A V E
Issue 96, 2022
Established: 1995
Campus Caricature Pg. 12
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
What is VKL to you? - Shout It Out!!
From AVE, to the HM
Pg. 14
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Mus ings on a Marvellous Man
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safeguarding, and everyone has cause to be grateful. I remember Dr Vimal’s first comment to me when I had a go at him on behalf of AVE over some matter or other: ‘if it is worth it, I shall support it’ or words to that effect. (Was there something about a condition being to guarantee a growth in readership...?!) And it seems that support it he did, realising to the full the value of such a publication as a weapon of communication and a builder of community spirit, but wanting to ensure that it proved itself to be deserving. That was in the style of a good educationalist. It was a matter of great pride to him - reported to me many hundreds of miles away - that the show could go on, indeed must go on, in spite of Covid-19. Ave atque vale. Hail and farewell. -David Summerscale, Chairman of the Board of Governors.
Weekly Newsletter of The Assam Valley Express
Illustration: Nilasha Bhimsaria, XII
When I first met Dr Vimal, he looked like a man who had spent the night on a train. And indeed, just that: he had... Of course, it did not stop him talking. For two hours he barely drew breath, telling a small group of Governors exactly how they should be running the Assam Valley School! So came Dr Vimal to AVS. A man of boundless energy, full of words, yes, but words which did contain a great deal that was pertinent to the improvement of the School and relevant to the main issues affecting educational progress in hard times. Dr Vimal was presented all too soon with the immense challenge of guiding AVS, its teachers, staff, parents and pupils, through the unique experience of a global pandemic. I could only guess from afar what this must have involved, but there is no doubt that AVS could hold its head very high in terms of health, safety and