Aurum Photos

The Chief Guest and other dignitaries arriving . . . . .

Campus Cleaning !!

On the 27^th of September 2010, all the clubs at Loyola College organized a Campus Cleaning Drive. The Rotaract Club of Loyola College, one of the fore runners in the college when it comes to Enviro-friendliness, pledged its complete support and designated 50 volunteers for this event, the most among all clubs at Loyola. We are indeed proud to be part of this mammoth initiative. The clean up drive was part of the Green Fest organized by the College Management on 27^th and 28^th of September. Various competitions were held and lectures given and the students were oriented on the importance of been eco-friendly.

Ovations '10

Ovations ’10, Loyola’s fabulous Inter-Departmental Cultural Festival were held on the 17^th and 18^th of September, 2010 at the football ground, Loyola College. The preliminary stages were held between the 2^nd and 14^th of September and it all culminated in the grand finale on the 17^th and 18^th. The guest list was a star-studded one and included the likes of actors Vivek, Srikanth, Karunas and singers Vijay Yesudas, Tanvi Shah and many more.

Our board members and green Rotaractors took active part in the various events (about 50+ events) and won many laurels.

Ø Rtr. Gaurav Gupta, Director – Community Service, was the Deputy Event Coordinator for the show.

Ø Rtr. Mohd. Karan Ubaidi, Director – Club Service, was the Associate Head of the Creatives Team for Ovations ’10 and designed the Logo for this year’s fest. He was also one of the official photographers.

Ø Rtr. Sachin, Director – International Service, was the Master of Ceremony for a few events.

Ø Rtr. Chetan Chhabriya, Associate Director – Community Service, was part of the committee for Discipline at Ovations ’10.

Ø Rtr. Deepak B, Editor In Chief, was one of the photographers at the event.

And finally, we’d like to heartily congratulate and appreciate the efforts put in by the Students Union Team led by Mohd. Rashan Sultan, President, and guided by Prof. I.A.J. Jeyadoss, Dean of Students for making Ovations ’10 a Swashbuckling success.

Aurum '10

At the Inauguration

Aurum '10

Aurum ’10 - Discovering the GOLD in You!

“An Idea can change your life” says Abhishek Bachchan on TV. But, in this case, it was Aircel that changed our lives. Yeah, one phone call from Rtr. Pres. Yasin to Rtr. IPP Praveen was the first baby step with regard to District Rotaract RYLA ’10. Both the clubs, closely associated by more than just the name of Loyola, were quite eager to venture out jointly and what better stage to do it than the District Rotaract RYLA ’10?!?!

Thus, the Rotaract Club of Loyola College, in its 26^th year of inception (means starting here – not to be confused with the recent Blockbuster) and the Rotaract Club of Loyola Community, in its charter year, applied to the District Rotaract Council headed by Rtr. DRR Suresh Manoharan to be the co-hosts for District Rotaract RYLA ’10. The District accepted their nomination on 11^th August (incidentally the birthday of Rtr. Pres. Aditya Mohan) and the rest as they say, was HISTORY!

From that day, work began at a frantic pace. The office bearers for RYLA were elected and other formalities like sponsors and so on done with. Also, the search for the ideal venue began. After spending nearly a week hopping from one possible site to another from one at Pulicat Lake near the Andhra Border till Dakshin Chitra on the ECR, 2 spots were shortlisted – Dakshin Chitra and CReNIEO Training Centre. CReNIEO was later finalized as the venue for District Rotaract RYLA ’10 as Dakshin Chitra had been the spot last time round for District Rotaract RYLA ’09 MAD.

There were meetings almost every day and new decisions were being taken. The design team comprising Rtrs. Prabhoo, Ramakrishna, Karan and Zoheb created the Logo and other designs like Banners, Danglers, Posters, Certificates and so on, all of which were approved after scrutiny. The District Rotaract RYLA ’10 was Christened Aurum ’10 with the tagline “Discover the GOLD in You”.

Major aspects like the speakers to handle the sessions for the Rylarians were selected and also minor issues like splitting up of participants into teams and so on were also discussed and finalized. The official banner release took place amidst much fanfare at the District Rotaract Assembly AWESOME ’10. We began to speed up the processes as we had less than a month’s time in hand. The only thing that was running in the minds of all us organizers was the successful completion of District Rotaract RYLA – Aurum ’10.

Meetings increased in frequency and discussions sometimes turned heated up and flamboyant, each one giving his/her inputs in making Aurum ’10 the most bestest RYLA ever organized ! (Yup! that was a rip off from Shakespeare). In the meantime, Registrations had begun and the response was overwhelming. Numbers were coming in day by day and we finally had to CLOSE registrations as there was no more place available for accommodation at the Venue.

The D-Day finally arrived. We, the organizers reached the venue as early as 9 am and began to decorate what would be our dwelling place for the next three days. The 150 odd participants on the other hand gathered at the Take off point – Air India Building near Ethiraj College from where they were transported to the venue by MTC Buses. They reached CReNIEO at around 12.30pm and were warmly greeted with a welcome drink. The Rylarians settled down in their dormitories/rooms quickly and came down for lunch by about 1.15pm.

The Inauguration function took place at around 2.30pm. The Chief Guest was District Governor Nominee Rtn. Raja Seenivasan and the Guest of Honor was Rtn. Praveen .K. Mehra. Other Rotarians like Rtn. Prasanna Shenoy, Rtn. Sayeeram, Rtn. Shriram, Rtn. Kasturi Raj, Rtn. Dhanasekar, Rtn. Narayana Moorthy, Rtn. Ganesh, Rtn. Bhakthavachalam, and Rtn. Murali Venkatesh also graced the occasion.

The DRR and the host club presidents were collared by their respective Sergeant-At-Arms. The DRR then welcomed the gathering. This was followed by the briefing about District Rotaract RYLA – Aurum ’10 by Rtr. Arjun, Rtr. Yasin and Rtr. Aditya Mohan. Rtn. Sayeeram and Rtn. Prasanna Shenoy gave their felicitations. Rtn. Praveen .K. Mehra, in his speech stressed on the importance of the Rylarians making full use of this program to discover and bring out their inborn talents. Rtn. Raja Seenivasan briefed the audience on the importance of being up to date and also urged them to learn additional languages as it will help them in the long run. The inauguration concluded by around 4.00pm.

The participants adjourned for about 15 minutes for high tea and were soon back in business. Mr. Babu Seshadri then took over the floor and started the ice breaker session where they were introduced to one another and also split up into 4 different teams of about 40 members each. Team Leaders were also elected and directions were given to them regarding the decorum and rules to be followed.

This was followed by the first serious session of the day – theTeam Building session handled by Rtn. Kannan. There were exercises on innovative thinking and others on team building. His session was enjoyed by one and all. The participants were briefed about the schedule for the next day and were also informed about the cultural activities scheduled to take place the next day. The Rylarians went for dinner and returned to the main hall for a movie screening at 9.30pm. The movie “Goal – The dream begins” was screened and the general response was that it was a heart rending movie that ought to be watched by one and all. The participants went to bed at around 11.45pm that night, tired already, but eager to find out what was in store for the next day. !

But, for the organizers, the day was not yet over. We cleaned up the hall used today and made preliminary settings to the halls and rooms that were to be used the next day. We also had an organizers meet at around 1.15am to iron out any flaws in the day’s program and to get ourselves motivated to continue working in the same way for the remainder of the program.

The next day kicked off with a Yoga session at 7 am. The participants were taught simple exercises that they could perform every day to keep themselves free from all kinds of stress and other problems.

That was followed by breakfast and the DG Session that was handled by Rtn. DG Olivannan. The audience loved his interactive session and were all ears for what he had to say. We are indeed thankful to him for taking time off from his busy schedule to handle this session for us.

This was followed by separate classroom sessions between 11.30am and 1pm that were handled by 4 eminent speakers.

Rtn. Prasanna Shenoy - Rotaract Opportunities

Mr. Ameeruddin - Personality Development

Rtn. Sreedhar - Networking

Rtn. Major Lakshmanan - Leadership

After a sumptuous lunch, the Rylarians again united for another round of class room sessions on three other topics handles by renowned speakers.

Prof. I.A.J. Jeyadoss - Communication

Mr. Babu Seshadri - Team Bonding

Mr. Sakthi Arun - Pranic Healing

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all these speakers for accepting our humble invitation and making it there and giving us wonderful sessions.

The next session was handled by Mr. Sai, a past Rotaractor. His session was lively and loved by the participants. The session soon gave way to the Culturals. We had 3 competitions - Junk Art, Adaptune and Adzap. The Rylarians participated with great interest. The Culturals got over by 8.30pm and we went for a sumptuous dinner. And what followed was probably the most awaited event of the program thus far – Yes, The DJ Night. We danced and danced to the tunes of our terrific DJ Zen and had a whale of a time.

The next day started off with breakfast at 8.30am followed by a session by Major Unni Nair – Lead the Change. He was absolutely amazing and created a spark inside each one of us. He incidentally is the brain behind the introduction of Paintball in India. We also had a feedback session handled by Rtr. PDRR Prasanna. The Rylarians shared their experiences over the last 2 days and also felt quite nostalgic about it.

Almost all Rylarians exchanged contact info and other details over a special lunch and finally got together in the main hall one last time for the Valedictory. The Chief Guest was Rtn. PDG Benjamin Cherian and the Guest of Honor was Rtn. Shankara Subramanian. Rtn. George .B. Cherian, Rtn. Mohsin Bijapuri, Rtn. Ravi, Rtn. Ganeshan were also present.

The DRR and the host club presidents were collared by their respective Sergeant-At-Arms. Rtr. Binu, RYLA Organizing Chairman introduced each and every organizer and applauded their efforts in making Aurum ’10 a great success. The Chief Guest and Guest of Honor were also happy about the success of the RYLA and congratulated both the organizers and the participants. There were a few launches of new projects and the Aurum ’10 Awards were also announced.

ü Best Rylarian (Male) - Rtr Girish.E (RC of AM Jain College)

ü Best Rylarian (Female) - Rtr Kavitha(RC of WCC)

ü Best Rylarian Runner Up (Male) - Rtr Dinesh (RC of East Coast)

ü Best Rylarian Runner Up (Female) - Rtr Kushboo(RC ofEthiraj College)

ü Best Team Leader - Rtr Revathy (RC of Scions)

ü Best Team - RSK ( RYLA Super Kings )

All’s well that ends well they say. Aurum ’10 finally came to an end on 26^th September at 5pm. We had a great time planning right up to the minutest details and hope the participants enjoyed it too!

We’d like to thank our Sponsors –

· Rotary Club of Chennai Sun City

· Rotary Club of Madras

· ACMEE 2010 and Rtn. Ravi.D.

· Rtr. Prabhoo Narayana Moorthy

· Rtr. IPP Praveen T.V.

· Rtr. Mohamed Hisham

We also like to thank the District Rotaract Council and District Officials especially,

§ Rtr. DRR Suresh .M.

§ Rtr. DRS Swathi Murali

§ Rtr. IPP Arjun

§ Rtr. IPP Ganesh for their guidance and unwavering support.

And last, but not the least, We’d also like to thank all our volunteers from both the host clubs for their untiring efforts in making District Rotaract RYLA – Aurum ’10 a mega success.

1. Rtr. Yasin Bijapuri .M.A.M.
2. Rtr. Pradeep .R.
3. Rtr. Gokul Raj ( RYLA Secretary )
4. Rtr. Inbaraj .J.
5. Rtr. Raja .G.
6. Rtr. Kishore Kumar .P.
7. Rtr. Bharath Ram .S.
8. Rtr. Gaurav Gupta
9. Rtr. Mohd. Karan Ubaidi
10. Rtr. Sachin .V.
11. Rtr. Kannan Jayaraaman
12. Rtr. Rajesh .C.
13. Rtr. Beni Jebanesan
14. Rtr. Chetan Chhabriya
15. Rtr. Mohd. Hisham
16. Rtr. Prasad. D.
17. Rtr. Mervyn Rozario.A.
18. Rtr. Deepak .B.
19. Rtr. Fortunatus Franklin
20. Rtr. Berlin .A.
21. Rtr. Rohit .P.
22. Rtr. Rahil Rafi
23. Rtr. Yohan David
24. Rtr. Abhishek Rohra
25. Rtr. Zoheb Anser
26. Rtr. Vivek Kumar Dadhich
27. Rtr. Jagadish .S.

1. Rtr. Aditya Mohan
2. Rtr. Prabhoo Narayana Moorthy
3. Rtr. Abdus Sattar Hanif
4. Rtr. Avinash Menon.V.
5. Rtr. Britto Manohar
6. Rtr. Binu .C.B.
7. Rtr. IPP Praveen .T.V.
8. Rtr. John Hyde
9. Rtr. IPDRS Lakshmi Theja .A.
10. Rtr. Surya Tanuja A.
11. Rtr. Saranya Babu
12. Rtr. Saranya Ramakrishnan
13. Rtr. Shriram
14. Rtr. Darshan Surana
15. Rtr. Ramakrishna
16. Rtr. Sandhya Srinivas
17. Rtr. Chakravarthy Renka.R.
18. Rtr. Jude Sannith Sujendran
19. Rtr. Kathiresan.K.
20. Rtr. Lawrence Duraiseelan .P.
21. Rtr. Nageshwara Mayuresh.M.J.
22. Rtr. Tarun Murugesh
23. Rtr. Vijaya Raghavan
24. Rtr. Vijay Prassad .S.K.

Highlights of RYLA – Aurum ’10:

v The Rotaract Club of Loyola College became the first club in the District to complete a Hat-trick of RYLAs as Organizer.

v This was only the second time that a RYLA was organized according to R.I. Standards – 3 days and 2 nights.

v The Rotaract Club of Loyola Community created the record of being the first club in the District to co-host a RYLA in their Charter Year.

OTH - '10

Operation Treasure Hunt – OTH ’10, probably the biggest Club service event on Rotaract Club of Loyola College’s calendar was organized on 12^th September 2010 on the Loyola College Campus. About 50 Rotaractors from out club turned up enthusiastically at as early as 8am on a Sunday morning and were all geared up for the event.

The Rotaractors were split into teams of three members each. Care was taken to see to it that those who know each other are not put together as one team. This was done mainly with the aim of making the Rotaractors gain new friends. The event was flagged out by Rtn. Nandita Krishnan, President Elect, Rotary Club of Madras, at about 9.45am after Rtr. Mohd. Karan, the Project Chairman, had laid out the rules and regulations to be followed.

The Rotaractors ran in all directions, trying to solve clue after clue that was delicately placed at strategic locales. The hunt went on for about 2 hours. The first team to finish was the team consisting of Rtr. Vivek, Rtr. Selvaraj and Rtr. Irfan. The team consisting of Rtr. Promit, Rtr. Ajit and Rtr. Karan came in second. Rtr. George, Rtr. Deva and Rtr. Periyasamy finished third.

The Rotaractors were of the general opinion that the hunt was quite easy if one used his common sense. They also confessed that they had great pleasure taking part in the fun event and that they were looking forward to more such events in future.

The Valedictory took place at 12.45pm. Rtn. Mahendra Ahluwalia graced the cheerful occasion and distributed the prizes to the winners. Refreshments were also served to the participants.