,

(The Best Teacher Awardee 2007 – 2008)
Former Headmaster
59, Movendar Nagar,
Trichy -2.

As we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the school my heart is

raised in praise and thanks giving to God Almighty for all that he had
been to us and to the society through this institution.

In one of his letters, Rev.C.F.SCHWARTZ says “Oh! May the faithful

God grant to me a feeble creature his powerful grace more and more,
that I may spend my days to his glory, and the benefit of my neighbour!
Without Him we can do nothing”.

I wish the function a grand success and on this happy occasion

I congratulate the Management, Headmaster, Staff and Students. I also
wish all those people connect with this Institution “THE BEST OF LUCK”
in their Educational endeavor.

C.STANLEY

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Our school has major blocks numbering in 9
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF OUR SCHOOL
Christian Fredrick Schwartz, a german missionary was received at
Cuddalore and invited him and informed the need of Tanjore ministry by
Rev. Johann Christian Widebrock came to Tanjore on captain Berg’s invitation
for the purpose of conducting services for 48th regiment of English Force,
at the Fort of Tanjore. Mr.Hudleston, Col.Stuart, commander of the garrison
were also there. At that time the English officers longing for the word of
Christ so often they communicated with letters about the need of worship.
Once captain Berg informed Major Preston about Schwartz, immediately
Major Preston and Newton, brother to the learned Bishop Newton had
invited the missionary for conducting service in the garrison at the fort of
Trichinopoly. So, the visionary came and preached God’s word to the English
soldiers and guided them in god’s way. He stayed at Trichinopoly from
May – July in 1762.For the children of the English and also for the local
Tamil people he built a two wing school in May 1762 with the assistance of
Major Preston and also with the permission of Muhammad Ali who granted
the land. Major Preston, who made a plan to suppress
Yusuf Khan, collected the details about the strength of
his army and sent messages to company on 07th march
1762 to St.George Fort when the fire accident occurred
in the fort.
Then early in the year 1763 powder magazine had
been blown up. Rev.schwartz came and preached on Luke
13:4 and consoled them. Then he again took effort to
start ‘An English and Tamil school’ with the help of Major
Preston who was in the grip of tension in the war with
Maruthanayagam @ Yusuf Khan. Schwartz applied to the establishment of
‘An English Orphan School’ to the English Governor and got the permission
and Rev. Green was incharge of this school.
Schwartz was the founder and the first teacher of our school
He preached and taught.
The school timings were :
6.30 a.m. Mr.Schwartz begins with prayer
7.00 Break fast
8.00 a.m. 9.00 – Rev. Green explains the Christian doctrine to the students
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10 March 1765 the foundation stone was laid by Schwartz for Christ Church.
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9.00 a.m. 10.00 The pupil read with Rev. Green another school master
attends the spelling class.
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. : The elder children learn arithmetic, under the inspection
of Rev. Green.
The younger children spell and read the Psalter
11.00 a.m. to 12.00 Noon : The all the students learn Hindustani language,
with a Mahommedan.
12.00 Noon to 2.00 p.m. : Lunch
02.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. : The elder children read easy books of history
and geography
03.00 p.m. 04.00 p.m. : The elder children learn to read Tamil
04.00 p.m. to 05.00p.m. : The students write copies
05.00 p.m. to 06.00 p.m. : The pupil take exercises, under the inspection
of Rev. Green.
07.00 p.m. to 08.00 p.m : Public prayer
08.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. : Supper
09.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m : The students were encouraged to speak English
Everyone relates what he has seen, heard, or read, before Mr.Schwartz.
Schwartz collected money and spent his salary also to buy books. He obtained
books from Madras and Calcutta.
Sathiyanathan was appointd in 1772 and also 3 catechists were
appointed to look after the deceased families and school. Sathiyanathan
received salary from the SPG and the Catechists were paid De Suo by
Schwartz 60 & 40 dollars respectively.
In the beginning Schwartz appointed local
catechists as teachers for the new school. Mr. Devanesan,
Royappan, Jothi Naickan, Innasimuthu, Devasahayam,
Abishehanathan, Nayana Prahasam @ Gnanaprahasam,
Karpagam Sathianathan, Mr.Savarimuthu (Trichy)
Mrs.Kinsley (Trichy) Mr.Sullivan, Mr.Gericke,
Mr.Toriano, Mr.Duffin, Mrs.Duffin, all they belonged
to Trichinopoly mission probably they were in the
ordinal list of teachers, physical instructors and
correspondents. Phole
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Lands allotted to Puthur BHHSS and raised a separate school on 1.8.1934 the acres are 11
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Mr.Christian phole, appointed by Mr.Schwartz and Mr.Phole become
the supertending missionary over the SPG mission churches and schools.
Rev.Schwartz, who went to Tanjore, returned to visit the Trichinopoly Schwartz’s
school on Jan 16th 1786 and gave guidance to Mr.Phole how to run the school
successfully.
Gradually the primary school became larger
when the cavalry and infantry moved out of the
over crowded Fort to a piece of a open ground near
woriyur. In 1778, the woriyur school was built. After
the death of phole in 1818, Rev.Schreyvogel, whose
first step was to establish ‘native schools’ in the
villages of woriyur and puthur. These two schools,
which mark the beginning of our branch schools.
The English school was transferred between 1820-
1825 to the care of the government chaplin and is
the parent of the present St.John’s Vestry A.I.School.
After the death of Bishop Heber the funds
were collected and a school known as ‘Bishop Heber
Memorial School’ was founded in shenkulam, (might C.S.Kohlhoff
be Beema Nagar) at palakarai for the use of the
retired soldiers and Anglo – Indians children, who resided in that location.
In 1850 during the time of C.S.Kohlhoff and Heyne, a superior school
was founded in Tennur, and this school after several removal was at the request
of the Brahmin students from Srirangam and residents of Fort removed from
Tennur to the Fort in 1863-64. That’s why whoever be the headmaster of our
school will become the correspondent of Tennur school.
In 1864 it became a high school with 5th or preparatory class. When the
first school was raised to the rank of a high school the high schools at shenkulam
(Beemanagar), Puthur, Tennur were amalgamated with it and the Heber memorial
fund seems to have been transferred to the high school. The high school under
the guidance of Rev.Thomas Adamson, who was the headmaster at shenkulam,
became the first principal of our school and he started his mission. Then many
scholars carefully took effort to develop the school in to a college in Trichinopoly.

GEOGRAPHY OF OUR SCHOOL

Our school situated near the Fort wall of the city. In the early period
the students had to enter through the main guard gate across the moat.
West Bouleward road and East Bouleward road were completely sourrounded
by a moat up to Palakarai and northern side near SRC road and ended
before St.Lourde’s Church. There were four gates, the first main gate as we
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12 hostels in our Diocese in the year 1947.
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know near our school the secondone ruined and renovated and rededicated
when the prince of wales visited Trichy in 1875, the third one in eastern
side was encroached and vanished and the fourth one is near our Mangai
Illam, and Madan Gym, where our ‘An English and Tamil school’ had been
started.
During Mr.J.T. Margoschis period he collected a large amount and
bought 3 houses and demolished the houses and constructed the main
hall i.e., present Chinthamani. So the school attained the status and become
a college in 1873. Mr.C.W. Pearce bought the open ground from the
Municipality, which is in front our office up to new Schwartz block. T.H.Dodson
took the effort for three stroyed building for science teaching.
Schwartz first acquaintance with Mohammed Ali began in this garden.
Neither Christ church nor its parsonage was then in existence. Schwartz
was living in a Hindu house at Teppakulam and conducted Diving service
for the English soldiers Sometimes in the thousand Pillar Mantapam in
the Rock fort at other times in a private house.
One morning he wished to have a quiet hour with a devotional book
and he took himself in the very garden. At that time Nawab came to the
garden, but Schwartz was not aware of the presence of Muhammed
Ali Khan, the Nawab of Arcot. Nawab and his minister and a few officers
had come there for a bath in the small tank, which was near our headmaster’s
quarters in those time. Noticing at a distance the strange white man devoultry
poring over the book, Muhammed Ali sent his minister to invite him. Schwartz
was well received and entertained with fruit and other courtesies. The friendship
that began in their garden between these two famous men resulted in some
concessions granted to Mr. Schwartz to promote his educational schemes.
The site of the SPG college branch school at woriyur was among the
first gift of the Nawab to the venerable founder of the Heber institution.
So our ground, presently Super Bazar and our school ground formerly
Nawab garden was granted to Schwartz
with some concession. During
Mr. M.P.H.Albert tenure, he took effort
to construct Bishop Heber stadium
like our ‘Anna Stadium’. The then
Chief-Minister M. Karunanidhi laid
a foundation stone on 15.09.1967 but
the effort failed.
From 1864 Bishop, Reverends
Principals, Headmasters, Wardens,
who are specially noted for the yeomen and meritorious service highly
influenced by Divine force. The ordinal list of luminaries, religious and
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G.A. Carver Marsh, Father of Valparai Hills born 1862, August 13
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otherwise begin with Rev. Thomas Adamson. I have searched, identified and
arranged them in chronological order and placed the photos in Thorp Hall.
Our Bishop Rt.Rev.G.Paul Vasanthakumar unveiled them on 15.12.2012 at
5.35 p.m. in the Quarter Millennial year Annual Day function.

THE REV. THOMAS ADAMSON

The First Principal, S.P.G.School, Trichinopoly (1864 – 1868)

He was an Anglo Indian gentleman and a Greek

scholar. He had been a master in Doveton College, Madras
in the year 1863. When the school raised to the rank of a
high school in the year 1864 he was appointed for this
school as the first principal and he was an able administrator.
During his service he was very sincere and frank. As he
was the first principal of this school, the school was known
as ‘Adamson School’. The school became a superior institution
and attained popularity in his period. ‘Vir bonus habetur’

J.T.MARGOSCHIS
( 1868 – 1873 )

He was the elder brother of Mr.Margoschis of Nazareth fame. Under him the
school flourished and produced more creditable results in the
entrance examination and became popular in the public.
Lord Napier of Ettrick, the Governor of Fort St.George
and also the university chancellor visited the school, during
his tenure.
Before the Governor’s visit the principal collected a
large sum of money and constructed the main hall, (present
chinthamani). The hall plan was designed by and the plan
was executed by the then government architect Mr.R.F. Chisholm. This place was
occupied by three local residents and there were three dwelling houses and
Mr.Margoschis influenced and raised funds and bought this valuable land. And
the school became a second grade college, during his period ie..1873. It is like
corona rosarum on its head.
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14 Diocese in Church of South India in 1947.
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J.CREIGHTON
(1873- 1877)

He was the first principal of the SPG college During

his tenure the college hall was completed with wonderful
model identical one in England. Lord Hobart and Lady
Hobart had visited the new college buildings, and the
classrooms. The F.A. classes were started during his headship.
He was to be Fortis es to make infrastructure upto the
foreign standard.

C.W. PEARCE
(1877 – 1886)

In his period in the year 1883 the institution

was raised to the level undergraduate college of B.A.
standard. The library, hostel system and the play
ground in front of our present school office owe
their origin to Mr.Pearce. He only influenced and
purchased the ground from municipality. He also introduced literary
and debating society. He was a lover of physical education and set up
the Badminton and Tennis Court in the year 1885. Untill his regime
seven Governors had visited. He encouraged the students to do well not
only in university examination but also in athletic field and track events.
Alia aliis grata sunt.

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The IV Form was started in Puthur BH School 1929 June 15
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REV. JACOB GNANAOLIVU, B.A.
(1888 – 1889)
(The first Indian Principal)

He was a professor of history and manager of

the junior schools of the city. He was the headmaster
of the town branch school near East Bouleward
road. He was a very active and hard working teacher.
Even after his retirement in 1921, he offered to
retain his relationship with his old school by doing
Bible work in the lower forms. He has had several
calamities and misfortunes in his life, the passing
away of his three promising sons did not deter him from doing his selfless
service. All these trials and sorrows he bore with remarkable patience
and resignations. His family mortal remains were laid to rest in christ
church cemetry.

REV.T.H.DODSON, M.A.
(1889 – 1896)
(Graduate of Exeter college, Oxford, a fellow of
St.Augustine’s College, Canterbury)

He was a professor in English – He was slim

but stern in his demeanour and reserved by his
temperaments. Very punctual and started every day
with Lord’s Prayer in a clear solemn tone. Midday
prayer session was also introduced by him. He was
one of the ablest and most popular principals and
he tried to have boat – rowing exercise in Teppakulam.
His personal life was very clean and even
the collectors in those days were not respected and
feared so much to Mr.Dodson. He was such a great soul and influenced
many young men and boys too his ways of purity and sincerity.
He only instituted the Caldwell hostel in Trichy, the first hostel in
Trichirappalli. During his regime the three storeyed buildings for teaching
and northern part including balcony also constructed. The library owe
their existence to the untiring efforts of Mr. Dodson. Galli bipennes
magnas ensesque longos habent.
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16 rooms in ground floor at CSI Mission Hospital including 2 AC rooms.
) *

Rev. G.H. SMITH

(1897-1902)

During his five years service in our college, he

had accomplished sucessfuly ever y assignments
given to him.

He was an eminemt scholar, educationalist and

author. He wrote many acticles, essays on education and
on tour especially, ‘Among the menabe’, Which described
about his tour on Africa. He is like Arte Fabri gladios
et tela faciunt.

H.MALIM B.A.
(1902 – 1904)

He was a lecturer in Mathematics. He had worked

as Vice Principal when Rev.J.A.Sharrock, was the principal
of Caldwell College Tuticorin in the year 1891 He was
helpful to the principal for the Training institution in
connection with the college, opened in 1884, with a practicing
school, consisting of the lower secondary and primary
departments in Tinnevelly.

Here he had also made his contribution towards the shaping of SPG college
in Trichirapalli. The Malim Prize was given to the students who secured the
highest marks in mathematics in the B.A. degree examination and completed the
degree at their first attempt in the examination.

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Schools started in Coleroom Mission, when irungalur as its head quarters were 17
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The Rev. H.PAKENHAM WALSH M.A., B.D.
The SPG Brother hood – 1904 – 1907

Rev.Walsh made an indicationmark on the life of

Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Teppakulam. He
has left everlasting memory and impression in the life of
the Heber’s family. He had done good academic achievement,
sporting excellence, quality of life are paragon to others.
He got a divine call to higher service for the establishment
of the Kingdom of God as a missionary in North India, the
principal of SPG College, Trichy, The Lord Bishop of Assam,
Principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta and warden of Bishop
Cotton School, Bangalore.
During his administration in this college, he was a regular worshipper in
the Christ church, Fort between the year 1904 – 1907 and also ministered the church
on several occasions thereafter. He was a man of prayer a true follower of his master
and an apostle of divine healing. He is considered to be ‘Milites iacula bipennesque
magnos habent.

REV.J.A.SHARROCK, M.A.
(1907 – 1909 )

He came to India in 1877 and worked with Caldwell of

Dravidians fame for three years in doing aggressive evangelical
service. In 1880 he became the principal of the college in
sawyerpuram which was shifted in 1883 to Tuticorin under
the name of Caldwell college. When it is downgraded to high
school level in 1894, he became the superintendant of the
SPG mission in cuddlore first and then in Trichy.
The greatest service he rendered to the Bishop Heber
College, in accepting the principal ship at themost critical
period of its history and saving it from the extinction should always be remembered
with deep gratitude. Almost all the headmasters, three fourth of the clergy in S.P.G.,
in Tinnevelly Diocese were his old boys. He was a stern martinet and a teacher for
excellence who brought forth tremendous love of learning among the pupils.
He was the father of church music in Tinnevelly and his well trained choir
was the envy of neighbouring churches. He was a caustic speaker and a trenchant
writer. His attitude shows Ne ignavus fueris when you face crisis.
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18 staff members are in St. Andrews HSS, Manapparai.
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REV. ALLEN. F. GARDINER
(1909 – 1928)
(Principal and Warden, Professor of Latin, French and English)

All illustrious and handsome figure. He was an

honoured citizen, wise counselor for all over the Madras
presidency, a devoted friend for students. He was born at
Montgomery in the Multan in Punjab in September 1881
for a commissioner in the Indian Civil service and thus
by birth and heredity he was a son of India. He was ordained
to the sacred ministry as deacon in 1906, and as a priest
in 1907.
He has a high conception of his position as principal
and his attachment to this college was so great that he deemed no sacrifice too
much for it. Towards his colleagues Mr.Gardiner’s conduct was marked by
uniform courtesy, absolute impartiality and generous appreciation of good
work. As a member of university of Madras, he stood for high standards and
lent his support for the reconstruction of our educational systems. Rev. Gardiner’s
acquisition of the Singarathope for the college is an ever - memorable event in
its annals.
His grandfather the Rt.Hon’ble Sir.Joseph Napier Bart, Lord High Chancellor
of Ireland took a prominent part in the passing of the bill transferring the
government of India from the East India Company to the crown. Another
member of the same family Robert Lord Napier served in India, and crowned
his career as the Governor of Madras. He took a great interest in the Indian
National movement. Agricola bonus greges et segetes laudat in transformation
of education and freedom to India.

M.R.RY.M.KOIL PILLAI M.A.L.T.

(July 1928 – Jan.1929)

He was the vice principal when Rev. Gardiner was a principal. He

taught wonderfully history and economics during his one year service as principal
he has done his duties perfectly, what was instructed earlier for the development
of the college. He was the leader of Bible study for the hostellers’ and
day-scholar students. When Rev. A.F. Gardiner left the college suddenly in July
1928 on health grounds and the Vice Principal Mr.M.Koil Pillai had to take
charge till the arrived of Rev. C.S. James from England.
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The High, Higher Secondary Schools in our Diocese in number is 19
) REV.C.S.JAMES
*
(1929 – 1931)
He was calm and thoughtful in his disposition and democratic
in his ways, strong in faith and simple in life, open and frank
by nature, generous by impulse and saintly in character, he
soon won the love and confidence of those with whom he moved
very closely. He was a man of fearless independence and great
adventure of strong convictions and relentless obstinacy Quiet
and Unobtrusive; he was faithful in every good work and leaves
behind him the record of a blameless life devoted to the service
of God and the good of his church. A day was over shadowed by
dark clouds of sorrow caused by the sudden and unexpected
death of the principal. The sad event took place in the Golden Rock Hospital on 13th
May 1931, and his mortal remains were laid to rest in the cemetry of St.John’s Church
of which the late Rev.C.S.James was a popular and devoted Chaplin for nearly two
years. He was a good athlete. His moral quality, his patience, his courtesy, his sincerity
and his devotion to his memorable and his death in a great loss to our college and the
church. As a chaplin of St. John’s Church, he was a Persona grata with the poor and
the needy and soon won their genuine love and profound respect.

REV.C.H.FIRBANK
(1931 – 1933 )
(Principal, Profressor in Latin, French, English, History and Economics)
Graduated in London University with honours in classics,
Kebte college, Oxford with second class honors’ in the final
school of Modern Histroy – Former Reader in English, Annamalai
Univeristy in1924. He was a able professor, brilliant scholar
and a wise administrator. He was a very conscientious teacher
and led a very simple life in the midst of his books.
Again the college met the undisruptive agony. On 12th
Thursday January 1933, principal Firbank had gone to
Tranquebar for a brief holiday with two other staff members
Mr.M.D.Devadhasan and Mr.P.K.James, At 5 p.m. the principal
went to sea to have bath, As it was a full moon the sea was
very rough and the wind was boisterous blowing from east to
west. After a few minutes sporting with his favourite Ben he took a plunge but didnot
venture into depths as he knew little of swimming. But a strong current seems to have
swept him away to west where the river joined the sea and the water was rather deep.
When his friend James, who dashed to save him also drowned. Alas, both found a
watery grave. His body was found and sighted near Karaikal. With the permission of
French Government his body was brought back to Nadars bungalow and the feuneral
took place immediately. At the grave yard itself the service was conducted by Rev.J.D.Day,
Chaplin of St.John’s Church, Tirchinopoly, Just outside the oldgateway of the town.
The favourite hymn of Firbank was sung by members of the staff and students before
the coffin was consigned to the grave, He was only 45 at the time of his tragic demise.
, ‘Militis regis iussis parent et insulam arce muniunt. +
20 years G.H. LAMB served in Trichy, Tinnevelyy and Ramanathapuram.
) *
THE RT.REV.F.WATSON M.A.
(1931 – 1946)
He was the manager of the High school and also Bursar
of the institution. During his period he had endeared himself
to one and all by his quiet and unobtrusive ways and earnest
and helpful service.
The college has had a number of highly educated and
cultured Englishmen on its staff during the last 55 years.
Some of them had been connected with it as principals or vice
– principals or professors or lecturers. Rev.Watson was the
25th gentleman contributed by the SPG in England. He brought
to our college the torch of western learning and culture and
kept it bright and undimmed. He inspired the students, guided
them, by his efficiency, high minded service and noble self – sacrifice.
He adorned the noble line of English staff members of this institution in the
onward progress of culture and learning. He was not only an effective and efficient
man, but also a valuable asset to the cause of learning and education in Trichirappalli.
‘Pater Cras me puniet, si obdormivero’
S.K.DEVASIKHAMANI
(1908 – 1936)
It was a great privilege to serve the cause of education
for 44 years in which the greater part was as headmaster,
5 years at Nandyal and 29 years as headmaster of the
SPG High School, Trichinopoly. The parting from such
an institution to which he had devoted the best part of
his life was a wrench and an ordeal.
He is the founder of the school magazine, organizer
of school excursions and scout patrols, and introducing
the house system in domain of sports and equally valuable
system of school prefects and organizer of various activities.
He had been always fair, just and impartial. He is an example of abundant
energy and extraordinary perseverance, of smartness, punctuality, method,
orderliness, self – discipline and utter devotion to duty.
He was a person of such excellent virtues and he had been represented
the H.M.’s constituency as a member of the academic council or the senate or
the both. He was a member of S.S.L.C. board and a member of text book
committee and a member of Trichinopoly district board. He was elected to be
the prominent of the provincial educational conference held at Coimbatore in
1930. He was also a writer and a publisher.
‘Domini boni bonos servos habent.’
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The Number of Diocese in CSI in the year 1997 is 21
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SAM.A. DURAI, B.A. B.T.
(1936 – 1941)

He joined as the Headmaster and assumed charge

of his office in June 1936. He was an old boy of the
SPG college and he had a rich and varied educational
experience in Rangoon, Calcutta – Bombay and Kandy
(Ceylon) For 12 years from 1924 – 1936 he served as
Headmaster of several high schools under Tanjore district
boards. He was an embodiment of selfless service and
untiring Zeal for this institution.

M.P.H ALBERT, M.A., L.T.,

(1941 – 1969)
(Principal and Correspondent)

He was the last personality to be called as principal

of the esteemed institution. He was a descendant of H.
A. Krishnapillai. He was a man of principles, character,
honesty and dignity. He had a multifaceted personality
and had a dynamic role for the upliftment of the school,
especially SPG College. He only formed a trust and raised
funds, form a committee with K.A.P. visvanatham plunged
his heart and soul in to the efforts to revive the Bishop
Heber College. During his tenure he not only concentrated
on the education but also sports, music, scouts, N.C.C., photography, gardening
etc. He made the main guard gate to be the commercial mall by built a row of
shops in the west bouleward road and singarathope road.
He was the president of Trichirappalli football association and the
All India Foot Ball tournament held in our school every year by the efforts of
our beloved principal. He had received the National Best Teacher’s award
for the year 1966 for his excellence in academic, sports and social service.
He was a renowned scholar in English, the English Text Book he
prepared for the students of IX and X Std. was much celebrated and commended
by experienced preceptions all over the state.

, ‘In neutro fluminis litore arbores sunt’ +

22 Diocese in Church of South India at present and its assembly is called as SYNOD.
) *
R.MOSES XAVIER, M.A., B.T.
(1969-1983)

He was a National awardee and the successor of

M.P.H.Albert. He has done much service for the welfare
of the school. During his term of office as Headmaster
the school had achieved both in education and in sports.
While he was the correspondent of this school, the
school attained its zenith of infrastructure. Between the
years 1991 – 1998 the buildings were gradually constructed
for the purpose of spacious class room structure. The
school chapel, science block, laboratory block, Library and Hostel were added
more feathers to the school crown.

D.DHARMARAJ, M.A., B.T.,

1983 – 1986

In his three years service as a head master

of this school, he served whole heartedly. He was
very kind and polite to the pupil and the members
of the staff. Helped a lot those who were in need.
In his period the science laboratory and the eastern
block were dedicated for the benefit of the students.

D.GUNASEELAN B.A., B.T.

(1986 – 1987)

He served as a in-charge Headmaster for

a year. He filled the gap and presents the matter
in a proper way for a smooth functioning of the
school. Modesty and kindness were his twin
qualities.
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Ziegan Balque answered the Divine call in 1719 February 23
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D.STEPHEN KANAGARAJ M.A., B.T.,
(1987- 1992)

He started his career as a teacher in 1955

and rose to the post of Headmaster in 1979. He
was not only an excellent teacher but also a capable
administrator. He had an unflogging devoltion
to duty. He was a man of strong likes and dislikes.
He was a very amiable and good natured person.
He was always ready to lend and helping hand
whenever required. During his five years of tenure
he had showed his concern over the overall
development of the school. And during his period the 3 storyed M.P.H.
Albert Block the first and second floor were built which stands gigantically.
His long and illustrious career spanned more than 3 decades infact
years to be precise. He has rendered immense and valuable services to
this great Institution and devoted his life to the cause of education.

J.V.MANOHARAN M.A.,B.T.,
(1992 – 2000)

He was a very simple in nature, strict in culture,

In his remarkable period he had made new ways in academic
styles and also administrative set up. He also responsible
for construction of new classrooms, science laboratory
block, Schwartz three storeyed block, library etc.,
He is a lover of nature, he only revived the garden
by planting many saplings, and preserved the trees and
plants which stand still for the test of time.
The best achievement of his tenure and
administration was the inauguration of “Bishop Heber Nursary School” in
memory of Heber, after a very long period.
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24 members constituted by SPG
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S.RAJENDRAN, B.Sc., M.A., M.Ed., D.P.S. (UK)
(2000 – 2007)

He was a state best teacher awardee, good

administrator and best correspondent. He has done a
remarkable developments during his headmasters ship.
He knew the skills of the teachers and their subjects
and encourage the members of the staff with a disciplinary
ways by conducting seminar and workshop
programmes. His period the school reached its zenith
of constructing modern buildings, extension of class rooms, upstairs facility
to annexing buildings, Hostel amnities etc.,

The wonderful and outstanding achievement during his service is

the ‘Bishop Thorp Hall’ adding one more diamond in the queen’s crown.

C.STANLEY, B.Sc., M.A., M.Ed.,

(2007 – 2009)

He was also a State Best Teacher Awardee During

his short span of headmastership he has done the good
record of academic achievement by encouraging the
members of staff. He was interested in conservation of
plants, brought many species of pigeons and pea fowls
to the campus in which they adorned the campus in a
naturalistic way.

In his period, the Schwartz hall. Second floor, Walsh

hostel facilities were done.

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The number of staff members in CSI Girls, Dharapuram is 25
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Dr. M.ANBURAJ, M.A., M.Com., M.Ed., M.B.A., Ph.D.,
SINCE 2009

Nothing can be a greater honour than to be

bestowed with the rare distintion of heading a headmaster
in the 250th year celebration. That laudable opportunity
has come to our reputed headmaster Dr. M.Anburaj.
He is not only the best teacher, but also a best preacher.
Very kind and polite, modesty and humility with always
go hand in hand with his depth of knowledge.
He is known for his novelty in introducing very
efficacious schemes for the good of the teachers and
also for the taught.He is and will be known for his
achievements. Here a special mention mustbe made that he is greater
than his achievements. He is known for his extempore present outpouring
of ideas and thoughts.
He effortessly attract the attention of even the non-listners by his
linguistic flow. The finnesse he employs to go deep into any subject
make the soul of it sparkle in his words is to be much lauded.
But he can speak at a drop a hat regarding in any social meetings
or in soul reviving messages in the chapel or churches. He can attract
any audience by his abnormal eloquency in his language.
He is very able to co ordinate with clergy and lay, public and
politicians, administrators and office bearers. He is the credit and
adding one more feather in the cap of the renowned school.
‘Are bene dicendi difficilis est’

Source :
1. 164th Anniversary - S.K. Devasikhamani Report.
2. Bishop Heber School Magazines - April 1926-1941)
3. Memoir of C.F. Schwartz, G.H. Lamb - P.11-13
4. Memories of C.F. Schwartz Volume - I
5. Memories of the life and correspondence of the Reverend Christian Fredick Schwartz,
Hugh Pearson, Volume - II, P.17
6. ¸kVÏ‚¸ nBÏ kVμsMºÈ, Evt. J.J. zÚE∫
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26 October 1726 Schwartz born in Germany.
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MISSIONARIES, MANAGERS & CORRESPONDENTS
In 17th Century, Rev.Christian Fredrick Schwartz who founded our school become
the first teacher, first Manager of the first school. He only collected the funds, utilized
it properly and maintained the account. Then who ever was incharge of the school,
they became managers. In the SPCK period they were known as Missionaries and
chaplins. Then the protocol slightly changed in 1825, when SPG taken the schools and
churches. They were called as chaplins and Managers. Again when our school become
the Main school the nomenclature had been changed as Managers and Principals.
On this basis I have collected the lists from SPCK period CSI.

SPCK Period – Missionaries

1. The Rev.C.F.Schwartz – 1762-1778
2. The Rev.C.Phole – 1778-1818
3. The Rev.D.Rosen – 1819-1824

SPG Period – Chaplins

1. The Rev.H.D.Schreyvogel – 1826-1840
2. The Rev.W.Hickey – 1840-1847
3. The Rev.C.S.Kohlhoff – 1847-1851
4. The Rev.G.Heyne – 1851-1852
5. The Rev.R.V.Pope – 1853-1857
6. The Rev.T.P.Adolphus – 1858-1878

SPG Period – Bishop Heber High School Managers

1. The Rev.Thomas Adamson - 1864-1868
2. J.T.Margoschis Esq - 1868-1873
3. J.Creighton Esq - 1873-1877
4. C.W.Pearce Esq - 1877-1886
5. The Rev.H.A.Williams - 1886-1888
6. The Rev.Jacob Gnanavolivu - 1888-1889
7. The Rev.T.H.Dodson - 1889-1896
8. H.Malim Esq 1896 -1897
9. The Rev.G.H.Smith - 1897-1902
10. H.Malim Esq - 1902-1904
11. The Rev.H.Packenham Walsh - 1904-1907
12. The Rev.J.A.Sharrock - 1907-1909
13. The Rev.A.F.Gardiner - 1909-1928
14. M.Koilpillai Esq - 1928-1929
15. The Rev.C.S.James - 1929-1931
16. The Rev.C.H.Firbank July - 1931
17. The Rev.F.Wastson - 1931 -1946

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C.S.I. and Trichy – Thanjavur Diocese formed in 1947, September 27
) *
The departure of the Rev.Fredrick Watson to England the formation of a Managing
Committee for the Bishop Heber Schools, Trichinopoly mark the end of another epoch
in the history of the school and the beginning of a new era in which the affairs of
the school are to be managed bu our own countrymen though the SPG in England
still continue their financial aid.

After independence there had been some changes in sharing the responsibilities
in the school administration. There by after Mr.M.P.H.Albert’s tenwe the school
administration was in the hands of headmasters and the Correspondence wand finance
under the control of Correspondents.
C S I Period
1. M.P.H.Albert Principal & Correspondent 1941-1971
2. J.Amaladasan 1971-1973
3. Rev.Geroge Gnanamuthu 1973-1974
4. Rev.R.Paulraj 1974-1978
5. Rev.Gnanavasagam 1979-1979
6. Rt.Rev.Dr.R.Paulraj 1979-1983
7. Rev.James Srinivasan 1983-1984
8. Prof.D.Swamiraj 1984-1987
9. Rev.P.D.Peter 1987-1988
10. Rev.M.Masilamani 1988-1989
11. Rev.Dr.GnanaVasagam 1989-1991
12. Mr.R.Moses Xavier 1991-1999
13. Rev.Dr.J.K.Selwyn 1999-2001
14. Rev.Josephus Jayaraj 2001-2003
15. Rev.G.Paul vasanthakumar 2003-2005
16. Rev.S.Tilak Samuel 2005-2007
17. Mr.S.Rajendran 2007 – 30.06.2011
18. Mr.S.I.Davidson 3 months in 2010
19. Rev.Dr.A.John Dorai Since 01.07.2011

Rev.Dr.A.John Dorai is the 45th Correspondent of our school. He is the successor

of Mr. S. Rajendren and serving as the Quarter Millennial year Correspondent of our
school. Bishops become the Managers of all of our Diocesan institutions.

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28 lac rupees spent through En.Sc of BHC for Pudukottai Fisherman Project.
) *
BLOCKS HISTORY IN BRIEF
- Y. Roosevelt

THE COLLEGE UPPER STOREY BLOCK (1868-1873)

Behind present Chinthamani buildings, the then SPG College extension effort
made by the principal J.T. Marchoschis. He initiated this for the visit of Lord Napier,
the then Governor of Madras, to overcome the critical period in the history of our
institution. So this tablet was erected by Rev. J.A. Sharrock as a memorial one for
J.T. Marchoschis when it was completed in the year 1908.

THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK (1893)

The extension of the SPG College again by the exertions of Mr. T.H. Dodson
for three storeyed buildings for science teaching in the college and several additions
in the high school, particularly the northern part including balcony and the library
owe their existence to the untiring efforts of Mr. T.H. Dodson (1889-1896). It consisted
of science laboratory, library, chapel, etc.,

PEARCE BLOCK (1895-1896)

In the early years of the 18th century the need arose and by the effort of
Mr. J.T. Marchoschis the residential area was bought and he built the block. The
present Chinthamani entrance was the main entrance and the F.A. Classes were
started. In 1873 it became a second Grade College. Lord Hobart and Lady Hobart
visited the new buildings and appreciated it is an identical one as it in England. At
present the Gents staff room, NCC room, the school society office are only functioning
in he block. Rest of the rooms are not in use, because of poor stability. But the main
entrance Chinthamani and the annexed areas are still in use. Probably in
T.H. Dodson’s period (1889-1896) it was named in remembrance of the second
principal C.W. Pearce (1877-1886).

DEVASIKHAMANI BLOCK (1914-1915)

The three stroyed building was completed in the year 1914 by the strenuous
efforts of Rev. Allan F. Gardiner. He was the principal, he initiated to construct the
three storeyed buildings for teaching and in the northern part balcony, i.e. present
Chinthamani Super market for the purpose of extending class rooms in to a spacious
one. The block was wonderfully designed and furnished fully by the engineer
Mr. R.F. Chisholm who designed it in Indo-Saracenic style with a blend of Byzantine
architectural features like Madras Senate House. This tablet erected in 1929 by the
members of the high school staff after the principal had left for England.

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The number of staff members in Diocesan office in 2010, 29
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DEVASIKHAMANI BLOCK – SOUTHERN BLOCK (1931-1932)
During the tenure of Rev. C.H. Firbank 5 additional sections opened for the
use of the taught. On 01.10.1934, 3 classes in the upper floor also inaugurated as a
extension measure. The High school used the first and second floor of the southern
block. The rest was utilized by the College students. Wooden screens embellished by
former principals since 1864 in the main hall of the block.

SCHOOL OFFICE (1964-1965)

In early years of the school arose into a high school standard the office function
was in the ground floor of the walsh hostel. Then in the period of M.P.H. Albert the
need of the administrative block realized. So on 13.02.1963 the foundation stone
laid by our first Bishop of Trichy and Tanjore diocese the Rt. Rev. E.B. Thorp, M.A.,
immediately after his retirement from the Bishoprical service in our diocese. Then it
was completed in the year 1965 and opened by the retired principal Dr. A.J. Boyd,
M.A., D.D. of the Madras Christian College, on Friday 08.01.1965. The function was
presided by our district Collector Sri. K. Chockalingam, I.A.S. the only dignitary
(1963-1967), who was in service during the ceremony.

M.P.H. ALBERT BLOCK (1991-1992)

When the Students strength rose in to higher level the requirement of
extending infrastructure become inevitable. So the three storeyed building foundation
stone was blessed and laid by Rt. Rev. Dr. R. Paulraj, Bishop on 10th Sep 1990 under
the presidentship of Mrs. Shanthi Paulraj, President, Women’s fellowship, during
the tenure of Mr. Stephen Kanaharaj, when Rev. G. Gnanavasagam was the
correspondent. Within the span of 11 months the first phase of the 3 storeyed
building, the ground floor was dedicated and opened by the Bishop Dr. R. Paulraj
on Friday 5th July 1991, by the effort of the same office bearers of the school in addition
with the new correspondent Mr. R. Moses Xavier.

SCHWARTZ BLOCK – OLD – GROUND FLOOR (1994-1995)

The foundation stone was laid by Rt. Rev. Paulraj, Bishop, on January
3 Monday 1994, when Mr. Moses Xavier was the correspondent, Mr. J.V. Manoharan
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was the Headmaster, And it was dedicated on 8th July 1994 by the Bishop and lamp lit
by Mrs. Shanthy Paulraj.

SCHWARTZ BLOCK – PHASE II – EXTENSION (1995-1996)

The need of spacious class rooms realized by the management, the effort was
taken during the dedicated service of Mr. J.V. Manoharan and it came in to existence,
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30 beds in first floor at CSI, Mission Hospital, Woraiyur for Male general surgery.
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On 26th August 1995, when Mrs. Shanthy Paulraj lit the lamp and the then Bishop
Rt. Rev. Dr. R. Paulraj, Deputy Moderator, C.S.I. cut the ribbon.

LIBRARY BLOCK (1996-1997)

The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop R. Paulraj on 01.08.1992. On
20 Dec. 1996 it was opened by the then Chairman Rev. M. Masilamani, Trichy.
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Under the headship of Mr. J.V. Manoharan and Mr. Moses Xavier.

SCIENCE LABORATORY BLOCK (1998-1999)

During the Headmastership of Mr.R. Moses Xavier the foundation stone was
laid on 21st July 1982 by the Bishop Dr. R. Paulraj. Then the extension of classrooms
for Biological science students were annexed with the science laboratory and it was
completed and were dedicated by the Bishop Rt. Rev. D. James Srinivasan on 25th
Aug. 1998 and opened by Mrs. Grace Srinivasan President, Women’s fellowship, Trichy,
Thanjavur Diocese during the period of Mr. J.V. Manoharan under the correspondent
ship of Mr. R. Moses Xavier.

COMPUTER BLOCK (2003-2004)

During the year 2003 in the tenure of Mr. S. Rajendran, the block was dedicated
by Rt. Rev. D. James Srinivasan on 1st of July 2003, when our present Bishop
Rev. G. Paul Vasantha kumar was the Correspondent of our school.

NEW SCHWARTZ BLOCK (2006-2007)

When the strength of the pupil increased in the lower standards, a further
extension of new buildings had been risen in southern side of our school, near
Singarathope area. So the additional classrooms (downstairs) were dedicated and
opened by the Rt. Rev. D. James Srinivasan and the lamp lit by Mrs. Grace Srinivasan
on 26th Oct. 2006.
And the upstairs (1st floor) also completed in the very next year on 21st March
2007 by our beloved Bishop, the same team had accomplished it, when Rev. Tilak
Samuel was the correspondent and Mr. Rajendran who took the untiring effort of
extending the educational environmental set up.
The second floor of the new Schwartz block was dedicated and opened by
our Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Paul Vasanthakumar, the successor of Rt. Rev. D. James
Srinivasan, by the effort of Mr. C. Stanley, and successor of Mr. S. Rajendran, who
then become the correspondent of our school.

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Principal walsh took the effort to shape the new hostel when SPG entered the year 31
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ADDITIONAL CLASS ROOMS BUILDING (2010 - 2011)
Again there is a need for further extension of constructing new classrooms
arose in the Headmastership of Dr. M. Anburaj and the dream came into existence
and on Tuesday 7th Dec. 2010, it was completed and dedicated and opened by our
Bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Paul Vasanthakumar and the lamp lit by Mrs. Lily
Vasanthakumar. Mr. S. Rajendran was the correspondent, when the new building
was dedicated for the students.

THOMAS ADAMSON BLOCK (2012-2013)

This memorial block commemorates the first principal of our SPG school
Rev. Thomas Adamson and also part of the Quarter Millennial year celebrations
which held on 15th December 2012. Our beloved Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Paul
Vasanthakumar blessed and dedicted the new block with an enthusiastic
participation in the event. And the lamp lit by and led by Mrs. Lily Vasanthakumar,
followed by clerical secretary Dr. A. John Durai, Lay Secretary Dr. M. Anburaj
Treasurer Col. Immanuel, Education Secretary Mr. S. Rajendran, former Headmaster
Mr. C. Stanley and also Mrs. Swarnasundari and Mrs. Glory Beula. The new block
was constructed under the Headmastership of Dr. M. Anburaj, during the quarter
Millenniel celebration of our school.

ABOUT TAJ-MAHAL

“The celebrated Tage-mahal, of which it is enough to say that, after hearing its praises
ever since I had been in India., its beauty rathar exceeded than fell short of my
expectations”

- Reginald Heber Jan’ 13th 1825

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32 had come up well out of 52 seedlings of avenue trees planted in the first (1950) Republic day Celebrations.
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√^π Eu≈VÈBD (The Chapel)
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mk∫Ô© ÿ√uÆ, g[\V ÿƒa¬Ô°D, ∂§° k·ÏflE ÿ√≈°D ¸kVÏ‚¸
nBˆ[ xBuE ÷[≈·°D ÷Á¶Wu≈_ ÷[§ ®∫Ô^ √^πºBV|
√Bˬ˛≈m. ªaBÏÔπ[ kaÔV‚|>o[√Ω cBÏWÁÈ©√^π
k·VÔ›]_ Eu≈VÈBD ∂Á\¬Ô E´º\uÿÔVı¶][ sÁ·kVÔ ∂m
÷[Á≈B EÕ>V\Ë Ô‚Ω¶ √z]l_ Ô_Ÿˆ ∂´∫ÔVÔ ÿƒB_√‚¶
÷¶›]_ ∂Á\¬Ô©√‚¶m. ÔVÁÈ ka√V|D, \]B ka√V|D, ∂–]™
\[™VkVÔ \VkÏÔ”¬z ∂Á\Õ>m. ÔVÁÈl_ ÔÏ›>ÚÁ¶B
ÿ¤√›Á> ∂Á™›m \VkÏÔ”D ÿƒV_km ∂[Á≈¬zD,
÷[Á≈¬zD, \V≈V> ÔÈVflƒV´ ÔVÁÈ ka√V|. 1931D gı| ºk>VÔ\
kz©AÔ^ E≈©A¶[ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈™. kƒ™∫Ô^ kVE¬Ô©√|km¶[
∂ÁkÔÁ· skˆ›m ̧ √VkD, √V|Ô^, √ˆ∑›>D º√V[≈
>ÁÈ©AÔπ_ º√V]›m kÕ>™Ï. ÷Õ>© º√V>Á™Ô^ sˆ°Á´ kΩs_ 1948
kw∫Ô©√‚¶m. ∂ÁkÔ^ √›m© √¬Ô∫Ô”¬z tÔV\_ \VkÏÔ^
>∫Ô^ ºÂV‚|© A›>Ô∫Ôπ_ ®ø]™Ï. ®ø] xΩ¬Ô©√‚¶ÁkÔÁ· x>_kÏ kV∫˛ √ˆºƒV>Á™
ÿƒFm >kÆÔÁ· ]Ú›]BÁ\›m kw∫zkm kw¬Ô\V™ Œ[≈V˛©º√V™m. ÷Õ> kÁÔ©
º√V>Á™Ôπ_ ∂Ú‚]Ú.T.H. ¶V‚ƒ[ E≈©A ÿ√VÚ›]Bk´VÔ ÷ÚÕ>VÏ. 1932_ ∂Ú‚]Ú. ∏Ïÿ√∫
ÔVÈ›]_ ŒÀÿkVÚ s|xÁ≈¬z© ∏≈z √^π \Æ ]≈©∏[ º√Vm ÂuÔÚÁ g´V>Á™ ÔVÁÈ
7.15 \ˬz ÂÁ¶ÿ√ÆD. ∂º>º√V_ WÆk™Ï WÁ™°ÂV^ ∂[ÆD √ˆ∑›> ÂuÔÚÁ g´V>Á™
ÂÁ¶ÿ√uÆ ªaBÏÔπ[ cÁw©Á√ WÁ™° ÌÆ>_ kw¬˛oÚÕ]Ú¬˛≈m.
08.08.1934 ∂[Æ Ô_Ÿˆ Eu≈VÈBD \Æ ∏´]iÁ¶ ÿƒFB©√‚¶m. ∂Ú‚]Ú.kV‚ƒ[
∂kÏÔ^ \Vuz 6:31 kƒ™›][√Ω ∂Á™kˆ[ c^·›Á>•D ∂Á¶•D√Ω ÿƒF]Bπ›>VÏ. ÷Õ>¬
Ô_Ÿˆl[ Eu≈VÈBD \Æ∏´]iÁ¶¬z© ∏≈z √^π¬ÔVÔ ∂Ï√ˬԩ√‚¶m. ÔVÁÈ•D, \]BxD
Ì|ÁÔ ÔV©√‚¶m. \VkÏÔ^ >∫Ô^ \]B cÁk cı 5 Wt¶D x[√>VÔ ŒÚ \Ë
∂Ω¬Ô©√‚| \VkÏÔ”¬z ∂–\] kw∫Ô©√‚¶m. Ô_Ÿˆ >VD√´›]uz \VÆ>_ ÿƒFB©√‚¶ ∏≈z
√È \VÆ>_ÔÁ· √^π Eu≈VÈBD Ôı¶m.
ÔVÁÈ›ÿ>VøÁÔ gEˆBÏÔ”¬z \V›]´D ®[Æ ŒÚ \Vu≈D Ôı| ÿ>V¶ÏÕm E≈©A¶[
ÂÁ¶ÿ√Æ˛≈m. ∂–]™D Eu≈VÈBD ÿƒ[Æ ∂∫ºÔ ∂\ÏÕ]ÚÕm º>k™Á¶B kVÏ›Á>ÁB
ÿƒsÔπ_ ºÔ‚√m ŒÚ ∂[≈V¶ gº´V¬˛B\V™ ∂–√kD. √^π© √ËlÁ™ mk∫z x[A
√V¶_ÔÁ· √VΩ, m]Ô^ ÿƒK›] g´V>Á™ ÿƒFkm g™Õ>\V™ WÔμ°Ô^. >uº√Vm √^π
\Æ]≈©∏[º√Vm ÂÁ¶ÿ√ÆD ÂuÔÚÁ g´V>Á™l_ √V¶©√|D Ô_kVˆl[ ÔÚÁlº>
√V¶o_ kÚD sÁȺB≈©ÿ√u≈ ]Ú´›>º\ ∂kÏ sÈVsM[Æ √V•º> ®[≈ √V¶_
kˆÔ^ ÷Æ˛B \™Á>•D ÷·ÔÁk¬Ô°D k_ÈÁ\•^· kVÏ›Á>ÔÁ·•D, ´VÔ›Á>•D
ÿÔVı¶Á\Õm^·m. ÷fl Eu≈VÈBD ÷[≈·°D k·ÏÕm gEˆBÏÔ”¬z √luE© √‚¶Á≈BVÔ
√B[ÿ√uÆ, ÂuÿƒF]© √ËÔπ_ ÷Á›m¬ ÿÔV^· c>°D ÷ÁBu≈ Ô·\VÔ s·∫˛ kÚ˛≈m
®∫Ô^ √^π Eu≈VÈB ÔVÁÈ› ]BV™D.

Schwartz’s order of Service

Both Morning and evening he has service, at which many of the Christian attend. A short hymn is
first sung. Then he gives and exhortation on some passage of scripture, and concludes with a
prayer. He always performs the service with such solemnity that all present are moved to tears.

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CSI Karur Boys HSS Staff members total in numbers are 33
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√V¶ÔÏ zø - THE CHOIR
1762-_ √^π› mk∫˛B
ÔVÈ›]oÚÕm √V¶_Ô”D
∂§xÔ\V˛™. g´D√ ÔVÈ∫Ôπ_
g∫˛ºÈB √V¶_Ô^ g´V>Á™¬zD,
Ì|ÁÔ¬zD √B[√|›>©√‚¶™. 18-D
±u≈VıΩ_ ∂ΩÿB|›m Ák›> SPG
Ô_Ÿˆl[ g∫˛ºÈB x>_kÏÔ^
÷∫˛ÈVÕm º>ƒ›][ º>EB ˇ>\VÔ
‘God Save the King’ ®[≈ √V¶ÁÈ
ŒÀÿkVÚ gEˆBÏÔ^ Ì‚¶›]uzD
√B[√|›]™Ï. 1929-1932D gı|Ôπ_ ]ÚflƒÁ√ ÷Áƒl[ ]Ú›>ÕÁ>
®[≈Áw¬Ô©√‚¶ Rev. J.A. º≠´¬ Â\m WÆk™›]uz ˛Á¶›> ∂ÚDÿ√ÚD ªaBÏ. ÷Áƒ
ka√V‚Á¶ kΩkÁ\›m ∂ºÂÔ √V¶_ÔÁ· ∂§xÔ©√|›]™VÏ. ÷>[ √È™VÔ 1933D gıΩ_
]Ú.ƒVxºk_ >V\¸, A_A_>V´V ÷ÁƒlKD E≈Õm s·∫˛ √^π √V¶ÔÏ zøsuz
kKºƒÏ›>VÏ. >V\¸ ºÔVl_∏^Á·, ˛·ÿ\ı‚ g˛ºBVÏ >tμ >M© √V¶_Ô”¬zD g∫˛È©
√V¶K¬zD √ˆ∑Ô^ ÿ√u≈™Ï. ]Ú.n.ºƒV\∑Õ>´D, gÏÔ[ kVE©√k´VÔ ÷ÚÕ>VÏ. ÔÏ›>Vºk
•Ô •Ô\VF kÚ¶ g´D√ÂV^ √V¶_. ƒVÏȸ \uÆD ¤VÏÎ º«ˆ¸ g˛ºBVÏ Â_È
√V¶ÔÏÔ·VF ÷ÚÕ>™Ï. >tμ, NÕ], cÚm, g∫˛È© √V¶_Ô^ ®™ WÔμflEÔ”¬z ∞u≈
kıD √V¶©√‚¶™. ΩƒD√Ï \V> ÔÁ¶E ºkÁÈ ÂV”¬ÿÔ[Æ E≈©A √V¶ÈVÔ √¬>º´ kVÚD
√V¶_ ÷¶D ÿku≈m. \V ÷Õ> ÂV^ >Õ> ®[≈ √V¶_ √ˆƒπ©A swVs_ √V¶©ÿ√u≈m.
÷ÀkV≈VÔ k·ÏÕ> √^π© √V¶ÔÏ zø ÷[Æ >tμ g∫˛ÈD ®™ ÷Ú ÿ\Va©
√V¶_ÔÁ·•D ÂT™ kV›]B¬ ÔÚsÔ”¶[ ÷Áƒ kΩkD ÿÔV|›m kÚ˛≈m. \VV¬ÔÁ´
ª¬zs›m \˛μflE•¶[ √V¶Ák¬˛≈m. «ˆÔVDº√V]l_ º>k©∏>V ®[≈[
º\F©√™_ºÈV ®[≈ √V¶KD Ô´Ô´©ˆÁBl_ ®∫zD AÔμ ÷ºB∑ ´V¤–¬ºÔ ®™
g]>V·© √V¶_ÔÁ·•D What a friend we have in Jesus \uÆD God is Good, There
shall be showers of blessing º√V[≈ g∫˛È© √V¶_ÔÁ· ∂]´ΩBV_ √V¶ Ák¬zD
gEˆBÏÔ^ \˛μflE•¶[ √V|D \VkÏÔ^ zøs_ ¤V], ÷™D ÿ\Va √V´Vm ƒÔÈ
\VkÏÔ”¬zD ƒ\ √∫z ®™ ƒV>Á™ÔÁ· √Á¶¬zD ®∫Ô^ √^π √V¶ÔÏ zø √_ºkÆ
∂Á\flƒÏÔ·VKD cBÏ ∂]ÔVˆÔ·VKD, ÂV‚|©√ıb¬ÔVÔ°D, º>EB ˇ>›Á> ÷Áƒ•¶[
÷DtB·°D ∏≈wVm kVE›m ÿ√BÏ ÿ√u≈kÏÔ^ ®[√]_ ÿ√Út>D ÿÔV^˛≈m ®D √^π.

Ambition
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“ I’m now in the 66 year of my age — I’m still able to perform all my usual functions both in the
church and schools. Nature certainly begins to decay but as long as God Shall grant me any
degree of strength I will gladly spend it in laboring in His Vineyard. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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34 Schools exclusively for Girls in Tamilnadu State in the Year 1903.
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ÔÁȬzø - FINE ARTS
>twÔ ÔÁÈÔº·V| º\_ ÂV‚| ÔVsB∫ÔÁ·•D ∂Õ>Õ> ÔVÈ Ô‚¶∫Ôπ_
g´D√ x>ºÈ ®D √^π \VkÏÔ^ √V∫z¶[ √Á¶›m kÚ˛[≈™Ï. z´∫zD
z_ÈV°D ÔÁ> ÿ>V¶∫˛ …oBÏ ÊƒÏ Act III kÁ´ Âk´ƒ¬ ÔÁÈÔÁ· ÂBx¶[ √Á¶›>
√^πÿB™ ÿ√ÚÁ\ ÿ√uÆ^·m.
√^π swV, gı| swV, s|] swV, c¶u§≈© º√V‚Ω swV¬Ô^ ®™
∂Á™›m swV¬ÔπKD g”Á\ ÿƒF•D ]≈[Ô^. ˛§¸m\¸ ÂV¶Ô∫Ô^,
˛§¸ms[ ∏≈©∏[ ÿƒF]ÁB Á\B\VÔ ÿÔVı¶ ÂV¶Ô∫Ô^ g˛BÁk gEˆB
gEˆÁBÔπ[ √∫Ôπ©º√V| √Á¶©√m √V´V‚|¬zˆB>VÔ ∂Á\Õ]Ú¬˛≈m.
>uº√Vm ÂT™ Œo, Œπ ∂Á\©º√V|, ÿ>Va_ O‚√D, z´_ √]°ÔÁ·
zÆÕ>Ô|Ôπ_ √]° ÿƒFm, ∏E§_ÈV>kVÆ ∂´∫ºÔuÆkm ®D √^πl[
>M›]≈Á\. ∂>uÿÔ™ E≈©A √V¶_Ô^ ÔÁ> kƒ™∫Ô^, ÔV‚EBÁ\©AÔ^ ®™
ŒÀÿkVÚ √z]lKD clº´V‚¶D ÔV©√|D.
g∫˛È ÂV¶Ô∫Ôπ[ ∂´∫ºÔu≈D ]Ú\] Ûƒ[ ƒVxºkKD, ]Ú\]
ÿ√VuÿÔVΩ kƒÕ>\VÈV°D ÿ√VÆ©A¶[ º\uÿÔVı| ÿƒB_√|›] kÚ˛[≈™Ï. >tμ
ÂV¶Ô √Á¶©AÔÁ· gEˆÁBÔ^ ~Ω›ÿÔD¨´ ¤V[E, Áƒº™V \VÏ˛º´‚, º¤Vv©∏[
]ÚkV·ÏÔ^ >tμ gEˆBÏ mÁ´ƒVt, gEˆBÏ ∑º´i g˛ºBVÏ cÚkV¬˛
clº´V‚¶\V™ ÂV¶Ô cÈÁÔ ÂD Ôıx[º™ WÆ›> k_ÈkÏÔ^.

ÿ>[˚Ï x>[Á\© √^πl_ ¶Õ>

z´∫zD, z_ÈV°D ÂV¶Ô ÔV‚E

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The salary for Schwartz given by S.P.C.K. in 1766 was rupees 35
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Í√Ï QVlÆ √^π
HEBER SUNDAY’S SCHOOL
ºk>VÔ\D, √^π ÂV‚Ôπ_ kVa√V‚Ω_ kVE¬Ô©√¶°D, \VÁÈ ºÂ´∫Ôπ_ s|]Ôπ_
ºk>D kVE¬Ô©√‚|, ÿ¤√xD ka√V|D ¶›>©√‚| kÕ>m. ∏[™Ï 1938D gıΩ_ QVlÆ
√^π ®[≈ Œ[Æ cÚkV™m. ∂©√^π Heber Sunday School ®[≈Áw¬Ô©√‚¶m. QVlÆ
√^πl[ gı| swV kÚ¶Õº>VÆD ÿÔVı¶V¶©√‚¶m.

Photo Taken at the Anniversary of the Bishop Heber Sunday School

When Mrs. SANDEGREN Presided.

]Ú\]. ƒVÕ>˛ˆ[, >´∫ÁÔ º√´VBˆ[ mÁsBVÏ ÔÈÕm ÿÔVı| E≈©∏›>VÏÔ^.

]Ú. n.º¤. x›mƒVt ∂kÏÔ^ QVlÆ √^π gEˆB´VÔ √ËAˆÕm ƒ›]B kƒ™›Á>
\VkÏÔ^ \›]l_ º√V]›m kÕ>VÏ. g´V>Á™¬z QVlÆ º>VÆD ºÔV‚Á¶ ˛§¸m ÂV>Ï
gÈB›m¬z \VkÏÔÁ· ∂Áw›m ÿƒ[ÆD E≈©A ºk>VÔ\ √^πÔ^ ¶›]•D, kƒ™
\™™©º√V‚ΩÔ^ JÈ\VÔ°D ƒ›]BD ∏fi∑ ÿÂfiƒ∫Ôπ_ √]° ÿƒFB©√‚¶m. >uº√Vm gEˆBÏ
gEˆÁBÔ^ \]B ºkÁ·Ôπ_ gÈB›]_ \VkÏÔ”¬z ƒ›]B kƒ™›Á> º√V]›m E≈©A
ºk>VÔ\ kz©AÔ^ \uÆD ºk>VÔ\ º√V‚ΩÔ^ ¶›]•D gs¬zˆB kaÔπ_ ∂Áw›m
ÿƒ_˛≈VÏÔ^.

Gratitude
“ Our greatest anxiety is how to dispose of the children educated in the English schools as
most of them are orphans. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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36 Villages had been ministered by coleroon mission in the year 1861.
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±ÈÔD
LIBRARY
Ô_s¬ ÔıÁ› ]≈¬zD ±ÈÔD Â\m √^πl_ g´D√ ÔVÈ›]_
g∫˛ºÈB t¥™ˆ\VÏÔ^ g∫˛ºÈB x>_kÏÔ^ ÷∫˛ÈVÕm º>ƒ›]oÚÕm
ÿÔVı| kÕ> A›>Ô∫ÔÁ· \V›]´D ÿÔVı¶Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m. x>[Á\©√^πBVÔ
∂∫ˇÔV´D ÿ√u≈ ∏[ ]ÚflƒÁ√ ÿ¤√© A›>Ô∫Ô^ √V\VÁÈ QVlÆ g´V>Á™
Œø∫zxÁ≈ QVlÆ√^π gs¬zˆB ÔÁ>Ô^ ®™ √È ÷¶D ÿ√u≈™. 1873gD
gı| SPG Ô_ŸˆBVÔ cBÏÕ> ∏[ F.A. kz©AÔ^ g´D∏¬Ô©√‚¶™. ®™ºk
∂§sB_, ÿ√VÚπB_, k´ÈVÆ, g∫˛ÈD, ÷È›][, ƒ\¸˛Ú>D º√V[≈ ∂ºÂÔ
A›>Ô∫Ôπ[ º>Ák ∂]Ôˆ›>m. ®™ºk, s|xÁ≈ ÔVÈ∫Ôπ_ ÷∫˛ÈVÕm ÿƒ_KD
Ô_KVˆ x>_kÏÔ”D, º\ÈV·ÏÔ”D, zÚkV™kÏÔ”D ∂ºÂÔ A›>Ô∫ÔÁ· kV∫˛
±ÈÔ›]uz \VkÏÔ^ √B[√V‚ΩuÔVÔ ∂Ï©√Ë›>™Ï. ÷©A›>Ô∫Ô^ ÷[≈·°D
®\m ±ÈÔ›Á> ∂È∫Ôˆ¬˛[≈™.

tÔ©√ÁwÁ\BV™ ºk>VÔ\D √Ôk›ˇÁ> zÏg[ 13D ±u≈VıΩ[ >tμ

kΩk ±_Ô^ ÷∫˛ÈVÕm º>ƒ Oxford Press, London Press, Macmillen Press.
1888-gD gı| 2000 ÿ>Vz]Ô^ ∂¶∫˛B A›>Ô›ÿ>Vz©A ÿÔVı¶ √Ω©√Ô ∂Á≈
c^·¶∫˛B>VÔ ±ÈÔD ∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m.

1894 gD gı| ¶V‚ƒ[ ∂flƒÔD mk∫Ô©ÿ√uÆ ÁÔºB|Ô^, ∏´]Ô^

ÿkπl¶©√‚¶™. ÷m ]Ú.˛§¸>V¸ ∏^Á· ∂kÏÔ·V_ mk∫˛ Ák¬Ô©√‚|, s¬¶Ï
>∫ÁÔBV ∂kÏÔ·V_ WÏkVÔD ÿƒFB©√‚¶m.

1931 gı| 100 A›>Ô∫Ô^ ±ÈÔ›]uz k´©ÿ√u≈™. x>[Á\BVÔ k´ÈVÆ,

AslB_, ∂§sB_ º√V[≈Ák ºƒÔˆ¬Ô©√‚¶™. 1934 gD gı| ±ÈÔ©
A›>Ô∫Ô^ ∂Á™›mD Ô_ŸˆloÚÕm, cBÏWÁÈ© √^π¬z ÷¶\Vu≈D
ÿƒFB©√‚¶m. 1958 gD gı| 133 ÿ>Vz]Ô^ º\KD, ºƒÏ¬Ô©√‚¶™. ±ÈÔ›]_
g∫˛ºÈB, ÷Õ]B, ∂ÿ\ˆ¬Ô √›]ˆÁÔÔ^, \V> ÷>μÔ^, ÷¶D ÿ√u≈™. z§©√VÔ
Modern review, The Hindu, Tit Bits, The Spectator, The statesman, The
Wednesday Review, The Field, and “The Nineteenth Century and After” º√V[≈
√›]ˆÁÔÔ”D, ÷>μÔ”D ±ÈÔ›Á> ∂È∫Ôˆ›>™.

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The youngest principal in Tamilnadu State was Prof. D. Swamiraj, when he took office at the age of 37
) *
gEˆBÏ ƒ∫ÔD
STAFF ASSOCIATION
Puthur High School Staff with Principal and
Manager 9th April 1932
, +
38 scholarships were awarded to the students by the S.P.C.K.
√^π kVμs_ tÔ gº´V¬˛B\V™
s≠B\VÔ ÔÚ>©√|km gEˆBÏ ƒ∫ÔD.
\˛μflEl_ ÷Á>_, m¬Ô›]_ gÆ>_
c≈s[ √˛Ï°Ô^, √∫Ôπ©AÔ^, Ô¶Á\Ô^,
ÔÚ›>V¬ÔD, A]B ƒ‚¶ kÁ´°Ô^ ®™
∂Á™›m s≠B∫Ô”D g´VB©√|D
>ÚD ÷Õ>¬ Ì|ÁÔ. kVμs[
kƒÕ>∫Ôπ_ √∫zÿ√ÆD ÷flƒ∫ÔD, m¬Ô
ÔVÈ∫ÔπKD º>V^ ÿÔV|©√m ÷>[
>MflEũA.
1926gD gı| cÚkV™ ÷flƒ∫ÔD
g´D√ ÔVÈ∫Ôπ_ ƒM¬˛wÁ\Ôπ_
\V›]´º\ ÌΩBm. \]B c°¬z© ∏[™Ï
*ı|D ÌΩ ÿƒF]ÔÁ· √˛ÏÕmÿÔVı¶m.
s|xÁ≈¬z ∏≈z Ì|km, ÂuÔÚÁ
g´V>Á™, ˛§¸m\¸ g´V>Á™,
WÆk™Ï ]™¬Ì|ÁÔ, ®™ √ˆV\D
ÿ√uÆ k·ÏÕ>m. 1928 gD gı|
gEˆBÏ Ì‚¶D ÔVsˆ Â]¬ÔÁ´l_
¶Õ>©ÿ√uÆ ∂∫ºÔºB sÚÕ>π¬Ô©
√‚¶m. 1929gD gı| E∫ÔV´›º>V©A
Á\>V™›]_ √ˆƒπ©A swV ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈m.
1930gD gı| E∫ÔV´›º>V©A
Á\>V™›]_ MOON LIGHT DINNER
E≈©A¶[ ¶›>©√‚¶m E≈©A tz
∂–√kD. 1931gD gı| x>[
xÁ≈BVÔ >ta_ ƒ∫Ô ÔVˆB∫Ô^
WÔμ›>©√‚¶™.
) *
1933 gD gı|Ôπ_, gı|¬z
3 xÁ≈ g∫˛È ÿ\Va Ì‚¶\VÔ°D,
ÂV[ÔVkm Ì‚¶D >tμ ÿ\ValKD
√˛Ï°Ô^ ∂Á\Õ>™. ÷D\V]ˆBV™
ƒ∫Ô¬ Ì‚¶∫Ô”¬z E≈©A
sÚÕ]™ÏÔ·VÔ ÔÈÕm ÿÔVı¶kÏÔπ_
tÔtÔ x¬˛B\V™kÏ º√´VBÏ kV_i
01.06.1937 x>_ 03.06.1937 kÁ´
J[Æ ÂV‚Ô^ Œ|¬Ô¬ Ì‚¶›]_ √∫z
ÿ√u≈m tzÕ> gÊÏkV>\V™>VÔ
∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m.

÷Õ> gEˆBÏ ƒ∫Ô›][ E≈©Atz

ÿƒB_√V|Ô·VÔ ÔÚ>©√|km 1919 gD
gı| x>_ cÈÔ©º√VÏ WÁ≈°u≈
º√Vm, Thanks Giving Service- ¶›>©√‚|,
º√Vˆ[ ÿku§ÁB ÿÔVı¶VΩ \˛μÕ]™Ï.
∂º>º√V_ ∑>Õ]´D ÿ√u≈º√Vm, zΩB´∑
g™º√Vm ®™ E≈©A ÷Á≈ka√V|
∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m. ∑>Õ]´›]uz x[AD,
∏[AD ÷flƒ∫ÔD √È \VÆ>_ÔÁ· Ôı|
√È √ΩÔ^ x[º™§ c^·m.

The Principal with the Prefects

School Examination :
“Such examinations we have once in a month and it is in many respects an advantage to have them
frequently but particularly because the school master in thus encourages fulfilling his duty faithfully.
We examine their reading, writing and arithmetic, and hear them repeat by heart the principal texts
and a hymn”
It Strikes one as a rather novel idea that the Chief use of examinations is to keep the Teachers up
to the mark! - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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Converted christian between 1706 - 1719 was only 39
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School Staff - 1955-56

The Staff with Students 1981-1982 The Staff - 1981 - 1982

Schwartz’s Syllabus:
“ I must confess that the educations which many parents give their children’s in highly detrimental
they spend their younger years in learning those things which profit nothing. Their understandings
are not furnished with divine knowledge their will are not tent to love and obey god, their
passions are not properly restrained or directed”. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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40 teachers were served in our school in 1908.
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The Staff - 2012-2013

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Women workers were reduced in 1967 in our diocese was 41
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>tμ ÷Ȭ˛B \[≈D

Ô_º>V[§ \ıº>V[≈V ÔVÈ›]_

x[ º>V[§B J›> >tμÿ\Va
ÿƒDÿ\VaÿB™ ÊÏÿ√VÚÕ] ÔV©√|D
>twÔ›]_ x>uƒ∫ÔD, ÷Á¶flƒ∫ÔD,
ÔÁ¶flƒ∫ÔD º>V[§B ÔÈVflƒV´
√]°Ôπ_ ®D √^πl[ >tμflƒ∫ÔxD
ƒV>Á™ √È AˆÕm^·Á\ z§©∏¶›
>¬Ôm.

1909-gD gı| mk∫Ô©ÿ√u≈

÷flƒ∫Ô›][ x>[Á\ ºÂV¬ÔD >tμ
ÿ\Val_ \VV¬ÔϬz gÏkD
ÿÔV´°D, >tμ k·ÏflE¬z s›]¶°D
mk∫Ô©√‚¶m.

1929-gD gı| x>[xÁ≈BVÔ

g∫˛ºÈºB º\ÈV·Ï, >V·V·ÏÔ”¬z
x[√VÔ >ta_ WÔμflEÔ^ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈™.
÷>[ 15Õ>Vkm gı|swV ]≈Õ>
ÿkπl_ E∫ÔV´›º>V©A Á\>V™›]_
ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈m. ÂVÈΩBVÏ √V¶KD, z≈”D,
EÈ©√]ÔV´D, ÊkÔ EÕ>V\Ë•D,
\˺\ÔÁÈ•D, \VkÏÔ^ \™]_
√]•D√Ω √V¶D º√V]©√]_ k_ÈkÏÔ·VÔ
®D √^π >twVEˆBÏÔ^ √ËBVu§BÁ\
º√Vu≈›>zÕ>m.

Concern over the King

“ My journey to Madras I under took at the desire of govt as tutor of sefogee. The expense of the
journey I bore myself I was obliged for conscience sake to undertake it as the legal guardians of
the young man. His life was in the utmost danger. He is now at madras learns English and
reads good books”. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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42 years when Bishop Reginald Heber answered for the Divine call.
) *
∏flÁƒ ÷©´VÍD AÈkÏ,
mÁ´ƒVt nBÏ, ºk∫Ô¶ƒVt ÂV‚¶VÏ,
º>kºÂB √VkVÏ \uÆD √È´V_
÷Bu≈©√‚¶ ±_Ô”D, √V¶©√‚¶
√V¬Ô”D ®[ÿ≈[ÆD WÁÈ›m
√^π¬zD, Ô_Ÿˆ¬zD \z¶›]_
\VˬÔ\VÔ s·∫z˛≈m.

E≈©A sÚÕ]™ÏÔ·VÔ
ƒ∫Ԭ̂¶›]_ ÔÈÕm E≈©AÁ´
BVu§BkÏÔ^ c.ºk.ƒVtÂV> nBÏ,
W.D. x›Á>BV, Rev. F.R. >VD©v[

g˛ºBVÏ.

250km gı| swVs_ ]Ú. ÂÕ>ÈVÈVs[ E≈©A √‚Ω\[≈D.

Job Satisfaction
“ My heart rejoiced at the kind over ruling providence surely he is a God that hearken prayer”
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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Number of ducks recorded by Courtney Walsh during his test career, a record 43
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LITERARY CONTRIBUTION BY
OUR BELOVED BISHOPS AND PRINCIPALS

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44 pastorates in Trichy-Tanjore Diocese in 1947-1957.
) *

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This year -i.e. 2013 the revived Bishop Heber College entered in to the year 45
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Visitors with Exemplary distinction
1. 1826 Reginald Heber D.D.,
Bishop of Calcutta

2. 1928 – Rao Bahadur Krishna Rao Bhonsle

(Old student)

3. Trichirappalli District Collector

M.R.Rly.U.Rama Rao

4. Lord Goschen & Lady Goschen

5. Rt.Rev.E.H.M.Waller, Bishop of Madras

6. Mr. Arputhasamy Udayar, M.L.C.

7. Mr. Renganathan Vice-Chancellor,

Annamalai University

8. Lord Napier, Duke of Buckingham

9. Lord Irwin & Lady Irwin

10. Lord Curzon

11. Lord Minto

12. Lord Harding II

13. Lord Reading

14. District Collector,

Mr.Renganathan O.B.E., I.C.S.,

15. Lindsay commission – Dr.A.E.Lindsay,

Master of Balliol, Chairman of the
Commission

16. Mr.Mackenzie, The director of public

Instruction of the United Province about
Education

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46 members of whom 3 muslims on Caldwell Hostel’s roll in the year 1926.
) *

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The number of recruits from our B.H.C. for 5th Madras University Training Corps in 1929 was 47
) *
17. Lord Goschen

18. District Sessions Judge Hon A.J.KING

19. Mr.T.R.GIBSON, Asst.Financial

Secretary of SPG, London

20. Sir. Fredrick Stanley, Governor of

Madras

21. Mr.H.C.M.Mc Laughlin,

Commissioner, Trichirapalli

22. Hon.Austin Byers, Sessions Judge,

Trichirapalli

23. Lord Napier of Ettrick

24. Lord Hobart & Lady Hobart

25. Rt.Rev.E.H.M.Waller,
Bishop of Madras

26. 100th year – Dr.Foss West Cott,

Bishop of Calcutta

27. 100th year – Dr.Harry Waller, Bishop

28. Mr.Reynolds

29. Rev.David Chellappa

30. His Excellency Governor of Madras

31. E.B.Thorp, 1st Bishop of our Trichy –

Tanjore Diocese (CSI)

32. Rao Bahadur, E.P.Mathuram

33. ]Ú.c.ºk.ƒVtÂV> nBÏ

34. ]Ú.ºk∫Ô¶ƒVt ÂV‚¶VÏ

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48 percentage of BPL people joined in theological mission in India.
) *
35. ]Ú.´V.∏. ºƒm©∏^Á·

36. Rev. Pakenham Walsh, Bishop

37. H.O.Fowler, M.L.A.

38. Rev.Mount Ford

39. The Most Rev.H.SUMITRA,

Moderator, CSI

40. Rev.Rasendrahasinha

41. Mr.Malayappan, Dist Collector

(Old student)

42. Mr.Savarirajan, PRINCIPAL,

American College, Madurai

43. Rt.Rev.R.B.Manickam, Bishop TELC

44. ]Ú.˛Ú√V™Õ> kVˆBVÏ

45. Mr.T.N.Rajendren, Dist.Collector

46. Mr.K.A.P.Visvanatham

47. Dr.Joseph (Eye Hospital)

48. Mr.B.H.Mulley, Principal,

St.John’s Vestry Anglo Indian Higher
Secondary School

49. Mr.LEGH – District Judge & Collector

50. Hon’ble Mr.L.E.Buckley, Reilly

Tolerance in Duties
“ I bless God that, in my 68th year, I can go through all my duties with tolerable ease. Some
months ago I visited cuddlore and Negapatnam when I commonly preached thrice every day,
viz English, Portuguese and Malabar (Tamil)
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz - 1794
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Karumalai in Anaimalai D.C.C. in 1997 attained the elementary education percentage of 49
) *
51. Mr. M.G.R. Chief Minister
52. Mr. M. Karunanidhi, Chief Minister
53. Mr. K.N. Nehru, Transport Minister
54. Mr. G.K. Moopanar, M.P.,
55. Mr. P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister
56. Mr. Thangam Thennarasu, Edu. Minister
57. Mr. N. Siva, M.P.
]Ú\]. ˛§¸Ω™V^ ƒVÈ\[ mÁ´ƒVt 58. Mayor Sujatha
∂kÏÔ^
59. Ponnavaikko V.C. Bharathidasan University
60. Mrs. Jayashri District Collector
61. Rt.Rev. Solomon Duraisamy, Bishop CSI
62. Rt.Rev. Paulraj ”
63. Rt. Rev. James Srinivasan ”
64. Rt. Rev. Paul Vasanthakumar ”
65. Mayor Jaya ”
66. Mr. N.R. Sivapathi, Edn. Minister ”

√^π swVs_
]Ú. ÿ¤.ÿ¤. ®_. QV™´VÎ ∂kÏÔ^

√^π gı| swVs_

, ]Ú. ÿ√V[™Ák¬ºÔV ∂kÏÔ^ +
50 students were accommodated in Pentland Hostel, Findlay College Mannargudi in those days.
) *
Rarest for Remembrance

Cleaning the Teppakulam

during the period of M.P.H. Albert

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Solaiyar obtained the precentage of elementary education in 1997 was 51
) *
Signature of Principals in itinere

Sunday Worship
‘On that day we are exclude worldly thoughts as much as possible, even those that are allowable on
other days’ - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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52 Elementary and Middle schools in our Diocese.
) *
Signature of Bishops & Correspondents in itinere

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No. of pastorates in 4 D.C.C. in the year 1977 was 53
) *
Succession of Seals HOC Temporis

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54 Staff members holding M.Phil., degree in BHC in the year 2010-11
) *
Believe it or Not !

Confidence
“I am still able to go through the labor of instructing both young and old, without being over-
fatigued. This duty is so great a refreshment to me that I heartly praise God for continued
health and strength” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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No. of pastorates in 5 D.C.C. in the year 1987 was 55
) *
Amazing Facts of Our Institutions
1. Mannargudi – Findlay College

2. Tanjore – St.Peter’s college

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56 lakhs share capital in 2010-2011 in BHC thrift and credit society.
) *
3. Church of South India High School, Nagapatinam

4. SPG Girls School, Erungalore

5. Wesleyan Mission High School, Nagapattinam, Mannargudi

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In 1996-97 the total no. of staff members in methodist G.H.S.S. was 57
) *
6. SPG High School, Tanjore.

7. Report on
SPG High School

8. St.Peter’s High school, Tiruvadi

9. Trichy-Tanjore Circle-Schools

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58 persons only become christians in Karur between 1816-1914
) *
10. First Court in Trichy in our BHHSS, Puthur.

÷[Á≈B >ta_ :
÷Õ> º>ƒ›m \–≠Ï \Á¶B›>™\VF
∂º™ÔD º√ÏÔ^ √È s>›]KD º\VƒD
√ıˬ ÿÔ|›m© º√V‚¶]™VºÈ
∂©√Ω¬ÿÔV›> mu ¶›Á>Ô^
÷Mº\_ ¶kV\_ >|›m ¿]
¶©∏›m¬ÿÔV|D ÿ√VÚ‚¶VF ÷Õ>
ºÔVÏ‚ T‚Á¶ º\[Á\ ÿ√VÚÕ]B
÷∫˛oi zD√MBVÏ ∂kÏÔ”Á¶B
c›>´°©√Ω¬z kV_¶Ï ÔV_¨_|
ºÈ[™[ mÁ´ >[ \™]_ º>V[§™
\V]ˆ√Ω¬z ƒ>°≈ gı| (1804) …ÁÈ
\V>D x>_ º>]l_ Ô‚Ω™VÏ
®[≈§km.

11. ÿk¸‚ˆ √^πl[ z·›]_

÷ÚÕ> Ô_ÿk‚|

÷¬ Ô_ÿk‚| ˛.∏. 12D ±u≈VıΩ_

J[≈VD zºÈV›m∫ÔºƒVw™V_
∂Á\¬Ô©√‚¶m. ÷m Â\m ÿk¸‚ˆ
º\_WÁÈ©√^πl[ ˛u§oÚÕm
Ôıÿ¶|¬Ô©√‚¶m.

ÿ√VÚ^ :
÷´Vº¤Õ]´ ºƒVw k·ÂV‚Á¶fl ºƒÏÕ>
kı¶VÁw ºkjϬ Ìu≈›m ºkjϬ
˛wk[ ÂV´ÂÕ ®[≈ ÔVÁ≈ Ôu√ÔD
÷Õ>› ]Ú\ı¶√›Á>¬ Ô‚|s›>VÏ.

- The Editor
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In 1977-1987 the Dalit Reverends numbers raised from 15 to 59
) *
The Best Forgotten Relics in Christ Church

Schwartz’s house in later years ....

...Reading room... ...Letter box... ...Prayer room....

Heber’s steps
Heber’s bath at court

The photo was taken before the bath was

, leveled for the CJM court extension
+
60 percent financial aid every year allotted by KNH to Vacational Training Centre, Dharapuram.
) *
sÁ·BV‚|›mÁ≈ (SPORTS)
Venari est vivere
∏≠© Í√Ï cBÏ>´©√^πBVÔ cÚkV™
ÔVÈ›]oÚÕº> sÁ·BV‚|›mÁ≈l_ ÿku§
x›]Á´ √]›m kÚ˛≈VÏÔ^ ®D√^π
\VkÏÔ^ sÁ·BV¶ ÷¶kƒ] ÷[§ >s›>
ÔVÈ∫Ô^ >V™VF \Á≈Õm \Vÿ√ÚD \Vu≈∫Ô^
÷D\ıË_ º>V[§Bm.
kV_i s|]¬z ÿ>uºÔ √´Õ> ÿkπBVÔ
÷ÚÕ> ÷¶D ÂÔ´V‚El[ kƒD ÷ÚÕ>m.
]ÚflE´V©√^π ÂÔÚ¬z^ ÔV©√‚¶ 67
z·∫Ôπ_ Â\m √z]l_ 4 z·∫Ô^ ÷ÚÕ>™.
E∫ÔV´› º>V©∏_ ÷´ı|D, >ÁÈÁ\ gEˆBÏ
T‚Ωuz ∂Ú˛_ Œ[ÆD Super Bazzar √z]l_
Œ[Æ\VÔ ÷ÚÕ>™. ÔVÈ©º√V¬˛_ ∂ÁkÔ^
\V§™.
]Ú.∏Bϸ ∂kÏÔπ[ ʈB xBuEl_
2 1/4 ∞¬ÔÏ WÈD ]ÚflE´V©√^π
ÂÔ´V‚El¶tÚÕm kV∫Ô©√‚¶m. ∏[™Ï
c¶u√luE ̶D Œ[Æ >VÏ©«V_ ÷Ú¬zD
√z]l_ ∂Á\Õ>m. ∂>uz ÿ>uºÔ ÿ¶[M¸
Á\>V™D ∂Á\¬Ô©√‚¶m. Ø©√Õm Á\>V™xD
cÚkV™m. ÷Õ]B nº´V©∏B sÁ·BV‚|
Á\>V™D ®[Æ ∂Áw¬Ô©√‚¶ Á\>V™D
ÿ√V[\ÁÈl_ ÷ÚÕm ∂>Á™
g∫˛ºÈBÏÔ^ \‚|D, ∏[™Ï g∫˛ºÈV
÷Õ]BÏÔ”D √B[√|›]™Ï. ∂>[∏[
x>[x>ÈVÔ ]ÚflE´V©√^πlºÈ ÿ¶[M¸
Á\>V™D ®D √^πl_ ∂Á\¬Ô©ÿ√u≈m.
∏[™Ï 1956gD gıΩ_
A.G. ÔVÏΩ™´V_ E∫ÔV´›º>V©A WÈD
kV∫Ô©√‚¶m. ∂ºÂÔ \´∫Ô^ Â\m
Á\>V™›]_ ÔV©√‚¶m. Û©√Ï √¤Vˆ[
ÔÁ¶Ô^ ÷Ú¬zD √z]Ô^ k¶A≈xD EÕ>V\Ë
kÁ´ ®_ÁÈBVÔ ÿÔVı¶ √z]Ô^, tÔ©√´Õ>
√´©√VÔ ÔV©√‚¶>V_ ]Ú. M.P.H. g_√Ï‚
x>_k´VÔ ÷ÚÕ>º√Vm ∏≠© Í√Ï sÁ·BV‚|
∂´∫ÔD (Bishop Heber Stadium) Œ[Æ Ô‚¶
, xBuE›m ∏[™Ï ÁÔs¶©√‚¶m m´]i¶º\. +
Gradually our diocesan schools downgraded from 285 to 61
) *
√ËAˆÕ> ŒÀÿkVÚ >ÁÈÁ\BVEˆBÏÔ”D x>_kÏÔ”D, zÚkV™kÏÔ”D ŒÀÿkVÚ
sÁ·BV‚ΩKD ]≈Á\ tzÕ>kÏÔ·VÔ ÔV©√‚ΩÚÕ>™Ï. ∂kÏÔ^ √^π¬z ∂§xÔ©√|›]B
sÁ·BV‚|Ôπ[ √‚ΩB_
º√´VBÏ kV_i ˛ˆ¬ÿÔ‚, ÿ¶[M¸, ¿flƒ_, √¶zƒVÁÈ
√Ï™‚ º\uÔ›]B sÁ·BV‚|Ô^
ÿ¶[M¸ º≠´¬
c¶u√luEÔ^ ÔVÏΩ™Ï
1934gD gı| x>_ zø ∏ˆ¬Ô©√‚| ∂>uz ÿ√Bˆ¶©√‚¶m. ¶V‚ƒ[, kV_i, º≠´¬
\uÆD ÔVÏΩ™Ï ®[Æ ÿ√Bˆ¶©√‚¶m ÷[≈·°D E≈©A¶[ ÿƒB_√|˛≈m.
÷¬zø¬Ôπ[ √luE ÂV‚Ô^ xÁ≈©√Ω kÁ´BƬԩ√‚¶™ ]∫Ô^ ¶V‚ƒ[ zø,
ÿƒÀkVF˛wÁ\ kV_i zø, A>[ ˛wÁ\ ÔVÏΩ™Ï zø°D, sBVw[ ∂[Æ º≠´¬ zø°D
ÿk^π¬˛wÁ\Ôπ_ ∂Á™›m zø \VkÏÔ”D Mass Drill á_ ÔÈÕm ÿÔV^”\VÆD
∂§°Æ›>©√‚ΩÚÕ>™.
∑wuºÔV©Á√ (Rolling Shield) kVÈÏ, º¤D¸, ∏Ïÿ√∫ g˛B x>_kÏÔπ[ ÿ√Bˆ_
kw∫Ô©√‚¶™. 7 ÿk^π sÚmÔ^ ¶V¬¶Ï.∞.\m´D, º¤.®D.∏ÿ´¶ˆ¬ g˛ºBVVÏ xÁ≈ºB ÔV_√Õm
\uÆD z›mflƒıÁ¶¬z kw∫˛™Ï. 5 √ˆ∑Ô^ >ÁÈÁ\ gEˆBÏÔ^ kw∫˛™VÏÔ^.
1929gD gı| mk∫˛ A›#Ï √^π ∏ˆÕ> 1935gD gı| kÁ´ Duel Sport Meet xÁ≈
∏[ √u≈©√‚| ÷Ú√^πÔπ[ sÁ·BV‚| swV¬Ô”D Œ[≈VÔºk ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈™.
÷Ú√^πÔ”¬zD Œº´ c¶u√luE gEˆBÏ ÔVÁÈl_ Â\m √^πlKD \]BD A›#Ï
√^πlKD √ËAˆÕ>VÏ.
1928gD gı| x>_ c¶u§≈© º√V‚ΩÔ^ Â\m E∫ÔV´›º>V©A Á\>V™›]_ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈m.
1929 x>_ ÿ¶[M¸ Á\>V™D ∂Á\¬Ô©√‚¶m.
1932D gı| ÁÔ•Õm √Õm ( Volley Ball) ∂§xÔ©√|›>©√‚¶m.
1931gD gı| x>_ ÿƒ[Á™ ´V¤>VM ŒoD∏¬ sÁ·BV‚| º√V‚ΩÔ^ Roger’s
Groundá_ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈m. ÷m ÿ>©√¬z·D >√V_ WÁÈB›]uz ÿ>[A≈D ∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m.

1931D gı| Grigg Memorial Medal ÿ>V¶ÏÕm ÂV[z gı|Ô^ ÂD√^π ÿ√u≈m.
ÂD√^πÔ^ c¶u√luE gEˆBÏÔ·VÔ, √luEBV·ÏÔ·VÔ 1928D gı| x>_
]ÚkV·ÏÔ^ ®‚kÏ‚ ÿƒ_ÁÈBV, >™D (ÿ>[˚Ï √^πÔ^, A›#Ï)
PW .º¶s‚,
>™D ƒVȺ\V[, ∂DAº´V¸ ]BVÔ´V¤[, ´VB©√[, g˛ºBVÏ E≈©A tz
√ËBVu§•^·™Ï.

Schwartz’s perfect author

I will glory in Christ Jesus, The only and perfect author of all happiness. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
, +
62 Tea and coffee estates are in Anaimalai which is situated 4500 ft above sea level.
) *

About Death
“It we are reconciled to God by our blessed Redeemer, We have no reason to be afraid of dying
and quitting this world. Our whole life ought to be a proportion for death. May God give us grace
to die to sin and to the evil of the world and to live to his glory that when he calls us away we may
be prepared for that great change!” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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Our school has sections from VI to XII is 63
) *

Request
“I feel my weakness more and more how long the Lord will yet preserve and use me rest with
HIM. My times are in His Hands. May he be merciful to me and grant me at last a blessed
end”. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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64 km east from Nagapatinam, the village Melanatham was converted by Rev. Albert Fonse in 1830.
) *
sÁ·BV‚|© º√V‚ΩÔπ_ ÿku§ ÿ√u≈
\VkÏÔ^ º\Á¶Ôπ_ ÿÔ·´s¬Ô©√‚|
√^π¬z s|xÁ≈•D ∂π¬Ô©√‚¶m.
sÁ·BV‚|© swV©º√V‚ΩÔ^ Â\m √^πl_
ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈ º√Vm √∫zÿ√u≈ z§©∏¶ >zÕº>VÏ
Major Henman, Mr. Malayappan, Bishop Waller
g˛ºBVÏ.
>uº√Vm \VkÏÔ^ ÔV_√Õm, ÌÁ¶√Õm,
ÁÔ©√Õm, kV^ƒıÁ¶, vV©‚ ÿ¶[M¸, ~‚Ω
®§>_, Ô´V›º>, >¶Ô·©º√V‚ΩÔ^ ®™ ∂Á™›m
º√V‚ΩÔπKD x›]Á´ √]›m kÚ˛[≈™Ï.
√^πÔ”¬˛Á¶ºBBV™ º√V‚ΩÔ^, \Vk‚¶,
\ı¶È, \VWÈ, ÿ>[\ı¶È, º√V‚ΩÔπKD,
ÿkπÂV|ÔπKD ÔÈÕm E≈©∏›m kÚ˛[≈™Ï.

New Year Greeting

“May then the peace of God in this year, and as long as we live, cheer, guide and strengthen us all”
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz
, +
Lakhs in rupees donated by EZE to CSI Mission Hospital Woraiyur is 65
) *

Staff Athlets
, +
66 students only studied in CSI Boys School Karur in 1886.
) *

Volley Ball Team - 1991

Winners in the office assistants’ Race

, +
The no. of Children in Munur creche, when it was closed 67
) *

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68 percentage of ours school in S.S.L.C. examination in the year April 1947
) *
º>EB \VkÏ √Á¶ (NCC)

√^π©√Úk›]_ \VkÏÔ”¬z √Á¶

koÁ\ÁB•D º>ƒ©√uÁ≈•D ª‚Ω
k·Ï¬zD c[™> ∂Á\©A. ÂV‚Á¶¬ ÔV¬zD
T´ cÏ°ÔÁ· ÿkÆD ∞‚|¶[ WÆ›>V\_
ÂV‚Á¶¬ ÔV¬Ô TÆ ÂÁ¶ º√V¶°D, m©√V¬˛
∞Õ>°D, mËÔ´ ƒVÔƒ∫ÔÁ·fl ÿƒFm
ÿ\FEoÏ¬Ô Ák¬zD √Á¶ ÷m.

1919gD gı| ƒV´Ï ∂Á\©∏[

ÿ√VÆ©√V·´VÔ ÷ÚÕ> ºÔ.º>kmÁ´
∂kÏÔº· g´D√ÔVÈ›]_ ÿ√VÆ©º√uÆ
÷Õ]B √VmÔV©A √Á¶¬z ÷´ı|
\VkÏÔÁ· ∂–©∏ Ák›>VÏ. ∂>[
ÿ>V¶ÏflEBVÔ 12 √ÁwB \VkÏÔ^
ÿ\ƒ©√º¶VtBV º√VÚ¬z ∂–©∏
Ák¬Ô©√‚¶™Ï. SPG Ô_Ÿˆ √^πºBV|
÷ÁÕ]ÚÕ> º√VmD º>EB \VkÏ √Á¶
tÔ©ÿ√ˆB k·ÏflE Ôı¶m.

∂¬º¶V√Ï 27, 1957gD gı|

ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈ Ceylon Emigration Depot √›m
ÂV‚Ô^ ´Vbk ka kVμ¬ÁÔ ®[≈ E≈©A
√luEl_ √^π \VkÏÔ^ Major C.C.
º\V™©√V ∂kÏÔ^ ka ÔV‚|>o_
√∫zÿ√u≈™Ï. ]ÚflE´V©√^πl_ ∂º>
gıΩ_ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈ ∑>Õ]´ ]™ ∂Ëkz©∏_
ÂD \VkÏÔ^ √∫z ÿ√u≈m z§©∏¶›>¬Ôm.

, +
In Anaimalai pastorate the field study was conducted with no. of persons 69
) *
>uº√Vm º>EB \VkÏ √Á¶
\VkÏÔ^ sÁ·BV‚|ÔπKD, >M›]≈[
ÿkπ©√V‚ΩKD, m©√V¬˛ ∑|>oKD zø ]≈[
º√V‚ΩÔπKD, ÿ>V¶ÏÕm ÿku§ ÿ√uÆ
®D √^π¬z ÿ√ÚÁ\ ºƒÏ¬˛[≈™Ï

>ÁÈÂÔÏ ÿ¶_ol_ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈

zΩB´∑ ]™ ∂Ëkz©∏_ >twÔ ∂ËÁB
>ÁÈÁ\ºBuÆ Â¶›] ÿƒ_È ®D √^π
\VkÏ \ËÔı¶[ º>Ï° ÿƒFB©√‚¶m
√^πl[ ˛Z¶›]_ º\KD ŒÚ \VˬԬÔ_.

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70 Christian students studied in affiliated schools in the year 1916-1917
) *
ƒx>VB©√Ël_ º>EB \VkÏ √Á¶l[ √∫z

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In 1946 the number of students in Walsh Hostel accommodated was 71
) *

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72 k.m. from the H.Q. J.A. Sharrock spreaded the message of christ in Ariyalur region.
) *

Week end at Woriyur

”At Woriyur we have spent many a Saturday in a Very agreeable manner” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
, +
The number of villages annexed by J.L. White for All Saints Church, Puthur is 73
) *

Schwartz’s Personality
“ I well remember his peculiarity venerable and impressive appearance, the tall and erect
figure, the head white with years, the features on which I loved to look, the mingled dignity
and amenity of his demeanour. To his pupils he was more like a parent than a preceptor”. -
Unknown person, who knew him in 1796.
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74 presbyters had obtained B.Th, B.D, M.Th out of 113 Reverends in 1997.
) *
ƒV´Ï√Á¶ (SCOUT)
g´D√ÔVÈ›]_ 5 ƒ∫Ô∫Ô^
Œ[§ÁÕm Œº´ ∂Á\©∏_ ÔV©√‚m.
>tμ \[≈D, º√flƒVu≈_ \[≈D, ƒV´Ï,
º>EB \VkÏ√Á¶, ÿƒfiEKÁk ƒ∫ÔD ®™
nÕm ƒ∫Ô∫Ô”D Œº´ ∂Á\©∏[ ˇºw
E≈©A¶[ ÿƒB_√‚| kÕ>™. ∂ÁkÔ^
( Associated Societies) ŒÚ∫˛ÁÕ>
ƒ∫Ô∫Ô^ ®[≈ ÿ√B´VºÈ ÿƒB_√‚¶™. ÷Õ>
ƒ∫Ô›]uz ∂Á≈ ∏Bϸ s|]l_
kw∫Ô©√‚ΩÚÕ>m.

∏[™Ï 1917-1918gD Ô_sBVıΩ_ x[Æ ƒ∫Ô∫Ô·VÔ ÷ÁÕm cBÏWÁÈ©√^πl[

ŒÚ∫˛ÁÕ> ƒ∫Ô∫Ô^ ®[Æ ÿƒB_√¶› mk∫˛™. hÁÈ \V>D mk¬Ô swV°D
gı| swV ÿ√©Úkˆ \V>xD ¿ı¶
√Úk›]_ J[Æ ÿ√Vm¬ Ì|ÁÔ•D
ÿÔVı| J[Æ ƒ∫Ô ÿƒBÈV·ÏÔÁ·•D
ŒÚ ÿ√Vm ÿƒBÈV·Á´•D ÿÔVı|
ÿƒB_√‚¶m.

1917gD gı| ÂkD√Ï \V>D

√^πl_ ƒV´Ï √Á¶ mk∫Ô©√‚|
]Ú.ºÔ.º>kmÁ´ ∂kÏÔ^ ƒ∫Ô©
ÿ√VÆ©√V·´VÔ© E≈©√V™ ÿƒB_

√V|ÔÁ· ÿƒÀk™ºk ÿƒFm √^π¬z √V´V‚|

\ÁwÁB ÿ√uÆ› >Õ>VÏ. ÷Õ> ∂Á\©∏_ Cubs
Scouts, Rovers ®[≈ zø ∏ˆ°Ô^ c^·™
\VV¬ÔÁ´ ÿƒDÁ\©√|›] ÊÏtz
ÿƒB_√V|Ôπ_ √∫ºÔuÔ Ák›m √V∫z¶[ √Ë
ÿƒFB Ô¶Á\•Ï° ÿÔVı¶m ÷Õ> ∂Á\©A.

÷flƒ∫Ô›]™V´V_ k´ºkuÔ©
√‚¶kÏÔ^ Ô_s ∂]ÔVˆÔ^ x>_ ÔkÏ™Ï ÿ¤™´_ kÁ´ √‚ΩBo¶ÈVD. 1929 gD gıΩ_
, +
Walsh began shaping the New Hostel with the number of hostelers 75
) *
ÿƒ[Á™© º√´VBÏ EHM. kVÈÏ mk∫˛ ÷Õ]B
Ák¸´VF gÔ ÷ÚÕ> ÷Ïs[ ∏´A , Ôσ[ ∏´A.
tı‚º¶V∏´A, º«ÏΩ∫¸ ∏´A, ZΩ∫ ∏´A ®™
∂Á™kÚ¬zD >uº√Vm ƒ›]´D º√ÚÕm
WÁÈBD ∂Á\Õ]Ú¬zD E[Á™BV ∏^Á·
ƒ›]´D mk∫˛ gıΩ©√‚Ω ÷_ÈD kÁ´ Â\m
\VkÏÔ^ ÿÔVΩ ∞u§ kˆÁƒl_ W[Æ
ƒVÁÈl[ ÷Ú\Ú∫˛KD \VV¬ÔÏ \˛μflE
ÿk^·›]_ k´ºku≈m k´ÈVuÆ √]°Ô^.

º\KD ÷Õ> ∂Á\©A ÿkπ ÷¶∫Ôπ_

>∫˛ Ì‚¶∫Ô^ ¶›]•D ∑uÆÈV
ÿƒ[ÆD >\m ∂Á\©º√V| ƒx>VB©√Ël[
x¬˛B›mk›Á> √Á≈ ƒVu§lÚ¬˛[≈™.
>uº√Vm ]Ú. √V_ g™Õ>z\VÏ ∂kÏÔ^
>ÁÈÁ\l_ ÷Õ> ∂Á\©A E≈©A¶[
ÿƒB_√|˛[≈m.

Under the Banyan Tree Near the Temple at the

, Foot of the Hill

+
76 Teachers and office staff in Puthur BHHSS in 1996-1997
) *

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In the year 1885 the trained Methodists number is 77
) *

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78 was the total strength of Montgomery Hostel in the year 1927
) *
JUNIOR RED CROSS
1. 1862D gı| ÿ«[§ |[‚ ®[√k´V_ º¤.gÏ.E. º>VuÆs¬Ô©√‚¶m.
2. √^π \VkÏÔ^ 150 º√Ï ÷]_ ÷ÁÕm^·™Ï.
3. √^π k·VÔD, √^πl[ kz©√Á≈Ô^ º√V[≈kuÁ≈ ∑›>\VÔ
Ák›m¬ÿÔV^”>_, #FÁ\ÁB© √u§ ∏≈ \VkÏÔ”¬z¬ ÔuƬ ÿÔV|›>_
÷>[ E≈©√Dƒ\VzD.
4. ∑ÔV>V´D, ºƒÁk, ‚A≈° º√V[≈ x¬˛B ºÂV¬Ô∫ÔÁ·¬ ÿÔVı¶m.
5. x>K>s, \Ú›mk c>s, zwÕÁ>Ô^ \uÆD ª™xuº≈VÚ¬z c>°>_.
6. ƒVÁÈ© √VmÔV©A, ˛´V\ºƒÁk, Ôı>V™D, ÷´›> >V™D º√V[≈ Âuÿ>Vı|Ôπ_
~|√|>_.
7. √ı√V|, √ˆ\Vu≈D, xÔVD, ]´·Ë, g_√D >BVˆ›>_, º>EB swV¬ÔÁ·¬
ÿÔVı¶V|>_ º√V[≈ ‚A≈°fl ÿƒB_ÔπKD \VkÏÔ^ ~|√‚|^·™Ï.
8. >uÿ√Vøm ]Ú. º\VÔ[´VÎ ∂kÏÔ^ \VV¬ÔÁ´ ÷ÀkaÔπ_ ~|√|›]
√^π¬z Âuÿ√BÁ´ ~‚Ω›>Ú˛≈VÏ.

On 4th September 1797 Schwartz’s last letter to the Society in England :

He thanked the society both on his own behalf and on behalf of his fellow workers for all their
kindness to them adding that God had graciously preserved their lives and health so that he
was still able to go through his accustomed work, though with less vigour than here to fore.
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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The students appeared for S.S.L.C. examination in April 1948 in our school was 79
) *
Heber’
Heber’ss Heritage

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80 percent of the Staff members present at every meeting in SPG college in 1916.
) *

, +
In our school the total members of staff in the year 1996-97 was 81
) *

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82 Students only admitted in Walsh Hostel in the year 1949
) *
s|]Ô^ (HOSTELS)
ÔV_ÿk_ s|] (Caldwell Hostel)
1893gD gı| ]ÚÿÂ_ºko m›m¬zΩl_ E≈©A¶[ ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈ ÔV_|ÿk_ Ô_Ÿˆ
J¶©√‚¶>[ sÁ·kVÔ ∂D\VkÏÔ”¬z ÿ>V¶ÏÕm Ô_s ˛Á¶¬Ô ºkı|D ®[≈
ÔV´›]™V_ ÷Õ> s|] mk∫Ô©√‚¶m. ÷m>V[ ]ÚflE´V©√^πlºÈ g´D∏¬Ô©√‚¶ x>_
s|] gzD. ÷m ®ı 7 E[™¬ÔÁ¶ T]l_ c^· Ô‚Ω¶›]_ ÷B∫˛Bm. >uº√Vm ∂Õ> Ô‚Ω¶D
]ÚflE´V©√^π Ì‚|≈° k∫˛l[ kƒD c^·m.
ÔV_|ÿk_ s|] ]Ú.T.H.¶V‚ƒ[ ∂kÏÔ·V_ mk∫Ô©√‚¶m. ÷Õ> s|]l_ m›m¬zΩl_
ÔV_|ÿk_ Ô_Ÿˆl_ √Ω›> \VkÏÔ^ \‚|º\ SPG Ô_Ÿˆl_ ºƒÏÕ>°¶[ ÷∫z >∫˛
√lÈ ∂–\]¬Ô©√‚¶™Ï. ∂kÏÔ^ ∂Á™kÚD ˛§¸>k \VkÏÔ·VF ÷ÚÕ> ÔV´›]™V_
˛§¸>k gEˆBÏ ŒÚkÏ mÁ ÔV©√V·´VÔ°D ŒÚkÏ ÔıÔVË©√V·´VÔ°D, ŒÚkÏ
º\ÈV·´VÔ°D ÿ√VÆ©º√u≈™Ï. s|]¬z \Vkfl ÿƒBÈÏ ŒÚkÚD º>ÏÕÿ>|¬Ô©√‚¶VÏ. x>_
s|]fl ÿƒBÈ´VÔ ∂Ú‚]Ú.Ô™V[ J.G .ºÔVl_∏^Á·, B.A. . √‚¶©√Ω©A √l[≈ º√Vm
ÿ√VÆ©º√u≈m z§©∏¶›>¬Ôm.
Christian Hostel / Montgomery Hostel
1919gD gı| A]B s|] Œ[Æ ˛§¸>k \VkÏÔ”¬ÿÔ[Æ A›mˆ_ g´D∏¬Ô©√‚¶m.
÷m ‘.60,000/- \]©∏_ ∂´∑ W]BVÔ ÿ√≈©√‚| ŒÚ \V]ˆ s|]BVÔ tÔfl E≈©A¶[ >M›>M
∂Á≈ kƒ]Ô”¶[, E≈Õ> k·VÔ\VÔ ∂Á\¬Ô©ÿ√uÆ s·∫˛Bm. ÔV_|ÿk_ s|]l_
\Vk™VÔ ÷ÚÕ> º√Vm s|]l[ \VkflÿƒBÈ´VÔ ÷ÚÕ> ºÔVl_∏^Á·, \Vı‚ºÔV\ˆ
s|] g´D∏¬Ô©√‚¶°¶[ Ô_Ô›>Vs_ ∏≠© Ô_Ÿˆl_ ÷Á≈lB_ xΩ›m kÕ>°¶[
sˆ°Á´BV·´VÔ°D s|]l[ mÁ¬ ÔV©√V·´VÔ°D Ô_Ÿˆ ÷Á≈lBÈV·´VÔ°D
WBt¬Ô©√‚¶VÏ.
\VkÏÔπ[ T|Ô^ ÿkz ÿ>VÁÈs_ ∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>>V_ Ô_s ÔuÔ kVF©AD kƒ]•D
∞u√|›]¬ ÿÔV|¬Ô xBuE ÿƒF>][ sÁ·kVÔ ÷Às|] º>V[§Bm. >uº√Vm ÷Às|]
∂[AÁ¶BV[ ÔVÈM ®™ ∂Áw¬Ô©ÿ√uÆ, ]ÚflE, >fiÁƒ ]Ú\ı¶È ∂KkÈÏÔπ[
zΩlÚ©√VÔ ÷ÚÕm ÷[ÆD √B[√V‚Ω_ c^·m.
∏Bϸ s|] (Pearce Hostel)
÷Õ>¬ Ô‚Ω¶D s|]BVÔ \VÆk>uz x[ ÔVÈM ®[≈Áw¬Ô©√‚¶m. ∞ÿ™M_ ÷Õ>¬ Ô‚Ω¶D
∏ˆ‚Ω≠V´V_ √B[√|›>©√‚¶m. 1752 gD gıΩ_ ´V√Ï‚ ˛Á·À ]ÚflE´V©√^πl_ >∫˛
xÔD\m ∂oÔV–¬z g>´kVÔ √Á¶¬z >ÁÈÁ\ ∞uÆ Â¶›]B º√Vm ÷Õ>¬ Ô‚Ω¶›]_ >V[
∂kÚD ∂k´m √Á¶Ô”D >∫˛lÚÕ>™. ∂©º√Vm Ô>°Ôº·V, ¤[™_Ôº·V ∂Á≈Ôº·V
÷_ÁÈ.
x>ÈVk>VÔ ÷¬Ô‚Ω¶D Ô_Ÿˆ \VkÏÔπ[ √B[√V‚ΩuÔVÔ Ô_Ÿˆ WÏkVÔ›][ ˇμ
kÕ>º√Vm ÷m ÔVÈM s|] ®[≈Áw¬Ô©√‚¶m. ∏[™Ï h[ \V>D 14D º>] 1927gD gıΩ_
√^π g´D∏¬Ô©√‚| ∏≠© Í√Ï cBÏWÁÈ©√^πBVÔ cBÏÕ> ÂVπºÈºB ÷Õ> ∏Bϸ s|]•D
√^π¬ÔVÔ ÿƒB_√¶ mk∫˛Bm. ÷∫ºÔ 17 ∂Á≈Ô^ ÷ÚÕ>™ ∂ku§_ 10 ∂Á≈Ô^ >MÂ√Ï
∂Á≈Ô·VzD. ÷Õ> s|] g´D∏›>°¶[ √^πl[ ÿƒ_kV¬zD cBÏÕm \VkÏÔπ[

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The no. of students in Ruth Illam, Irungalur in 2007 was 83
) *

Schwartz’s reply on his illness

“ The faithful God helps us out of trouble and chastens us with tenderness. How would it be if
He should deal with us according to our sins? But in younger country there will be no pain and
this we owe to the Lord Jesus” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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84 Children were in methodist mission in the year 1912
) *

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No. of pastorates in 6 D.C.C. in the year 1997 was 85
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86 Christian students were in SPG college in Gardiner’s period.
) *

Kholhoff recorded about Schwartz

“Schwartz’s strength was quite exhausted and his body extremely emaciated. Yet he desired
that the school children and others who usually attended the evening prayers should assemble
in where after singing he expounded a portion of the Holy scripture in a very affecting manner,
and concluded it with this fervent and important prayers”. - C.S. Kholhoff

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The Mohammadans in SPG College High School in 1917 was 87
) *

Extension of Kingdom of God

The progress of the kingdom of Christ was much in Schwartz’s thoughts during his last illness.
Being asked whether he had the hope that after his death, the KOG would be further extended
in this county. “ Yes but it will not be without affliction and trouble” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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88 pastorates in our Diocese in the year 1997
) *
ºƒÏ¬ÁÔ•D tÔ ∂]Ô ®ıˬÁÔÁB ®‚ΩBm. g´D√ WÁÈl_ 18 \VkÏÔ^
>∫˛lÚÕ>™Ï. ∏[™Ï 23 \VkÏÔ^ >∫Ô ºÂˆ‚¶m. ∂kÏÔπ_ 3 \VkÏÔ^ xÔ\]BÚD
6 ∏´V\ÚD ŒÚ ˛§¸>k \VkÚD ∞Á™B \VkÏÔ^ ÷Õm¬Ô·VÔ°D \u≈
∏ˆs™´VÔ°D ÷ÚÕm Ô_s √l[≈™Ï. ÷D\VkÏÔ^ ŒuÆÁ\•D, E≈Õ> ‚AD
√ı√V·ÏÔ·VÔ°D Œº´ z|D√›]™Ï º√VÈ >∫˛lÚÕ>™Ï. Ø©√Õm sÁ·BV‚ΩKD ∞Á™B
sÁ·BV‚ΩKD E≈Õm s·∫˛™Ï. ∂Á≈¬z \V> kV¶ÁÔ Ú√VF ÷´ı| \‚|º\.
1932-D gı| ÿ√©Úkˆ 9D º>] ÂÁ¶ÿ√u≈ s|] gı| swVs_ ∂©º√VÁ>B
x>_k´VlÚÕ> ∂Ú‚]Ú.C.H.∏Ïÿ√∫, >ÁÈÁ\ s|] ÔV©√V·´VÔ°D ÷ÚÕm ÔÈÕm ÿÔVı|
s|]Ôπ_ Literary and debating Society, Reading Club g˛BÁk mk∫Ô©√¶ ª¬Ô\π›m
ÿƒB_√‚¶VÏ.
÷ÀkV≈V™ E≈©AÔÁ· ÿ√u≈ ÷Õ> s|]¬z 1877 x>_ 1886 kÁ´ SPG Ô_Ÿˆ
x>_k´VlÚÕ> C.W.∏Bϸ ∂kÏÔπ[ ÿ√BÁ´ Ák›m ∂kÁ´ ÿÔ·´s›>m. ÷Às|]
\VkÏÔ^ ∏[™Ï kV_i s|]¬z \Vu≈©√‚| A]B s|] ÿƒB_√¶›mk∫˛Bm.
¶V‚ƒ[ s|] (Dodson Hostel)
÷Õ> s|]BV™m ∏≠© Í√Ï cBÏWÁÈ©√^π¬z Ì|>_ s|]BVÔ mk∫Ô© ÿ√uÆ
∂Ú‚]Ú.G.Y. ¶¬ÔÏ ÿ√VÆ©º√uÆ 1933 h[ x>_ º>] x>_ \VkÏÔ^ √B[√V‚Ωuz kÕ>m.
ÂV[z cÆ©∏™ÏÔ^ ÿÔVı¶ zø ∂Á> √V´V\ˆ›m kÕ>m. ÷m°D tÔ© √ÁwÁ\BV™ Ô‚Ω¶
∂Á\©Á√ ÿÔVı| s·∫˛Bm. ˇºw \VkÏÔ^ >∫zD ∂Á≈Ô”D, º\ºÈ ÔV©√V·Ï
∂Á≈•D ∂Á\Õ]ÚÕ>m. ∏[™Vπ_ ∏≠© Í√Ï Ô_Ÿˆl_ \VV¬ÔÏ ºƒÏ¬ÁÔ
∂]Ôˆ›>°¶[ Dodson Annex ®[≈ ŒÚ s|] y√[ \Ú›mk\Á™ ÷Ú¬zD ÷¶›][ ®]º´
ÿƒB_√‚| kÕ>m. 1934-¬z ∏≈z College House ®[≈ ÷¶›]uz \Vu≈D ÿ√≈ Board of
Governors g_ xΩ° ÿƒFB©√‚¶m.

>uº√Vm ¶V‚ƒ[ s|]lÚÕ> ÷¶›]_ ]ÚflE >fiÁƒ ]Ú\ıΩÈ Eu≈VÈBD ∂wÔVÔ

kΩkÁ\¬Ô©√‚| g´V>Á™ ÂÁ¶ÿ√Æ˛≈m.
kV_i s|] (Walsh Hostel)
∂Á™›m s|]ÔπKD tÔfl E≈©A ÿ√VÚÕ]B s|]BVÔ s·∫zkm ÷[ÆD ®aK¶[
ºÔV‚Á¶fl ∑kÚ¶[ s·∫zD kV_i s|] Œ[º≈. ÷Õ> s|]¬ÔV™ ÷¶D √^π¬z ®]º´
ÿƒB_√|\VÆ ∂Á\¬Ô©ÿ√uÆ cÚkV¬Ô©√‚¶m.
1908gD gı| ∏≠© º√¬Ô[ «VD kV_i ∂kÏÔπ[ WÁ™kVÔ WÆk©√‚¶m. ÷Õ>
s|]l_ 1908x>_ 1933 gD gı| kÁ´ SPG Ô_Ÿˆ \VkÏÔ^ >∫˛ √l[≈™Ï.
1934gD gıΩ_ ∏≠© Í√Ï cBÏ>´© √^π \VkÏÔπ[ ÷_È\VÔ s·∫˛Bm. ˇμ>·›]_
√^π gEˆBÏÔπ[ zΩlÚ©√VÔ°D x>_ >·D º\ÈV·Ï ∂KkÈÔxD, >ÁÈÁ\ gEˆBˆ[
∂KkÈÔxD ÿƒB_√‚| ÷´ı¶Vkm >·›]_ \VkÏÔ”D >∫˛lÚÕ>™Ï. s|]¬z ®]º´
>uº√VÁ>B √^π ∂KkÈÔ›]_ ®]º´ c^· ÷¶D kV_i ÷_È \VkÏÔπ[ «V¬˛
Á\>V™\VÔ ÷ÚÕ>m. >Á´ >·›]_ √^π ∂KkÈÔ›]uz ŒÚ ∂Á≈ Œm¬Ô©√‚| √^π¬
Ô‚¶D kÛo¬Ô©√B[√|›>©√‚¶m.
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The no. of Children in Athanur creche when it was closed was 89
) *
÷_ȬÔV©√V·´VÔ ÷ÚkÏ WBt¬Ô©√‚¶™Ï. mÁ ÔV©√V·´VÔ >ÁÈÁ\ gEˆBÚD,
º\ÈV·Ï >ÁÈÁ\¬ ÷_Ȭ ÔV©√V·´VÔ°D ÿƒB_√‚¶™Ï. s|] \VkÏÔ^ Ô_s \‚|t[§
sÁ·BV‚|› mÁ≈ÔπKD E≈©A¶[ s·∫˛™Ï. ÷Õ> ÷_È›]uz E≈©A sÚÕ]™ÏÔ·VÔ
kÕ>kÏÔπ_ z§©∏¶›>zÕ>kÏÔ^ º√´VBÏ kV_i, º√V´VBÏ R.B .\VˬÔD,
´V.√.ºƒm©∏^Á·, º√´VBÏ ƒVÕ>˛ˆ[ g˛ºBVÏ. s|]flƒ∫ÔD ®[≈ Œ[Á≈ Ô™D s_oBD
nBÏ ∂kÏÔ^ mk¬˛™VÏÔ^.
÷›>ÁÔB E≈©A ÿ√u≈ kV_i ÷_ÈD 104km gıΩ_ ∂ΩÿB|›m Ák›]Ú¬˛≈m.
±u≈VıÁ¶ Ô¶Õm \VkÏÔ”¬z >∫Ô^ ÷_È›]uz ∏[ \uÿ≈VÚ ÷_È\VÔ s·∫˛
√B–Æ˛≈m. ÷Á≈ka√V|D, c¶uÔ_s•D ∂–]™ Ôu≈_ ka•D, ∑ÔV>V´\V™, sƒVÈ\V™
÷¶xD ÷Õ> ÷_È›][ E≈©√DƒD gzD.
>uº√Vm kV_¸ s|]l[ ÔV©√V·ÏÔ·VÔ ]Ú. ¶´V¤[, ]Ú.º\VÔ[, ]Ú. \Ë
g˛ºBVÏ \VkÏÔπ[ Ô_sl_, sÁ·BV‚Ω_, ÷Á≈ ka√V‚Ω_ E≈Õ> xÁ≈l_ ka¶›]
kÚ˛[≈™Ï.

“ I don’t agree with the objection to corporal punishment any more than mental.
Fear leads to wisdom and passes on to love and a wiser man than Gandhi Said”,
He that spareth his rod hateth his son”.
– Rev J.A.Sharrock, Former principal of our SPG College
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90ft height old teak tree in Sheikalmudi, Valparai stand stillalive more than 500 years.
) *
∑uÆÈV
√^π© √Úk›]_ ∑uÆÈV ÿƒ[Æ kÚkm
WÁ™°© ÿ√‚¶Ô›]_ ®©º√VmD ¿∫ÔV> Œ[Æ.
kVμs[ ®_ÈV ÔVÈ∫ÔπKD ÷Á>
WÁ™›>VºÈ ÿÂfiÁƒ \˛øD. ÷ÀkV≈VÔºk
1929 gD gıΩ_ >ÁÈÁ\BVEˆB´VF ÷ÚÕ>
]Ú. S.K. º>kEÔV\Ë ÔVȬԂ¶›]_ ÷[√fl
∑uÆÈV mk∫Ô©ÿ√uÆ, Ô_sfl ∑uÆÈV,
c_ÈVƒ© ∏´VBD ®™ ÔVÈ›]uºÔu√
ÿkÀºkÆ ÿ√BÏÔπ_ √ˆV\D ÿ√u≈m.
g´D√ ÔVÈ∫Ôπ_ ÔVsˆ ÿÔV^π¶
Â]•D, ∂>™ √VÈxD, ÿÔV^π¶ gÆD ∂>[
√VÔ∫Ôπ[ ®ıˬÁÔ•D, ÿ√V[\ÁÈ
AÁÔkıΩ √Ë\Á™•D, \ÁȬºÔV‚Á¶•D,
\∫ÔD\V^ >∫˛B ÷¶xD \VV¬ÔÁ´ sB©∏_
gμ›]™. ÷>[ k·ÏflEBVÔ ÷[Á≈B·s_
\VV¬ÔÏÔ^ ÿkπ\VWÈ ∑uÆÈV>È∫ÔÁ·
√VÏÁkl|D kıD k·ÏflE ÿ√uÆ^·m.
\VkÏÔ^ \‚|\_ÈVm gEˆBÏÔ^
ÿƒ_KD ∑uÆÈV Ô_s √ˬz c>°kº>V|
√ËlÁ¶ ∑Á\ ¿¬zD ∑uÆÈVkVÔ
∂Á\Õm^·m.
1929gD gı| x>_ 2012gD gı|
kÁ´ ÷¬Ô_sfl ∑uÆÈV √]°ÔÁ·AÁÔ©√¶
√¬Ô∫Ô·VÔ ÿ>Vz›m k·ÏflEl[ kΩk∫ÔÁ·
Ôıx[ WÆ›m˛º≈VD.
1929 ΩƒD√Ï ]ÚkV∫ÌÏ, zu≈VÈD
1930 ΩƒD√Ï ÿÔVÁ¶¬ÔV™_
1930 ΩƒD√Ï gEB Ô_s¬ ÔÚ›>´∫ÔD á
√™V´¸. √D√VF, g¬´V, ÔBV, Ô_Ô›>V, ؈
1931 ΩƒD√Ï √VȬÔV| ºÔVa¬ºÔV|,
ÔıIÏ
1933 ΩƒD√Ï º\‚˘Ï
1934 ΩƒD√Ï EÆ\ÁÈ, º\‚˘Ï
1934 \VÏfl Ô_ÈÁ, ÈV_zΩ
1938 ΩƒD√Ï >fiƒV∆Ï
1939 ΩƒD√Ï ¶V_tBVA´D

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In 34th Diocesan council held on 13th-15th in 2013 the number of pastorates took part are 91
)1941 ∞©´_ º\‚˘Ï
*
ÂV\¬Ô_
\mÁ´
1950 kV_i s|] \VkÏÔ^
Ô©√_ ∂–√kD
1956 Á\ÛÏ
1957 Á\ÛÏ
1958 c>Ô\ı¶ÈD
1958 ÿÂFºkol_ kV_i s|]
\VkÏÔ^
÷ÀkV≈VÔ k·ÏflE ÿ√u≈ ®∫Ô^ √^πl[
÷[√fl ∑uÆÈV 70-Ôπ_ ÿ>[ \VWÈxD,
80-Ô”¬z ∏≈m k¶ \VWÈ ∑uÆÈV >È∫Ô”D
>ÁÈÂÔÏ ÿ¶_oÁB Á\B\VÔ Ák›m 90-
Ô”¬z ∏≈zD k·ÏÕ>m. ]Ú. J.V. \º™VÔ´[
>ÁÈBVEˆB´VÔ ÷ÚÕ> ÔVÈ Ô‚¶›]_>V[
x>[x>ÈVÔ zÆD√BD ( Short Tour )
g´D∏¬Ô©√‚| \©√VÁ≈ ∂ÚºÔ c^·
ÿ√V[™MBVÆ ∂Á¬z gEˆBÏÔ^
∂Á™kÚD ÿƒ[Æ \˛μÕ>™Ï. ¶Õm mk∫˛B
∑uÆÈV √BD º√ÚÕ]_ √BË›m,
AÁÔkıΩl_ A≈ÂÔÏ√z]Ô”¬z ÿƒ[Æ,
÷[Æ gÔVB›]_ √≈Õm, ∂ÕWB ÂV|Ôπ_
∂ΩÿB|›m Ák›]Ú©√m ∂Á™kÚD
g™Õ>©√|˛≈ sfiQV™ sÕÁ>.

NCC All India Camp at Delhi

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92 Percentage decline of the tree sparrow between 1970 and 2003
) *

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No. of years between previous sighting of the grey-throated leaftosser on Tobago, and its rediscovery in 1996 93
) *

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94 Year, in the 18th century, in which Edward Donovan published his Natural History of British Birds
) *
Items of interests
&
Funny Matters
 Warning cards were issued to the students in M.P.H. Albert’s period.

 According to school rules if a boy failed in any one of the optional subject he should not
be sent to next class. The parent of the detained student begged the Headmaster by
placing the following reason in the year 1928. “He has to marry in April a richman’s
daughter bringing in a large dowry and the engagement was likely to break off if he were
not selected for the promotion this year so promote him to next class”.

 In the year 1930 through the agency of Messrs.L.S.Natesan and Brothers, the aeroplane
V.T.A.A.K. owned by the pilot Mr.N.Vincent was flying over the city of Trichinopoly 12
times a day. The school staff engaged a bus and visited the aerodrome. The joy ride fee
was Rs.10/- only.

 11.11.1930 was Armistice Day and two minutes silence was observed in all of our schools
at 11.00 a.m.

 The High School peon Solomon was awarded Rs.15/- for saving a woman from drowning
in Teppakulam in the year 1931.

 In the year 1931, during the time of T.H.Dodson, he thought of buying a boat at the cost
of 300 rupees from kumbakonam college for the purpose of students physical exercises
at Teppakulam.

 A press named ‘Dodson press’ to the east of the SPG college inaugurated in 1894 by
Mr.Christdoss pillai in grateful remembrance of many benefits received from the former
principal T.H. Dodson.

 “Instead of beating a pupil black and blue it is better to appeal to his reason and mend
him. Such a punishment is said to be educative and works wonders if rightly used by
skilled teachers. Corporal punishments to now mostly abandoned nowadays” – Mr.S.Siva
Rama Krishna Iyer B.A.L.T., 1932

Gratitude to the physician Dr.kennedy

“For his attendance, and also thanked us, his brethren and native assistants”.- Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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Number of half-hour episodes of the sitcom Birds of a Feather 95
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 Our former principal Mr.C.H.Firbank died on 12.01.1933 Due to his death, National
College declared holiday. What a friendliness between the Christian and Hindu
Colleges!

 Our school magazine started publishing in April 1912.

 Victory Holidays were declared on August 16th and 17th in the year 1946 for victory
over the second world war.

 Old boys association was formed in the year 1946 and its rebirth in the year 1947.

 Rev.F.Watson, manager of our schools took part in the First world war and served
for the nation. He and His wife were supporters of swaraj and swadesi movement in
India.

 Rev.F.Watson was interested in sports when he watches sports activites the

inevitable one was pipe in his mouth.

 On the day of assassination of Gandhiji our school sent a message to the prime
minister of India and the condolence meeting held in our assembly hall.

 In the period of SPG college in the main enterence which was north east corner of
chinthamani “the porters Lodge” was there.

 When a student enters in the main college gate he had to submit the student ID card
and the same will be return back in the same day evening – that was everyday entry
attendance.

 15 students have joined the M.B.B.S. course from the same class.

 Bishop Reginald Heber’s photo was enlarged by our school drawing master Mr.John
Ponniah in the year 1926 Feb 6th for diamond jubilee celebration.

History : “I wish you may read History, by which you may be instructed in every
necessary point. History shows how many princes have exercised justice, benevolence
and diligence by which they have made a whole nation happy”.
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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96 percentage of dead fulmars analysed from the North Sea found with plastic in their stomachs
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Primo in the Campus
AT FIRST IN OUR SCHOOL
1. 1st Zoology graduate Visvanath Iyer
2. 1st accident occured in primary school shed near walsh hostel slided the roof
due to a branch of a tree fell down on 01.07.1929

3. 1st time the H.M.'s room was electrified with 2 bulbs and a single fan
contributed by Er.Solomon Jesudasan an old student of our school.

4. 1st old by of our school to pass out of the government engineering college.

5. 1st time the function held at singarathope grounds for SPG college prize
giving ceremory.

6. 1st time Episcopal choice fell to Rt.Rev.R.Caldwell, Bishop, Tinnevelly in the

year 1878.

7. 1st address after electrification delivered by the Anglican Bishop by turning

on the switch on 26th August 1929 4.30 p.m.

8. The first radio was switched on on 21st Thursday November.

9. 1st time Tamil programme was conducted on sep 1931

10. 1st hostel, 1st Tennis court, 1st Hockey tournament-all credit came to
our school.

11. 1st Teachers Association in this presidency organized in the year 1892 by
Mr.T.H.Dodson

Ante omnia our school was the first school started ever before the schools
were started in the major cities in India.

Knowledge : “Our knowledge is like to light, in which we are to weak, so that we

are led and influenced by the knowledge of what is and influenced by the knowledge
of what is good and just”. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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Number recorded in Lincolnshire during the 2000 invasion of the honey buzzards 97
) *
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kw∫Ô©√|˛≈m.
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 Distinguished Articles
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MESSAGE TO THE RESIDENTS *
Annual Day - 1927

You have asked me for a message for your Hostel Day so you will only have
yourselves to blame if you don’t like it. But how can I refuse,
seeing you write from “the Walsh Hostel” and that Hostel is, in
a way, my child, though I must not therefore call you my grand-
children it would make you too young and me too old, and yet
20 years have elapsed since I left Trichinopoly and however
fast it goes twenty years is twenty years.

I think it is a great thing to be in college and a greater thing to live in a

college I was six years in College in Dublin, and I spent the first two years outside
the College, coming in each day to lectures and then going out again then I spent
the last four years in the College, not going out, not ‘going home’ in the evening, but
finding my college my home, eating there, sleeping there, playing there, chatting
there, talking to men in their rooms, and men talking to me in my rooms, sometimes
(rare and happy privilege) talking with a beloved teacher in his room, or he in
mine, worshipping and praying in the College Chapel, laughing and weeping,
sorrowing and rejoicing there, sick there and well there, and looking at the world
from the College because I got to know the difference between these two kinds of
College life, the life outside, and more abiding was the life inside than the life outside,
that I was determined to do all I could at Trichinopoly to make the students’ life
residential, and it is because of that, that you have your Hostels.

I feel sure you agree with me, as all your own Indian tradition upholds the
same principle the Chela is to live with his Guru, and with his brother-Chelas and it
is in the sharing of a common life, the thinking of common thoughts, the formation
of true friendships, the interchange of thought, the action and enterprise in common,

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and, above all, the worship together that the warp and woof of a college education
is spun: you simply cannot get it in any other way. I notice the men who have
lived “outside”, whether Europeans, or Indians, have nothing of that magic College
culture, which the resident collegians have gained. They have merely attended
lectures, mugged up books, stored their memories with facts, passed examinations,
got degrees, and debates, still they have not lived the real college life their minds
and souls have not been reacting constantly to other minds and souls they have
not imbibed the traditions and the atmosphere of the college to the same extent
and they have not been in such intimate touch with their Teachers.

For all these reasons I rejoice that you are Hostel students, that you will
make the best use of it, by each giving and receiving the most you can during
your college, school days.

‘It was a great joy to me to visit this historic high school and to feel that it now is a
C.S.I. institution. I was very much struck by the discipline and orderliness in this school’
-H. SUMITRA
Bishop Moderator, C.S.I.

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DISCILESHIP AND DISCIPLINE
(April-1948
E.B.THORP
Bishop in Trichinopoly and Tanjore.

No one has ever achieved success in any walk of life without discipline. If
you see a musician playing an instrument with great skill and freedom, and you
ask him how he has attained that freedom, he will reply that he has practiced for
many years, that the practice was often dull and uninteresting,
but without it he could not have attained his present skill. In
other words, his skill or his freedom has been obtained through
discipline. The same is true of a great cricketer. You may think
that as cricket is a game, no hard work is necessary for those
who want to play it. But the greatest cricketers are those who
have practiced may hours and the same is true of every other game Freedom in
playing comes through long practice, or in other words through discipline.

But you may object that this practice is something that they have willingly
undertaken themselves it is very different from a discipline which is enforced by
others. The answer is that discipline is always at first enforced by others but it
should become self-discipline. The small child has to do what it is told it does not
know the reason, but in order that it may form good habits, the parents or teachers
must tell the child what to do and punish it if it persists in disobeying. But it should
always be their aim to enable the child to understand the reasons for what it has to
do and so to do it willingly.

Many of the rules that we have to obey in school are necessary because the
school is a larger community than the family. As boys reach the higher forms, they
learn to understand this, and so can take a share in the government of the school,
and in feeling themselves responsible for its good discipline. It is perhaps games
more than anything else that teach us this reason for the necessity of discipline. A
team of good players who have not learnt to combine with one another is often
beaten by a team of average players who play well together, who play with a sense
of discipline.
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And what is true of the school is even more true of the nation. There are
some people who imagined that national freedom would mean that they could
throw off the restraints of discipline. But it is true on the contrary that freedom
requires even more discipline than a condition of life which is not free. There is
no form of government which requires so much from the subjects as democracy.
It requires a real spirit of discipline, willingly accepted by all of them. This
means that they must know something of the reasons for the various regulations
made by the Government. Democracy means that they will have the opportunity
to know these reasons but they must themselves go to some trouble to learn
them.

True discipline leads to happiness. When I visit a school, like yours,

where there is good discipline, I notice that the boys are happier than they are
in schools where the discipline is poor. For one thing, good discipline does not
mean a lot of punishments. Discipline is good when the boys have come to accept
it willingly, even though they do not understand the reason for everything. But if
they do not understand everything, yet they trust those who are in authority.
Here again we see the relation between discipline and discipline ship, for
discipleship implies a personal relation of trust and affection between the guru
and the disciples.

One of the things that I always like to see in a school is boys who have
learnt to enjoy studying a subject, or doing anything that is connected with the
school’s activities, not because it will help them to pass examinations, or because
they will be punished if they do not work hard, but because they have learnt the
happiness of doing hard work for its own sake. Through discipline they have also
reached the stage where they enjoy all they learn about this subject. They have
a real interest in it. They are now true disciples.

Be happy, and try to make others

So shall you answer the intentions of providence - Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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SECONDARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
(September - 1928)
The Rev. F. Watson

Secondary schools varied in England as they did in India.

A secondary school in London was much more efficient than in
a count town while some counties themselves were more
advanced than other counties. There were some were the sons
of the more wealthy people. They went to a kind of preparatory
school until the age of eight and then to a public school and had
nothing to do whatever with secondary education. Education
being compulsory in England from 5 to 14 years of age, the great mass of children
went to elementary schools for that period. The secondary schools catered chiefly
for children between 8 and 18 who did not go to public schools. Quite a large
proportion had their first education in Elementary schools and did not go to
secondary schools until they were 12 or 13. There were two kinds of children in a
secondary school those who had all their education in that school from 8 to 18
and those who went to an Elementary school until they were about 12 or 13 and
they had a kind of scholarship for about 3 to 5 years. It was now insisted upon
that children should stay at school until they passed an examination equivalent to
the MATRICULATION. There were central schools to which were attached a number
of elementary schools and the best students would be sent therefore a year or two
longer. Government when they paid a grant insisted that a certain number of
children should have their fees excused. The board of education in England was
the central authority for secondary education and there was an education
committee to decide how they should spend their money. Every year they held
examination for children between 12 and 13 and awarded scholarships to those
who came out best and they had free tuition for three years. In Surrey they probably
gave about 200 scholarships which excused fees of children for 3 years and then
of the children did well, for another two years. The surrey committee not only
paid fees but also railway expenses when necessary and provided a hot meal for
those who needed it in that cold country.
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BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ SCHOOLS

In England practically all the secondary schools were either boys’ or girls’
schools. Education was compulsory from the age of 5 both for boys and girls and
wherever there was a boys’ school there was also a girls’ school, but in exceptional
cases in Lincolnshire and in Dorset not far from Southampton and Portsmouth,
there were secondary schools which were mixed, where boys and girls from 5 to
18 studied together. The population was scattered and it was not predictable to
set up separate schools for boys and girls. Just as elementary education in the
county was mixed so in those counties it was the same with secondary education.
There were boys and girls in the same classes from 5 to 18, some people agreed
with it on principle.

TEACHER’S TRAINING

Practically all teachers were graduates with the exception on teachers in

physical training, music, drawing and needle work. There not very many teachers
who had not undergone any training in secondary schools. 20 or 30 years ago it
was decided that anyone with a degree could teach. Teachers had realized and
the present teachers insisted upon the need for training in teaching. The three
Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London held examinations that entitled
them to the teachers diploma, and before they could get registered in the teachers
registration council, teachers in secondary schools and lecturers in colleges must
have a degree and a teachers diploma as rule with certain exceptions. The council
had no definite power over other teachers who were not members.

Opening of new schools

‘Our intention is to have such schools in several provinces, if God grant peace to this country.
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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PAY
As a result of the Burnham Commission owing to the greatly increased
cost of living after the war the scale that was adopted was a high one and
within a year or two of its adoption it was decided to ask the teachers to give
up 5 per cent a short time after that another 5 per cent was deducted for
superannuation purposes. Teachers in England were really quite well provided
for now. If a man had been teaching 28 years and he retired his pension was
based on 28/40 of the average of the last five years. Summer schools were
held in the long holidays where chosen teachers addressed them. Besides
educational papers new methods were compared and tested and the experience
shared by the profession and spread all over the country.

The great latitude they had in England in deciding upon the syllabus for
schools the great attention paid to the physical training of boys and girls and
the interest evinced in sports and games which were played and shields won
for schools instead of individual players getting prizes for themselves. The
old boys and girls keeping up interest in the school or schools they had left,
and influencing the present members thereof.

Tribulation
‘This has been from the time mankind fell into sin, and will be so, till we enter into the peaceful
mansions of the saints and angels in eternity. Having, then, little or no peace in the world, let us
take care to have, maintain, and enjoy peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.’
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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MEANING OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
Rt. Rev. A.M. Hoolis
Bishop of Madras - October 1929

The great function of a university is the teaching

of the young. And here we need again to re-think our ideals.
If the successful passing of an examination is the chief
criterion of success, we have fallen for short of all the
ideals of learning in either West or East. Think of the old
schools of India where the pupils lived and learned at the
feet of their gurus and carried the knowledge acquired by
hard toil and simple living to their fellow countrymen.
We often hear it said that we need a national culture developed
in our education. And it is profoundly true. The first thing we must have to
secure it is an indomitable love of truth a determination to face all the facts a
fearless judgment which will weigh the facts and use them all. Education, national
education, is not simply a means of preparing for a profession still less is it a
means of securing a qualification to be hawked about in the market. It is rather
a preparation for life by learning how to use knowledge already gained and
how to acquire more and more than that, it is the acquiring of an instrument
to serve the country by bringing truth and reality into the reach of all.

Education should be primarily a training in real honest thinking. By

nothing else can the problems of India be solved by nothing less can the ordinary
lives of ordinary men and women contribute to the lasting good of the nation.
But without education this honesty of thought is difficult to attain. Conclusions
based on partial knowledge and on one-sided views of facts must necessarily
be misleading – even dangerous. And so it comes about the education is the
most vital of all the subjects with which we have to deal in India to –day. As I
have tried to show, we need the higher research work, which will give us a
synthesis of Eastern and Western thought we need the particular research
work which will give us the material to solve many particular problems in
the nation’s life; we need the education which will enable the youth of the
country who fill our school and colleges to appreciate and use the knowledge
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acquired by the specialists. And above all, we need the self-sacrificing devotion
to truth, which enabled the students of ancient India to live their hard and
simple lives, content if only they might penetrate a little further into the secrets
of the universe.

EDUCATION – A PREPARATION FOR LIFE

There are so many possibilities which lie before a University in these

days that it is difficult to avoid being discursive. I will finish by mentioning
one great need-the spread of education throughout the villages of India. If
any scheme of universal education is to be carried through, it will require
hundreds of thousands of teachers. But along with that, it requires a great awakening
of the people themselves to realize the meaning and benefits of education.
Education at present ends to take the youth away from their homes and their
villages. It is the door to a life outside it is an escape from the home life. And
the result is that the education which was expected to provide a maintenance
and nothing more is proving a delusion and is, as a matter of fact, simply swelling
the ranks of the unemployed. And there are not wanting those why cry out
against it and would abandon it altogether the remedy is not the abandonment
of education by the widening of its scope and a revision of its aims. And so we
come back to our main theme. Our education should be a preparation for life,
not simply a qualification for an already over- crowded profession. Its chief
aim should be the training of the student in honest thinking and in a fearless
facing of the facts of life. And it should be an inspiration for the best service
which any man or woman can render to their country- man indomitable presentation
of truth based upon toil and sacrifice.

“Every sickness reminds us of our end” - Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA

If we look carefully at the crest which appears on our

sports certificates and on the cover of our School Magazine
we shall see that the shield is divided into three parts. On one
side there is a Cross on the other side there is a Book in the
middle there is a picture of the Teppakulam with Clive’s house
and the Rock behind. Above the shield there is a Pelican
wounding herself in the breast with her beak and feeding her young ones with
her blood. Below the shield there is a scroll on which appear the words which
are printed at the head of this article

Each of these things has its special meaning in the history and ideals of
our School. Some of them can be easily understood. It is easy, for instance, to
understand why a School should have a book on its crest, and why this School
should have a picture of the Teppakulam and the Rock. The Cross and the Pelican
are symbols of the Life and Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and of the
work which he did for the men and women of the world. But what of the mystic
words on the scroll beneath?.

In the middle ages the Services of the Christian Church, the Bible and the
Prayer Books were all in Latin. In our English Prayer Book to day, at the head of
each Psalm, there are a few Latin worlds which are the opening words of the
Psalm in the Latin version. No doubt these words were put there, so that the
people who had been accustomed to having the Psalms in Latin would be able to
find their way about the new book without difficulty. At the head of Psalm 127
we have the first two of the words at the head of this article, and beneath them
the English Psalm begins “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain
that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

One of the most important things about a School is the story of its past,
and that those who work in the School, whether as teachers or as pupils, should
know the story of the past, and of the great ones who have worked to build up

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the School. In our Assembly Hall we have pictures of many of these men, and it
is hoped that we shall be able to fix on their pictures particulars about the name,
dates and office of each one who is represented there. In this way the pictures
found our Hall should represent to us the greatness of our School in the past,
and inspire us to work, so that our School may go on from strength to strength.

This is what is called the “TRADITION” of our School. All the good things
which we have inherited from those who have gone before, whether from the
men of old whose portraits we see round the Bishop Thorp Hall, or from the
boys who have left the School only a few short months, all that we have so
received is our Tradition. Some of it concerns our work in the class room some
of it concerns what we do on the sports field some of it and this is the most
important concerns the way in which we live and the kind of citizens that we
grow up to be. All these things make up our Tradition the life and character of
the School which passes from on generation of students to another, and by each
of them is strengthened and enriched.

We who now are at Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School should try so
to live and work that we pass on to those who come after us a high tradition of
good living, right thinking and fair play. We cannot find out how to do this, we
cannot succeed in doing it, by our own effort or in our own strength. We can
only do it with the help of God and so for each one of us the motto of the School
is true.

NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA- without God’s help and guidance all or efforts
are in vain .

Guilty
‘Do not look constantly upon your faults only. The sense of the love of God, and of Jesus, some true.
- Rev. C.F. Schwartz

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AN ADDRESS ON EDUCATION
14th October 1935
Mr. S.K. Devasikhamani

Some years ago education meant instruction, then it came to mean

passing a test or an examination. Next it was defined as preparation for life.
At present it means life itself. Education is life and life is
living one’s ideals. As Kilpatrick has said, “Learning and
life belong in life; they began in life before the school began
and they continue in life after school work ends”. According
to him, “learning enters and remakes life and better schools
should supply life itself which builds character and ideals”.
Right learning provides ever nobler and more abundant
learning. That is, we have to teach our young people how
to find the best means for studying and solving the pressing
problems of life. We must bring into our schools the burning
social questions which our pupils will have to face in future. We must not
tell them what they should do in an authoritative manner. But we can help
them to think and decide for themselves what to do both now and in the
future.
English Education began in India after 1835. Macaulay is often blamed
for cutting off Indian Education from the roots of National life. It must be
remembered that he was not the chief mover. The movement towards Anglicization
began in Missionary and Hindu quarters before Macaulay began to sharpen
his pen and select his epithets. It was fostered by Hindu support for many
years after Macaulay had left India. Even to-day there are many who advocate
English in preference to Vernaculars. They go so far as to say that they would
withdraw their children from school if Vernaculars were made the media of
instruction.
Now what are the defects of the system? FIRST it is said that in the
present system, no provision is made for vocational training and a disproportionate
importance is attached to literary education. A narrowly linguistic education
is not an education in any real sense; as I said before, true education should
deal with life. Our High Schools and Colleges prepare students for our obviously
limited number of vocations-medicine and engineering and largely for the
clerical, administrative, legal, medical, journalistic and political professions.
There was a time when a certain Education Minister during his ministry went
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about the land announcing his intention of giving a vocational bias to
education from its earliest stages and, at a higher stage, of starting vocational
schools over the Presidency. It was simply a voice crying in the wilderness.
Then came the jargon of Manual Training. It became compulsory like the
medical inspection but on account of depleted funds and deficit balance in
the Treasury both have become optional. It is said that there are not enough
vocations in India which can provide a living for a large number of trained
men and there will be no markets enough to absorb all such vocationally
trained men.
SECOND. The next charge against the present system is the predominant
place given to external examinations. Examinations, are a necessary evil,
an unnecessary necessity and there is no country which has so far discovered
a harmless substitute for this necessary evil. No doubt our examinations
are conducted on a very large scale. Fancy 18 thousand pupils between 15
and 18 years of age taking the S.L.C. examination every year. This is perhaps
the largest examination in the whole world! This S.L.C. may be subdivided
into Tamil, Andhra and Malayalam groups; each group may hold its own
examination and issue certificates. This will ensure a more uniform valuation
and give credit for local variations and conditions.
The THIRD defect is the common charge that our education has
made the youths of India restless and discontented. This is due to the fact
that India is advancing and our system of education is partly responsible
for its progress. No system of education has ever produced men quite satisfied
with things as they are. Discontent is a sign of growth and aspiration is a
symbol of culture and a possession of political consciousness.
Our pupils in High Schools and students in Colleges who will become
the citizens of tomorrow will have to become the future legislators,
administrators, and ministers of the Cabinet! Are we giving them the right
training that is needed for their future career. If education is life and life
must involve service and sacrifice, what are we doing in order to guide
them and lead them and train them for their prospective life?
My contention is that educational ideals and methods should also
change with the change of outlook in Politics and Society. At the same
time I do not say that the changes should be revolutionary but they should
be evolutionary.

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CONVOCATION ADDRESS
21st November 1912
The Rev. Allan F. Gardiner, M.A.S.P.G.,

I stand before you at this moment when you are flushed with triumph,
not to stimulate the pride of knowledge but to instill the humility of wisdom.
The education which you have received, the courses which
you have completed, at the cost of greater self-denial
on your own part and perhaps of still greater self-denial
on the part of your parents and relations, are to-day crowned
with a success which is hardearned and well-deserved.

This academic year marks the passing of the old

courses of study, the advent of the new. But as the last
representatives of the old order you have nothing to regret.
Turn your eyes on the long roll of men of ability and
distinction living or dead, whose path to honour and fame was the same as
that now trodden by you. If the coming age require men trained under a more
highly-specialized system, yet in this age of transition, as indeed in every
age, men and women of wide culture, broad sympathies, and noble character,
will ever find a field for the exercise of all their talents. With such examples
behind you and around you, and with such a hope before you, I can, and do,
most cordially congratulate you on the position which you hold.

You have realized that in life and work the method of attainment is of
greater importance than the means, the faculty of observation mightier than
the power of memory, and the application of knowledge for more valuable
than its acquisition.

It is my duty to remind you of the solemn obligations which have

taken here today. you have promised that you will in your daily life and
conversation conduct yourselves as becomes members of this University;
that to the utmost of your opportunity and ability you will support and promote
the cause of morality and sound learning; that as far as in you lies you will
uphold and advance social order and the well-being of your fellow-men.

I need not remind you that these are no merely formal promises, though
made in accordance with a set form, nor are they the less binding on each of
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you severally though ratified by all simultaneously. You have undertaken a
great responsibility, but if, as I cannot doubt, you have derived the full benefit
of your training, you will be able and ready to discharge that responsibility
with credit to yourselves.

Higher education is today on its trial, and its critics are many and
relentless. The system is judged not on its academic or intrinsic merits, but
on its actual products. And this is a fair criterion, for education is not a
lifeless system but a living instrument.

Whatever may be your occupation in life, be sure that your personal

character will be reflected in your discharge of its duties, for it is impossible
to adopt one moral standard for your public life and another for your private.
The temptation to do so is one to which many succumb though the moral
standard of human life in all its varied activities is constant and immutable-
industry, integrity, modesty and benevolence.

The responsibility which you have assumed demands above all else
that key-stone of virtue in man and woman-moral courage. It is the absence
of moral courage that spells degradation and ruin for individual and social
life. As students you have acquired an attitude to learn which will always
lead you to seek and follow the guidance of all whose opinions are worthly
of admiration and respect; but you have also attained a position in society
which justifies and demands of you a sturdy independence of thought, deliberate
formation of accurate and impartial judgment, courage to act upon your
measured opinions, courage to alter those opinions if necessary, courage
to respect the moral courage of others, and courage to bear the consequences
of your devotion to conscience and duty. This is the harder road. Facilis
descensus Averno. It is fatally easy to bow the neck unquestioningly to the
yoke of public or communal opinion, to court the breath of popular favour
by a blind acquiescence in the prejudices and superstitions of the multitude,
to echo and imitate the thoughts of others as slaves of convention, not as
pioneers of freedom. This would be a betrayal of the trust of individual
privilege and prerogative, a stain on the honour of the man, a stain on the
honour of the university.

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STRANGE PARTNERSHIPS
M.P.H. ALBERT - April 1939
If we look around us, we see in the animal kingdom a
constant and bloody warfare between animals of different species,
the lion chasing and rending its prey, the lizard feasting upon insects,
and the snake swallowing up the frog. Tennyson, the great poet
and philosopher, sums this up vividly in a line, ‘Nature red in tooth and claw’. But this
is only one aspect of Nature. There is also the happier side, where animals of differenct
species enter into partnerships and are of assistance to one another.
Such partnerships fall into three classes.

1. Those in which there is mutual benefit and satisfaction. This is known as

Commensalism or Mutualism.

2. Partnerships in which only one partner gets the advantage, while the other is
neither benefited, nor harmed.

3. Associations in which one, while deriving some benefit puts the other to a little
disadvantage. This must not be confued with parasitism, in which one animal
lives on another at the latter’s expense, eventually even causing its death. It
will be possible to deal with commensalism only in this article.

The word commensal strictly means one who eats at the same table (Com- together,
mensa-table). Commensalism means an association where differenct animals partake
of the same food, but it is also used now for mtualism of partnerships for mutual
benefit land satisfaction. The well-known example of the Crocodile bird and the
Crocodile affords and excellent illustration of theis phenomenon. The crocodile opens
its mouth wide, and allows the bird to remove leeches and particles of food from its
mouth. Thus the crocodile has its mouth cleaned of decaying matter and parasites,
while the bird has a good feast. The crocodile does not harm this bird.

Another instance is the Rhinoceros bird and the rhinoceros. The bird perches on
the animal’s back and feasts uponthe ticks which abound in the folds of the skin of the
rhinoceros. In return, the bird gives ‘warning of approaching danger to its dull witted
friend’. It must be rememberd that birds have extraordinary keenness of sight, while

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the rhinoceros can see only near objects clerly. When an enemy approaches, the bird
flaps its wings in front of the beast’s eyes or utter4s a shrill cry in its ear to draw its
attention to the imminent danger. We can see this bird riding on the backs of cattle
also.

In the wilds of Africa, we find another example of partnerships in the peculiar

association of Ostriches and zebras in common herds. The ostriches by virtue of
their superior height and keen sight prove useful to the herd as ‘capital watch-towers’
for sighting enemies, while the zebras with their highly developed powers of scent
detect their enemies from great distances. Thus these two kinds of animals are
mutually helpful in becoming aware of the presence of their enemies.

Most of the ants rear the ‘ant-cow’ for the sake of the sugary fluid exuding from
the hind end of its alimentary canal. Ant –cows are really plant lice or aphids (a kind
of insects ) which feed on the leaves or roots of plants. The aphids lay their eggs on
the leaves, which are exposed to the severity of weather and innumerable dangers.
The ants remove these eggs to the shelter of their nest, and the young aphids are
nursed carefully and, when fully grown, taken to the young shoots, The aphids feed
on the plant, and the ants take their ‘milk’. Thus the ‘ant-cows’ supply the ants with
the excess of food, while the ants protect and feed their young ones. The association
of dogs and cows with man is a similar case; and scientists tell us that this partnership
must have been in existence long before man became civilized.

As on land, in the sea also there are many striking cases of commensalism. The
pilot fish is a small fish that accompanies the large shark. The little one is safe from
the attacks of its enemies, as they are terribly afraid of the shark. The larger one
gets the benefit and dignity of being guided by a ‘pilot’.

Lastly we turn to the classical example of the Hermitcrab and the Sea-anemone.
These are found on the sea-schore where the waves bathe the land. The hermit crab
is so called, because it gets into an empty shell of a sea-snail to protect its soft
abdomen. In no, other way does it resemble a hermit. On ther other hand, it is very
fond of attacking other animals. It is afraid of fish for which it forms a favourite food.
Sea- anemones are a kind of jelly-fish which fix themselves in the sand. These
creatures are much dreaded on account of the stinging cells present on their tentacles.

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To protect itself from its enemies, the hermit crab places on its shell one or more of
these anemones. The anemone feeds on the crumbs which fall from the mouth of the
crab, which is a wasteful feeder; and their partnership reminds us of the lines about
an odd human couple:

“Jack Spratt could eat no fat

His wife could eat no lean

Betwixt them both

They licked the platter clean”

Thus the anemone gets free transport and food, while the crab gets protection
from fish which give the stinging anemone a wide berth.

There are cases also where three kinds of animals get associated and form a
‘happy family’. For instance in the last example, often a worm is found to take shelter
in the smaller animals, Gnu, a kind of antelope, is often found in the common herds of
zebras and ostriches. Thus we see in Nature a great many kinds of ‘strange
partnerships’ and ‘happy families’.

Standard of Living
Schwartz to sathianathan – His love to Christ and his desire to be useful to his countrymen
are quite apparent. His love to poor in extraordinary and it is inconceivable to me how he
manage to subsist on his scanty stipend 3 star pagodas per month and yet do so much
good. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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116 number of dead birds found to have West Nile virus in Vermont in 2003
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A Torch of educATionAl enlighTenmenT
- Susan Samuel

Two hundred and fifty years! The average life span of three generations.
A long time in the history of man but a fleeting moment in the history of mankind.
Yet for an institution like Bishop Heber Higher Secondary
School, Teppakulam, 25 decades spells the challenge of carrying
forward the torch of enlightenment through education.
The Quarter millennial is a significant milestone in the
history of the Institution, a time to look back in order to look
forward, to learn from the past to proceed in the future. The
Institution’s journey spanning a quarter of a millennium unravels
an inspiring story of the commitment of numerous men whose
mission in life was to educate the underprivileged. Under their aegis, the school has
made definitive strides in parting quality education to youth. Our deepest gratitude
and esteem to all the Principals, Headmasters, Correspondents, Staff and
Collaborators who have soldiered on to fulfill the aspirations and hopes laid upon
them by the Church at large. Their toil is the foundation for the momentous epoch
celebrated by the institution today, along with the steadfast involvement of parents,
alumni and students who have made the school the pride and glory of Tiruchirapalli
city and Trichy-Tanjore CSI Diocese.
“ The lives of greatmen all remind us that we can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us, foot prints on the sands of time.”
The footprints left by dedicated visionaries like Rev. Fredrick Schwartz (1762)
the founder of our school, Rt. Rev. Reginald Heber (1826) after whom our Institution
has been named and other pioneers shine the light of the future trajectory that
stretches ahead.
Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Teppakulam has been privileged
to have some of the finest educationists and administrators at the helm of affairs.
Likewise, the school is poised to enter its next quarter of the millennia, led by our
Headmaster Dr. M. Anburaj and Correspondent Rev. Dr. A.JohnDorai with their
contemporary approach to learning in the purpose of education for life.
“Then on! Then on! Where duty leads,
My course be onward still “
Holding aloft the flames of our torch, with the legacy of the past behind us and the
hope of the future before us, we march as Bishop Heber calls us to, onward and
forward.
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PANACHE IN COMMUNICATION
- Susan Samuel

Communication is a platform for democratization and a vehicle for

the promotion of cultural and national identity. T he word communication is
The
derived from Latin “communis” meaning “to share”. I Itt is a process by
which meaning is assigned and conveyed by sp eech, messages
speech, messages,, writing, visuals
and signals in an attempt to create shared understanding.
Written communication first emerged through the us usee of pictographs
pictographs
made in stone, p ap
pap er, p
aper, aprus
aprus,, clay, wax etc. Later the forms and ideas
paprus
about communication have evolved through the continuing progression of
technology where communication was possible by transfer of information
through controlled waves and electronic signals
signals.. Oral communication includes
sp eeches
eeches,, discussions
speeches discussions,, pres entations and asp
presentations ects of interp
aspects ersonal
interpersonal
communication.
Communication is a skill which is not genetically engineered or imbibed
in the blood instinctly at the touch or sight. I Itt demands strenuous task of
training and practice. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. I ts like
Its
riding a bicycle or typing. I Iff you’ re willing to work at it, you can rapidly
you’re
improve the quality of every p art of your life” – Brian T
part racy. Like other
Tracy.
skills
skills,, it has to be practiced to form a distinct style. But unlike other skills it
is not a one way of reception alone but a two way process process.. I
Itt has to be
reciprocated or communication ceas es
es.. Effective communication alone fulfills
ceases
the desired results for which it was planned or designed.
Etiquettes of communication involve identifying the needs of the target
equencing the words to match them. T
and ssequencing he basic etiquette is to communicate
The
the message we intend to. IItt accomplishes three jobs
jobs.. Collecting and conveying
information besides making decisions and promote interp ersonal relationship
interpersonal relationship..
The message collected should be constructed according to the mind sset. et. Here
we can high light the successful business men who are proactive in identifying
the needs of the p eople, design a product and launch it.
people,

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Thus communication reflects various deeds such as display of
personality, niche of the sp eaker, the flair of language, the store hous
speaker, housee of
culture, nationality, religion, the environment of upbringing, the formation of
brain filters
filters,, the psychology of the p erson and the elegance of the sp
person eaker. I
speaker. Itt
pres ents the whole lot within sseconds
presents econds like a sup er computer. Hence
super
communication incorporates tremendous tasks tasks,, so only a sselect
elect few attain
success
success.. I
Iff a little introspection on thes
introspection thesee aspects is concentrated, sure is the
aspects
amazing results of success
success.. “Communication – T he human connection – is
The
the key to p ersonal and career success” – P
personal aul J. Meyer
Paul
Words have p ersonalities
ersonalities.. T
personalities he us
The usee of jargon, difficult or inap propriate
inappropriate
words in communication can prevent the recipients from understanding the
message conveyed. S ome words are strong and vigorous
Some vigorous.. Some are dull and
Some
weak. And nd some fall between the extremes
extremes.. Words which best op erate has to
operate
be sifted judiciously from the enormous store houshousee of the brain and articulated
with the right body language and enter the p ersonal zone of the sp
personal eaker to
speaker
deliver effective communication. Pres entation of information is important to
Presentation
aid understanding. T he communicator must consider the profile of audience
The
before making the pres entation and where it is not possible, the pres
presentation enter can
presenter
atleast try to simplify the vocabulary for better understanding. “Bad human
communication leaves us less room to grow.” – Rowan D Williams Williams.. Concrete
words express the adaptation of the right mode of manifestations
manifestations.. T
Too hold
the interest of the p eople, sselection
people, election of right words needs to be precisprecisee and
accurate.
Communication invariably and necessarily has to undergo this treatment
of modifications tailored according to the environment to develop magical
ambience to eas
easee the atmosp here and rais
atmosphere raisee the standard of communication.
Thus when ap propriate words are ap
appropriate plied we undoubtedly develop charisma.
applied
Communication is like the air we breathe. I
Iff it is polluted it would be infectious
resulting in violence, misunderstanding and even assassination of
communication. Care taken encomp assing all thes
encompassing thesee boundaries is highly
imperative, effecting in PANACHE IN COMMUNICATION.
imperative,

Friendship : “The friendship of the world I often precarious. But the love of GOD
is permanent and immutable”. - Rev. C.F. Schwartz
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Punch-blocking move number in the traditional Kenpo karate system entitled ‘Wings of a Hawk’ 119
 The Millennial Year Teams

Higher Secondary Level Staff Members

Secondary Level Staff Members

176 A
 Secondary Level Staff Members

Department of Physical Education

176 B
 Office Staff

Heber Nursery School Staff

176 C
 The Walsh Family

The Heber's Family in millennial year

176 D