Shashi Kiran Lewis is standing for OBA President

[Ian Lewis]

All

I just wanted you all to have a heads up this year that Shashi Kiran Lewis is standing for the post of President of the OBA this year.

The AGM will be at 10:30 am on September 06.

We are expecting an election this year and we are counting on your whole hearted support to put Shashi in the hot seat.

Please do show up in large numbers and vote to support our batch mate.

Best regards
Ian Lewis

[Ralph C Robert]

Shashi has had a big part to play in the OBA events being conducted in School and also with a number of us staying connected to the School...... I think we owe it to him. Let's all make it there for the AGM...Shashi my vote is definitely yours.
Ralph

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[Ashok]

Ralph,

I totally agree.

Sashi, mine as well

Cheers

[Om Arora]

Can we send in a proxy vote if we are not there in person?

[Ramprasad Alva]

Wishing you the best Shashi, I will be there

RP

[Subramaniam (Subbu) Viswanathan]

Wish i could send a proxy vote too old friend.  Good luck buddy

Best Regards,

Subramaniam (Subbu) Viswanathan 

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[Gautam U Nambisan]

I will be there 

Sent from my iPhone , excuse the typos 

[Ian Lewis]

Om

Regretfully proxy votes are not allowed. Old Boys must be present to vote at the AGM. 

Ian

[Gautam U Nambisan]

We can have someone who looks like you be here to vote , even though it's in the morning, the hangover will help:-) so look for your blr based double 👹

Sent from my iPhone , excuse the typos 

[Sriharsha Nagaraj]

Wishing you the best, Shashi!!

I will be there!!

Sriharsha 

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On 04-Aug-2015, at 9:15 am, Ian Lewis <ian....@ian-lewis.com> wrote:

[Sunil Shetty]

GREAT WAY TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS,BY ELECTING OUR BATCHMATE FOR PRESIDENT.WILL BE THERE TOO

[Tarun Nahata]

Best Of Luck Shash ! Will be there

Cheers,
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Nahata

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[Vijay Alphonse]

+1 Shashi! You will buy alcohol for your voters no? 😜😜

Cheers

Vijay

[Kartik Balasubramanian]

Any chance of voting by absentee ballot? 

Cheers,

Kartik

[chandan malhotra]

Will be there for sure - Sashi all the very best❗️❗️❗️

Regards

Chandan Malhotra

[Prashanth Santhekadur]

Shashi I will be there for the vote 

Sent from my iPhone

[Ian Lewis]

@ Vijay Alphonse:  I know you are joking, but anyway, the first round of beer is on you. 

@ Karthick Bala: absentee ballots don't work so sorry. But you can help by reaching out to anyone you might know from any batch. 

[Vijay Alphonse]

With so many of our old boys out of the country, I think it's only reasonable to setup a process for absentee ballots.  Can we not get that process in place and approved by the existing OBA by then?  I think it's a very positive thing to do.

@Ian, yes I was.. :)  

[Shashi Lewis]

Thank you all for your support! I will definitely need every bit of it.

Unlike any other organisation where the post of the president's post is venerated, in the OBA its quite the opposite. Now, if I do get elected it means, more effort on my part and more time that I would need to dedicate to the OBA(not that I don't do it now), this also means that I really will not get much time to spend with you guys at the OBA events. Feel bad about that part though......

This would be the 97th AGM of the OBA, we are just three years from the Centenary year. It would be a landmark year for not just the OBA but the school as well (how many schools in India have an alumni which has run continuously for a 100 years). And we all would be a part of that history of the OBA. The next two years we would be planning out the celebrations for the milestone year and they definitely would be the two most challenging years ahead for us.

Over the last 5 years, the OBA Buzz (Inter House literary and cultural competition) has grown from a 4 event competition to a 16 event competition, and will continue to grow in the years to come. I have been very fortunate to be a part of it and glad it has come to where it is today. Thanks to the contributions from Old Boys' both in terms of time and money we have been able to achieve this.

Also not to forget our batch mates, Ramprasad Alva, who was instrumental in getting me into the OBA MC, Siddharth Raja and Kiran Patil who have been a part of the MC of the OBA and supported its various activities. Siddharth Raja will also be writing a book on the history of the OBA to be released at the 100th year.

With all your support I hope to do justice to the post and take the OBA to newer heights! Looking forward to seeing you at the Reunion on the 4th of September, Blue & White bash on the 5th of September and the OBA Day on the 6th of September. 

In Faith & Toil

Shashi Kiran Lewis

[Balaji Kakkadasam]

Shashi,

Thanks for taking the time to outline the priorities for the OBA over the next several years. It's wonderful to hear all the great work you and many others are doing to keep the OBA tradition alive. The 100th year milestone is certainly something to be proud of !

Speaking for myself, as much as I'd like to meet you guys and be part of the celebrations, these emails are often the only source of updates. So keep them coming ! 

Finally, I hope that the proposal for the absentee ballot is given due thought... 

Cheers,

Balaji

[Siddharth Raja]

You can see the groundswell of support from our class, Shashi!  I'll add my voice and vote to that fully, as you know!

Thanks to Shashi I'm back on the OBA's Managing Committee this past year after a gap of 20 years!  Yes, that's right; I was last on this committee as a law student in 1994-95 and how our association has changed since, reflecting the tremendous changes in our country and in our alma mater!  Back then, the OBA had a lakh or two of rupees in its funds; today that amount runs into several crores of rupees!  And the width and scope of its engagement has grown likewise.  We are therefore custodians of a much wider trust and we all owe it to ourselves and our dear school to hold and work that trust out for its greatest benefit.

I intend to get back onto the MC as a regular member this year and to support Shashi side-by-side -- and to take forward two initiatives that are dear to me personally -- one, which the school clearly needs, is a teacher improvement and incentives programme that I described in a post as below:

"My dear fellow Josephites,

"KAIZEN" Teaching / Teacher Improvement Programme:

After months of incubation, and daresay much to-in and fro-ing and several hours of ideation and hard work, an idea that germinated and then developed in the minds of a few of us -- in particular, A G Krishnaswamy,Gopal Bengeri, Umakanth Alva and yours truly, Siddharth Raja -- seems finally to be bearing fruit.

The maiden programme, under the aegis of the OBA (announced at last year's OBA Day) and being run as an initial 'pilot' scheme, of our unique teacher and teaching improvement, support and promotion programme -- aptly called "Kaizen" -- is starting this Monday, 6th July (at 3:00 p.m.) in our dear alma mater, St. Joseph's Boys' High School.

With the solid encouragement of, and particularly strong support from, Fr. Principal (thank you, Fr. Clifford Sequeira) as well as the active involvement and full assistance of our school's Vice Principal (thank you, Miriam ma'am) and one of its seniormost teachers, Gowri Achanta (thank you!), eighteen teachers in the High School (across various levels of experience) will participate in this, first of many, 6-session long "improvement" (as opposed to a training) programme aimed at sharpening their teaching skills, delivery and interaction with their students, and thereby improving the teaching programme and environment at our alma mater, so that teaching becomes a genuine and happy learning experience for all its students.

Armed with cutting-edge inputs and quality contributions from various sources, both internal and external resources persons and materials, the objective is to establish this "Kaizen" initiative as a long-term sustaining project of the OBA for the benefit of the two most important constituents of our dear school: its teachers and through them, its students! And, perhaps, in the long run for the teaching fraternity and students in general!"

Second is to write the history of the OBA itself!  Of a hundred tumultuous years!  An organisation that has seen the colonial past and now rides cheek-by-jowl with the 21st century's challenges!

In faith and toil, and looking forward to working hand-in-hand with our new President Mr. Lewis and each of the other members of the incoming MC (provided, of course, I get elected!).

Thanks much for your patient reading chaps!

Sid

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[Ian Lewis]

Raja

Save a copy of your book for me!

And if I'm late for breakfast on OBA Day, don't belt my sausages and eggs.

Ian

[drt...@gmail.com]

Shashi I would be drowning out any opposition to your candidature if I could be at that AGM. You are definitely the man for this role. But apart from the innumerable achievements of the OBA towards the school I feel you should be the first president spearheading a shift in culture to reflect our (class of 1990) values especially those of camaraderie not stopping after a beer or just to celebrate the good times. We should rally more for less fortunate old boys not with monetary support but via all our other considerable agencies to help uplift their confidence. You should be the steady hand that steers the goodwill of hundreds of old boys into positive action rather than cynicism. 

Moin

[Siddharth Raja]

Dai, Lewis !  Both of you Lewis's!  Can have my share if breakfast as I'm sadly going to miss it this year!

Book saved!

[gautam nambisan]

How can you miss out, we should change the dates :-) 

Sent from my iPhone , excuse the typos 

[Akshay Kaura (black-river.com)]

Who are you and what have you done with Moin?

 

J LOL…nicely put dude. Very well said..Sheshadri would be proud…!

 

I will be there with my vote Shashi…

 

Looking fwd to seeing all you fellows next month.

 

Cheers

Akshay

[drt...@gmail.com]

Akshay Kaura I'm the monster that's eaten the Moin you used to know 

Thanks for voicing what everyone else was thinking as in 'what the f@@@?'

Good to hear from the best of the best from the batch of 1990. 

Moin