<p>Bishop Cotton Girls’ School’s (BCGS) class of 1975 celebrated their 50-year reunion last Friday. </p>.<p>Laughter and hugs were exchanged as old friends, some from as far as the US, UK, and Malaysia, returned to their alma mater. </p>.<p>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. </p>.Maestro A V Anand, 90, to be feted on Saturday.<p>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”. </p>.<p>Preetha painted a vivid picture of 1975 in her speech. “When we graduated, the Vietnam War had just ended. The movie <em>Jaws</em> was playing across film screens. Queen has just released <em>Bohemian rhapsody</em>. A Bollywood film called <em>Sholay</em> 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.</p>
<p>Bishop Cotton Girls’ School’s (BCGS) class of 1975 celebrated their 50-year reunion last Friday. </p>.<p>Laughter and hugs were exchanged as old friends, some from as far as the US, UK, and Malaysia, returned to their alma mater. </p>.<p>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. </p>.Maestro A V Anand, 90, to be feted on Saturday.<p>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”. </p>.<p>Preetha painted a vivid picture of 1975 in her speech. “When we graduated, the Vietnam War had just ended. The movie <em>Jaws</em> was playing across film screens. Queen has just released <em>Bohemian rhapsody</em>. A Bollywood film called <em>Sholay</em> 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.</p>