Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association (WPAA) Monthly Newsletter, December 9, 2002 ------------------------------------------------ Greetings !
Hope you all are having a great festival season and are looking forward to a wonderful and prosperous New Year. WPAA would like to wish you all the success and best of health for this festival season. As 2002 winds down, there are some important administrative issues that we would like you to be aware of. - WPAA Election 2003: As I had mentioned in the last newsletter also, we need to encourage more and more participation and more importantly, need to establish the process of electing office bearers on a yearly basis. If you are interested in being part of WPAA Executive Committee, or know someone who you think should be, please send details to 'executives at wpaa dot org'. There is no change in the structure of the committee and all the posts and designations are same as the current ones, including 'Representatives'. WPAA bylaws are also available online so that you can make yourself familiar with the existing setup. I would like to encourage all of you to get actively involved in the process and help us stay focused in our endeavor. Annual Membership Fee and Contributions: WPAA would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who were kind enough to submit their membership fee and contributions for 2002. We greatly appreciate your continued support and encouragement and request you to please make sure that your payments are all accounted for in WPAA account book. In case of any questions, please feel free to write to 'treasurer at wpaa dot org'. Yearbook 2002 - Another important project that I would request your active participation in is 'WPAA Yearbook 2002'. Thanks to Somya Chaudhary, Home Science, 1987 batch, who was kind enough to accept this responsibility of leading this project and putting it all together. If everything goes as per the plan, you should have a copy in your mailbox sometime in January, 2003. Please visit the WPAA home page to check out the complete details and exact schedule. Also, feel free to write to her at 'yb2002 at wpaa dot org' if you have any suggestions, comments or feedback. Well, getting back to regular fun activities, last month was yet another busy month. WPAA - Hyderabad chapter organized a get-together on Nov 24 at Country Club, Begumpet. About 60 people showed up and it was a great success. Please visit http://www.wpaa.org/ to read Praveen Chandra's complete report. The following get-togethers and events are scheduled for the upcoming weeks: What: Annual Family Get-together followed by Lunch When: Sun, December 15, 2002, 12:30 Hrs - 16:00 Hrs. Where: Sports & Cultural Club, Sector-XV A, Noida-201301, New Delhi Contact: Pradeep Garg (pkgarg12 at yahoo dot com) What: International Symposium When: Dec 30 - 31, 2002 Where: GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttaranchal, India Contact: Prof Vir Singh (drvirsingh at rediffmail dot com) Please visit WPAA web site and RSVP online if you plan on attending any of these events. A request to all the event organizers, please feel free to share with us how the event went through. Also, some pictures of the same would be greatly appreciated. Even though the PayPal system has been in place for a while and the same is being mentioned in every month's newsletter, it still has not reached the expected popularity amongst the members. Please use this system, available at http://www.wpaa.org/ and send in your annual membership fee and contributions. For those of you who would still like to use the conventional system, here are the details: Payable to: Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association If sending in US Dollars ! If sending in Indian Rupees Mr. Girish Solanki ! Mr. Joseph Dolphin Treasurer, WPAA ! Representative, WPAA 7811 Chambers Rd #135, ! Flat 77 Pocket A3 Sector 8, San Antonio, Texas, ! Rohini, Delhi - 110085 United States - 78229 ! India You can also reach them via 'treasurer at wpaa dot org'. Your contribution helps WPAA take care of its maintenance expenses and also in planning projects for the benefit of Pantnagar university and its students. Please take a minute and send in your payments at the earliest. Please visit http://www.wpaa.org/ for complete details. And finally, a reminder that we love to hear from you - your feedback, comments and anything that you would like us to know, is highly appreciated. Please write to us at admin at wpaa dot org. Here are the tasks that WPAA has closely been involved in: *** Fund Drive *** A sum of USD 3000 was collected for Computer Engineering Department, College of Technology, during a 'Fund Drive' that lasted almost two years. The funds were delivered to the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. J. B Chowdhury in Feb, 2002. Head of Computer Engineering Department, Prof. R N Mishra later informed us via an email that a decision had been made to purchase a LCD projector for the department. WPAA would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed towards this Fund Drive' and helped it make a success. *** WPAA Chapters *** If you are a Coordinator of a WPAA chapter, a member of another Pantnagar association or know about one, please log your entry here and share it with rest of us. Also, do let us know if you need to setup a separate web page, chat room, mailing-list or any other such web presence for your chapter. Following 16 Pantnagar associations are registered so far: - WPAA-Bangalore - Manish Tyagi (manish at bellsoftech dot com) - WPAA-Europe - Rajesh Kumar (RajeshDear at aol dot com) - WPAA-Mumbai - Manjit S Yadav (manjeet at hotvoice dot com) - All India Pantnagar Alumni Association (AIPAA) - Pradeep K Garg Emails: aipaa_delhi at yahoo dot com, aipaa_delhi at hotmail dot com Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/aipaa_delhi/aipaa_page.html - WPAA-Hyderabad - Shekhar Awasthi (shekhersawasthi at hotmail dot com) - Pantnagar Alumni Association - Dehradun - Amardeep Baliyaan Email: amardeepsingh at hotmail dot com - WPAA-Gujarat - Sanjay Gauba (sanjaygauba1 at yahoo dot com) - WPAA-Kolkata - Arya Shekhar Sanyal (aryasanyal at rediffmail dot com) - WPAA-Haryana - Bhawani Shanker Pandey Emails: bspandey at yahoo dot com, rinipande at yahoo dot com - WPAA-U.P. - Rajesh Sharma (sraj1971 at yahoo dot com) - WPAA-Singapore - Shashi Rautela (shashi at rautela dot com) - WPAA-Punjab - Pradyuman Kumar (pradyuman2002 at hotmail dot com) - WPAA-Manila - Amaresh Chandel Emails: amareshchandel at sify dot com, chandelamaresh at yahoo dot co dot in - WPAA-Pacific - Prashant Srivastava Emails: psri0762 at mail.usyd.edu.au, ps_soil at hotmail dot com - WPAA-Jharkhand - Vishnu Dixit (vishnud at telco.co.in) - WPAA-Malaysia - Sandeep Kumar Goel (drgoelsk at hotmail dot com) Check out the complete details about these associations at WPAA website. Do not forget to check out the 'Members Directory' for each association. *** Mentor Program *** Total Mentors: 39 Total Mentees: 13 WPAA would like to thank all the participants in the Mentor Program and wishes them the best. And for all those who have volunteered to help in this Program, please update your mentor-comments and put in how exactly you can contribute. Please provide your contact details and convenient times so that potential mentees can get in touch with you. *** WPAA Quiz *** Pawan Nayal won the second quiz scoring 90%. There were 38 responses with an average score of 64.21%. Congratulations Pawan !!! The third quiz is up for grabs. So far, there are 7 responses with an average score of 52.86%. Do you want to take a shot at it ? Check out http://www.wpaa.org/ for complete details. Narendra Pratap Singh, Technology, 1993 batch, is the brain behind this periodic quiz. WPAA would like to thank him for his continued effort and time. *** WPAA Poll *** After completing your studies, how many times have you visited Pantnagar ? Please visit WPAA web site and let us know. *** ONE MORE THING *** I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960), American Journalist, Humorist *** And finally, here is a list of new members *** Total members as of today: 1196 Total nos. of mailing-list subscribers: 817 ------------------------------------------------ Following is the list of 30 members who joined WPAA in the month of November. Please join me in welcoming them on board. Mr Kumar Rahul, 1990 batch, Agriculture Dr Kshemendra Upadhyay, 1975 batch, Veterinary Sciences Mr Atul Bhagat, 1999 batch, Agri-Business Management Mr Rahul Mathur, 2001 batch, Agri-Business Management Mr Sharad Tiwari, 2000 batch, Technology Mr Prakash , 0 batch, Agri-Business Management Mr Deepa , 0 batch, Agri-Business Management Dr Birendra Bisht, 1968 batch, Technology Mr Ashok Kumar, 1998 batch, P G Studies Mr Ajay Singh, 1994 batch, P G Studies Mr Saurabh Srivastava, 1997 batch, Technology Mr Ashish Sharma, 2000 batch, Technology Mr Sachin Mittal, 1999 batch, Technology Mr Anil Tyagi, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Anup Rana, 1998 batch, Technology Dr Kamlesh Prasad, 1997 batch, P G Studies Mr Sanjay Mehrotra, 1984 batch, Technology Mr Rajiv Kamal, 2000 batch, Technology Mr Sanakkayala Niranjan, 1985 batch, Agriculture Mr Prince Malik, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Pawan Nayal, 1991 batch, Technology Dr Vir Singh, 0 batch, Agriculture Mr Arun Singh, 1988 batch, Veterinary Sciences Ms Shanti Sunil Kumar, 1992 batch, Agriculture Mr Deepak Sharma, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Kaushal Singhal, 1982 batch, Technology Mr Hridyesh Pandey, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Vikas Malik, 1989 batch, Technology Mr Nitin Mishra, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Nitin Singh, 1996 batch, Veterinary Sciences Have a great day ! 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