Inaugural Ceremony of Annual Sports Event held at St. John’s Academy Shankerpura

By Alphonse Mendonsa
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 02 Dec 2016: The 3-day annual sports event at St. John’s Academy began with a beautiful inaugural ceremony on 1st December 2016 at 9am. The glittering ceremony of the Inauguration began with a beautiful March-Fast by students of Kannada Medium Students followed by English Medium students of St. John’s Educational Institutions along with the guests of honour of the day to the drums beats of School Band. All the students then assembled systematically in front of the stage with their respective squad leaders holding the flags high.

 

All the guests were invited to the stage for the inaugural function namely; Rev. Fr. Leslie D’Souza (Correspondent, St. John’s Academy), Rev. Fr. Vincent Coello (Principal, St. John’s Academy), Mr. Franklin Mascarenhas (HM, English Medium), Mr. Mohan Shetty (HM, High School, Kannada Medium), Sr. Vineeta D’Souza (HM, Primary School English Medium), Ms. Irine D’Souza (HM Primary Kannada Medium), Mr. John Rodrigues (President PTA, Primary), Ms. Leena  D’Souza (President, PTA High School), Mr. Ram Rav (President, PTA Primary Eng. Med).

 

 

The inaugural function began with a prayer invoking God’s blessings, followed by hearty welcome by Ms. Hilda Machado (Primary Teacher). PTA Mr. Damian Noronha invited all the honorary guests on the dais for flag hoisting ceremony and Fr. Leslie D’Souza hoisted the Sports Flag of St. John Academy. Also three day sport event was inaugurated by letting the colourful balloons on the sky with a title “St. John’s Sports Event 2016-17”.

 

Fr. Leslie D’Souza addressing the students said “We are all members of St. John’s Academy just like relations. The flags held by your respective leaders have the names of great leaders of our Nation like Mahatma Gandhi. Let our vision too like them, let us leave respectfully and keep a good releationship among with our fellow students. Let us live peacefully in this environment and let others too live. Let this be our motto in life”. He congratulated all the teachers and admin staff for organizing the inaugural function of sports event wonderfully and systematically and wished all the students best for the 3 day sport event.  He further said on request of Principal Fr. Vincent Coello, he has agreed to the live coverage of Annual Day of the school/Jr. College by “C4U TV Channel" on 8th of December 2016 at the cultural and stage event to be held from 3pm onwards. Though the request came from the Principal in the morning he ignored it but now looking the beautiful, systematic ceremony held by Students, he is very much impressed and have now decided to go ahead with the Live Coverage and hence he requested students to put up their best show for the grand annual day program.

 

The inaugural function was conducted by Ms. Savitha Muralidhar and announcements were done by Divakar Shetty and Sadashiv Achari (Teachers).

 

The function was concluded with the vote of thanks by Priya D’Souza.