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Dear Aldonkars, The aldona-net@yahoogroups has been created specially to provide a forum for aldonkars and aldona institute members to interact positively. The operative word is POSITIVE. If there has to be criticism,so be it.Let the one criticising something also propose a possible solution and suggest how he or she is willing to help achieve the solution. At the risk of appearing pompous,I will cite my own example. I insisted that the President,Secretary and Treasurer of the Aldona Institute should be elected by the General Body.There were no takers for the post of the Treasurer.I did not run away when asked to shoulder the responsibility. In fact,I spent quite a few evenings assisting the internal auditors to complete the audit of two financial years.With help from other members we were able to resolve major issues left unexplained in the account books.We put it to the General Body.Procedural errors (some even causing avoidable loss to the Institute) were condoned by the majority present and voting.A small balance (less than Rs.30,000/-) is now in the process of recovery through the good offices of the Board of Trustees. The accounts can then be audited by a Chartered accountant as decided in May,2000,but left undone for the last two years. The problem will not continue.Future office bearers will pay more attention to details or pay for the errors.Accountability is being institutionalised as it should have been . We had quite a spirited discussion the other day whether Principal Edward Soares contributed anything to the cause of education in Aldona. I did not think that there were two opinions on that.There are. As far as I know,Edward Soares founded the St.Thomas School ( then a co-ed and undivided into two entities that exist now ;one run by AC nuns and the other by MSFS priests ).At least two freedom fighters,Joaquim Godinho and James Fernandes,were teachers in that school.(James Fernandes retired as a lecturer in English from St.Xavier's College,Mapusa).The students of the school came not only from Aldona,but also from Nachinola,Tivim ,Assonora and even Chorao.The main road entering Aldona from Panarim to Tercena via the old school building is named after Principal Edward Soares.The Aldona Institute's award for the SSC toppers in the schools in Aldona and Corjuem is named after him. My appeal is limited to increasing the corpus fund of the scolarship so that the students get a significant amount in the current context.The amount available per topper at 6.5% interest on FDRs will be about Rs.100/-(Currently it is Rs.200/- and not enough to give anything more than a certificate and a small memento). My interest is not so much in perpetuating a name as it is in encouraging the young achievers. I hope that by the next General Body meeting we will have contributions (in multiples of Rs.100/-) from many donors to have a corpus of at least Rs.20,000/-. A person who joins B.E. gets an award of Rs.1000/-. It does not make sense to give a SSC topper peanuts. Lets have your views and ,hopefully, your contributions to the corpus. Miguel P.S. Please inform other Aldonkars/members of A.I. about the yahoogroups forum .Let us have interaction To subscribe to this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
