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Alagin
Alumni International as we now call ourselves was sarted in the year 2002. The
crazy idea of organising an International meet for Aggies, aided by a Group
Email set up for the purpose, translated into a Meet attended by over 100
Aggies at Bangalore during August 2002. We had attendees from the
USA
,
UK
,
Nigeria
,
Sri
Lanka
,
Malysia ,
Singapore ,
Australia
and
New
Zealand
and all over
India
. There were Aggies who graduated in 2002 and
believe it or not, there were Aggies who graduated in 1951 spanning over half a
century.
Since then we held a Meet in 2004 at
Cochin
at which place it was decided to organise a Meet every year. In
2005 we held a Meet in
Sri Lanka
, 2006 in
Hyderabad
and now in 2007 the Meet will be held in
Bhopal
. We plan to hold a Meet in Coorg in 2008 and Gangtok in 2009.
The ultimate goal is to hold 'The Mother of
all Meets' in
Allahabad
in 2010 to celebrate the centenary of AAI. We expect 500 Aggies to
attend from all over the world. T o this end we have met the Vice Chancellor of
AAI Deemed University, Dr R.B. Lal who enthusiastvcally welcomed the
idea .
Alagin Alumni International has two office
bearers - Mike Watsa (1971) President and Ivan Lamech (1975) as Secretary. The
organisation has no formal existance. There is no charter and no constitution.
We just informally exist and keep together by means of our Group
alagin@yahoogroups.com
We have only one goal - to meet every year as
Aggies and as buddies and to have a ball all in memory of the old Alma Mater.
Mike
Watsa
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