Graduation Planning Committee

A  Graduation Working Committee has being formed to plan an official Graduation Ceremony for the entire CMWRC. The goal is to highlight the graduation of the Chinmayam students with a unique and memorable celebration. We hope that the students will cherish this event and return annually to attend the graduation ceremony. We plan to start this ceremony in the current academic year and hope to continue this tradition in future. We would like to involve the entire CMWRC,  in planning, coordinating and participating in this event. The Chinmayam parents will take leadership in the organization.
 
Mangala Rao (mangsr@hotmail.com) and Chetana Neerchal (cneerchal@ifc.org) have initiated this project and have been designated as Coordinators.

Sub-Committees

The following Committees have also been established.  Each committee will report on the progress they have made, if they need any extra help, any problems that they are encountering and whether things are going as scheduled.  It would be helpful for all the committees to have a time line.  This will help us all to keep track of things. Please contact the coordinators for details and to offer your seva.
 
Program (souvenirs, invitations etc):  
Photography:
Food:  
Decoration:  
Ordering (tables, linen, silver ware, chairs etc, pick up ice, cake etc): Feb 19
Audio:  
 

Souvenier - call for articles and pictures

The souvenir will include messages by Swami Tejomayanandji, Swami Dheeranandji, Acharya Vilasiniji, Bal Vihar Director Anil Kishore, articles by Chinmayam teachers, graduating students and their parents. The souvenir will also contain graduating bio-pages, class group pictures, collage of event pictures relating to the graduating students' tenure in the Mission.

The following are the specific items we need you to contribute. In order to meet the printer's line, we need all items to be submitted by March 1, 2006.

The objective is to make the souvenir reflect the personal experience of every graduating student and his or her family. We invite all Chinmayam students, parents and teachers to contribute articles to this souvenir.  The length of the article should not exceed 250 words. Suggested topics are:

Experiences in the Mission

Juxtaposing Mission experience with academic and social life

Reminiscences of early days of our center

Travelogue of trips to other Mission centers and meeting fellow members

ALL CHINMAYAM STUDENTS

Souvenir cover design competition. The winner will receive a Barnes and Noble gift certificate.  All meritorious entries will be    printed in a mosaic on the back page.  - see attached document for details. Use this template to design the cover: Template

GRADUATING STUDENTS

    Articles by Chinmayam graduating students (limit to 250 words) - see attached document for details

    Biography of graduates - use this link for the details - BioTemplate

    3" x 2" picture of graduate (either electronic or hard copy)

PARENTS OF GRADUATING STUDENTS

Articles by parents of Chinmayam graduating students (limit to 250 words) - see attached document for details

NON-GRADUATING STUDENTS

Introduction speeches by fellow Chinmayam students for each graduating student (limit to 50 words)

(For each graduate, Chinmayam teachers will designate the students who will give the introductory speeches)

CHINMAYAM TEACHERS

Articles by Chinmayam teachers (limit to 250 words) - see attached document for details

The objective is to make the souvenir reflect the personal experience of every graduating student and his or her family. We invite all Chinmayam students, parents and teachers to contribute articles to this souvenir.  The length of the article should not exceed 250 words. Suggested topics are:

Experiences in the Mission

Juxtaposing Mission experience with academic and social life

Reminiscences of early days of our center

Travelogue of trips to other Mission centers and meeting fellow members 

If you intend to submit an article, please send an email to either Nagaraj Neerchal (nagaraj@math.umbc.edu) or Chetana Neerchal (cneerchal@ifc.org), with tentative title by January 31, 2006. Final articles are due by March 1, 2006 in MS Word, via email.