We (Me & Ajay) met Mr. Mandeswara Rao our Principal on 27 October (Monday) at his residence. It was a wonderful moment when he recollected many events and shared the same with us. He remembers most of the teachers and a few of the students. He has good memories of Rear Admiral Nair & Vice Admiral Krishnan who were the then Chairman of the School.
He mentions that the estimated construction of the Malkapuram building was Rs. 6 lakhs and the Sangathan was not ready to give anything more than Rs. 1.50 lakhs. However with the support of the Chairman the construction was completed for Rs. 2 lakhs (can’t believe it!)
He remembers the incident when students of the local polytechnic near 104 had gheraoed the school and we received support from the local Naval Officials and the matter was sorted out.
He is very proud of the School and its Alumni and mentioned about the first batch of 12 students and how he had visited the residence of each of these students and met their parents to discuss about their strengths and weakness. Wow what dedication!
He presented us with a book on “Modern Poetry in Telugu” which is in English and another book in Telugu. He has written an article on “Mandeswara Rao V: Values - Literary and Non-literary” in http://www.museindia.com/ which can be read from the following link
http://www.museindia.com/
http://www.museindia.com/
He is presently writing two books “100 years of Telugu Poetry” and “100 years of Telugu literary criticism” which will be published by P.S.Telugu University. He keeps himself busy by writing.
He is presently very frail (as the attached photographs suggest) and uses a metal walking crutch. He would not be able to make it to Vishakapatnam in December. We have promised him that we will meet him again post our meet.
Letter from Jayanta Roy, Class of 1980. 28th October 2008
3 comments:
Its really heart throbbing reading about our principal. Great great you all have met him and reminded of the golden days. This is what required for all to get back to the sweet memories though for a short time. Isn't it ?
I wow thanks to you both Jayanta & Ajay.
Subhra
hi this is vishvanath. very nice reading about our prici. we were staying in shipyard and princi used to come to our house as he knew my dad. it was because of Mr.V.Mandeswara Rao-Princi that we got admission in KVV malkapuram.
i remember that when the second building was coming up we used go and play there on holidays along with other freinds from shipyard colony
vishvanathan
Hi all you guys and girls from KV Mlk. Let me first introduce myself. My name's Narender Singh and I'm from the 1984 Batch.My Dad was S.P.Singh, PGT Hindi(who passed away in Feb'2000).We stayed in the staff quarters just the other side of the playground.My buddies were Vikram Singh, Vijay Singh(sons of our VP, L.J.Singh).I read just one post about me Dad from Mr.KVM Rao.Any more recollections about my Dad are welcome.Makes one realise what a teacher can do to shape a student.
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