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Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association (WPAA) Monthly Newsletter, July 31, 2003 ------------------------------------------------ Greetings! The month is almost over but the newsletter is still not out! And disappointedly enough, no one even missed it :-( Well, it was on my mind all the time but I have been so busy lately that I just could not get to it. Well then, this is a good time for me to put up my case for seeking help. Please, if anyone is willing, interested and committed to lend a helping hand, contact me at admin at wpaa dot org. I could surely use your help, support, guidance, advise and whatever other goodies you have to offer :-) Okay, moving on to our monthly activities, this year's IFT was in Chicago from Jul 12 to Jul 15. A few Pantnagarians did get together but the zeal and enthusiasm was not as high as what has been seen in some of the prior meetings. Folks, if you are in town or nearby and if there happens to be a get-together of Pantnagarians, I urge you to please make all efforts to participate in it. Needless to say, WPAA is more than just an association - it is our family worldwide and the only way to keep it intact, cheerful and prospering is by keeping in touch with other family members. Earlier this month, Sanjay Sharma of CBSH college, 1992 batch stepped forward to lead a WPAA chapter in his region, WPAA-Eastern USA. Kudos to Sanjay for taking this initiative and we wish him all the help and support that we can. Sanjay, please 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. In another update, we would like you to know that Ms. Preeti (http://www.itweblink.com/) has been helping us with some new logos for WPAA. She has also been working on getting some T-Shirts printed for the membership. WPAA thanks and appreciates all the time and hard work Ms Preeti has been putting in. We will keep you posted about her efforts as we go along. I just can not emphasize it enough - WPAA can be more effective and productive if each one of us does our own part and for a start, sending in your membership fee would not be a bad idea. Please take a minute and send in your payments. You can either use your credit card at WPAA website or send a check at following address: Payable to: Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association Send to : If sending in US Dollars ! If sending in Indian Rupees Mrs. Bhagwati Karki ! Mr. Joseph Dolphin Treasurer, WPAA ! Representative, WPAA 18900, 37th Pl N ! Flat 77 Pocket A3 Sector 8, Plymouth, MN - 55446 ! Rohini, Delhi - 110085 USA ! India As you might be aware that we have extended the PayPal system to support four additional currencies: Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pound Sterling and Japanese Yen. You can use these currencies at PayPal's payment option at WPAA website. Please contact 'treasurer at wpaa dot org' if you have any questions. And finally, we really 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 are either on-going or were accomplished in recent past: *** 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 19 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) - 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 dot usyd dot edu dot au, ps_soil at hotmail dot com - WPAA-Jharkhand - Vishnu Dixit (vishnud at telco dot co dot in) - WPAA-Malaysia - Sandeep Kumar Goel (drgoelsk at hotmail dot com) - WPAA-Foresters - Manmohan Dobriyal (manmohandobriyal at yahoo dot com) - WPAA-New Delhi - Divya Prakash (prak_dp at yahoo 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-Eastern USA - Sanjay Sharma (brijwasi001 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: 40 Total Mentees: 14 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 29 responses with an average score of 43.10%. 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 *** We are soliciting your impression about WPAA web site. Please check it out and let us know. *** ONE MORE THING *** "You have to be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi *** And finally, here is a list of new members *** Total members as of today: 1367 Total nos. of mailing-list subscribers: 912 ------------------------------------------------ Following is the list of 18 members who joined WPAA in the month of June. Please join me in welcoming them on board. Mr Dinesh Kumar, 1977 batch, Agriculture Mr Dps Tomar, 1978 batch, Technology Mr Vivek Singhal, 1996 batch, Technology Mr Hari Prasad Rao, 2003 batch, Technology Mr Ashish Srivastava, no batch, Agriculture Dr Raghvndar Singh, 1984 batch, Basic Science & Humanities Mr Rachit Rastogi, 1998 batch, Technology Mr Nitin Malik, 1997 batch, Technology Mr Sunil Tyagi, 1986 batch, Technology Mr Ravi Kant Maheshwari, 1980 batch, Technology Mr Devisetty Upendra Kumar, 0 batch, Agriculture Mr Vivek Chauhan, 1999 batch, Technology Mr Manu Gautam, 1993 batch, Technology Mr Balram Tyagi, 1986 batch, Technology Dr Sunil Chauhan, 2001 batch, Veterinary Sciences Mr Manoj Upreti, 1996 batch, Agriculture Mr Amar Kaul, 1988 batch, Technology Mr Sandeep Tyagi, 1993 batch, Technology Have a great day ! Administrator, WPAA ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in subject header. 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