SIMSREE Celebrates Alumni Day on 27th October, 2007
Sunday, 11. November 2007, 07:46:23
27th October was the day to be on campus. Never before has the campus witnessed so much youthful energy, nostalgia and buzzing activity. This time the meet was in the form of an Alumni Day – a different way of celebrating an occasion. (Yeah!!! SIMSREE just turned 25).
One pleasant fact we would like to share is post all the publicity (the Alumni Day hoardings, the personal invites etc.), the turnout has been the highest till date for any Alumni Meet. About 210 alumni graced the occasion. We are very happy with the response and look forward to better times ahead. The Alumni day witnessed activity right from 1.30 pm in the afternoon to 10.30 pm in the evening. In short, SIMSREE turned 25 this year and the SIMSREE family celebrated it with grandeur and style.
The occasion was celebrated at the college itself. Many of the alumni were pleasantly surprised by the changes that have happened at SIMSREE. The infrastructure has been revamped to a great extent to include a well furnished conference room, new administrative offices, faculty rooms, new computer lab, a comfortable canteen and a comfortable air-conditioned seminar hall for holding guest lectures, panel discussions and inter-collegiate B-school competitions. Besides, the campus has also been WI-FI enabled. Yes, the tiling has also been changed; white boards now accompany the black boards, overhead projectors have been installed in the classrooms accompanied by a speaker system. The library is yet to follow suit. It still serves as a connection to the past.
In addition, we decked up the college for the Alumni Day. It looked really lively and colorful. It was welcomed by the Alumni as a change from the routine celebration at a 5 star venue. The day started with ice-breaking events. We had the following events going on in the rooms
Nostalgia Room: Served as a museum. We had put up pictures of the previous batches for the alumni to browse through. The old SIMSREE magazines and other releases, placement brochures etc. were kept in that room to revive old memories.
Village Room: Every occasion when graced by a social cause becomes even better. We provided an NGO with the opportunity to set up a handicraft stall in this room. This room was also decked up in a different and lively way so that the festive mood in every heart gets revived.
Games room: Various games such as Hockey-Golf, Dart, Brick Game, Seven-up-seven-down were organized for the alumni to try their hand at. We must mention that we have great dart players among the alumni.
Seminar Room: Interaction, fun and happening events like Just a Minute Games, Antakshari etc. were held here. Besides it was in the comfort of this room that the alumni shared their experiences with their good old friends and students. An informal briefing by SIMAA was also conducted in this room. By the way, this same room doubled as our discotheque in the late evening and everyone (alumni and students alike) danced their heart out.
The evening saw the presentation being delivered by the SIMAA core committee envisaging the vision for SIMSREE .This was followed by our Alumnus Mr. Amit singing Kishore Kumar songs…and he did put up a great show. Two entertaining dance performances followed. This was then followed by a live chat show featuring Mr. Neeraj Roy (CEO, Hungama.com), Mr. Kapil and Mr. Kartik Ramaswamy (GM, Lenovo India Pvt. Ltd.)
Then we had a cake cutting ceremony (SIMSREE turned 25) where Dr. Khan, our director, along with SIMAA members cut the cake. We then had fire-works to mark the occasion. Animated conversations were to be heard everywhere. A sumptuous meal followed suit. Some of the alumni left for the jam session (the discotheque). After some time, the draining effect of all the activity began to show and people bid farewells and left after spending a satisfying evening in the company of their friends and batch mates feeling younger than before.
… A literal commentary on the happenings of the Alumni Day. The pictures would give you a better idea… So please go ahead and check them out here!!!!
One pleasant fact we would like to share is post all the publicity (the Alumni Day hoardings, the personal invites etc.), the turnout has been the highest till date for any Alumni Meet. About 210 alumni graced the occasion. We are very happy with the response and look forward to better times ahead. The Alumni day witnessed activity right from 1.30 pm in the afternoon to 10.30 pm in the evening. In short, SIMSREE turned 25 this year and the SIMSREE family celebrated it with grandeur and style.
The occasion was celebrated at the college itself. Many of the alumni were pleasantly surprised by the changes that have happened at SIMSREE. The infrastructure has been revamped to a great extent to include a well furnished conference room, new administrative offices, faculty rooms, new computer lab, a comfortable canteen and a comfortable air-conditioned seminar hall for holding guest lectures, panel discussions and inter-collegiate B-school competitions. Besides, the campus has also been WI-FI enabled. Yes, the tiling has also been changed; white boards now accompany the black boards, overhead projectors have been installed in the classrooms accompanied by a speaker system. The library is yet to follow suit. It still serves as a connection to the past.
In addition, we decked up the college for the Alumni Day. It looked really lively and colorful. It was welcomed by the Alumni as a change from the routine celebration at a 5 star venue. The day started with ice-breaking events. We had the following events going on in the rooms
Nostalgia Room: Served as a museum. We had put up pictures of the previous batches for the alumni to browse through. The old SIMSREE magazines and other releases, placement brochures etc. were kept in that room to revive old memories.
Village Room: Every occasion when graced by a social cause becomes even better. We provided an NGO with the opportunity to set up a handicraft stall in this room. This room was also decked up in a different and lively way so that the festive mood in every heart gets revived.
Games room: Various games such as Hockey-Golf, Dart, Brick Game, Seven-up-seven-down were organized for the alumni to try their hand at. We must mention that we have great dart players among the alumni.
Seminar Room: Interaction, fun and happening events like Just a Minute Games, Antakshari etc. were held here. Besides it was in the comfort of this room that the alumni shared their experiences with their good old friends and students. An informal briefing by SIMAA was also conducted in this room. By the way, this same room doubled as our discotheque in the late evening and everyone (alumni and students alike) danced their heart out.
The evening saw the presentation being delivered by the SIMAA core committee envisaging the vision for SIMSREE .This was followed by our Alumnus Mr. Amit singing Kishore Kumar songs…and he did put up a great show. Two entertaining dance performances followed. This was then followed by a live chat show featuring Mr. Neeraj Roy (CEO, Hungama.com), Mr. Kapil and Mr. Kartik Ramaswamy (GM, Lenovo India Pvt. Ltd.)
Then we had a cake cutting ceremony (SIMSREE turned 25) where Dr. Khan, our director, along with SIMAA members cut the cake. We then had fire-works to mark the occasion. Animated conversations were to be heard everywhere. A sumptuous meal followed suit. Some of the alumni left for the jam session (the discotheque). After some time, the draining effect of all the activity began to show and people bid farewells and left after spending a satisfying evening in the company of their friends and batch mates feeling younger than before.
… A literal commentary on the happenings of the Alumni Day. The pictures would give you a better idea… So please go ahead and check them out here!!!!
WIDGETIZE