St. Mary's School Chiro Nagesia tribal kids, one at school assembly and one of kids in class. The new hostel for girls is a great boost to the Nagesia girls, gives them a feeling of self worth, now living in a first class building.

The Nagesias, as you probably know, are a very small tribe, number wise, but in fact the kids are very clever, and those who pass class 8 in our school in Chiro, go on, helped by tribal scholarships, to our High School in Mahuadanr in the valley below Chiro, and some go on to become teachers, nurses.

Because of the poverty of the parents, they cannot pay sufficient fees to support the running costs of the school in Chiro so we depend on generous benefactors, any little helps.

Very best wishes,
Bob Slattery s.j.

Arjuna Awardee, Khel Ratna & Padmashri Geet Sethi was inspirational as he participated and encouraged the leaders of the St. Xavier’s High School Loyola Hall Ahmedabad during the investiture ceremony today morning ( high secondary ).

Nine time Cue sports ( 8 time billiards and 1 time snooker ) world champion and our own alumni Geet Sethi was happy to be back on the school premises and recollected his school days & inspired the students to be the leaders for themselves, school, society and the country.

The St.Xavier’s High School Loyola Hall ( Ahmedabad ) Primary Section Investiture ceremony, Monday JULY 10th 2023.

The students, management & staff, parents & alumni were present for this solemn & sacred ceremony and were inspired by the presence and motivational words of the Chief Guest Justice Mrs. Vaibhavi Devang Nanavati ( High Court of Gujarat ) who is also a Jesuit alumna and wife of our APX member Devang Nanavati as well.

It is aptly said that leaders are the ones who move forward taking all the stakeholders and collaborators alongside, inclusively & cohesively.

The young meritorious leaders will definitely make it count in the years to come. A fulfilling morning it was on the school campus & marked an important start to many a young leader’s dreams and scope.

Leaders are not born but are created with teaching, experience & grooming.

Our alma mater celebrated Leadership Day where our children were taught leadership qualities.

TEXAS being part of it is always an Honour.

ACP Mrs Serta Denial WCB & DCP Mr.J Parmar were chief Guest & inspired the children with their Thoughts & Guidance.

Thank You For Sudhir SJ.for such a inspirational celebration. JAAG President Mr Jitesh Jariwala was also present on this occasion.

Bhavin Vashi (Gujarat Province)
JAAI National Governing Council

Birth : 15.06.1940
Entrance : 20.06.1959
Ordination : 08.06.1973
Final Vows : 15.08.1981
Death : 06.07.2023

Main activities up-to-now:

Meeting with Fr. John Ravi, SJ today, at office of Principal Fr Anish SJ of Loyola High School Pune along with ELAN Committee members and WZC Council member, Mr.Nitin Joshi.

9Fr. John Ravi, SJ is Secretary, Jesuit Education Association, JEA - South Asia , Member, International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education (ICAJE) and National Alumni Advisor of JAAI

Batch of 1979-80, St Xavier’s High School Loyola Hall Ahmedabad ( APX- Association of Past Xavierites )

The class of 1978 - 80 had a reunion in San Francisco USA on 27 June 2023

Rev. Fr. John Ravi SJ Secretary, JEA South Asia and National Alumni Advisor Federation of Jesuit Alumni Associations of India, visited Loyola High School, Margao, Goa on Monday, 26th June, 2023 and had a meeting with LESA (Loyola Ex-students Association), Margao, Managing Committee and interacted with our PCA, Rev. Fr. William Rodrigues SJ and all the Managing Committee Members.

It was an enlightening evening with Rev. Fr. John Ravi SJ giving us valuable suggestions and advice. The members shared their sentiments and sense of belonging and attachment to our Alma Mater.

Thank you, Rev. Fr. John Ravi SJ

Emanuel Furtardo
National Secretary
Jesuit Alumni Associations of India (JAAI)

We are very happy to inform that we have reached our target of Rs 10lakhs towards funding the Samuel Kennedy Chemistry Lab at St Xavier's Shrirampur in memory of our late batchmate. We have around 68 plus contributors to the project.A truly combined effort.

In Memory of our classmate Samuel Kennedy who passed away on 3rd April 2023 our batch of 1982 contributed Rs 10lacs to Xavier's Shrirampur for the Chemistry lab to be named as "Samuel Kennedy Chemistry Lab"

Update So here's the story-

Our batch of 1982 was stunned with the untimely passing away of Kenny on 3rd April 2023. Kenny was a truly spirited person,keen to do something for society,infact the day he passed away,that very morning,Kenny in his role as President of his Rotary Chapter, had just dedicated a science Lab to a underprivileged school named Kilbil high school, in Vadarvadi,a slum almost in the heart of Pune

On 25th Jun 2023 TOXA organised JAAG Milan 2023 at St Xavier's College with 2 key speaker. Fr Durai attended as a chief guest. Around 100 members attended it.

JAAI WZ President Vivek Gandhi, PCA Fr Sudhir, Provincial Fr Durai were amongst the attendees.

A fulfilling JAAG program hosted by TOXA.