Our Chief Guest Lt. General Ajai Singh Ji, I offer my most cordial welcome to you on behalf of all of us present here. I would also like to extend a very warm welcome to the President, Mayo College General Council, His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singh of Jodhpur, Your Highnesses, Members of the General Council, Member of the District Administration, parents, distinguished guests, old boys, staff and students.

It is indeed a momentous occasion and it gives me a great pleasure to receive so many of you who have travelled long distances to be with us on the afternoon of this very Special 125^th Prize Giving.

We have been eagerly looking forward to this day. We know that it is a unique occasion since it not only helps to showcase the achievements of the students but also helps to renew old ties of friendship. We extend a very warm welcome to the Silver Jubilee 84 Batch which has assembled for the reunion in such a large number with families from all over the world. They have decided to create a corpus which other batches may also join, for promoting excellence in the faculty. It is indeed a very laudable objective.

I would like to congratulate President of General Council HH Maharaj Gaj Singh of Jodhpur for being invited as Chairman, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation working of water harvesting in Marwar region by Bill Clinton Global initiative to Hong Kong for a 2 day conference. He is leaving immediately after PG for Hong Kong.

Before I read my report, I shall like to mention that this is my happiest year in Mayo College. The College has taken tremendous strides and good news has just kept pouring in this year.

As far as Results are concerned, for Class XII, for the last eight years, we had a batch average between 77-79%. This year we broke through the 80% barrier and I am happy to announce that batch average for class XII was 82% with 10 out of 62 boys scoring above 90%. In Class X, we are between 76-78% batch average for the last three years. This year we had 16 boys above 90% as compared to 14 in each of the last two years.

This summer, it was an honour for Mayo College to be invited to a Triangular Polo Tournament in England to represent India. The students of Mayo College used the British horses and on the British grounds beat Britain and France.

This July, we were fortunate to be blessed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama who was very kind to come to school and address the assembly.

The creditable achievement was winning The Jack Gibson Debate this year where the participating teams included Doon School, Dehradun, St. James School, Kolkata, Millennium School, Dubai, etcetera.

A unique achievement was to be the joint winner of The Indian Public School Conference (IPSC) Football Tournament after perhaps twenty five years with schools like Motilal School of Sports, Rai and TNA, Gangtok, Daly College, Indore, etcetera participating. We have 6 of our boys playing for the IPSC Football Team in the School National Tournament from 5^th December.

This year is also the Centenary year of our legendary Principal Mr. JTM Gibson. I am very happy to inform that The British Council had accepted our suggestion and the guest speaker Mr. Mick Waters came to Ajmer and addressed Mayo College and Mayo College Girls’ School on October 17. The British Council organized the talk in Delhi which was attended by old boys, some members of General Council and by Principals from various schools in Delhi. Mr. Mick Waters was full of praise for Mayo Boys’ and Girls’ School. He said after visiting Ajmer that the legacy of Mr. Jack Gibson is alive in the two schools.

Professor James Myall from Sydney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, mentioned that he remembered that the quality of questions asked by Mayo College students after his talk were better than what he experienced in many universities. He further offered to have a preferential student admitted to Sydney Sussex College every year to commemorate Mr. Jack Gibson’s centenary. What a great incentive it would be for a Mayo College student to be admitted to the University of Cambridge every year.

I am happy to announce that the Bond University of Australia, which is the leading private university, has offered 50% tuition fee scholarship to Mayo College for one boy to study either Bachelor of Information Technology or Bachelor of Business Systems. This scholarship for 2 years is worth over 40,000/- Dollars.

I am also happy to inform that the German Embassy has agreed to place a German teacher in Mayo College and so, we shall be able to start German as a subject upto Class X from April this year.

Old Boys’ News

1. HH Raja Narendra Singh of Sarila, IFS, (Retd.) has written a second book titled ‘Once a Prince of Sarila’ which has a chapter on his life in Mayo College and is available for a special price in the store.

2. Mr. Vir Sanghvi was awarded Rajiv Gandhi award for Journalism.

3. Mr. Ajay Kumar, 1967 batch, was awarded the President’s, Medal for Police.

4. Mr. K.C. Verma, 1966 batch is Secretary, Security, Cabinet Secretariat while Mr. Naresh Dayal is Secretary, Environment.

5. Mr. Omendra Bhardwaj, 1969 batch, is Additional DGP, Anit- Corruption Bureau, Rajasthan.

6. Shri V.P. Singh MP, Chairman of Mayo College Committee for 10 years is Chairman of the Task Force of the Government of Rajasthan to save tigers. First time in history, 2 tigers were translocated from Ranthambhore to Sariska and internationally, it is hailed as a new model to save, conserve and protect the wild cat.

7. The 1966-67 batch has printed an edited version of ‘As I Saw It’ now titled ‘An Indian Englishman’. Mr. Yogen Dalal has donated 100 copies, proceeds of which will be used for the JTM Gibson Award. Mr. Vivek Basroor has donated one lakh rupees for the same award. Last year, the award was given to Shri Jaswant Singh Jasol, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Aditya Singh, PVSM, AVSM** and Mr. Ravi Kant. This year, I am happy to inform that the awardees are Mr. Probir C. Sen 1959 batch, Mr. Vikram Mehta 1969 batch and Mr. Rakesh Mohan 1964 batch.

8. Mr. Pradeep Saxena has joined as a member of the Board of Mayo College and is on the Mayo College Committee.

9. This year onwards, a trophy would be awarded to the Best Maintained Boarding House presented by Golden Jubilee Batch of 1957-58.

10. Mr. Vijay Crishna, 1960 batch unfurled the Mayo College flag on Mt. Uhuru (Kilimanjaro) on February 15, 2008.

11. Class of 1972-73 contributed Rupees Fourteen Lakhs Fifty Nine Thousand for the Eco Park and the Golf Course.

12. Mr. Ravi Kant contributed Rs. 50,000/- to the Old Boys’ Society.

Eight thoroughbred horses below the age of five years have been donated to Mayo College through the efforts of Shri Gautam Kotwal, an old boy. A nine year old horse was presented by Shri Lokendra Singh.

With profound grief, we announce the sad and sudden demise of an old boy Sardar Jasmeet Singh. He very actively worked for turning the dream of our Golf Course into a reality.

Ex-Faculty, Mr. N.C. Sharma passed away this year.

As mentioned earlier, our results are improving. For Class XII, the batch average for the last 9 years has been between 77% and 79%. This year it was best ever 82% with 10 boys scoring above 90% marks. There are no third divisions for the last 9 years, no compartments or failures for the last 7 years. Can you believe it, this year, the lowest percentage is 70%.

Nilesh Kasat topped the batch with 93%. Aaditya Mehta, Zaheb Ahmed and Ayushman Mitra 92%. Rohitashwa Nandy, Nishant Paul, Varun Tandon, Indra Shekhar Singh 91%. Mihir Agarwal and Karamveer Singh Jodha 90%.

We had very good results in Class X as well with 16 boys scoring above 90% as compared to 14 each in last two years. The batch average for last 3 years has been between 76 and 78%. Sammyak Jain topped the batch with 95%. Shrey Agrawal, Akash Sharma, Ankit Kumar, Parth Jethwani 94%. Gaurav Pratap Singh Shekhawat, Aditya Vikram Kuhar, Siddhant Gupta 93%. Saurabh Saboo, Chetan Dev Singh, Ritvik Goyal, Sudarshan S Chouhan 92%. Devesh Lakhotia, Harsh Agarwal, Akshay Kumaria and Amit Garg 90%.

For the first time, we organized coaching for 52 boys from Class 8 to take National Talent Search Examination. I am expecting some of them to win national scholarships.

The CBSE has selected 11 Mayo boys to receive National Scholarship for college and university which is a very large number indeed and a great honour.

Mr. S.N. Thakar, Father of Umang Thakar, has offered "Smt. Shanta Devi Thakar Scholarship". Mr. S.N. Thakar has deposited Rs.2.50 lacs which shall be treated as corpus.

Staff News

In September 2009 on Scouts Day, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Department of Posts has proposed to issue commemorative postage stamp on ‘Late Shri Danmal Mathur’, our Legendary Vice-Principal.

Mr. Deepak Vashishth has joined us as the Network Administrator.

Ms. Inder Raj Kaur has joined as Secretary to Principal.

I am happy to report that even in the times of high attrition rate, Mayo College has been able to retain all teachers so no new person has joined the teaching faculty.

Mr. Vatsayan Sharma has been appointed House Master of Jodhpur House.

Mr. N.K. Dixit has been appointed as Head of Department, Maths and Mr. Alok Sharma, Head of Department of SUPW.

Mrs. Hasina Mehndi retired as Matron of Rajasthan House after a long and distinguished service. Mrs. Anamika Singh has replaced her in Rajasthan House while Mrs. Bhumika Saxena is new Matron in Jaipur House.

Mr. P.K. Ranwaka, Vice-Principal, Academics and Mr. Naveen Dixit attended a Maths workshop at IIT, Mumbai.

Mr. Kunal Kumar, our French teacher attended "Professor in France" workshop in Paris and Vichy.

Mr. Rajesh Dhaiya, Dr. Akhilesh Bhardwaj and Mr. Ajay Singh attended a CBSE workshop on Master training Programme on comprehensive school health education at Mayoor School, Ajmer.

Mr. Ajay Singh attended a workshop at IIM, Lucknow on Career Conclave and Communications skills and Behaviour and Occupational Counselling for schools rules at The Sagar School, Alwar.

A workshop on IT was attended by Mr. Paresh Mahawar and Mr. Arvind Nahar at The Scindia School, Gwalior.

Mr. Alok Sharma worked with International Media in IPL Cricket Tournament.

College Captains and Monitors

Karan Kanodia was elected as College Captain while Devvrath Bhartia was elected as College Vice-Captain. Other monitors were Aman Aggarwal, Shashwat Singh, Umang Thakkar, Pranal Modani, Shubham Garg, Devvrat Singh Chundawat, Arman Hasan, Sushen Mittal, Aryak Singh, Manraj Deep Singh, Nitesh Kumar Srivastava, Pranav Karwa and Anuj Khandelwal. I am happy to say that Monitors have performed creditably. Well done boys!

Following games captains were appointed this year:-

Athletics - Nitish Kumar Srivastava

Basket Ball - Arman Hasan

Cricket - Harminder Singh

Football - Aryak Singh and Shubham Garg

Cross Country and Squash - Karan Kanodia

Boxing - Tanay Mandowra

Badminton - Yashvardhan Singh

Rifle Shooting - Adhiraj Singh

Hockey - Nitaranjan Singh

Tennis - Manraj Deep Singh

Riding - Dhruvraj Singh Sisodia

Exchange Students

This is the first year for French Exchange. A group of 15 boys went to France for 3 weeks. In return, a group of 22 students and teachers shall be in Mayo College for 3 weeks in February. What can be better than doing French as a subject for Class X Board Exams and staying with French families to practice the language.

This was also the first year when Junior School boys went on various Exchange Programmes. Mr. Paresh Mahawar with 6 boys from classes V and VI went to a school in New Zealand. In Germany, one group of 6 boys went to Öhningen, with the Principal and another group to Lörrach with Mr. Desmond Lee. In return, two Principals, Mr. Gunter Weigert and Ms. Cornelia Huber with 4 parents and 15 students from Germany visited and stayed at Mayo College and attended Mayo College Girls’ School Prize Giving.

This summer, 50 boys went on exchange all over the world including famous schools like Eton College, Windsor, UK, Hotchkiss School, New York, Appleby College, Toronto, Dulwich College, London, The Kings School, Sydney, Salem School, Germany, etcetera.

Out of 50 boys, 18 went to Germany, 15 to France, 2 to USA, 5 to New Zealand and Singapore, 5 to UK, 1 to Canada, 2 to Japan, and 6 to Australia. In addition, 26 boys went for International Community Services Projects.

3 students Ben Janson, Cameron Harrison and Matthew Stanford from Kings School, Sydney are attending the Prize Giving. A warm welcome to you.

The School sent delegates and teacher escorts to Regional Round Square Conference hosted by The Scindia School, Gwalior and The Lawrence School, Sanawar respectively. The International Conference was held at Vancouver, Canada. 8 students namely Anup Singh, Zainuddin Kagzi, Raghav Choudhary, Aditya Vikram Kuhar, Shubham Puri, Arjun Bohra, Sayontan Ghosh and Siddharth Bhaduri along with Round Square Coordinator, Mr. S. Kumar and the Principal attended it. We are happy to inform that Mayo College has been given the responsibility to host the Round Square International Conference in October, 2009. This is only the third time since its inception that this Conference has come to India. We are expecting 500 students and 180 adult delegates from all parts of the world. We seek help from all well wishers, old boys, and parents for the same. This is a unique opportunity to showcase both schools.

AISSEC

14 students from 9 countries stayed in Mayo College and conducted workshops for our students. In return 13 students of class XI are going to Ukraine and Colombo to conduct workshops as AISSEC Trainers. Exchange with a purpose like community service is now the new thrust area.

IT Course for 2 batches of underprivileged children was conducted in December, 2007 by the IT Department.

Debating – Cultural Activities

This year was the Centenary year of Mr. Jack Gibson. The 14^th JTM Gibson Memorial quiz and debates were held. We lifted the Gibson Trophy for debate. It was quite commendable since leading schools participated in it. Devvrath Bhartia was the best speaker in turncoat, semi-final and in the final debate. He was also the over all best speaker of the debates. Our boys participated in Chukerbutti Debate at The Doon School, India Today Debate at Vasant Valley School, Sri Ram School Debate and in cultural festivals. Sushen Mittal, Akshay Kumaria, Aditya Vikram Kuhar, Mayank Murti, Vijay Deep Nagar, Raghav Chowdhary, Rahul Joshi, Ankit Grover and Gaurav Pratap excelled as debaters.

The standard of quizzing has much improved in school. The JTM Jack Gibson Quiz was conducted by Mr. Jagpreet Singh. Mayo College participated in many quizzes and the prominent quizzers were Ankit Grover, Arya Singh, Tapaswi Raj Singh and Kunal Agarwal.

A group of students participated in Model United Nations at Doon School, Dehra Dun.

Theater

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee directed ‘I met Kabir’ which was staged at the contemplation ground. The play was on Kabir’s philosophy and its interpretation by Gurudev Tagore. It was a great success.

The plays put up by the Senior Houses in April were once again of very high standard. The slapstick comedy presented by Ajmer House was adjudged as the Best Play of the session. BT House play ‘Baap Re Baap’. Bharatpur House play ‘Prithvi ka Swarg’ and Jaipur House play ‘Hannush’ are also worth mentioning.

Junior School put up Spell Binders, a show of various physical activities, in March.

On Teachers’ Day, the Arpeggios’ put up ‘Rock on Zero Eight’ concert.

Yesterday, we put up ‘Spartacus’, a serious and difficult play by Badal Sarcar directed by Mr. Armoinder Singh Puri. Hope you enjoyed it. Theatre in Mayo College is maturing and is becoming more ambitious.

The Republic Day was celebrated with tremendous zest and enthusiasm. Smt. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan was the Chief Guest. While on the Independence Day, Mrs. Cornelia Huber was the Chief Guest.

Temple was active and Shanti Yagya, Janmashtmi, Ganesh-Chaturthi and Jaljhulni Ekadashi were celebrated.

Mr. Ashok Ganguly, Ex-Chairman, CBSE visited the school and addressed a meeting of Principals of CBSE schools in Rajasthan.

Miraj Bandhu put up a Qawwali Programme under the aegis of Spic Macay.

Mr. Raj Kumar, Choreographer, conducted a workshop in Junior school and Senior school. Under the aegis Spic Macay, a programme of Qawwali was put up by Miraj Bandhu.

Admiral Pratap Singh and Mrs. Singh of Dhyan Foundation talked to the junior boys on meditation.

Mr. Ashok Hazra helped to organize an artist camp where 14 famous artists participated.

Dr. Salome Roy Kapur conducted a Western Dance Workshop for Classes VIII to XII. Great enthusiasm was visible in the boys.

Mr. Deepak Castelino conducted a 3 day workshop on Guitar.

Lt. General Prakash Chaudhary, DG, NCC, motivated our boys with a power point presentation.

A two day Robotics workshop was organized by IT Department attended by 35 boys.

Career Counselling session for all students of classes X, XI and XII were conducted in July this year.

Scouting Camp

A Scouting Camp was conducted for class VII and Junior School. Mr. N.P. Verma, Mr. S. Khati, Mr. A. Nath and Mr. S. Gupta participated.

Adventure Sports

A group of 29 boys from classes VIII and IX went to Lakshwadeep for water sports and scuba diving.

Common Cause Society organized a rally for improving the pathetic condition of Ana Sagar where 100 boys from Mayo College participated and were escorted by Mr. Sydney Ellis.

Hot Air Ballooning was organized this year. Over 100 teachers and students from the 3 schools enjoyed going up in the air.

A group of 35 Junior School boys visited Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary.

A group of 16 students from Classes VII and VIII went to Nubra, Zanskar in Leh and Ladakh. We are thankful to Brigadier B.S. Das (Old Boy of 1973 batch) and Major General Dalbir Singh for their help in organizing the activity.

During the summer break, a group of 42 students from Junior School trekked to Gorson Peak, Tapovan & Vasundhara Fall beyond Mana Village with Mr. P. Chaturvedi, Mrs. J. Chaturvedi, Mr. Ankur Bhatt, Mr. R. Gosain, Mr. Praveen Sharma and Mr. Rakesh Alfred.

Games

This was the best year for games too. In Districts, we won Under 19 in Football, Hockey, Cricket, Tennis, Basketball, Swimming and Athletics. It was terrific and unparallel.

Football

This was a super year for football with the school winning all three titles, in the district tournament, i.e. under 19, under 17 and under 14. Mayo College was the joint winner in the IPSC Tournament. Following boys are selected for nationals to be a part of IPSC team. Shubham Garg, Aryak Singh, Anuj Khandelwal, Pranav Karwa, Aditya Nenavati, Manoj Kapilashmi and Bharat Singh.

Hockey

In the District Meet, Mayo College won under 19 and was runner up in under 17 and in under 14 category. Ryan Lee was selected to represent Under 19 IPSC Team in nationals while Piyush Purohit and Rohit Verma have been selected for Under 17 Nationals.

In districts, we won both under 16 and under 19 categories, Harminder Singh, Sanjay Joshi, Rahil Atri, Yugraj Singh and Ahbimanyu Pal represented Ajmer. Ajmer teams won the Rajasthan Tournament. Further, Harminder Singh and Sanjay Joshi played for Rajasthan under 19. Ruhaan Malhotra represented IPSC Team in under 16.

Tennis

We had an excellent year for tennis winning under 17 and under 19 district tournament and also winning under 19 State Championship. Manrajdeep Singh, Aman Agarwal, Gaurav Talera and Shrivats Bhargava represented Ajmer. Under 17 and under 19, teams were runner up in IPSC Tournament also. In individuals, Samin Bhargava won the State Championship in under 17 category and Samin  Bhargava was also the runner up in the IPSC Championship in the under 17 category. Samin  Bhargava was under 17 District Champion while Manrajdeep Singh was the District Champion in under 19 category.

Basketball

We had a very good year in Basketball winning the District title in under 19 and under 17 team.

Squash

We continue to be the best squash playing school in the country. Under 19, team of Rajasthan consisted of Karan Kanodia, Sadik Ahmed and Indraneel Baruah. Vatsal Chandak played for under 15 from Rajasthan. Ashray Ohri was the best player and is currently ranked No 5 in Under 17 category in the country. Mayo College team won total Prize Money of Rs. 45,000/-. Ashray Ohri won the DDA Under 17 Tournament.

Badminton

We won the District under 14. We were runner up in Under 17 and No. 3 under 19.

Table Tennis

We were runner up in Under 19.

Athletics

Mayo College won under 19 District Championship. Akash Goel set a new record in 3000 meters for seniors clocking 10.40.69 seconds while Aman Pal Singh set a new record in middles shot-put (11.94 meters). Please remember that it is now easy to set new records in an old school like ours.

Swimming

We were champions in all the Groups in the District Meet. In the State Championship, we secured 15 Gold Medals, 09 Silver Medals and 14 Bronze Medals. Rishi Sarin was the fastest swimmer in under 19 category.

Rifle Shooting

IPSC Shooting Competition was hosted by Mayo College. Mayo College got the 3^rd position with 19 medals, including 8 gold, 1 silver and 10 bronze medals. Mrityunjan Singh set a new IPSC record in Open Sight Air Rifle Shooting. I feel it augurs well for Mayo College students. 10 boys qualified for Pre Nationals and 14 for All India Inter School Championship.

Cross Country

The school organized cross country runs in July, 2008.

Following were the group champions

Adhivraj Singh – Senior

Rohan Mukhija - Middle

Shashwat Jain - Oman House

Nishant Rangi - for juniors

Nishant Rangi set a new record of 11.2 seconds.

Boxing

Deovrat Singh and Karan Gupta won Gold in District Boxing while Tanay Mandowara won a silver and participated in the State Tournament.

Daly College junior school teams visited Ajmer and won Football and Hockey while Mayo College won Cricket.

Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee organized Youth Common Wealth baton run in Mayo College in which 120 boys took part.

Yoga

Yoga Centre is active to promote good health as well as for suggesting yogasanas for various ailments. In the IPSC competition, Mayo College won under 17 Championship and was placed third in under 14.

Six boys have been selected to represent IPSC in the Nationals. Harshal Agarwal and Ruhaan Malhotra have been selected to represent India at the International Yoga Championship at Bangkok later this year.

Polo and Horse Riding

The Mayo Polo Teams which played and won the SUPA International Cup Tournament consisted of Dhruv Raj Singh, Jaideep Singh, Deovrat Singh and Shivdutt Singh. I am thankful to Col. Bhawani Singh an Old Boy for kindly agreeing to be the Manager of the Team and Lt. General Aditya Singh for organizing the training and guidance and Captain Bhanwar Singh for his good work with the boys. The team also played Polo Tournament at Mt. Abu and were runner up. In Delhi Horse Show, we got 3 gold and 4 silver medals.

Golf

We are very happy that 9 Hole Mayo Golf Course has come into being and 40 boys and 20 girls are being trained by Mr. Maqbool Mohammad. I need to thank Mr. Ranjit Nanda for designing the course. Yesterday, the Environment Park and Golf Course was inaugurated by His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singh of Jodhpur, in presence of esteemed donors like Shri Ji, Arvind Singh of Mewar and the representatives of 72-73 batch.

Mrs. Jasmeet Singh also kindly graced the occasion. If I have to choose one person to thank for the Golf Course it would be Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Aditya Singh, Chairman, Mayo College Committee who dreamt about this Golf Course and made it a reality. What a great value addition to Mayo Education. Thank you General Sahib.

• I would like to say that I am most grateful to His Highness Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah, past President of the General Council for guiding us and his interest in Mayo College affairs for the last 10 years. Most of what we have been able to achieve is with his continued support and trust in us.

• I congratulate His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singh of Jodhpur for his elevation to the President of the General Council after a gap of 10 years. Like his last term we assure him and the members of the Mayo College General Council and Board of Governors on my behalf and on behalf of the faculty our continued dedication and commitment.

• I must thank the management for implementing the 6th Pay Commission recommendations as implemented by the Government of Rajasthan. Though I understand it would translate into much higher fees for parents but it is important for the schools to keep pace with the emoluments in rest of the country so that the pace of the achievements can be sustained. I may add that the higher fees only brings the fees at par with the last years fees of residential schools in the country. I must thank the members of new Mayo College Committee Bhanwar Jitendra Singh of Alwar, Mr. Pradeep Saxena, Kunwar Ravi Rajpal and Manvendra Singh of Jasol, MP and of course the Chairman Lt. General Aditya Singh for their interest and support. I must thank the member of last Mayo College Committee Lt. General Aditya Singh, Thakur Randhir Vikram Singh of Mandawa, Rawat Nahar Singh of Deogarh, Mr. Alok Shriram and of course the Chairman Shri V.P. Singh for their guidance and support. I must thank the Bursar and the administrative staff for working hard and making sure that Mayo looks better than before.

• I thank the karamcharis who have toiled hard.

• I am thankful to the district administration and the local police without whose cooperation and assistance, we could not have gone so smoothly.

• I am grateful to my colleagues, Mrs. Jamila Singh, Principal, Mayo College Girls’ School and Shri Neeraj Bedhotiya, Principal, Mayoor School for their cooperation.

• In the end, I would like to compliment Mayo boys who in the past year have shown good discipline, setting up new standards. I must commend the College monitors headed by Karan Kanodia who have surely performed very well by taking on new challenges. I must draw the attention to the fact that though it rained last year towards the end of Prize Giving function, I am proud to say that not one Mayo boy budged from his appointed seat. That is the spirit! Well done boys!

I now request our Chief Guest to give away the prizes and then address the gathering.