My Life in Loyola

My life in Loyola was perhaps the best phase in my life. I still reminiscence the school life even though I was there for only 4 years that is Std.I to IV and a little of Std. V.

The sprawling campus and the play grounds coupled with the teachers leave an everlasting memory of the school in me.

I still remember the Python that was caged adjacent to the main office building. We were once taken to the cage at the time of feeding the python and a rat was released into the cage and we could see the python strangling the rat and then swallowing it. We were taken to the cinema theatre situated at the far end of the school for an occasional treat of movies and I enjoyed the same as movies were few and far between in the 75-80 period.If I remember correctly the school principal was Fr. Varkey and Vice Principal was Fr. Kuruvilla. Junior school in Charge was Ms. Muthunayagam. I still remember the way she dressed. She was a strict disciplinarian and soft at heart although I was very weak in the subject that she taught “ ARITHMETIC”. Also remember the day we had a Japanese guest and he did render some Japanese songs starting “ Kalasooooo” and so on. After leaving Loyola in 1980, I did never get a chance to be back in school. One other thing that I enjoyed the most was the school sports day and had a favorite athlete by the name of “Mohan Singh Gujjar”. The ease in which he negotiated the school ground bends was commendable. One of the teachers I liked the most was Ms. Renjini and she had a pen in those days with a curved nib and think the ink was purple. Hope Ms. Remembers the same. The trip to Kanyakumari from school with all my friends was exhilarating and in fact that was my first trip without my parents. On the way it started raining and all of sang a song Mrs. Muthunagayam taking the lead. It was something like “Katte Mazhaye vaa, Daivathe sthutipin and som on. We also visited the “Ammachi Plavu” at Marthandam. Also it would be pertinent to inform you that the pocket money allotted to me by my parents for the Kanyakumari Trip was Rs.4/- and believe me on the way back I had a quite a lot of puzzles and gizmos with me after spending some money for ice creams.

Ms. Murray was my I Std. teacher, Sr. Marceline II Std., Mrs. Fernandez- III Std, Ms. Renjini – IV and Ms. Manorama V were my class teachers and wonder where they are now.

I am not sure why Fr. Princi caned me, asked me to place my hands in the pocket, bend forward and then spank…. Spank….. which left me dumfounded and in tears.
I do remember my friends of Loyola, Rajesh, Sujit, C. Prem, Anthony Kevin, Jose Antony, Bhami, Jeevan and Aby – just to mention a few. After a gap of 28 years I met Rajesh a couple of weeks back and the camaraderie and friendship that was developed in school had not a bit waned.
I love my school.