Over 30 students from the 1975 batch were joined by some of their teachers at the reunion, during which they launched a yearbook.
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Bishop Cotton Girls’ School’s (BCGS) class of 1975 celebrated their 50-year reunion last Friday.
Laughter and hugs were exchanged as old friends, some from as far as the US, UK, and Malaysia, returned to their alma mater.
The day kicked off with a special school assembly, where they released a yearbook filled with old memories. Some, like Nirmala Menon, had not seen their friends for 50 years.
The event was organised by Vrinda Mandappa who took the help of Uma Vora and Sandhya S to bring all the alumni together. “It started with one person saying we should meet, and then more joined in,” Vrinda explained. Preetha Pulusani, an alumna who owns a software firm in the US, shared that “35 out of 50 from our batch showed up”.
Preetha painted a vivid picture of 1975 in her speech. “When we graduated, the Vietnam War had just ended. The movie Jaws was playing across film screens. Queen has just released Bohemian rhapsody. A Bollywood film called Sholay took over India. The first personal computers were being developed. And bell-bottom jeans were not considered vintage — they were simply what we wore,” (sic) she said.