St Joseph's College, Nainital

St. Joseph's College

Location
Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Information
Type	Private
Established	1888
Principal	Mr. Peter Emmanuel
Faculty	Approximately 90
Grades	1-12
Enrollment	Approximately 1000
Colour(s)	Dark Blue & Light Blue
Sports	Soccer, Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Basketball, Swimming, Field Hockey, Track and Field, Squash, Boxing, Badminton, Softball, Gymnastics, Table Tennis, and Billiards
Affiliation	ICSE, ISC
Information	+91(5942) 235037, 231185, 238097
Houses	Gandhi (St. Peters) Nehru (St. Francis) Pant (St. Patricks) Tagore (St. Pauls)
Motto (Latin)	Certa Bonum Certamen means 'Fight the Good Fight'

St Joseph's College Nainital is a day boarding and residential school in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India providing public school education. Starting from 2010 academic session, the school will also accept girls for day boarding, for classes 11 and 12.

1 Overview
2 Boys and campus
3 School anthem
4 Notable alumni
5 Trivia
6 See Also
7 References

Overview

St. Joseph's College Nainital was established in 1888. The site was the location of a seminary, run by the Italian Capuchin Fathers. The seminary ran for a short while and then reopened as a Catholic school for boys: St. Joseph's College. The school is still referred to as "SEM" (for Seminary). In 1892 four Christian Brothers took formal charge of St. Joseph's College and thus began the involvement of the Christian Brothers in the running of the school.

St. Joseph's College is one of the 20 educational institutions in India conducted by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a pontifical institute, founded in Ireland in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice - a wealthy Catholic layman, who was beatified in 1996.

Brother T. P. Fitzpatrick, Brother J. P. Murray, Br. O. A. Ballantyne and Br. Beddoe (Vice Principal, Br. Superior) play an active role in the school, taking classes and involving themselves in co-curricular activities.

Boys and campus

Boys : The boys are aged between 6 and 18. Roll strength is about 960, with 360 boarders. New admissions are taken only in classes one and three. There is no intake in any other class. The school is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations and prepares students for the ICSE examinations. The school recently started plus-two section for ISC examination.

Campus and activities: The school located at an altitude of about 2,000 meters above sea level amidst the idyllic surroundings of Kumaon Hills. It has six playing fields, a gymnasium, lawn tennis, 2 squash courts, basketball court, billiard tables, and a swimming pool. The school plays against schools like Sherwood College, St. Columba's etc. in inter-college tournaments. Events like quizzes, debates, declamations and elocution are held regularly.

School anthem

You've heard of many a school I trow
And many a college too
But there is one that always is
The best for me 'n you
'Tis perched o'er Naini's lovely lake
And our dads were there of old
For a century and more 'tis known
As the home of the true and bold

'Twas called at first the good old Sem
And later SJC
And a dearer place cannot be found
At least for you and me
Its boys are hard to beat my friends
In classroom, field or fame
Their motto down the years has been
Make sure to play the game

And here's to the boys of SJC
To her children every man
And pass the word to those who'll come
Give the motto of the clan
Adown the years to fight life's fight To fight it clean and be
Among the boys who've kept the bridge
At dear old SJC

Notable alumni

Alumni share news and other information at alumni yahoo group. A list of yahoo groups for different batches.

Armed Forces

Major Rajesh Singh Adhikari ⁺ - Maha Vir Chakra (Kargil War hero)
Vice Admiral Rustom K. S. Ghandhi, PVSM, Vir Chakra (Goa war) ^{^} - ^# Governor Himachal Pradesh, ^# Chairman, India Shipping Corporation.
Commodore (Navy) Gokul Theogaraj
Commodore (Coast Guards) Amit Bhandari - Principal Director (Aviation)^[1]
Air Marshal Errol D'Noronha ^{^} - Royal Air Force (U.K)
Air Commodore Kishore Dhami
Group Captain Ram Kishen (Kaka) ⁺ ^[2]
Lt. Gen. Gajendra Singh Rawat PVSM, AVSM ^{^} - ^# Vice Chief Indian Army
Lt. Gen. Zameerud-din Shah - Armed Forces Tribunal ^[3], ^# Deputy Chief Indian Army
Lt. Gen. D. S. Barthwal - ^# Director General of Military Intelligence
Lt. Gen. Shankar Ghosh AVSM - GOC in C, Western Command.
Lt. Gen. Suraj S.J.B Rana ^[4] - Director General, Health Services, Govt of Nepal.
Maj. Gen. Gopal Kishen (Guppi) ⁺ ^[2]
Maj. Gen. Surendra Shah ^{^}
Maj. Gen. Shiv Jaiswal ^{^}
Maj. Gen. I. J. S. Bora ^{^}
Maj. Gen. M.M.Rai ^{^}
Maj. Gen. J.M. Rai ^{^}
Maj. Gen. V.K. Joshi ^{^}
Maj. Gen. Subroto Kundu ^{^}- Army doctor and Author ^[5]
Brig. Abhay Singh Karki - Commandant, 2 Independent Armored Brigade
Brig. K. C. Mahajan - Commandant Ordnance Services, 4 Corps, Tezpur
Brig. Ajay Sah SM - DS Army War College, Mhow
Brig. D.S. Negi - GOC og 39 Mountain Division
Brig. Vijay Pande - Addl Dy Gen of Adm & Coord, Army HQ
Brig. Rakesh Kohli ^{^} - ^# Commandant Kumaon Regimental
Brig. Swatantra Kumar Sapru ^{^} - ^# Commandant Kumaon Regimental
Brig. Vivek Metha ^{^} - ^# Deputy Director General, Weapons & Equipment, Army HQ
Brig. Mukesh Joshi
Colonel Rajesh Shah Vir Chakra
Lt. Col. Rana Roy ^{^} - Editor, Old boys' magazine

Public Service

Civil Services and Public Sector Undertakings

Kamal Pande - ^# Cabinet Secretary^[6], Govt. of India
Dhirendra Singh - ^# Home Secretary ^[7], Govt. of India
V. Bhushan - ^# Secretary, Govt. of India, Posts ^[8]
Mukul Pande - ^# General Manager, Western Railway, Indian Railways
L.S. Bisht - ^# Inspector General (Police), Delhi.
Trilok Nath Perti - General Manager, South Western Railway, Indian Railways ^[9]
Vikram Srivastava - Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) ^[10]
Anup Mukherjee - Chief Secretary, Bihar ^[11]
Mukul Joshi - Secretary, Govt. of India, Home Ministry ^[12]
Alok Perti - Additional Secretary , Govt. of India, Ministry of Coal ^[13]
Sunjoy Joshi - ^# Joint Secretary; Energy and Climate change expert ^[14]
Hari Raj Kishore - Prinicpal Secretary, Dept of Public Enterprise, U.P ^[15]
A. P. Kala - Director General, Central Economic Intelligence Authority ^[16]
Anil. K. Gupta - C.V.O, Kribhco, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Author ^[17]
T.K. Shah - Chief Commissioner, Income Tax, Mumbai
A.K.Singh - Commissioner, Income Tax, Mumbai (Central)
Tariq Quraishi - Executive Director, Engineering Projects Ltd, Ministry of Heavy Industries
Ashok Singh Bisht - Director (Personnel), Tehri Hydro Electric Development Corporation, Ministry of Power
Manoj Joshi - Director (Technical), Engineers India Ltd, Ministry of Petroleum ^[18]
Ravi Kochak - CDE, Rail Coach Factory, Indian Railways
Melville D.J. Gellard - Chief Economic Advisor, European Commission ^[19]

Politics

K. C. Pant - ^# Union minister with Cabinet rank ^[20] & ^# Vice Chairman Planning Commission
Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhayia) ⁺ - ^# Head, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Dr. Savit Bhotiwihok ^[21] - K.G.C (Special Class) Minister to Prime Minister's Office, Thailand.
K.C. Singh Baba - Member of Parliament, Nainital and ^# Champion, International Power-lifter
Kirti Vardhan Singh - Member of Parliament 12th and 14th Lok Sabha
Kisan Pande - ^# MLA, Nainital
F. W. Moore - ^# MLA, Allahabad

Business/Commerce/Industry

Peter de Noronha ⁺ - Noted philanthropist and civil servant
Muktesh (Micky) Pant ^[22] - President, Yum Restaurants International, Yum! Brands, Inc
Brij Raj Punj ^[23] - CMD, Fedders and Lloyd ^[24]
Alok K. Misra - Chairman and MD, Bank of India ^[25]
Neeraj Roy ^[26] - MD and CEO, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Anil Nanda - Chairman and MD, Akme Projects Ltd ^[27]
Dr. Burzoe K. Ghandhi - ^# Corporate Director, Material Management and Manufacturing Engineering, Outboard Marine Corp, USA
Dhun K. Ghandhi - ^# Chairman, Rallis Trading Corporation, India
Ashok Punj - MD, PSL Ltd. ^[28]
Anmol Dar - Managing Director, Superbrands ^[29], India
Ajit Singh Gill ^[30] - CEO, Energy Systems, Santa Clara, USA
Nippi Kochhar - CEO, Société Générale, India ^[31]
Bikram Kochhar - ^# Country Head, Citibank, Columbia
Vinit Joshi ^[32] - Managing Director, Citibank, UK ^[33]
Harkirat Singh - ^# Head, Standard Chartered Bank & Rabobank.
Larry Malarkar - General Manager, Oberoi Hotels & Director (Marketing) ^[34]
Vijay Sharma - Director, Crescent Investments, UK ^[35]
Rahul Kansal - CMO, Bennett Coleman & Company Limited ^[36]
Mick Hogg - Head, Project Lighting, NSW, Australia ^[37]
Suhel Seth - CEO, Equus and Partner Counselage
Shakti Lumba - Executive Director, Indigo Airlines
Raymond Noronha - Managing Director, Vazir Sultan Industries, Hyderabad
Saeed Shervani - MD, Shervani Hospitality Ltd. ^[38]
Sergio Freitas - CEO, Betts India Ltd, Goa
Neeraj Sharma - Managing Director, Kone Elevators, Chennai
Manvendra Singh Bhandari - Managing Director, Him Furnitech
Abdus Sattar (Nini) - Chairman, GMG Airlines, Bangladesh
Purvez Bilimoria - Chief Legal Counsel, PepsiCo International, Australia
Anant Shekhar Chandola - Director New Businesses, United Colours of Benetton, India
Jagdish Thackersey - Chairman, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai

Education/Fine Arts/Publication

Jack (Phut) Sexton ⁺ - ^# Dean of Medicine, Aberdeen University.
Sorab K. Ghandhi - Prof. Emeritus of Electrophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Author of 180 research papers and four engineering books ^[39]
Jamshed K.S. Ghandhi - Prof. Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA ^[40]
Prof. Peter Ronald deSouza ^[41] - Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study^[42], Shimla
Prof. Dr. Victor Smetacek - Noted Marine biologist, Germany; Scientist NIO ^[43]
Prof. Dr. Sunil Saxena - Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, USA ^[44]
Prof. Alfred Menezes - Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo ^[45]
Prof. Dr. Amit Abraham - Head, Post-graduate Dept. of Psychology, St. John's College, Agra and Author ^[46]
Prof. Dr. Ranjan Roy ^[47] - Prof. Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beloit College, USA and Author ^[48]
Prof. Atul Dar ^[49] - Prof. of Economics, Sobey School of Business, SMU, Canada and Author ^[50]
Prof. Dr. Anwar Ali ⁺ ^[51] - ^# Director, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur
Arun Sahay - Process Management Expert, Faculty FOSTIIMA ^[52]
Mohinder Jankiraman ^[53] - Noted Wireless Communication expert, Scientist of the year (1985) and Author ^[54]
Naseeruddin Shah - Noted Film actor; recipient of Padma Bhushan
Neelesh Misra - Songwriter , Journalist and Author ^[55]
Manoj Joshi- Editor, Mail Today
Ben J. Pires - Journalist and Human right activist, Canada ^[56]
Kiranjit Singh Rana - MD, Hunter House Publishers, San Francisco, USA ^[57]
Enver Masud - Founder and CEO, The Wisdom Fund
Anil Aurora - Promoter, Gaia Schools
Shawn Arranha - Bollywood Director

Sports

Lalit Modi - ^# Commissioner, Indian Premier League
Cedric D'Souza ^[58]- ^# Coach India national field hockey team
Richard James Allen ⁺ - ^# Goalkeeper India national field hockey team, Olympian
Ronald Riley - ^# Center forward Australia national field hockey team, Olympian
Kevin Carton ^[59] - ^# Captain Australia national field hockey team, Olympian
Freddie Scott ^[60] - ^# Hockey player for Great Britain, Olympian
Trevor Vanderputt - ^# Rangers Captain and Bengal selector; Director of Coaching, Hockey, Australia
Noel de Lima Leiato ⁺ - All India football commentator and analyst, associated with Vasco SC

Miscellaneous

Jim Corbett ⁺ - British-Indian Hunter, Conservationist & Author ^[61]
Dr. Ashok Daftry - Specialist, Geriatric and Internal Medicine, MD: St. Joseph's Medical Center ^[62], USA
Dr. Ravi Roy - Homoeopathic Doctor, Author of several best sellers in Homoepathy ^[63], Germany
Dr. A.S.Rawat - Recipient of Order of the Golden Ark, Netherlands
G.S. Bindra - Chairman, Indo-Irish Friendship Council.^[64]
Sajeeb Wazed - Young Global Leaders (World Economic Forum); son of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Premier
Vijay V Virk - ^# International Equitation Instructor

^# = Former
⁺ = Deceased
^{^} = Retired

Trivia

The school's magnificent architectural buildings have featured in quite a few Indian films. The best known, which have won numerous awards are Masoom (winner of 4 Filmfare awards) and Koi Mil Gaya (winner of 5 Filmfare awards), incidentally, lead roles of these films went on to win best actor award . Others are Himalay Putra, a short documentary titled Mahatma and few music videos.

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