Meeting of MCJ 25 was held today 25th November 2014, at Kadri Park from 1 pm onwards. Members present included Surendra Shetty, Florine Roche, Ronald Fernandes, Smitha Shenoy, Krishna Mohana Talengala, Krishna Kishore, Venu Vinod, Yogish Holla, Vasanth Konaje, Harish Motukana, Sushilendra and Suresh Pally.
Venue: The meeting went on as per agenda points. The venue of the event will be held Student Activity Centre (many of you must be remembering the venue with nostalgia) in the University campus. Two registrars of university Registrar Prof P S Yadapadithaya and Prof Evaluation Prof Narayan have agreed to be the guests. Availability of V C will be known tomorrow as a group is going to Varsity tomorrow to meet V C and oversee other arrangements at the University Campus. A responsibility to oversee this is shared among members present today.
Invitations: Invitations will be printed mostly digital except for few which will be printed to be given to the guests on stage. Decided to have three banners at the univ campus including one banner on the stage. Invitations will be extended on behalf of MCJ 25 and below alumni members of MCJ dept. Decided to invite present students to the event.
Honouring teachers: decided to honour six teachers past and present with shawl, fruits, flowers and memento with a small writing on it. Responsibility is assigned to one of the members to talk to outstation teachers before sending a formal invite and also to arrange fruits flowers etc.
Budget estimate: Assuming that members participating in the event will be around 50 and another 30 students from MCJ we can expect a crowd of around 100. Fixed the budget at Rs. 50,000/- to meet refreshments, lunch, honouring things (heee haaa) cost of invitations, mementos and other incidental expenses. Individual contributions fixed at a minimum of Rs. 1000/- and there is no limit for maximum contributions (bingo). Sponsors are welcome! Surendra Shetty W C President showed his generosity by making a donation of Rs. 2200/-.
Bank account: Treasurer Smitha Shenoy has opened an account in her name in Corporation Bank. The details of the bank account will be uploaded by Treasurer. Members are welcome to deposit the amount directly to the account thr whatever means convenient to you. But please mention your names and other details while remitting the amount.
Finalising list of participants: Since the event and its planning hinges on the number of participants it was decided to work on finalising the list of participants in the event so that we get an idea to make arrangements. So all members you can intimate your participation by mail or thr blog. Krishna Mohan and Krishna Kishore will come out with a modus operandi.
Programme Skeleton: P Skelton goes like this. Welcome by MC, escorting guests to dais, (prayer song if anyone volunteers) formal welcome, lighting lamp, introductory speech, inaugural address by Registrar Eva, felicitation of teachers, sharing of views of alumni, presidential address by Registrar and thanks giving. Followed by lunch. Afternoon the alumni will meet to decide on the formation of Alumni association of MCJ in the same venue.
Stage Arragement: Stage arrangements assigned to members. Mike and other settings will be finalised tomorrow during our visit to the campus if the same is made available by the univ.
Menu: Menu for the event depends on the amount we will be able to collect. Since the budget is fixed at 50k we will give a decent lunch (vegetarian). Whether to provide breakfast or not depends on how much our members will be able to collect. So if you want to have a good breakfast and a sumptuous lunch contribute to the funds. Aslo ensure participation of many alumni.
Eliciting views of Alumni: Alumni can send their views whatever they want to say about the department - both good and bad to ensure that our department is able to face the challenge of bringing out good products to suit modern-day requirement of the diverse media. These should be within 100 words but will be edited if required to present in a moderate language to suit the occasion. (There is every possibility that the bitterness may come out too harshly) which we want to avoid. Members can send their views to the specialemail id created for the purpose mcjmngvarsity@gmail.com
How to reach members other than through Whatsapp: There are quite a few alumni who are not on whatsapp. So members decided to collect their mobile numbers and even mail ids so that they can be communicated to them also. Members are requested to cooperate.
Few more details will be finalised tomorrow after our visit to university details of which will be communicated to all members in the group.
Florine Roche
Working committee President Surendra Shetty was in touch with GPS and managed to get an appointment today. A group of six Working Committee members (except Sharat Hegde who is in Koppala) went to University and met GPS and Waheeda Sultana. Members included President Surendra Shetty, Florine Roche, Ronald Anil Fernandes, Smitha Jaideep, Krishna Kishore and Krishna Mohana Talengala. GPS welcomed us with cool drinks in tea cups (paper cups) and Surendra Shetty (SS) briefed them the purpose of our visit. We told them the purpose of our visit and needless to say GPS was very happy or at least he looked happy. We also told them the tentative plan i.e honouring six permanent faculty who taught us, inviting VC and two registrars as guests for the function. We also informed him that our programme starts at 10 and ends by 12.30 with lunch. Post lunch alumni members will meet and discuss about forming a permanent alumni association and also catch with other developments or gossip (about themselves). 
The initiative resulted in a few students (5) holding its first meeting on 8th of November. The first decision taken at the meeting was to fix the date for the get-together on December 20, 2014. The date was chosen taken into consideration such as avoiding first Saturday of New Year and second Saturday which is also a holiday and also the date nearer to the two day seminar organised by the MCJ department which comes in the last week of January.
