Loyola Alumni Association

Jesuit Alumni/ae Day - A Report

President's Sharing

Annual Report (2006-2007)

Annual Report (2007-2008)

Till 1990 the Principals of Loyola College also acted as the Coordinators of the Loyola Alumni Association. From 1991 to 1998 Rev. Fr. Lawrence Sundaram, S.J. was the Director of the Alumni Association. For eight long years he was very active giving directions to the association. Loyola Alumni Association has grown to great heights during this period. After his demise in 1998, Rev. Fr. P. Susai, S.J. was the Director for one year and Rev.Dr. J. Inchackal, S.J. took over the reins and directed the association till June 2000. Rev.Dr. S. Peter Xavier, S.J., who has been the Director of Alumni Association from July 2000 - June 2005. Under his leadership, the association scaled new heights. Since July 2005 onwards Rev.Dr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. has been holding the coveted post. After two years of service to Loyola Alumni Association Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. on 17th September 2006 to St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai. During tenure Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. strengthened the LAA very much. Rev. Dr. S. Peter Xavier, S.J. once again was appointed as the director of LAA on 27th September. His return to the Alumni Association would hopefully enliven the association and revitalization of the association is very much expected to him.

Fr. Lawrence Sundaram, S.J. (1991-1998) (RIP)

Fr.S. Peter Xavier, S.J. (2000-'05) & (2006 -     )		Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. (2005 -2006)

Sincere thanks to the Principals - Prior to 1990 - who were the coordinators of Alumni Association and to Rev. Fr. Lawerence Sundaram, S.J., the Alumni Association's first Director. Prof. S. Swaminathan who was shouldering the responsibility of the President of the Alumni Association for more than five years passed away all of a sudden. He was really an exemplary person. He associated himself with Loyola for many years. He guided the Association in the proper direction. He was truly a Jesuit Alumnus in every sense. A Young, Gentle and unassuming Mr. B. H. Kothari (Chairman, H.C. Kothari Group of Companies, Chennai - 34) is the present President of the Loyola Alumni Association.

Nature and Aims of Loyola Alumni Association

Loyola College aims at the training of young men and women of quality to be leaders in all walks of life and to serve their fellowmen in justice, truth and love. It is expected that this training will play a vital role in bringing about the desired change for the betterment of the people of our country, particularly the poorer and marginalised sections of society, especially the dalits. Further, it will foster an atmosphere of intellectual vigiour and moral rectitude in which the young men and women of our Country may find their fulfillment and achieve greatness as eminent men and women of service. Loyola Alumni Association collaborates towards this great venture effectively preparing the students to become socially conscious men and women.

The Growth of Loyola Alumni Association

As on 1st August 2007, there are 15750 members in our Association, out of whom 2241 are life members and the rest are under the category of new graduates. This year alone 1662 students enrolled themselves as new graduates. We encourage all our outgoing students to enroll their names into the Association and to become life members. We wish that the life members of the Alumni Association could suggest their colleagues to join the Alumni Association if they have not yet become its life members.

The Ever Active Loyola Alumni Association

• Keeping in line with our admission policy - namely to educate the marginalised students, the need was felt for a long time to help the poor and deserving students to meet their educational expenses. The last academic year (2006-2007) we have contributed more than Rupees One lakh sixty thousand towards Students Scholarships in the form of Semester fees, Examination fees and Hostel mess fees.
• We have planned to collaborate with the service organisations and undertake activities for out reach programmes.
• To support the economically poor students, we have planned to orgainse batch-wise reunions. One important motive of the reunions is to raise funds for poor students' scholarship.
• Scholarships are created for deserving current students with the support from our Alumni. Different batch groups have been encouraged to create a corpus and scholarships for the poorer and needy students. Accordingly B.Com. - 1982 Batch, has created a corpus to the tune of Rs.2,20,000/- and sent the amount to Fr. Principal with the request that this amount may be a corpus and the interest earned from this corpus to be utilized towards the educational needs of the poorer students. The Golden Jubilee Batch of Economics has also created a scholarship for Rs.47,000/- for the deserving needy students and also a endowment scholarship of Rs.10,000 is instituted by Sri K. Koti Reddy in the name of Fr. Royappar. Batch 1978 has instituted Silver Jubilee Commerce 1978 - Scholarship with the initial amount of Rs.1,07,500/-.
• To revive the northern chapter.
• Planning to start a new chapter in Salem zone.

Achievements:

• We have brought out the Loyola Alumni Directory (1925 - 2000). This is an important endeavour on the part of the Alumni Association for giving information about the members of our Association.
• We have taken efforts to motivate our Alumni by providing guidance to them by bringing out a book: Aiming small is a crime - A Charter for Jesuit Alumni/ae. It is, in fact, an inspirational book providing some gems of thoughts from a distinguished Jesuit Alumnus, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, The former President of India.
• We have brought out Loyola - our Alma Mater (Outline of History of Loyola College, Updated Edition).
• Alumni Directory Online in our Web site.
• IX South Zonal Jesuit Alumni/ae Congress held on April 2005. The Loyola Alumni Association has carried out a tremendous task, organising the Congress.
• Alumni Association also issued its Loyola Alumni Directory for the academic years 2002-2005 and 2003-2006 during the Convocation of 2006 and 2007 respectively.
• Alumni Association is involved in raising funds for Renovation of the College Church (Patrons List) .
  

Meetings

• The Alumni often organise a Reunion.
• We will have our Alumni Day in the month of December. We welcome all the members of the Association with their family members.
• Annual General Body Meeting will be held in the month of March. We invite all the members of the Association to attend the Meeting.

Dates of the meeting will be put up in Notice Board of the site. Kindly give your reply to alumni@loyolacollege.edu, if you are attending the meeting. The purpose of this meeting is just to come and share our views and ideas.

Kindly go through our Web site (Notice Board) for additional information in that month and give your response by email to us.

Alumni Bulletins

We publish two Alumni Bulletins yearly and they it will be in the month of March and August. Kindly go through them in our Web site.

Alumni who have `made a difference' to the society

Our eminent Alumni include - R. Venkataraman, Cardinal Lourdusamy, C. Rangarajan, P. Chidambaram, M. M. Jacob, Vittal, Varghese Kurien, Kripal Singh, Milka Singh, Ramanathan Krishnan, Amirtharaj Brothers, Bhaskaran and Viswanathan Anand.

Each member of our Association is a genius and places a mark in the history of our beloved Country, India. You too can and should become great.

LOYOLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Patrons	Rector - Fr. K. Amal, S.J.,
	Principal - Fr. A. Albert Muthumalai, S.J.,
President	B. H. Kothari
Vice Presidents	D. P. Sankaran S. Dharmaraj G. Francis Xavier Raj
Secretary	Bernard D'sami
Treasurer	B. Arunachalam
Director	Fr. S. Peter Xavier, S.J.
Deputy Director	Fr. Joe Arun, S.J.
Executive Committee Members	T. Eugine Felix Ryan George B'Cherian Ignatius Raphael P. Janardhanan J. Kannusamy Mark Alexander K. S. Natarajan ASM Porres S. Prabhakaran A. Ramanand G. R. Ravi P.R.K.B. Srinivasan C.K. Unni Krishnan K. S. Venugopal