TAMARIND CANOPY: EVERGREEN CANOPY

Thursday, May 24, 2007

EVERGREEN CANOPY

This site has been started to celebrate life in St. Joseph's College for Women, Visakhaptnam established in 1958 by the Sisters of St.Joseph of Anneecy in France. The college was started in response to a public request by the efforts of a sister called Theresa Marie. The college was started for the sole purpose of training young women to become good homemakers. The college was the fore runner of Homescience Education in Andhra University and later of Andhra Pradesh. From that acorn has grown the oak tree which is located behind the Visakhapatnam railway station! It was in this campus that the tamarind tree was located providing shade to generations of children playing under its EVERGREEN CANOPY!

3 comments:

madhu.g said...: nice to read about tamarind canopy; 7:04 PM
J Narayan said...: Ma'am, your blogspot needs more publicity!!! I think everyone should experience the tamarind canopy through your pen...; 7:02 AM
Anonymous said...: truly inspiring.it immediately took me back by 15 years and how i wish i paid more attention to every detail of my college.I miss it so much.would do anything to have an excuse to be there even for a few hours.I know ma'm ...no need of any excuses but....can't help the hesitation.; 4:32 AM

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"Having spent three-fourths of my life in the
campus of St Joseph's Convent, as a school
girl first and later as a teenager in the college,
faculty member and now as a member of the administrative team, my roots are as deeply
embedded in the soil of this campus as were
the roots of the tamarind tree. I identify
myself with the tamarind tree that sheltered
and shared the secrets of innumerable number
of girls and women and hope to serve the
institution as long as I can just as the
tamarind tree did!"

-Suguna Kannan