Prof. V.S. INVITES ........... & ALSO SHARES A JOKE WITH US !

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Dear Dharumi (All the other address you by your real name Sam, but I prefer to address you as Dharumi). We (you, me and several others) are ordinary people like Dharumi and we may use it as our identity.



I am happy to go through Dr. R. P. Riesz’s post in IPAC a while ago. Great. On going through it I think some one or a group of people in American College must sit together and start working on a detailed history of American College including the work, sacrifices and achievements of all the missionaries. I know there is sufficient material available in the Daniel Poor Memorial Library of the College. I wonder how many of the readers of this piece would know that the library was opened on a 26th Jan, a day which long after the library come into existance became the Republic Day of India. Is it a coincidence? No. American College has always stood for democracy and the early missionaries had foreseen that India will be a republic on that day.



The above mentioned work could result in many PhD theses. I know of one such work by a lady lecturer of Sri Meenakshi College, Madurai several years ago gave her the M.Phil degree. I am happy to say I had a small (probably very small) role in that.



I am sure getting funds for such an activity will not be a problem.



How nice it would be if after everything has happened thus far, as an atonement of all the sins committed against the College, the out going History Professor of the College (the only Ph.D in history to work in the College) comes forward to initiate the project.



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