Net Literate Old Sanawarians.

Newsletter 1.

March 28, 1997.

Preface: to my many critics Arun, Chetan and Harpal, I couldn’t have done this without you. 

Hi! this is the first edition of the old Sanawarian newsletter. This letter is compiled from profiles that you, the OS on the net are emailing to me. My request was for Sanwarians to write a little about themselves and what they are doing, any interesting stories and recollections about Sanawar; much like the letter Dr.Rakesh -"Voted letter writer of the year"- Sarda has written. Also please send me fax numbers for people not on the net who would like to receive this newsletter or subsequent newsletters.

Ranjit Rawlley

Rakesh Sarda
29 E Wilson St. # 307
Madison, WI 53703
Phone- (608) 256-0270
email- rsarda@facstaff.wisc.edu
Nilagiri, 1976- 81
Current status - single and looking - doing a residency in Pathology at the Univ. of WI Hospital, Madison ( to end in 2000).

Memories of Sanawar most vividly imprinted

• of being stuck in a Barne Hall loft ventilator window, above the Birdwood building, head and one shoulder outside and pointed vertically downwards, glasses flapping wildly around my ears, watching Mr. B Singh walk slowly by directly beneath me, 30 feet below. Inside, my dear chums Hopsy and Rawlley were contributing little or nothing to my extrication, being otherwise occupied in dismembering me limb from limb as they pushed at my shoulder and pulled on the arm that happened to be attached to it. One of the great myths of childhood - that it is carefree-exploded for me on that day as I lost 10 years of my life along with most of my skin that had covered my chest and abdomen in less stressful times.*
• of an incident during the final performance, during Founder's, of the musical "Oliver", directed and produced by Andy Gray **, bless his bearded heart (anyone know where he is?). Nothing extraordinary. Just that I lost another decade of life expectancy during the intermission, as I watched one of the minions helping me backstage- I was the stage manager- slowly tip over a very large ladder -at the time it seemed at least a hundred feet tall- which then proceeded to crash through the curtains and very nearly brained most of the Board of Governors in the first row. It was the final performance so I didn't lose my job. In fact Andy offered it to me again next year for the Pirates of Penzance, but I still don't know how I brought myself to accept it

Editor Notes:
* Hopsy and I deny any complicity with this incident... it wasn’t memorable enough for us... 
** Andy Gray was a well-liked professor of mathematics. Slightly eccentric...One camps, he, his fiancée and Jack "Stud" Mehta rode on top of the bus to Manali. We get to Beas and Andy was getting violently ill on top of the bus… The three of them had been drinking quite heavily on top of the bus all the way. Quite an experience for a group of wide-eyed teenagers. But Jack and Andy were an inspiration to the rest of us on how to have a good time Andy Gray raised the cultural level at Sanawar several notches. As noted above he put on several excellent musicals. The crowning achievement was a musical Kim written at Sanawar that toured the whole country. In addition he is an active outdoorsmen and took our groups camping all over the place and on several minor expeditions to Deo Tibba etc. around Manali. Baggage (Ajeet Bajaj 83 SBD, Hopsy (Harpal S. Maini) VBD Jr. Dorm83’, Arun Sarna 82 HBD, Roy Sinai SBD 83, Alexander Battenberg 84 SBD will always be quite grateful to them as they were like the professors in dead poets society, a little zany, athletic and intellectual.
Sarda, Andy has his own home page. He runs Chaig School in England. His email address is asg@chaig.u-net.com . He has a home page about the school.

I’d Like to put in a plug for the clone zone… essentially you can broadcast to all the Sanwarians who request it a message by simply addressing an email to OS@oocities.com .

Please visit the Sanawarian Home Page ably created and managed by Aditya Angrish. http://www.oocities.org/SiliconValley/1515/sanawar.html. Excellent Job Aditya.

We need good email addresses on the following people. Please help if you can.

Also please keep your letters and emails coming:

Snail mail: Rawlley VBD 1983 1934 Moss St., Wilmington, NC 28403. 910 762 6146 (Res.).
Email: rawlley@aol.com

Stock tip for the day:
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Disclaimer: I have a decent position in this stock accumulated at $ 5.00/share Aug 1996 but am adding to my position.

Ciao

Ranjit