Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011

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24 - Quadrangle 2011 awards Each year, outstanding achievements by our students and staff are recognised in many ways. A number of awards have been established to honour the lives of teachers or students, and are much sought-after. The major awards and their recipients for the 2010–2011 school year are recorded below. SENIOR SCHOOL AWARDS Valedictorian Tariqa Farrell Tandon Salutatorian Hyun Kue Jeong Best All-Round Student Award Se Min Suh Student Government Award Kritika Tara Deb, Yu Sung Eo Pratap Chatterjee Memorial Science Award Armaan Bindra Poad Music Shield Se Min Suh Mubarak Masih Indian Music Shield Trishla Golechha E. E. Miller International Award Tariqa Farrell Tandon Principal’s Award Sidharth Varma Datla Centennial Shield Grade 10 (Class of 2013) Mathematics Award Not Given Jimmy Cassinath Memorial Awards • Drama Maria Asad-Dehghan • Writing Not Given • Art Aurnab Aziz Saleh HIKING AWARDS: • W. Lowrie Campbell Memorial Hiking Cup Not Given • Karen Krenz Cup Not Given Champion House Award Condors Best Effort Award Abigail Wood Community Service Award Beverly Dempsey Harp Citizenship Awards • Grade 12 Sanghamitra Ghosh • Grade 12 Rajiv More Writing Awards Sanghamitra Ghosh, Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Shirly Susan Samuel Journalism Awards • Writing Devika Hastak, Fileona Endoxa Dkhar • Production Daniel Anand Rollins, Shreen Vaid Audio-Visual Crew Awards Daniel Anand Rollins Hiking Pins Shayan Nejad, Daniel Anand Rollins Certificates Of Outstanding Achievement • Mathematics Sungeun Moon • Science Biology Shirly Susan Samuel Chemistry Tariqa Farrell Tandon Environmental Science Abigail Jiang Ping Wood Physics Sungeun Moon • Social Studies Economics Hyun Kue Jeong History Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea • Modern Languages French Se Min Suh English Adnan Raul Valdes Bhattacharjea • Visual Arts Dharadipika Hopkins • Music Orchestra Maren Tims Magill Indian Music John Foster Latta Charles Scholastic Achievement with Silver Pin (3+ Awards) Grade 12 Hyun Kue Jeong, Ye Na Lee, Sungeun Moon, Yerim Park, Nayantara Patel, Shirly Samuel, Aman Sethi, Se Min Suh, Tariqa Tandon, Ji Eun Yang Scholastic Achievement Grade 12 Anamika Bhatt, Armaan Bindra, John Charles, Lalzirliani Chinzah, Siddhant Gupta, Dharadipika Hopkins, Amit Lalvani, Maren Magill, Makani Nakasone, Daniel Rollins, Kaanhari Singh, Adnan Valdes Bhattacharjea, Abigail Wood JUNIOR SCHOOL AWARDS Outstanding Academic Achievement Award • Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya • Grade 2 Warris Godara • Grade 3 Rohan Mathias • Grade 4 Alyse Zaheer • Grade 5V Healeam Jung • Grade 5W Noel Archer • Grade 6 Sharhirah Mathias Music Award • Grade 1 Sarahna Daliya • Grade 2 Armaan Bhattacharjee • Grade 4 Yaeyin Lee • Grade 5V Sadhvi Schoier • Grade 5W Tenzin Yigha • Grade 6 Elisabeth Pesavento Ruth Shepherd Award for Creative Writing Rohan Mathias (Grade 3) All School Awards Citizenship Award Niranjan Bennett, Su Lin Kim Head of School Aryan Khanna Honor Roll • Grade 5 Noel Archer, Abhishek Bhandari, Nikunj Dalmia, Hyechan Jun, Healeam Jung, Summer Kang, Sophie Mero, Phunsok Norboo, Sadhvi Schoier, Kabish Shrestha, Tenzin Yigha, Jay Yunas • Grade 6 Assem Aggarwal, Meghna Das, Hyeji Jun, Aryan Khanna, Shanti Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Elisabeth Pesavento Hiking Awards, Gold Level Rohan Mathias, Padma Schoier, Noah Douglas, Sadhvi Schoier, Meghna Das, Shanti Mathias, Sharhirah Mathias, Vanalika Nagarwalla, Elisabeth Pesavento, Aashish Peters, Ambar Sarup, Niranjan Bennet, Suryaansh Garg, Ayaan John. Did you receive an award at Woodstock of which you are still proud? Tell us about it. Go to www.woodstockschool.in/share and Share Your Story.
Distinguished Alumni 2011 J. Gabriel Campbell ’65 Dr. James Gabriel Campbell has spent almost his whole life in the Himalaya. Born at Landour Community Hospital, Mussoorie, he followed his father, uncle and aunts in attending Woodstock from Upper Kindergarten to graduation (with a couple of years in the US). His winter family home was in Jalandhar, Punjab. Gabriel has a Ph.D. and M.Phil in Anthropology, Religion and South Asian Studies from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, New York (With Distinction) and an M.A. and B.A. from Wesleyan University, Connecticut in Anthropology and History and Religion (magna cum laude). For these degrees he spent two separate years of field research living in villages of Himachal Pradesh and Jumla, Nepal. He speaks Nepali, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi and has studied French, Tibetan and Sanskrit. He has published six monographs and books and over 100 articles and papers. Following five years as the executive head of the US Education Foundation in Nepal (Fulbright Program) and director of operations for Mountain Travel Nepal, Gabriel’s career has focused on natural resource management and local livelihood improvement in a number of countries in the Himalaya. He has worked with international development agencies, including USAID, United Nations, the World Bank and NGOs, especially The Mountain Institute, as a specialist in the human dimensions of development and in management roles. As Director General of ICIMOD - the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - for over seven years, Gabriel supervised a staff of 150, built an international headquarters and worked with countries throughout the Himalaya to increase cooperation and knowledge sharing. In this role he was given a number of awards by the countries of the region, international agencies, and several large private sector IT companies. Among his accomplishments, Gabriel is credited with being instrumental in: • establishing Community Forestry in Nepal and reversing deforestation in the hills and mountains of that country (this is now a global model of success); • establishing community based national parks around Mt. Everest and Mt. Makalu - Qomolangma National Nature Preserve in Tibet, China and Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area in eastern Nepal; • designing Eco-development programs for 7 Project Tiger national parks in India that have been subsequently expanded to other park areas; • pioneering scholarship on shamanism in far Western Nepal, community institutions for natural resource management, validity of social science survey methods and methodology, monitoring systems for forestry in India and tenurial aspects of development; and eco-tourism in Sikkim; • building regional cooperation between Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan in a number of areas such as: flood forecasting, biodiversity conservation, GIS and glacial lake mapping, disaster preparedness, watershed management and agricultural development, eco-tourism, climate change research and adaptation strategies, Himalayan bee development, promoting gender equality, and increasing social inclusion. Gabriel lives mostly in Nepal with his wife, Dr. Lynn Bennett, also an anthropologist known for her pioneering work on women and social inclusion in the World Bank. He is active in WOSA meetings in Nepal, and when possible, the US and was happy to help host the Woodstock Jazz Band who visited Kathmandu for Jazzmandu in October 2010. He was the Commencement Speaker at Woodstock for the class of ‘06. Tom Alter ’68 Tom Alter has been a well-known face to Indian movie-goers for more than three decades. Apart from acting in Hindi films, Tom Alter has exhibited talent in theatre, in sports and in literature. Quadrangle - 25 Tom Alter, the son and grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries, grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur and Mussoorie. As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu and, consequently, was referred to as the ‘blue-eyed sahib with the impeccable Hindi.’ After studying in Woodstock School from 1st to 12th Grade and graduating in 1968, Tom worked as a sports teacher at St. Thomas School in Jagadhri, Haryana and came back to the Woodstock as staff for about two years. In the early 1970s Tom fell in love with the movies (after watching the classic film Aaradhna) which led Tom to enrol in the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), where he studied with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, and other stalwarts of cinema. Having been featured in almost 100 films, Tom Alter has worked with noted filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Manoj Kumar and Ismail Merchant. He has played many significant roles in his career and has had the privilege of working with the best in Hindi cinema and Hollywood. No actor in Hindi cinema has acted in as broad a range of movies. In addition to acting, Alter has also ventured into direction: he directed a one-shot episode for the short-lived series ‘Yule Love Stories’ in the mid- 1990s. He also worked on the small screen in a number of popular serials: Junoon which ran for five years and won him rave reviews, Zabaan Sambhalke, Ghutan and a talk show Mere Ghar Aana Zindagi are some of the popular shows Tom has been part of. Tom Alter also made his mark in theatre. Significant productions include William Dalrymple’s ‘City of Djinns’ where he shared a stage with the legend Zohra Sehgal. A solo play Maulana, based on the life and vision of freedom fighter Maulana Azad, is also running to rave reviews in India and abroad. Cricket was more than a passion for Tom Alter. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s Tom was a sports journalist. He continues to play cricket for a film industry team MCC (Match Cut Club), with Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan and Nana Patekar among others. He still writes on cricket for a number of national and international publications. At the WOSA 100 celebrations, Tom captained a team of alumni in a closefought match against the team led by former staff member Brij Lal. Tom Alter has also written three books, one non-fiction and two fiction: The Longest Race, Rerun at Rialto, The Best in the World. In 2008 Tom Alter was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree (one of India’s highest public honours) by the Indian government in recognition for his services to the field of arts and cinema. Tom Alter stands out in every part of his professional life. In Woodstock, as a student, as a staff member and as a parent, Tom Alter has been a proactive, keen and involved alumnus, an integral part of the Woodstock heritage.
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