Greetings from St.
Xavier's College - Mumbai,

to all ALUMNI/AE!

We WELCOME you to the celebrations of the 140th year of St. Xavier's: 1869-2009.
The calendar year 2009 will see a series of celebrations, spread through the
year, for alumni/ae and present students and for all well-wishers. We are
especially pleased to welcome back to the College our alumni/ae, spread all over
the world, to relive your days at St. Xavier's College and to savour the
nostalgia of those enriching experiences on campus, which several have
generously called, "The best years of our lives".


Our celebrations begin on Saturday 3rd January 2009 with
The Inaugural Event: an Alumni Dinner. You are welcome to visit the College in
session during the day and stay on for an Alumni Dinner
in our Heritage First Quadrangle. It's time to meet up with your old
companions and other eminent alumni/ae of the College.
A special welcome to those celebrating their 25th, 50th and 60th anniversaries of
graduating from St. Xavier's: the graduating batches of 1983, 1958 and 1948: Silver, Gold and Platinum!

We will end the year with a Finale: an Alumni Dinner on
Sunday, the 27th of December 2009, another opportunity for those who were
not able to make it for the January event. We will have
a special event for the batches graduating in 1984 and 1959. All
alumni/ae, young and old are encouraged to come celebrate the Xavier's Tradition
of Excellence.

We will fill the year with events surrounding JANFEST on
the 24th, 25th and 26th of January: a festival of the best of Indian
classical music, MALHAR on the 15th of August,
ITHAKA: our Drama festival in November-December and other exciting events. The
14th of January will see a Kite-Flying Festival on
Azad Maidan, with an environmental theme. The focus of our celebrations will be
to bring you back to your alma mater, to have a peep into the life on campus.
Academic events, highlighting the excellence St. Xavier's aims for, are on the
anvil.

This is an advance notice about our forthcoming plans, for those who need to
book their dates and tickets well in advance, especially those living abroad.
Please oblige us with your presence.



For now, we request all alumni/ae to log on to our website www.xaviers.edu and
register in the Alumni Section. We will then have a database of all our alumni/ae,
to enable us to send you information about our programmes and to enable you to
contact each other through the College Website. A special request to spread this
message to all alumni/ae you are in contact with, to help us reach every
Xavierite.



PROVOCANS AD VOLANDUM – Provoking you to fly: May this motto continue to inspire
us all to greater heights, to more significant contributions to global society.



Dr. Fr. Frazer Mascarenhas S.J.
Principal