(Achievements during 2002-2003)

REPORT OF THE SCHOOL SESSION

School re-opens and once again it resounds with the joyful cries of the children.

Class XII visits the holy shrine of Sardhana for their annual pilgrimage.

Flower arrangement competition for classes VI- VII. One could see the exquisite display of flowers in some very innovative ways.

Easter Blessings by Father Anthony Dass

Career Guidance Workshop.

School Council elections for captains take place.

Results of the elections are announced.

Math Mind. A challenge for all budding Mathematicians.

Basketball matches commence.
St. Clare's (Vs) St. Claudine.
Winners :- St. Clare's.

Albert Barrow Memorial Essay writing competition for classes IX-XII.

Class XII-A visited IIP to witness an exhibition .The highlights of the exhibition were the introduction of charter, explanations on petroleum, how to increase average of vehicles, etc.

Basketball matches.
St. Joseph Vs St. Francis's.
St. Joseph's house was clearly the stronger team winning with a wide margin.

Basketball finals
Champions - St. Joseph's House.

Dramatized Elocution for classes VI-VIII.
Results: - Between classes VI-A-VI-B the winner was class VI-A.
Between classes VII & VIII class VII -B was the winner.
The overall winner was class VIII - A.

Elocution for classes IX-XII.
Results: - Between classes IX-X class X-A was the winner.
Between classes XI-XII class XII-B was the winner.
The overall winner was class X-A.

Throw ball match: - St. Claudine Vs St. Francis. It was an exciting match with both the teams, competing neck to neck but at last the game was won by St. Francis house.

Eco- Savvy & Comm Quest. A voyage of discovery to the State Banks of India a by the Commerce and Economics students. They got an insight into various banking functions such as foreign exchange , clearing house operations and loan disbursements. The highlight of the visit was the Currency Analyzing Machine.

Throw ball match: - St. Clare's Vs St. Joseph.
The winners of this nail-biting match were the girls of St. Joseph's house.

Frank Anthony All-India Memorial was debate held at Cambrian Hall. It was an extempore debate and Risha Oberoi & Anushree Dandriyal of class XI-A participated. The topic was: "India Gained Independence Too Early and Too Easily."

Throw ball final match: - St. Francis Vs St.Joseph's. The winners and the champions of throwball this year were the students of St. Francis house.

Badminton match: - St. Claudine Vs St. Clare's
The winners were St. Clare's

St. Joseph's Feast Day celebrated. The entire school wished the House girls and they later sang their House song and gave a brief insight on St. Joseph's life after whom the House is named.

Labour Day was celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm. The girls entertained our helper staff with exclusive songs and dances. Fun-filled games were organized for them. Lovely performances by some of the workers. Smt Roshni Devi did the honour of lighting the 'diya' while Smt. Kiran addressed the whole school.

A Mini-Fete!!!!!! It was a BALL!!!!! For all the students. There were stalls of were stalls of all sorts of yummies and cool-cool ice-creams. The main attraction was the Jam session where everyone danced to their heart's content. Though tests were going on for most of the classes, the students still n'joyed!!  the mini-fete to it's fullest!!

"Laghu Natika Pratyogita "(Hindi inter house-play competition) Mrs. Shukla, Mrs. Tiwari and Mrs. Pathak kindly consented to be the judges. The plays thus enacted were as follows: St. Francis: 'Sarthak Sansaar' St.Claudine: 'Ram Bharose Hindustan' (WINNERS) St.Joseph's: 'Dikhave Ka Bhoot' (Ist Runner's up) St. Clare's: 'Freestyle Gavahi'

Badminton match: - St. Joseph's Vs St. Francis
Winners were the girls of St. Joseph's house.

Badminton finals : - St. Joseph's Vs St. Clare's
Champions: St. Joseph's

The annual RIMC quiz was held at RIMC. Madhulika Kaul, Anushree Dandriyal and Neha Sangal represented our institution. Our team finished at the third position. The winners were Brightlands School while the second position was bagged by the Doon School.

Debate at Welham Boys.
First time debaters: Radhika Raturi & Shreeja Bisht took part.
There were participants from DPS RK Puram, Delhi to St. George's,
Mussoorie.
Topic: "Destiny of a nation is created by its school".

Table Tennis match: - St. Francis vs. St. Joseph's
Winners: St. Francis

Table tennis match: - St. Claudine Vs St. Clare's
Winners: St. Claudine

Prize Day Program.

Table tennis Finals
Champions:- St. Francis House

Shot Put and Javelin Throw events.

The gap Harbinger'struck with awe when little girls from classes VI-IX played various kinds of musical instruments including drums like real professionals. Mrs. Raksha Raturi gave away the prizes. There was also a special 'Hundred Plus' speech by our principal Sr. Janet. The program was a success. All the hard work put in & the number of practices did give us wonderful results.

Annual Prize day function for the junior school (classes I-V).

Talk in Doon School organized by the 'Friends of Doon'. Two panels were present and the topic was Eco- Tourism…whether it should be left on to the lower scale industries or passed on to larger scale industries. The 1st panel comprised of Mrs. Gill and a teacher from Doon School and both of them gave a fantastic presentation along with slide shows. The 2nd panel consisted teachers from Welham Girls School and Welham Boys School. Both the panelists presented their ideas efficiently and were very clear in voicing their objectives.

SUMMER HOLS START !!!!!...but X'TRA classes for Board classes.

Over with the X'TRA classes!!!!!

TREK TO DODITAL:
A seven day trek to Heaven on Earth-Dodital !!. With hearts filled with excitement and anticipation to scale the Himalayas, the trekkers of our school undertook 7-days filled with difficult mountaineering and enjoyed 7-nights filled with fun and frolic. Walking at a height of more than 6000 ft. on a meandering path filled with pointed stones, with a weight of more than 15kg on their backs…22kms seemed like FOREVER!. Their camp was at a ht. of 10,000 ft. above sea-level & was situated right beside the TAL, which is fed by the water from the melting glaciers. Their target was to reach 'DARVA TOP' situated at a ht. of 15,000ft. above sea- level. The arduous journey began early in the morning and after climbing steep rocks and skiing on the glaciers, they reached the top. The next day , ten girls accompanied by one of the Instructors went to the 'KASYASTRU PASS', which even though at a lesser altitude, is very steep and is immensely beautiful!. They started their descent and covered 22kms in one day! (which in itself was a great accomplishment!!) The trek was very educative for them. The most important lesson was that nothing is IMPOSSIBLE! To have faith in oneself & try to be an achiever rather than calling Quits, should be the bottom line, during life's struggle.

TRIP TO BANGALORE:
The much awaited day for 42 students had arrived who were going to a ten day tour to Bangalore, Mysore and Outy. They left for Delhi and the next day boarded the train for Coimbatore and reached Ooty. There they visited the Botanical gardens and saw various species of plants, flowers and different gardens. They also went to the Ooty lake and had a great time boating and from there they visited the Spice market. Back in the hotel a disco was arranged for them and they thoroughly enjoyed the dance session. The next day they visited the Doda Betta, which is a hill-top and from where one can see the breath-taking view of the city from one side and Canoor from the other. In Mysore they saw the 'Mysore Palace' and from there proceeded to the Brindavan gardens. They also went to the Nandi-bull and Chamundi Mandir to pay their homage. They visited the beautiful Philomena's church and enroute they saw Srirangapatnam, the palace of Tipu Sultan. In their visit to Bangalore they visited the Vishveshwariya, a technical and industrial museum and Kemp fort. Everyone n'joyed every bit of it and they look forward to another such wonderful tour.

8 & 9th July

Staff orientation program by Father Verghese Alegaden

School re-opens and an Orientation was conducted by Father Verghese Alegaden for the entire school. He emphasized on Visions. He said that we, in today's world are blinded by lucre and have become selfish. Vision is the main thing that is lacking in each one of us. He said that all of us must have a vision and only then we will be able to prove ourselves as true human-beings and make this world a better place to live in.

Life Orientation-(adjusting with relation to surroundings programme) was held for class XII. It was conducted by Father Rogers and Father Victor Lobo. It was an innovating experience for all of us and we learnt about a lot of things including the real meaning of friendship, love, etc. We learnt that happiness is a shy bird. If you hunt it, it will fly from you. We are restless, discontented people, who having no inward happiness, seek it in outward things where we do not often find it. True source of happiness lies within. The kingdom of happiness like the kingdom of heaven 'is within you'. Above all, in forgetting oneself, in seeking the happiness of our fellows will ever be found the truest happiness.

A memorable day for the proud parents of the duly elected office bearers as they walked down the aisle to get their badges pinned and solemnly pledged to keep their school colour flying high and to always uphold our school the motto 'HOLD HIGH THE TORCH'.

Inter -House school debate held.
Topic: 'What the world thinks today, India thinks tomorrow'.
Best Speaker: -Shreeja Bisht
IInd Best Speaker: -Radhika Raturi
Runner's UP: -tie between Ritika Mukherjee & Risha Oberoi
Winner House: -St. Clare's

Inter-House school debate (middle school)
Topic: 'Students can bring necessary changes in Society'
Best Speaker: -Deeksha Manchanda & Nain Priya
IInd Best Speaker: -Smita Kapoor
Winner House: - St. Francis

Class XII had a session on 'Facts of Life' conducted by our principal

Sr. Janet.

Anupriya Chauhan and Deeksha Goyal receive scholarships from Sports Authority of India for representing Dehra Dun district in basketball.

Inter-House G.K. Quiz Held for the middle school. Winner was St. Thevenet house with a score of 163 points.
St. Francis had 122 points.
St. Joseph's had 153 points.
St. Clare's had 137 points.

St. Clares Feast, a rainy day but the house spirit was not dampened. A lively rendition of the House song was met with a warm response from the
school.

Class VI -A went to shops and distributed paper bags made by them as a part of their project to reduce plastic taken under Dharma Bharati. Their slogan is:
Reduce plastic by Refusing plastic & Reduce Plastic by Re-using plastic.

Independence Day special assembly. The chief guest was Sr. Peter.

Exams start for the entire school!!

A joyful day for all the students---Exams over!!!!!

11th All-India Essay Competition on theme of ROAD SAFETY FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS sponsored by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Govt. of India.

Sad demise of Mrs. Gill's dear son, Vikram, in a road accident in Damdion in Jalpaigui Distt., Where Vikram was Asst. manager with Jata Jea.

Condolence held for the peace of the soul of dear Vikram Singh Gill. Many of the students knew him as he was an avid trekker who had accompanied and organised most of the treks such as to Harkidun Dayara and Dodital. He was full of life, committed & cheerful in the harshest of conditions. Many of the teachers knew him very well, too. Our deep sympathy for Mrs. Gill & her entire family. May God give them solace and also the strength to bear with such a great loss. "Time takes away the tears, but memories grow stronger. God takes away the heartache, but our heart grows fonder. May his soul rest in everlasting eternal peace.

Blessed Dina's feast celebrated. Sr. Candida and Mrs. Kiran Sharma were invited to light the 'diya'.

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!
A brief prayer service conducted by the students of class VII. The entire school wished the teachers and individually each class celebrated in their own joyful ways by giving cards and bouquet, Though the day was celebrated low-key but one could still see the exhilaration and shine in the eyes of every student from the junior section to class XII.

The Annie Russell Quiz on Nature and Wildlife was conducted in Welham Girls' School. Madhulika Kaul, Anushree Dandriyal and Risha Oberoi represented our institution. We WON the Quiz and following us were Doon School & Scholar's Home as joint 2nd.

A mass conducted by Father Saidass was held for the eternal resting of the parted soul of Mrs. Gill's son. The school also prayed  for the victims of the WTC attack and for those who lost their lives in the fatal train accident which took place on the Dhavi river, Bihar.

A special prayer service held for the teachers. We couldn't celebrate it on the 5th of September, so we took this opportunity to express our love, gratitude and humble thanks to our dear teachers. On this occasion which is also the birth anniversary of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the illustrious teacher, we extended our warm felicitations to all the members of the teaching staff including the sisters and the office staff and also presented them with small tokens of love and sung songs too.

Open Day for the senior section.

Science/History/Geography exhibition held in the Fatima Hall. A well organized show put up by the students of classes VI to IX. It was aptly titled the 'Visions of the world'.

Basketball Tournament ( Independence Cup)
CJM Vs Moravians
The score was 22-18

Hindi Debate at Wadia Institute.
Topic: 'Sukhi Jeevan Ke Liye Adhyatm Nahin, Vigyan Aavyashak Hai'
Participants: - Neha Dang & Priyanka Handa
Consolation prize won by Priyanka Handa

Basketball match.
CJM Vs Hopetown
The score was 26-09

Teacher's Panel Discussion organized by Friends of Doon at Riverdale High school on effective education.

International Day of Peace Celebrated. A prayer service was organized by class XII (humanities section). Slogan and chart-making competition was also held. 50 girls also attended a PEACE MARCH organized by Marshall's School, walked down the roads of Doon holding aloft banners and spreading the awareness of peace.

Computer Quiz Festival - An excellent implementation of modern technology for presentation. Among classes IX & X the winner was the team of St. Francis house. Between the teams of classes XI & XII the winning team was that of St. Thevenet

Science Exhibition.
It encompassed a range of models projects and experiments on all three sciences namely Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Students from class VI - X and sections of classes XI-XII put in a lot of effort and came forth with a variety of ingenious ideas proving that they are "Scientists in Making". The highlights of the Biology Lab. were models of cell division, protein synthesis, endoskeleton of frog and a presentation on Test Tube Babies. The Chemistry Lab. was a haven science freaks. The future scientists brewed up various conurbations ranging from cosmetics to glue made from milk. The aspiring engineers in Physics Lab constructed burglar alarms, automatic street light, a model of satellite, etc.

'PSYCHOMANIA' held. Interesting activities were conducted. Everybody admired the budding psychologists of CJM. Everybody was interested in knowing about their personality and traits and what their handwritings revealed.

Special assembly in lieu of Gandhi Jayanti organized by class XII.

School Wished Sr. Teresa a very happy Feast Day and as a mark of our love and affection, on behalf of the entire senior section presented her with a card and a bouquet of flowers.

Some students accompanied by Mrs. Satya Sharma & Ms. Seema Badola attended a function organized by Helpage India for observing the International
Day for The Old. A function was held at the Circuit House and Mr. Surjit Singh Barnala consented to be the chief-guest. He also made a generous contribution of Rs. 10,000 to the Organization. A spectacular musical performance was also witnessed at the golf-course.

The famous Kathak dancer Shobhna Narayan danced her way into the hearts of the CJMites. The programme was organized by SPICMACAY and enabled the girls to understand and appreciate the finer nuances of the Kathak Dance form.

Dharma Bharati week started.
Theme: National Integration

Discovery Quiz held at Doon School. Our school team comprised Ankita Lamba of class VIII-A and Shrestha Mahanti of class VII-B. They won the 3rd prize and were awarded discovery channel T-shirts Somshree Mukherjee of class V answered a question to the audience and won a bicycle. The quiz was compeered by the famous quiz master of the Bournavita Quiz contest fame, Mr. Derek O'Brien.

St. Francis Feast day. The school wished the House and the house song was sung with pride.

Anushree Dandriyal of class XI - A received an invitation by the CSIR to participate in the CSIR Program on Youth for Leadership in Science (CPYLS) which is a unique scheme for meritorious students, based on class X Board examination results.

Students from classes 7,8,9&11 participated in the 10th National Science Congress held at Jaswant Modern School. The theme was 'food system towards nutrition' to all. We won the 3rd prize in the junior category and have reached the state level.

50 students attended the screening of Environmental based movies at IGNFA, FRI. They were the fortunate ones to become a part of the 1st Wildlife Film Festival held at Uttaranchal.

The much awaited class picnics for classes VI,X and XII.

Farewell to Premchandji. He was presented with bouquets and gifts on behalf of the entire CJM family.

7th, 8th, 9th, 11th went for their class picnics. The picnic day for rest of the classes. Classes IX and XI chilled out at Mussoorie. Class VII and VIII went to Lachiwala.

Marathon held for classes VI -XII.
In the category comprising classes VI - VIII Umang Bhatt was the winner.
In the category comprising classes IX - XII Kanupriya Sood was the winner.

Sr. Provincial, Reverend Sr. Elizabeth visited our school. She was accompanied by Provincial Econum, Sr. Rosily, and the sister responsible for Apostolic Mission, Sr. Dorothy. A special assembly was organized in their honour by class XI.

CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY, DEHRA DUN.
SPORTS DAY 2002