Kumar, Shrikanth, Sridhar, etc at OOTY - 1986

SA Kumar describes his collection of Ooty trip pictures L to R: Sridhar, Rajkumar, Chengleput, Kannan, Ravi Sethuraman, Zebu, Savari, Srikanth, Venkatesh, myself. See, I have always been hanging loose.

L to R: Sridhar, SAK, Savari, Srikanth, Chinglepet, Zebu

L to R: Chingleput, Sridhar, Srikanth, Savari, Zebu, SAK

Meeting with Kannan at Loyola

Review about the meet by Jerry:

Neelakantan, Srikanth, & I made it today to Loyola where Kannan was invited to give a talk at the 3 day conference of Statistics dept..

We decided to be there for at least 30 minutes so that we can meet Kannan and talk to him for while, despite having tight schedule individually for each one of us.. we planned to be there between 12 pm & 12.30 pm, as Kannan was given time between 11.15 & 12.15 pm.

But there was change in schedule and Kannan had not started when we assembled there and so we could spend time talking to him, sitting next to him inside the auditorium. Neelakantan had to leave shortly as there was an important meeting for him at 1 pm. Shrikanth & I stayed back and decided to sit thru the session as it was nearing lunch time too.

Kannan gave an excellent presentation in which he spoke about how statistical tools & models are applied in the drug manufacturing industry, specific to Oncology. After the session, we took a snap along with Kannan and two of the Professors who taught us, Mr Martin & Mr Paul, which you can see as an attachment herewith..

Kannan, it was good meeting you after so many years and it was nice to see the same charming smile on your face...

And Neelakantan adds:

Ideally I would have loved to stay right through.

After all we need to catch up for the last 25 years.

Shrikanth,Jerry and I made it to Kannan's speech - but due to some prior appointment I had to leave at 12.30 but not before catching up with a glimpse of Eternity.

Well,Mr.Paul Rajamanickam is now with the University of Wisconsin - but a bit difficult to reconcile how he looks now with his 1985 look.

Mr.Shantharam - well totally different.

Dr BC,Mr PC and Dr TMD - all the old warhorses were there.

I could recognise Mr Jerome Stanley who hasnt changed much.

Mr Leo Alexander is no more with Loyola - he is the Controller of Examinations,Madras University..

I also asked kannan to send me the email id of Prof R R Suresh.

All said and done,a great and memorable day to cherish.

A word about the present batch of Students in Stats dept - the fire or glow that was the quintessence of college days and you can make it out in the faces was sadly absent.

No wonder,martin,Tobias,Paul all spent their time talking to all of us GS guys when we were there today.