A Sunday afternoon with St. Mary's 150th Year Facebook Page's competition winners!

A short while ago a competition was held on Facebook to identify Mr.Giles Rebello in a couple of staff pictures from an old school magazine. Kenneth Mascarenhas & I were the lucky winners. By coincidence we were both from the same class-"The Class of 1968". The prize was a Sunday Brunch for 2 at Neel-Tote on the Turf restaurant. A suggestion was put forward by the social media cell that we should both go together with our wives & invite Mr.Giles Rebello to join us. It was an excellent suggestion which we both appreciated tremendously. Kenneth approached Mr. Rebello as they live close to each other & he readily agreed to join us.



The brunch on Sunday, 27th. October 2013 was an extremely enjoyable & memorable experience for both of us. I met Mr. Rebello for the first time after leaving school in 1968-an unbelievable 45 years! I recognized our popular English teacher immediately and you won't believe he looked very much the same after all these years!

Kenneth and I spent a lovely afternoon with Mr. Rebello, Kenneth's wife Lynette and my wife Roshan. We talked of old times & how mischievous some of our classmates were. He recollected many incidents like the times when he used to allow us to listen to the cricket commentary in the last row in his class and being very fond of cricket himself, he had to be immediately informed every time a wicket fell! He also remembered the famous "kheema gutli" & "bun chop" which was always available in the school canteen. We also fondly remembered many of our old teachers who are now no more.



After a delicious brunch we left with the promise and hope of meeting up again with many more of our teachers and batchmates during the 150th year celebrations of our beloved ST.MARY'S SCHOOL (ICSE). Kenneth dropped Mr Rebello home and he told us that he would definitely try to come to St Mary's for at least one of the functions during this landmark year.

- Article by Behram Colah (Batch of 1968)
     Pictures courtesy Behram Colah & Kenneth Mascarenhas
     (Edited version of the article)