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Dear Dharumi:
I understand that there is a feeling in the minds of some that the blog site IPAC and its web address should be renamed or abandoned as the purpose for which it was created has been achieved and the College is legally in safe hands. I feel such a move will be doing injustice to the blog site that had done a wonderful job of mobilizing public opinion on the issue and acting as a very good medium of communication between the friends of the College. The word "save" in the web address of IAPC does not always have to be taken to imply any danger or situation from which the college has to be saved. When people sing the anthem" God save the Queen..." they know there is no immediate danger for the Queen yet every one in UK and its territories sing it. So IPAC should retain the same name and web address.
What we should do now is to make the blog site more useful to the College in different ways. Thanks to the internet we can do it well. I understand that there are only about 400 e-mail ids for which the intimation about any new post in the blog is conveyed through e-mail. For a College with nearly three to four hundred or more students going out every year this is a small number. Let all those who receive the intimation send at least one more e-mail contact of a friends of American College so that in the next two months the number of addresses swells to 1000 and to 2000 after two more months and so on...We should aim for a lakh by Christmas 2011.
We can think of activities as we grow. Sharing information about achievements of old students and recognizing the achievements could be one activity. Some time back I went to a Government office to meet an officer for a favor. He welcomed me granted the favor and when he found out that I am from American College he started talking about his American College days though he was there only for a year to do his PUC. To my disappointment he did not have much to say about his Physics classes. There are lots of people who think of the College let us get them under IPAC umbrella.
Srinivasan
Note added by dharumi:
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2 comments:
Dear Sir: The word in Tamil for Internet is "inaiyam' which means connect/merge. Indeed, it is doing that job well. I run annual International workshops in Korea for APEC economies and I'm in touch with my old students through internet. For this purpose I formed a Yahoo Group and Facebook face. It is time that we start American College Alumni. I would certainly like to be in touch with my classmates and see what they do now. I'm in touch with a couple of them now (thanks to Internet again). Certainly I would love to see how my classmates (senior) who went to police services doing now e.g. Shyam Sundar, Pandi and Jawahar (1970-1975). As I know couple of my classmates are in Scientific research. I endorse the idea of Prof.Srinivasan.
//I endorse the idea of Prof.Srinivasan.//
Thank you, Kannan. but why not more ids now!?
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