ACETOBA 72 batch Golden Jubilee Celebrations 7 AUG 2017 It has been a very satisfying meeting held at ACCET on 7th Aug 2017 to commemorate our golden jubilee entry to ACCET. We thought it would be good to keep a record of our activities of this meet and also for the benefit of those who could not make it as the event has been an important mile stone in our life. Hence this report is drafted.
Reports on August 2017 meet of ACETOBA 72 batch. 3 day programme commencing from 6th to 8th August for the Golden Jubilee Entry meet was prepared with following goals set: 1. To organise our batch meet at ACCET beginning from -6th,the first Sunday of August, the Friendship day as it being the annual practice of our batch meets since our reunion from 2009. 2. To invite and honour the Faculty members who have enriched us with knowledge and added values to our lives. 3. To render useful contribution to ACCET in this year. 4. To invite and honour the Pride Alumni of ACCET who have immensely contributed to our nation. PICTURE GALLERY: PAGE1 PAGE2 PAGE3 PAGE4 PAGE5 PAGE6 PAGE7 PAGE8 PAGE9 6th Aug 2017 ( First day):- # Batch mates from Chennai arrived to KKDI and participated in the Eye & Diabetic camp organised at Kandanur by Mr Vairavan family trust. (Meenakshi Vairavan Trust). The trust organised the Eye & Diabetic camp for about 600 persons hailing from nearby villages. The trust was assisted by doctors hailing from Aravind Hospital, Madurai and Devakottai Hospital. Free medicines, spectacles & food have been served to all those came for the camp. Understand that Mr.Vairavan’s Trust extends such medical services once in a year since 2008. Our Batch mates attended the camp. Mr Vairavan hosted breakfast, lunch, evening snacks & Coconut water. This Kanadukathan king family is humble, simple & large hearted. Let Mr Vairavan’s family’s noble activities continue forever by their present & future generation. # For KNH renovation work, the Pooja was performed on 01st June 17 and the work was completed by 22 June 17. Our task covered renovation of the complete GF which included 7 bath rooms & 6 toilets. In the First & Second floor the following works have been considered: - to undertake all repairs which included installation of wash basins, mirrors, bath room fixtures, pipe fittings, replace & repair of glass windows, bath room doors, repair of ceilings, painting of ceiling, wall, lobby space etc., One of the Toilet in GF was to be made western which was informed to us on the day of Pooja. It was a well planned and coordinated effort by Prem & Haridoss in ensuring the work completion timely with effective cost control and to the satisfaction of all concerned. Batch mates & their wives visited KNH hostel around noon time on 6th August and seen the renovation work carried out for the wash places in 3 floors. Girls students staying in KNH have much appreciated the work done by us. Mrs Boopathy, Mrs Sankararaman and friends like Padmanabhan, Sankararaman, Nargunam, Devadoss, Haridoss, Sundararjan appealed to the girls on the importance of up keeping the toilets and how it should. # Evening was free for ladies to shop. A dinner was hosted in the night at Hotel President for the honour of Dr A E Muthunayagam , the guest of honour on 7th August event & our faculty members. Prof. Chokalingam & Chandrasekhar were present. A multi-cuisine dinner enjoyed by all including AEM. 7th Aug 2017:- # There was three sessions and all of them have been arranged at the Golden Jubilee A/c Hall built by ACETOBA. The morning session was a professional gathering to honour our Faculty members & the Pride Alumni ( Chief Guest of the event) of ACCET and a Talk by the Chief Guest. Morning session was conducted as below: 10: 15 Lighting of Kuthuvillakku 10: 20 Welcome Address by Mr.Premkumar 10: 30 Brief about 1967-72 batch mates & their contributions to ACCET by Mr.Nargunam 10: 50 Facilitation to Faculty members for 1967-72 batch 11: 15 Address by Principal, ACCET 11: 30 Guest of Honour –Dr. A E Muthunayagam, Former Secretary, GoI, Dept.of Ocean Development & Alumni of ACCET( 1956-60)- Speech covering his Career path and his Unique innovative 100 MLD Desalination Plant for our country 12: 45 Students interaction with Guest Of Honour 13: 00 Vote Of Thanks by Mr. Devadoss 13: 15 Lunch Our Faculty members Prof Ramasamy, Prof .Nilavalagan, Prof.KR Govindan, Prof.Annamalai(Mech), Prof. Raghunathan & Prof. Chandrasekhar attended the event and were honoured. Prof Chockalingam could not stay on 7th Aug event and left for Chennai after 6th Dinner. We were fortunate to get Dr A E Muthunayagam, a technocrat cum scientist besides being our Alumni to be the Guest of Honour on 7th Aug functions. It was the matter of pride to note that he was recruited by Dr. Vikram Sarabai and entrusted the task of development of propulsion technology. Dr Sarabai entrusted the first Indian Satellite Launch Programme split into 4 stages to four stalwarts namely: Dr V R Gowrikar, Mr. Kurup, Dr AE Muthunayagamand Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Dr Kalam had acknowledged the knowledge strength of Dr AEM in space Propulsion technology in his book “ Wings of Fire” . Dr AEM was known as “ Father of propulsion Technology” in ISRO. When he decided to leave ISRO, he was appointed as the Secretary of Department of Ocean Development (DoD) from 1995 to 2001. He spearheaded the DoD activities on war foot. He gave new dimensions to the Department and changed its outlook from mere funding agency to a real Science & technology organisation and rendered for its manifold growth. He has created and enhanced the face value of the Autonomous institutions such as National Institute of Ocean Technology-Chennai, National Centre for Antarctic Ocean Research-Goa, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services Hyderabad, Centre for Living Marine Research, Kochi. Each Institute was given a vision & mission document to follow & excel. Through NIOT he pioneered ocean technologies’ like Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ( OTEC), Desalination using LTTD technology, Deep Sea Mining, Buoy Technology etc.,. Many developed countries like Japan, Germany, US started looking at India’s achievements & progress in various Ocean Technology missions. Today DoD has grown very big to the size of commission like ISRO, Atomic Research organisations and now it is known as Ministry of Earth Sciences. This phenomenal growth occurred in shortest span mainly due to the strong foundations laid by him. Dr AEM’s speech was like steam line flow covering his academic career in ACCET ( BE, Mech), IISC (ME) & Purdue University ( Ph D), Professional career in ISRO. His role models were Prof. Arcot Ramachandran & Dr. Vikram Sarabai. He had nicely presented his innovative Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) cum Desalination plant. No doubt Dr AEM's lecture has ignited many young students present and will remain in our mind for ever. Dr AE Muthunayagam, ACCET Alumni ( 1956-60 Mech), Former Secretary to GoI for Dept.of Ocean Development, now known as Min. Of Earth Sciences; Director-Liquid Propulsion Centre, ISRO; Governor-Board of Control to IIT-Chennai addressing the gathering. ACCET Principal , our Faculty & current Faculty members have greeted Dr AEM and invited him to ACCET for more lectures. ACCET Principal Dr Elango address to the gathering Our Batch Mates of around 50+ and many of them with their wives & ACCET Students were present in the morning session Dr AEM left ACCET after lunch to Trivandrum . The continued connection of Mr. Nargunam with ACCET eased the hurdles to make the logistic arrangements inside the institution for Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Afternoon Session:- The Student interaction session for their career guidance and how to win their job interviews was organised in the AN by our batch mates. The session was coordinated by our batch mates Bakthavatchalam, Devadoss, Nargunam, Premkumar, and Sundarrajan & Vairavan. It was very purposeful and every student present has been motivated to ask questions. Very good questions by students and excellent guidance were provided by our batch mates. Later, I was told that a poor Civil Engineering student who expressed his shyness in facing interview has been given a job guarantee through Mr Nargunam friend living in Pudukkottai. Batch mates present for the session felt satisfied for having made the correct impact in students mind to RISE, EXPRESS and think & work SMARTLY. Evening session:- After the hectic actives, everyone wanted a retreat and hence a Mimicry Music by Thanjavur Balamurugan team was organised for the evening session for batch mates & their families. At the end it found to be an unique and very good entertaining programme. A. Natarajan shared the memories of our Final year Hostel day (1972) function by bringing the old lyrics written by Y.Paramasivam for Kuravan ( Anbalagan) –Kurathi ( Loganathan) dance. Malarum ninaivukal. S. Kumaresan song two songs. Due to eclipse we closed the session by 8 pm and reassembled after food by 8: 45pm. The last session was quiz programme conducted by Mr Nargunam. Music Function Event. Honouring the Musicians. Opportunity was taken to honour Mr. Ganesan, working in ACCET who extended a great services during KNH renovation as well as food arrangements on 7th August 8th Aug 2017 ( last day): # Batch mates who stayed in KKDI for 8th Aug tour left the Hotel around 9 am and came to Thirumayam Fort. Thirumayam Fort was constructed in 1687 AD by Sethupathi Vijaya Raghunatha Thevar, the ruler of Ramanathapura. Many dramatic events are associated with the fort. Thirumayam is where Kattabomman’s (an eighteenth century chieftain) brother hid when attempting to escape the British. There are three famous monuments here – the fort itself and two stunning rock-cut temples which have been hewn from the same rock with shrines are dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu. The Vishnu Temple is a popular pilgrim spot and is considered second to the magnificent Srirangam Temple.. All three monuments have been declared National Monuments and are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI Thirumayam is the birth place of great freedom fighter Late. Sri. Satyamoorthy and also for Dr . Shantha , Chairperson of Adyar Cancer Institute. Batch mates visited “Kokarneswarar Brahadambal Temple,Thirugokarnam-Pudukkottai” also known as Araikasuamman around 11 am. The rock-cut cave Temple of Sri Kokarneswarar Brahadambal at Thirukokarnam is of Mahendraverma Pallava's period. The presiding deity is Gokarneshwarar and His consort is Brahadambal. Locally, this temple is known as Brahadambal temple and it is also known as Arakasu Amman temple. Very powerful Goddess!! It is a belief that if you have lost something a truthful prayer to Arakasu Amman will help you to recover it. This temple occupies an important place among the ancient classical monuments of Pudukkottai, with its history dating back to early 7th century AD and still in use. Visit to Sittannavasal: Premkumar’s relative, who is the Block Development officer of Pudukkottai received us on arrival of Bus to Sittannavasal and allotted a guide to explain about Sittannavasal. Later he hosted a high tea at the VIP guest house Visit to Big Temple @ Thanjavur : Batch mates proceeded to Thanjavur to see the Big temple. Dinner hosted by Mr Veeraramani:- Mr Veeraramani hosted the delicious Dinner for our batch mates. Batch mates after dinner left for Chennai & other destinations. A memorable August 2017 meet of our batch mates with golden memories. Special thanks to Nargunam for his leadership and able coordination by Haridoss, Devadoss, Sundarrajan, Mariappan, Palani & Vairavan. -------PREM KUMAR
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ACETOBA 72 batch Golden Jubilee Celebrations

7 AUG 2017
It has been a very satisfying meeting held at ACCET on 7th Aug 2017 to commemorate our golden jubilee entry to ACCET. We thought it would be good to keep a record of our activities of this meet and also for the benefit of those who could not make it as the event has been an important mile stone in our life. Hence this report is drafted.

Reports on August 2017 meet of ACETOBA 72 batch.

3 day programme commencing from 6th to 8th August for the Golden Jubilee Entry meet was prepared with following goals set:

1. To organise our batch meet at ACCET beginning from -6th,the first Sunday of August, the Friendship day as it being the annual practice
of our batch meets since our reunion from 2009.
2. To invite and honour the Faculty members who have enriched us with knowledge and added values to our lives.
3. To render useful contribution to ACCET in this year.
4. To invite and honour the Pride Alumni of ACCET who have immensely contributed to our nation.

PICTURE GALLERY: PAGE1 PAGE2 PAGE3 PAGE4 PAGE5 PAGE6 PAGE7 PAGE8 PAGE9

6th Aug 2017 ( First day):-

# Batch mates from Chennai arrived to KKDI and participated in the Eye & Diabetic camp organised at Kandanur by Mr Vairavan family trust. (Meenakshi Vairavan Trust). The trust organised the Eye & Diabetic camp for about 600 persons hailing from nearby villages. The trust was assisted by doctors hailing from Aravind Hospital, Madurai and Devakottai Hospital. Free medicines, spectacles & food have been served to all those came for the camp. Understand that Mr.Vairavan’s Trust extends such medical services once in a year since 2008. Our Batch mates attended the camp. Mr Vairavan hosted breakfast, lunch, evening snacks & Coconut water. This Kanadukathan king family is humble, simple & large hearted. Let Mr Vairavan’s family’s noble activities continue forever by their present & future generation.
# For KNH renovation work, the Pooja was performed on 01st June 17 and the work was completed by 22 June 17. Our task covered renovation of the complete GF which included 7 bath rooms & 6 toilets. In the First & Second floor the following works have been considered: - to undertake all repairs which included installation of wash basins, mirrors, bath room fixtures, pipe fittings, replace & repair of glass windows, bath room doors, repair of ceilings, painting of ceiling, wall, lobby space etc.,
One of the Toilet in GF was to be made western which was informed to us on the day of Pooja. It was a well planned and coordinated effort by Prem & Haridoss in ensuring the work completion timely with effective cost control and to the satisfaction of all concerned. Batch mates & their wives visited KNH hostel around noon time on 6th August and seen the renovation work carried out for the wash places in 3 floors. Girls students staying in KNH have much appreciated the work done by us. Mrs Boopathy, Mrs Sankararaman and friends like Padmanabhan, Sankararaman, Nargunam, Devadoss, Haridoss, Sundararjan appealed to the girls on the importance of up keeping the toilets and how it should.

# Evening was free for ladies to shop. A dinner was hosted in the night at Hotel President for the honour of Dr A E Muthunayagam , the guest of honour on 7th August event & our faculty members. Prof. Chokalingam & Chandrasekhar were present. A multi-cuisine dinner enjoyed by all including AEM.

7th Aug 2017:-

# There was three sessions and all of them have been arranged at the Golden Jubilee A/c Hall built by ACETOBA. The morning session was a professional gathering to honour our Faculty members & the Pride Alumni ( Chief Guest of the event) of ACCET and a Talk by the Chief Guest. Morning session was conducted as below:

10: 15 Lighting of Kuthuvillakku
10: 20 Welcome Address by Mr.Premkumar
10: 30 Brief about 1967-72 batch mates & their contributions to ACCET by Mr.Nargunam
10: 50 Facilitation to Faculty members for 1967-72 batch
11: 15 Address by Principal, ACCET
11: 30 Guest of Honour –Dr. A E Muthunayagam, Former Secretary, GoI, Dept.of Ocean Development & Alumni of ACCET( 1956-60)- Speech covering his Career path and his Unique innovative 100 MLD Desalination Plant for our country
12: 45 Students interaction with Guest Of Honour
13: 00 Vote Of Thanks by Mr. Devadoss
13: 15 Lunch

Our Faculty members Prof Ramasamy, Prof .Nilavalagan, Prof.KR Govindan, Prof.Annamalai(Mech), Prof. Raghunathan & Prof. Chandrasekhar attended the event and were honoured. Prof Chockalingam could not stay on 7th Aug event and left for Chennai after 6th Dinner.

We were fortunate to get Dr A E Muthunayagam, a technocrat cum scientist besides being our Alumni to be the Guest of Honour on 7th Aug functions.

It was the matter of pride to note that he was recruited by Dr. Vikram Sarabai and entrusted the task of development of propulsion technology. Dr Sarabai entrusted the first Indian Satellite Launch Programme split into 4 stages to four stalwarts namely: Dr V R Gowrikar, Mr. Kurup, Dr AE Muthunayagamand Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Dr Kalam had acknowledged the knowledge strength of Dr AEM in space Propulsion technology in his book “ Wings of Fire” . Dr AEM was known as “ Father of propulsion Technology” in ISRO. When he decided to leave ISRO, he was appointed as the Secretary of Department of Ocean Development (DoD) from 1995 to 2001. He spearheaded the DoD activities on war foot. He gave new dimensions to the Department and changed its outlook from mere funding agency to a real Science & technology organisation and rendered for its manifold growth. He has created and enhanced the face value of the Autonomous institutions such as National Institute of Ocean

Technology-Chennai, National Centre for Antarctic Ocean Research-Goa, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services Hyderabad, Centre for Living Marine Research, Kochi. Each Institute was given a vision & mission document to follow & excel. Through NIOT he pioneered ocean technologies’ like Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ( OTEC), Desalination using LTTD technology, Deep Sea Mining, Buoy Technology etc.,. Many developed countries like Japan, Germany, US started looking at India’s achievements & progress in various Ocean Technology missions. Today DoD has grown very big to the size of commission like ISRO, Atomic Research organisations and now it is known as Ministry of Earth Sciences. This phenomenal growth occurred in shortest span mainly due to the strong foundations laid by him.

Dr AEM’s speech was like steam line flow covering his academic career in ACCET ( BE, Mech), IISC (ME) & Purdue University ( Ph D), Professional career in ISRO. His role models were Prof. Arcot Ramachandran & Dr. Vikram Sarabai. He had nicely presented his innovative Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) cum Desalination plant. No doubt Dr AEM's lecture has ignited many young students present and will remain in our mind for ever.

Dr AE Muthunayagam, ACCET Alumni ( 1956-60 Mech), Former Secretary to GoI for Dept.of Ocean
Development, now known as Min. Of Earth Sciences; Director-Liquid Propulsion Centre, ISRO;
Governor-Board of Control to IIT-Chennai addressing the gathering.

ACCET Principal , our Faculty & current Faculty members have greeted Dr AEM and invited him to ACCET for more lectures.

ACCET Principal Dr Elango address to the gathering

Our Batch Mates of around 50+ and many of them with their wives & ACCET Students were
present in the morning session

Dr AEM left ACCET after lunch to Trivandrum .

The continued connection of Mr. Nargunam with ACCET eased the hurdles to make the logistic arrangements inside the institution for Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Afternoon Session:-

The Student interaction session for their career guidance and how to win their job interviews was organised in the AN by our batch mates.

The session was coordinated by our batch mates Bakthavatchalam, Devadoss, Nargunam, Premkumar, and Sundarrajan & Vairavan. It was very purposeful and every student present has been motivated to ask questions. Very good questions by students and excellent guidance were provided by our batch mates. Later, I was told that a poor Civil Engineering student who expressed his shyness in facing interview has been given a job guarantee through Mr Nargunam friend living in Pudukkottai. Batch mates present for the session felt satisfied for having made the correct impact in students mind to RISE, EXPRESS and think & work SMARTLY.

Evening session:-

After the hectic actives, everyone wanted a retreat and hence a Mimicry Music by Thanjavur Balamurugan team was organised for the evening session for batch mates & their families. At the end it found to be an unique and very good entertaining programme. A. Natarajan shared the memories of our Final year Hostel day (1972) function by bringing the old lyrics written by Y.Paramasivam for Kuravan ( Anbalagan) –Kurathi ( Loganathan) dance. Malarum ninaivukal. S. Kumaresan song two songs. Due to eclipse we closed the session by 8 pm and reassembled after food by 8: 45pm. The last session was quiz programme conducted by Mr Nargunam.

Music Function Event. Honouring the Musicians.

Opportunity was taken to honour Mr. Ganesan, working in ACCET who extended a great services during KNH renovation as well as food arrangements on 7th August

8th Aug 2017 ( last day):

# Batch mates who stayed in KKDI for 8th Aug tour left the Hotel around 9 am and came to Thirumayam Fort.

Thirumayam Fort was constructed in 1687 AD by Sethupathi Vijaya Raghunatha Thevar, the ruler of Ramanathapura. Many dramatic events are associated with the fort. Thirumayam is where Kattabomman’s (an eighteenth century chieftain) brother hid when attempting to escape the British. There are three famous monuments here – the fort itself and two stunning rock-cut temples which have been hewn from the same rock with shrines are dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu. The Vishnu Temple is a popular pilgrim spot and is considered second to the magnificent Srirangam Temple.. All three monuments have been declared National Monuments and are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI

Thirumayam is the birth place of great freedom fighter Late. Sri. Satyamoorthy and also for
Dr . Shantha , Chairperson of Adyar Cancer Institute.

Batch mates visited “Kokarneswarar Brahadambal Temple,Thirugokarnam-Pudukkottai” also known as Araikasuamman around 11 am. The rock-cut cave Temple of Sri Kokarneswarar Brahadambal at Thirukokarnam is of Mahendraverma Pallava's period. The presiding deity is Gokarneshwarar and His consort is Brahadambal. Locally, this temple is known as Brahadambal temple and it is also known as Arakasu Amman temple. Very powerful Goddess!! It is a belief that if you have lost something a truthful prayer to Arakasu Amman will help you to recover it. This temple occupies an important place among the ancient classical monuments of Pudukkottai, with its history dating back to early 7th century AD and still in use.

Visit to Sittannavasal: Premkumar’s relative, who is the Block Development officer of Pudukkottai received us on arrival of Bus to Sittannavasal and allotted a guide to explain about Sittannavasal. Later he hosted a high tea at the VIP guest house

Visit to Big Temple @ Thanjavur : Batch mates proceeded to Thanjavur to see the Big temple.

Dinner hosted by Mr Veeraramani:- Mr Veeraramani hosted the delicious Dinner for our batch mates. Batch mates after dinner left for Chennai & other destinations.

A memorable August 2017 meet of our batch mates with golden memories. Special thanks to Nargunam for his leadership and able coordination by Haridoss, Devadoss, Sundarrajan, Mariappan, Palani & Vairavan.

-------PREM KUMAR

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