Author: Rajeshwar

Photos required for making SJC posters

We need photos particularly from 1983-87 period for the posters we are planning to print. If you have photos with you from that period please do send us a scanned copy.

They can be individual photo, group photo, or picture of college, campus, hostels or other places in KKDI, anything is alright as long as there is a KKDI connection.

We also welcome photos of batchmates taken from then until now.

Please scan the photos and send them to us. Since email has limitation, please upload the files directly to our server: https://accet87.in/files/

If you have a few files you can upload them one by one. If there are many files, you can move them to a folder in your local computer and zip the folder and then upload the zipped file.

Please send the photos as soon as possible as we are short of time.

What to expect on August 11. Here’s more….

Golden Chest – Some of you have given your feedback about opening of the chest after 25 years. We are around 45 years old now and by the time of our Golden Jubilee we will be around 70 years old. With increased life expectancy and the advancements in science and medicine, I am sure more than 70% of us will live to see the Golden Jubilee. Those of you who suspect otherwise, the opportunity to make it to the Golden Jubilee should be another motivator get and stay healthy. I sure look forward to seeing you all on August 15, 2037. In the meanwhile, please do share your thought about the Golden Chest. More important is your Memory Deposit; get working on it. We want MDs from every one of our batchmates. Our friend Kittumani (aka Krishnamurthy) is working on building a big, beautiful and futuristic chest to take us all to the future.

We need to some more research on what items can be safely stored for 25 years and what measures are required to preserve the items. Sailesh has done some work on this and has shared it in an email. We need more research. Can someone help?

At the last meeting we came up with a lot more ….

The theme for the event will be: அன்றும் இன்றும் என்றும்…  (Anrum, Inrum, Enrum)

  1. Best Storyteller: We will have a story telling competition where you can narrate your ACCET experience focusing on the event’s theme – அன்றும் இன்றும் என்றும்…  (Anrum, Inrum, Enrum). You must enrol for this competition at the registration desk. The best story teller will be decided by votes from each of us. Each of us will get a voting slip with our welcome kit. If you are not attending the event, you can send your entry in advance as a text or video message. (See #5 below).
  2. Quiz: Through the day the MC will be indulging you with trivia and will throw questions about us, our college, KKDI etc. The first correct answer will win a prize. There are many prizes to be won.  We require questions. Please email your questions with answer to help@accet87.net. A third party will be compiling the list from the suggestions you provide.
  3. Lucky Draw: We will have a lucky draw with coupon price of Rs. 100 per ticket. Boby Thomas has offered to sponsor the draw with a product of his company – a Numeric Inverter. So, we will have two prizes:
    1. Numeric  (1000 VA) (MRP of Rs. 7,500)
    2. 25% of the ticket sales. (The balance 75% will go to ACCET87 Foundation)
  4. Performances by ACCET87 family: We already have 4 performances lined up – RS Srini’s daughter & VP’s daughter giving a dance performance each, Boby’s daughter singing a song, Rajeshwar’s song playing the guitar (or keyboard), .. We welcome & expect more. Please email accet87@gmail.com to book a slot for you/r family member/s.
  5. Text / Picture / Video Mesages  – We already emailed you requesting those unable to attend the event to send your messages which we will dis/play at the event. Please do prepare your messages. We will post the instructions for sending this on or before July 24th.

ACCET87 Fund – Your money is working hard

You may be aware that we first opened a personal bank account jointly operated by Rajeshwar, Saravanan & Boby in ICICI Bank to collect the budgeted amount of Rs. 10 lakhs required for the SJC event.

Soon after we collected close to Rs. 10 lakhs we shifted the contributions to the ACCET Foundation’s bank account in Indian Bank. We negotiated hard with Indian Bank to open a Savings Bank account instead of a Current Account so that the funds in the account will earn interest.

As the funds started coming in we deposited the funds in FDs with Indian Bank. Till now, we have made FDs totalling Rs. 20 lakhs with interest rate ranging from 9.0 to 9.5% pa.

Here is the copy of the first deposit of Rs. 10. lakhs

The balance of around 4 lakhs in the account (as of July 18) is earning an interest of around 4% pa. We will be moving that to a short term deposit in a day or two.

Golden Chest – தங்கப்பெட்டகம்

Yesterday, during our brainstorming session for the Silver Jubilee Celebrations we hit on an idea (source: Vilva) which all of us liked very much and decided to implement – Golden Chest.

The Golden Chest will be a treasure trove of memory deposits (MDs) with each one us depositing something which we get to open & see only after another 25 years. The Golden Chest will be sealed on August 11, 2012 and will be opened again ONLY on Saturday, August 15, 2037, on the occasion of our Golden Jubilee Celebration.

Your Memory Deposit can be anything that is small in size and will last 25 years. Here are some examples:

  • a note or a message
  • picture/s (photograph)
  • poem
  • coin or currency note
  • cd / dvd / memory card
  • a pencil or pen

We will make a chest of about 1.5′ x 1.5′ x 1.0′. It will be made airtight to the extent possible.  Bear in mind the size of the chest before deciding on what you want to store. Whatever you want to deposit must be sealed in an envelope with your name written on the envelope.

The custody of the Chest will change every year. The key to the chest will be with a person other than the custodian and it will also rotate every year. 

We will have an Annual Reunion in August during which we will handing over ceremony every year in August by which the custody of the Chest will be passed on to a different person.

We want a Memory Deposit from each and every one of our batchmates. Please get yours ready soon. If you are not attending the SJC, please reach it to us through post, courier or messenger. Those of living abroad can send it through someone who is attending the SJC from your area or mail it to us.

Feel free to post your comments and suggestions.

ACCET87 Foundation Donation

I am glad to announce that we received our first donation from outside our group. Mr. Nagaraj, CEO of Deccan Die Castings has donated a sum of Rs. One lakh to the ACCET87 FOUNDATION. Mr. Nagaraj is a friend of our batchmate Ninan Chandy and is an alumnus of Kanadukathan Polytechnic.

The letter from Mr. Nagaraj is posted below:

On behalf of all of you I thank Mr. Nagaraj and wish him, his family and his company all the best.

Also, many thanks to our Ninan Chandy who contributed Rs. One lakh by himself and is helping us mobilise more funds.

SJC Accommodation

We have blocked rooms in three hotels in Karaikudi and also a guesthouse. The tariff details are below:

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Venkatesan is coordinating the arrangements with accommodation. If you have not communicated your requirement, please do so without any delay. We need to firm up the bookings by July 7th.

You can contact your coordinator or communicate directly with Venkatesan 9444020752 or via email venkatesh@rajainsul.com.