Alumni Affairs

Giving Back to SMS

Two funds, seeded by alumni contributions, have been established, through which alumni, parents and friends may donate to SMS.

• The Goyal Memorial Bursary, named in honor of Mr L R Goyal, who taught Hindi at SMS for 38 years, from 1951 to 1989. Donations go towards a corpus, the interest on which pays the way of orphans or deserving students who could not otherwise afford an SMS education. Award decisions are made by the school administration. Tributes to Mr Goyal.
  
• The Keane Memorial Infrastructure Fund, named for Br J A Keane, who served SMS from the 1950s to 1981, as teacher and two-term Principal. SMS administration decides on infrastructure construction/maintenance priorities, and allocates amounts from this fund as appropriate. Tributes to Br Keane.
  

You may earmark a donation for one cause or the other, or leave it up to the school to decide. SMS periodically announces its priorities (below), and reports on how donated funds have been allocated and spent.

Remittance Procedure

1. Use this Donation Advice to notify the school of the payment and donor details, and indicate your preferences (if any) for utilization of your contribution. Indian taxation law requires that this be documented.
   
2. Execute the fund transfer:
• From India—Mail a cheque and Donation Advice directly to the school. Or set up a direct deposit (banking details below) and mail the Donation Advice separately.
  
• From overseas—Payment is made to the Congregation of Christian Brothers in India (they have the tax clearance to accept foreign donations), earmarked for SMS. Wire transfer is preferred—banking details below; mail your Donation Advice separately. Pool your contribution with others to save on bank transfer fees.  Sorry, tax deductions are not usually possible in the country of origin.
  
• Here are the Banking details (NOTE: Access is restricted. User name: sms. Password: the short nickname we use for the building pictured at right, all lower case, spelt with i, not y)
  
3. There's currently an active fund-raising campaign spearheaded by Frank E Dias (1973), and a friendly tug-of-war between the pre-1965 and 1965+ generations. Register your donation with Frank to pull for your side.
4. Questions regarding school issues and domestic donations—Principal.   Regarding overseas donations—Christian Brothers India. Regarding the funding campaign in general—Frank E Dias

Principal's infrastructure priorities

From the Principal, Mary Joseph, 2009-12:

Last year the cottage near the gym was done up at a cost of over 8 lakhs. This year we are giving the cottage near the basketball courts a make-over. The contractor has quoted 12 lakhs for this job.

Other projects slated for this year are:

1. Re-roofing the Old Hall and the New Hall
2. Re-roofing the far east cottage
3. Buying a 10 kw generator
4. Repairing the solar panels on the junior dorm
5. Overhauling the computer lab, re-wiring and putting window meshes in the New Hall
6. New desks for classes 7 and 8
7. Replacing the girder in the senior dorm toilets and repairing the bathing room roof
8. Fixing up showers in the senior bathing room
9. Fixing a wireless EPABX system in the school

Donor List

Archives

• 2001: Computer Building
• 1998: Swimming Pool
  

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