HOLY CROSS IN A COCONUT SHELL

Holy Cross Inside A Coconut Shell 

4th May 2019,  a memorable day to me. I was able to meet almost all of my B Sc chemistry batch mates (as prodigal sons and daughters with their families along with the chemistry professor,our mentor, Mr. R.S.A.Sundarsingh who is in his 80s in a Hotel in Kanyakumari after 47 years.  1969-1972 batch is a unique batch in the sense that three full years the professor took much pain in planning to make 100% first classes in this batch. The students during 1972 are now grand parents with many grand children. Now their physique had completely changed and hence it will be impossible to identify at the first look. Hence the organisers had took much pain in collecting the old black and white photos  from the 1972 group photo and the present individual photos .Both were printed side by side and circulated in the whatsapp group  This made each one to identify with much ease. Classmates arrived here from America, Gulf, (adjusted their travel plan to suit the get together date) Bombay, Chennai, Kochi, Trivandrum, Kovai ,Tirunelveli and from around Nagercoil.  I wished to give my personal gifts to the professor. One is a pencil drawing of his present photo and a coconut craft in which a cross is placed. Open/shut two door facility is also provided. Matured and a tender coconut shells were used. Tender coconut was used in the preparation of the Holy Cross because of colour contrast. A Tamil christian devotional song was selected for some audio effect. Both the framed laminated drawing and the craft were presented to the profesor in the

  

meeting. Mementos with individual's old and new photos and a address book with photos were given to all. In his personal capacity, professor had given a gift to all individually. Really a memorable occasion. The drawing and the craft is given below. This coconut shell craft is an improvement from my earlier works.

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