Mangalore: Foundation laid to build stadium at St Gerosa School, Jeppu
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Bellevision Media Network
Mangalore, Oct 08, 2014: It was a memorable day in the history of St Gerosa School, Jeppu, here. The foundation stone laying ceremony for the much-awaited stadium was held here on Monday October 6 at 9.00am.
Mangalore south MLA J R Lobo, MLC Ivan D’Souza, local corporator Jacinta Alfred, Captain John Prasad Menezes, St Gerosa education institutions correspondent Sr Marceline, St Gerosa High School head teacher Sr Emma, few other eminent personalities, members of St Gerosa alma mater, teachers, well wishers, philanthropists all gathered to witness this landmark occasion.
Ashok Mendonca will the backbone of this project with his architectural skills.
St Gerosa School is on the threshold of celebrating its golden jubilee on January 5 2015. This reconstruction and restructuring of the playground is one of the main project taken up by the school.
MLA Lobo congratulated the mManagement and expressed his happiness and said, ‘The students must make the best use of this stadium and the infrastructure provided and rise up to level in the sports field to represent the state/nation/international level.
MLC Ivan D’Souza said, ‘The children/youth is our future and the school has come with a good project of supporting the sports activities in the school, Let us all promote sports activities and the school should produce Sportsmen who will shine in the Asian and Olympic level,’ said MLC Ivan.