The atmosphere of the 8 years old edifice was filled with intense love and earnestness as it got the footprints of its alumni. The unique occasion was GIT's FIRST ALUMNI MEET held on 10th October 2009. The whole GIT campus was adorned with junior's love while faculty and management bestowed blessings on Alumni. Presumably heaven had descended to earth. There was happiness, blooming and blossoming everywhere.
Preparations
The success of event was the outcome of undauntable spirit of the organizers which led those works day and night.
Those who had registered were provided with well- settled room and food too.The registration and room allotment had started by 6.30 am on 9th of October.
Venue - Seminar Hall
Seminar hall, the venue of Alumni meet, reflected the true zeal in juniors. The organizers were so much obsessed with and passionate about their work, which helped them create enthralling pieces of work that stand foolproof to institutes gritty individuals
The seminar hall was decorated with fascinating patterns of balloons and other pieces of creativity. The main attraction was the "footprint board”.It was decorated with the theme of beach. Blue balloons resembled water while white resembled clouds. The replica of sun, boat and coconut trees on it enchanted the viewers. The alumni members and faculty were to dip their left palm in the bowl of their favourite colour and put its impression on the footprint board and write their message to the college on it.
Chairman Anand Singhal sir advised to get it frame and preserved as a treasure of sweet memories. It would always remind us of the day of 'First Alumni Meet'. This beautiful arrangement will definitely render all the alumni nostalgic
As the event began......
The Alumni members were welcomed with 'Tilak', our cultural tradition and greeted by juniors.
Light moments
Pranay Jain, Prateek Gupta and Abhishek Johri greeted Praveen Agarwal Sir who then introduced them to few of the co-ordinators .All the alumni members’ bested themselves and started refreshing old memories.
Alumni embraced each other.
These few lines would describe the scene better -
Refreshing old memories
Some happy some sad
Walking down the memories lane
The eyes becoming red....... Also......
Alone I can say
But together we can shout
Alone I can smile
But together we can laugh
Alone I can enjoy
But together we can celebrate
That is the beauty of friendship
A few minutes later Chairman Anand Singhal Sir, Registrar Sir, Principal Sir with all faculty members entered the hall. They were welcomed with 'Tilak'. Chairman Sir was invited to 'lit the lamp’ and take blessings from ' Maa Saraswati 'for all the GITIANS. Revered Chairman Sir , generously asked all the alumni members to join him and 'lit the lamp'.
Chairman Sir's Speech
He recalled the old memories as he saw the faces of alumni from 2006 to 2009 batch. He discussed how he led the foundation of GIT with all of them. It was the most heart touching moment when he addressed all GITIANS as one family. He thus binds all of us in a strong bond of family .He asked the alumni to grow this family to an enormously large extent. He then discussed about and ' canteen ' masti. He advised alumni to make visits to their friend whenever they travel to their city and manage time for a tea party. Give helping hand and get helped you in need. He then made a big announcement that every year such a blasting alumni meet will be organized with even more enthusiasm. He asked the alumni to make an Alumni Association. He will be always ready to provide every facility and funding. Chairman Sir spent some cool moments with Alumni.
Before leaving Chairman Sir inaugurated the foot print board with an orange colour palm impression with the messageThat we are one
Speech by J.D. Jain Sir
He started with recalling his college days at MIT, Madras. He explained his dedication towards imparting quality education at our institute. He hopes and wishes that this institute would open new avenues for achieving pinnacles of professional pedagogy and learning. Pokharna Sir addressed the alumni and told how restless Preetak Gupta was, he used to ask sir if he is working out to organize such a meet.
Arrangement for refreshment was made in another hall. Before leaving seminar hall all alumni members put their left hand impression with different colours on the footprint board. Instead of just washing hands same of them extended their colourful hands to others' cheeks. A sort of holi started among them. Seniors met chief warden sir, he hugged them and conveyed his blessings
At nearly 11.30 am all gathered for refreshment. This time was most interactive period for juniors and seniors as well as alumni and teachers .They talked about past memories, present experiences and future aspirations.
At nearly 1.00 pm they had lunch in the same mess where they used to eat during their college days. As per the schedule, the seniors gathered at seminar hall at 2.30 pm. Thats was the time to enjoy alumni meet together and remember old days.
Prateek Boss invited Pranay Boss for a song.
He sang".............." with his own music.
Vikalp Boss enthralled everyone with his distinguished voice.
Abhishek Johri Boss ( 2006 batch) performed juggling and amused everyone
Fun Time
Bollywood mania- Different questions were asked after showing some photographs of celebrities.
Cricketers- A brief cricket quiz was organized. Both boys and girls (alumni) took interest in it.
Salad dressing-They competed with each other for cutting and decorating salad .Ashok Boss mistakenly injured his finger but he was so focussed over winning the event that he even took no notice of it.
Needle event- Participants had to enthread needles. Last 20 second were given to cheat as much as possible.
Lastly, an event was organized- "How much you know your college"
Participants were shown different pics of college from different angles and they were supposed to identify the spot .Alumni members from 2006 batch gave maximum correct answers
Finally for organizing such meeting every year a "Student Alumni Board" was made .Its main posts included faculty co-ordinators, Chairman sir,President,vice-president, Treasurer and cultural secretary, batch co-ordinator.Nominations were made and finally management chose among them. Chapter co-ordinator was decided for Ncr region and Jaipur region
At last each alumni member came to the stage and shared his experiences and guided the juniors.
Abhishek Johri Boss said “Study hard, party harder"
Management declared the posts of the "Governing body of Alumni Association"
Pokharna sir announced to present a T-shirt to every alumnus. Alumni members then decided to wear the same T-shirt in the fresher’s party which was to be held out in the evening. Registrar Sir and Praveen sir thanked the entire alumni member for making this meet a success and spending their valuable time with their teachers and visiting the college.Pranay Jain, the President of "Student Alumni Board "gave a brief speech to thank all the co-dominators and volunteers for such a great arrangement.
At last Prateek Gupta called 'Mr Vaibhav Mishra ' on stage and asked everyone for a huge and thundering round of applause for him. He was like the foundation brick for the Global Alumni Association. He was thanked for his uncountable and rigorous effort. He was planning such a meet for over a year and guided and motivated the coordinators for organizing a "Successful Alumni Meet". Student Alumni Board Members Till then the management of GIT disclosed the list for different posts of the Global Alumni Association.
Words from co-ordinator
I heartily want to thank the alumni for their cooperation in making this event a historical success. Besides their tough schedule the Alumni members came here and attended the function .This is worth appreciation. I would like to thank Pokharna sir and Praveen Sir who gave me an opportunity to organize and coordinate "The First Alumni Meet " I would also like to thank my team who gave me enormous support by their dedicated work in creating a historical milestone in GIT's history. I am very grateful to Mr. Vaibhav Mishra for his invaluable guidance and motivation throughout our preparation .In fact his vision has come true in the form of "First Alumni Meet".
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