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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Can you donate Rs.5,000/per year?

An Appeal

Dear Friend,

Please spend a few minutes to go through the following appeal from the BMC Trust.
We built the digital library/Seminar hall complex for the Golden Jubilee of the college beacause of generous donations from alumni like yourself. The project was well thought out and has gone on to be a great ‘success’. From the beginning, it was clear that we would complete the project and also maintain it ourselves, because the government would be unable to sustain the maintenance expenditure. We knew that a sum of RS. 10-12 lakhs would be needed each year to maintain the facility. Also, we realised that to raise a corpus of Rs. 2 crores towards this expenditure was unreasonable. Hence, it was planned to raise smaller donations from the alumni each year to maintain the facility. We floated the idea of daily sponsorship at Rs. 5000=00 a day. If we get 250 such sponsors each year, our target would be met. We had mentioned this in several communications to you in the past.


Somehow, the alumni as a group have lost the momentum after the Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Unless we rededicate ourselves towards the task at hand – that of maintaining the facilty that we all so lovingly gifted to the college – this tremendous ‘gift’ may go waste.

If there is anything else we, the office bearers, have to do, please let us know. But please donate liberally to maintain the digital library and encourage your BMC friends to do so.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr K Lakshman

Invitation - Wedding Anniversary

Dear Someswar:

Any update on the BMC get-together. I don't see more entries after April onyour blog. Please keep me informed as I have postponed my trip to come backto the US just because of this get together.

By the way we are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary on July 15th in"Ayodhya" hall , Jayanagar.

Please make time on your calendar to attend withyour family. Look out for an e-invitation evite. Also I would appreciate ifyou could pass along the e-mails of our classmates so that I could invitethem to the party. You could post it on the blog if that is easier... butwould prefer sending them evite personally.

Thanks and looking forward to the BMC 1988 Get together!!,

Ganesh Balu
71 Hidden Valley DriveNewark,
DE 19711