JAMSHEDPUR JESUITS

The School Annual Sports Day held in JRD Sports Complex on 17 December was very
much applauded and appreciated by everyone present in the stadium. Dr Nitish Kulkarni,
the Deputy Commissioner of East Singhbhum, was the Chief Guest on the occasion. The
spectacular drill displays put up by 3 different groups of Junior School held the entire
stadium spell-bound while the magnificent march-past and tableau on the „International
Year of Physics” put up by the Senior School students “have had no parallel so far” as
someone put it. The School closed for X‟mas vacation on the 20 th with a tearful farewell
to our 12thers in the Senior School after which a beautiful X‟mas play was put up for the
entire School by the Junior School students.
Frs Oscar, Felix, Alex and others spent many agonizing days writing the application for
the registration of the Jamshedpur Jesuit Society and Loyola, Jamshedpur, under the
directive from the new Jharkhand Government. On 23 December, Frs Oscar and Alex
went to Ranchi to submit the registration papers while Frs James and Saby went to
DNS, Digwadih, to join in the Golden Jubilee celebrations. As this report goes to the
press, Frs Vatta and Felix are making their annual retreat while Frs Oscar, Alex, Cyril
and Br Maxi are down South in Mangalore giving moral and spiritual support to our new
ordinandi Jerome, Staney and Donald. 15 Regents of our Province had spent two days
in Loyola undergoing intensive coaching in basketball before they left for Mango for
their Triduum which was directed by Fr Rich Kenna.
- Saby Puthenpura
Purulia
The Children‟s Day, which was postponed due to the second terminal examinations, was
celebrated on 19 November in a different style. There was a short prayer service followed
by prize distribution and a cricket match: Principal‟s XI and Sister-in-charge‟s XI. The
Principal‟s team won with good scores.
The 500th birth anniversary of St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of the School, was very
memorably celebrated on 3 December. To mark this auspicious day a statue of St Francis
Xavier donated by the Jamshedpur Jesuit Province was installed in the School garden in
the presence of the staff and students. Fr Emmanuel Horo unveiled the statue and blessed
it with apt prayers and intentions. Our sincere thanks to Fr Provincial for the jubilee gift.
This event was followed by IXth Annual School Prize day celebrations which came off
very well. The chief guest was Dr R Siva Kumar, IPS, the Superintendent of Purulia who
spoke highly of our School as one of the best and well run institutions. He also gave away
proficiency awards to our star performers in academics and students with cent percent
attendance. The internal assessment of our ICSE students has been almost completed.
In the Catholic Ashram, the hostel boys celebrated their hostel day by variety of
entertainments before the large audience. The same evening the birthday of Fr Junas