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Vacation has begun in Kodai!

New Class Reps

1996 - Selvam Mascarenhas
2005 - Shaista Bharwani

Welcome!

Achievements through the Colleges & Careers office

The U of Alberta has offered a scholarship of $10,000 (CAD) to one student nominated from KIS for the U of Alberta India Select High School Scholarship. KIS is one of five selected schools in India to receive this scholarship offer. The other schools are Bishop Cottons Boys School, Delhi Public Schools, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and Pathways World School.

Madhav Vaidyanathan (grade 12) has been invited to New York U Abu Dhabi to attend a candidate choice weekend where students will get an opportunity to tour the campus, meet faculty and administration. Madhav and Jin U left for Abu Dhabi on 26 November. NYU AD will be paying for their trip, including airfare, visas and pocket money. Only three students, out of 50 applicants, from Indian schools have been selected so far from 25 school. Two are from KIS!

Madhav’s research paper topic is, “To investigate the factors affecting the environmental conditions of the UAE, and through that propose a societal model based on 'Green Development' after weighing the economic challenges and opportunities.”

NYU AD will select only 100 students from across the globe to study at what they call their Global Campus. We hope our KIS students make it. Both of them worked very hard on their research paper and application. I am proud of them.

Christine Fernandes
Careers & Colleges Advisor
careers@kis.in

Congratulations to the following on their achievements!

Vinita Vishwas Deshmukh whose book To the Last Bullet, penned in first person for Vinita Kamte, wife of Ashok Kamte (Class of 1982), as a tribute to Ashok who, in Vinita's words, "was an outstanding police officer and a great human being," was released 26 November 2009, one year after Ashok died in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. The book is published by Ameya Prakashan.

Shirley Knight former parent, member of the KIS Steering Committee and Board member, and her husband Ken began writing a book several years ago. Shirley has finished the book, entitled The Seed Holds the Tree, published by Lulu.com. It is a story of the seeding and growth of the Christian church among the Oriya people of Orissa, India. For more information,

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-seed-holds-the-tree/7543054

Kodai magazine

The Winter 2009 edition has been mailed.

Didn't get a copy? Perhaps your personal contact details are not curren on the online KIS Alumni Directory. To check and see, follow these steps:

1 Go to: http://alumni.kis.in
2 Your email login is: *****
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(Access is limited to former students and former staff only.)

Note the following correction:

In editing the Class of 1948 column, I (Julie) inadvertently left out reference to the author. On page 17, please read the sentence pertaining to Bob Frykenberg, as follows:

I, BOB CARMAN, really recommend it.

Both Bob Carman and Bob Frykenberg endorse the book and encourage you to read it [the book].

Julie

Geoffrey Fisher, Principal principal@kis.in
Sonny Deenadayalan, KISCO Coordinator (Class of 1982) kiscocoordinator@kis.in
Ramesh Hariharan, KISAA Executive Director (Class of 1976) kisaa@kis.in
Julie Nichol Stengele, Alumni Officer (Class of 1980) alumni@kis.in
Judy Redder, Foundation Officer foundation@kis.in
Alika Khosla, Development Officer development@kis.in

Contact Kodaikanal Friends International, Inc at:

Gerald "Jerry" Nichol (former staff)
Executive Director, KFI, PO Box 6121, Bloomington, IN 47407-6121 USA
610 296 7784 | 610 930 6998
kfi.ex.dir@gmail.com