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Rev Prabhakar.B.Amolik the School principal during my era in school(1968-1977).
NOTE:- Sadly after retirement as school principal Rev P.B.Amolik was involved in accusations of "Siphoning and selling Church Land" and even faced a "Jail term" as designated by the court. I as a student felt sad on reading his character assassination in print in the media as also his fall from grace.As a prolific letter writer i did write articles in his favour. Here are the Two articles i wrote.
1) Written on June 7th 2008 Respected Sir,
With great sorrow I have been observing your "Character assassination" in the media regarding misappropriation of "Church of North India real estate funds".
I belong to the elite batch of "Christ Churchites of 1975 I.C.S.E", in an era where we moulded our thoughts and ambitions through our teachers and the school environment.
Sir, my unerasable memory of you as the "STERN PRINCIPAL" who never used the cane but "VOICE CONTROL" over his students while teaching "Hindi author Premchand" has been my own method of management in my personal life as was my passion for English literature and writing from teacher Miss Flora.Gonsalves.
It saddens me to see you being maligned like a common swindler, besides ,you don't require the money as you are comfortably well-off with a small family.
How can a "PRINCIPAL" who served during the zenith of a school's eminence be accused of "FRAUD AND LAND-GRABBING" at a grand old age?
Hope, all that is written is pure politics at play and even if true, you still hold an important place in the development of one of your thousands of students.As humans we do have our human frailties and none are perfect.
I end with the film the school showed us in the 1970's -:"To Sir,With Love"-
Yours Respectfully,
Student of class of 1975. Rudolph.A.Furtado
2) Another letter written much later in 2013.
Rev P.B.Amolik was my principal in Christ Church school from the years 1968 to 1977 and i remember him as the principal who presided over the "Golden Age" of Christ Church School.During Rev P.B.Amolik's era the school reached its zenith in education as well as sports and today in 2013 many of Mumbai's prominent professionals will agree to my personal comments.I was saddened to read in the newspapers about the "CORRUPTION CHARGES" filed against Rev P.B.Amolik and initially thought that it might be petty Institutional politics,but,seems the charges have stuck over the years.On a visit to the school on the occasion of our annual "Alumni Get-together" i observed a shrinkage in the playing field grounds and hope the illustrious Christ Church School doesn't lose more ground to building construction. This school is one of the rare city schools to have a massive playground in the heart of Mumbai city..Rev P.B.Amolik might be touching the grand young age of 90 years and hope he clears his esteemed reputation and Christ Church remains the school of the youth i remember.
Rev Prabhakar.B.Amolik the School principal during my era in school(1968-1977).
NOTE:- Sadly after retirement as school principal Rev P.B.Amolik was involved in accusations of "Siphoning and selling Church Land" and even faced a "Jail term" as designated by the court. I as a student felt sad on reading his character assassination in print in the media as also his fall from grace.As a prolific letter writer i did write articles in his favour. Here are the Two articles i wrote.
1) Written on June 7th 2008 Respected Sir,
With great sorrow I have been observing your "Character assassination" in the media regarding misappropriation of "Church of North India real estate funds".
I belong to the elite batch of "Christ Churchites of 1975 I.C.S.E", in an era where we moulded our thoughts and ambitions through our teachers and the school environment.
Sir, my unerasable memory of you as the "STERN PRINCIPAL" who never used the cane but "VOICE CONTROL" over his students while teaching "Hindi author Premchand" has been my own method of management in my personal life as was my passion for English literature and writing from teacher Miss Flora.Gonsalves.
It saddens me to see you being maligned like a common swindler, besides ,you don't require the money as you are comfortably well-off with a small family.
How can a "PRINCIPAL" who served during the zenith of a school's eminence be accused of "FRAUD AND LAND-GRABBING" at a grand old age?
Hope, all that is written is pure politics at play and even if true, you still hold an important place in the development of one of your thousands of students.As humans we do have our human frailties and none are perfect.
I end with the film the school showed us in the 1970's -:"To Sir,With Love"-
Yours Respectfully,
Student of class of 1975. Rudolph.A.Furtado
2) Another letter written much later in 2013.
Rev P.B.Amolik was my principal in Christ Church school from the years 1968 to 1977 and i remember him as the principal who presided over the "Golden Age" of Christ Church School.During Rev P.B.Amolik's era the school reached its zenith in education as well as sports and today in 2013 many of Mumbai's prominent professionals will agree to my personal comments.I was saddened to read in the newspapers about the "CORRUPTION CHARGES" filed against Rev P.B.Amolik and initially thought that it might be petty Institutional politics,but,seems the charges have stuck over the years.On a visit to the school on the occasion of our annual "Alumni Get-together" i observed a shrinkage in the playing field grounds and hope the illustrious Christ Church School doesn't lose more ground to building construction. This school is one of the rare city schools to have a massive playground in the heart of Mumbai city..Rev P.B.Amolik might be touching the grand young age of 90 years and hope he clears his esteemed reputation and Christ Church remains the school of the youth i remember.