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FLYING TOGETHER - YEMEN: THE HAPPY LAND M.M.NINAN In 1960, Herb Krause, whose grand daughter is a Kodai School graduate and a former teacher at the school, took the role of principal after ten years as a teacher. Krause's goal was to open the school up to students of all nationalities and religions. Jayasinghe took over as Principal in 1973, In 1975 KIS became the first school in India to adopt the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. In 1977 the first KIS students sat for the first IB examinations in India. Dr. Frank Jay Singhe was the principal and Dr. Bob King was the Vice Principal during the period. It was in 1975 Premu and Anil joined the School. They graduated in 1978. Anil and Premu did their High School in 1978 and joined the Sana'a University for graduation studies. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Volume 17 - Issue 20, Sep. 30 - Oct. 13, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU The Palani hills were first surveyed by an Englishman, Lt. B.S. Ward, in 1821 but the survey was published only 16 years later. The first to build houses in Kodaikanal were missionaries of the American Madura Mission, which had been established in Madura i in 1834........ In 1844, the missionaries turned to an Englishman named Fane, who had a godown in Kodaikanal, and to Judge Cotton, who, after retiring from service in Madurai, cultivated coffee in the Palani hills. On Fane's advice, the missionaries decided to found their settlement in the Kodaikanal basin. By June 1845, two bungalows were built...... The British also built some houses in 1846. Thus the hill station was born. Charlotte Wyckoff was one of the first 13 pupils who joined the Highclerc School in 1901. As years passed, more and more missionaries came to Kodaikanal in the summer months and built their own houses...... The missionary parents felt the need for a school in Kodaikanal for their children....... At that time, one Margaret Eddy, was in Madras (now Chennai) visiting her son, a missionary. She was persuaded to become the school's principal. .......On July 1, 1901, thirteen little tykes, boys in their knickers, girls in their pinafores, appeared at the Highclerc Hotel to start school. Until the late 1920s, only "children of pure European descent" were admitted to the school. In 1930, members of the school council resolved that "... admission shall also be open to any child whose parents are from North America, Europe or Australia - be they missionaries or civilians." 76
FLYING TOGETHER - YEMEN: THE HAPPY LAND M.M.NINAN The 1960s saw big changes. The missionary era and the colonial era came to an end...... . A meeting of the school council in 1971 decided to favour "the development of the Kodaikanal School into an autonomous, plural cultural, multinational Christian school". Dr. Frank Jayasinghe, (from Ceylon - Srilanka) a remarkable man with international experience in education, was principal from 1973 to 1983. As Jane Cummings says, "Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, French or Korean can be heard in the corridors or dorms alongside English, but all conversations are still laced with Kodai slang which is passed from generation to generation: dish, budge, slips, canteen chuma, hunk, hey man, cool..." The school has had several student newspapers, which include Highclerc Herald, Ko dai Kourier, Kodai Times and Tahr Tribune. It was a memorable home-coming for Dr.John Wiebe in 1988 when he took over as principal. He and his wife Donna Beth have become synonymous with the school in the last 12 years. Dr. Wiebe and former Finance Director D. Ernest Chandrasekaran together fought a six-year legal battle to retrieve the six-acre Loch End, the portion of the school campus that was occupied by a Karur-based company in June 1991 when the children had gone home on vacation. Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan releasing a stamp in Kodaikanal to mark the centenary of the school. Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, U.S. Consul-General in Chennai Bernard Alter and school Principal Dr. Paul D. Wiebe are among those in the photo graph. The KIS is co-educational, with 500 pupils and 100 teachers. The students are from about 30 countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan and countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and Africa. The teachers are from India, the U.S., Cana da, Australia, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Tanzania and Tibet (China). 77
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