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Dear
Readers,
Since the parent unit ICYM - Barkur
is celebrating its Silver Jubilee this year, we feel it
appropriate to focus on, one among
few of its offshoots, and this is just an effort at this
direction……
Amchen Barkur Team. A
PURPOSEFUL AND FRUITFUL EXISTENCE – ST. PETER’S ASSOCIATION
BARKUR - MUMBAI
One
among very few Associations, with which, once we too were associated,
and very close to our heart is St.
Peter’s Association Barkur – Mumbai.
It
has completed 14 years of
purposeful existence in the service of our community and celebrated its 15th
Installation Day
on 17th April 2002, and this is, both an occasion to feel
proud and express our gratitude to present as well as past members who
were responsible to make, most of its objectives and dreams, into a
reality. Though
its roots go, as deep as, pre-independence era, that is 1938, when there existed St.
Peter’s Barkurian’s Association,
at Bombay, and it was the youngsters initiative in the year 1983 – 84,
who thought of reviving this vanishing ‘Barkurian
spirit’ as a group in Bombay, subsequently, resulted in
establishing, St.
Peter’s Catholic Youth Association Barkur – Bombay,
under
the able leadership of Lawrence
A.Sequeira,
in the year 1985. This
SPCYA
envisaged
the present set up, to combine the experience and goodwill of
well settled elders, spirit of co-operation of middle aged with a
determined objective of doing what they found difficult to do when they
were very young, and most importantly the organisational skill and the
talents of the well trained youth of Barkur in the CYM,
collectively conceived the idea of broad based St.Peter’s
Association,
what it is today. During my last visit to native
place in Dec.2001, got an opportunity to meet few office bearers and
extremely happy to note the progress it has made and the name, fame and
impression it created, in the metropolis of Bombay!!. Truly,
you the President, Henry Roche, Gen. Secretary, Ivan
M.Rebello, all senior Office Bearers, the Members of Managing
Committee, all members of today and yesterday kept
the
Barkurian flag flying very high and bright!! One
more thing makes me feel very proud and happy is, you have cultivated an
exemplary goodwill gesture of recognising the services and involvement
of past members - as Henry Roche reminded me, when I casually, asked how is SPA? -
Don’t forget, you were the first ‘Secretary’ of this unit!! What a
great, rare, proud feeling.. !. I
do admit openly, my contribution was very little while comparing with
the sacrifices, of most of you and many others !!!. Being
a part of, and involved in it for fairly long time, all of us truly have
very high regards towards this organisation, but we feel it appropriate
to mention here, the observation of outsiders, for instance, for people
like Shri
Henry D’Silva
Suratkal,
[the President of Kanarite Youth
Association,] who sincerely expressed, “the
banner of present SPA stand for collective and cohesive leadership…
time bound quality socio-cultural public programmes and more importantly
the commitment for social work……. And
counted as one among very few
popular
groups in Bombay today….. An example for selfless co-operation and
working together……” Most
of us, heard about this Association very often, both in Barkur and that
among Mumbai Mangalorean
Community. And perhaps the
only platform to organise public programmes of, especially most of
the popular Konkani artists and other language cultural groups as
well. Here in, I will not elaborate
the achievements of SPA in detail, but if not make mention of following
few things for information of those who may not know about it at all,
the very purpose writing this article will be futile.
v.
Support to Konkani art and culture by sponsoring the
stage programmes, Drama, musical evenings, of well known artists of
Konkani theatre, - at least one function every year and honouring
well-known writers and artists.
This
organisation has grown up to be a ‘matured
group’ and its members also playing an significant role in other
socio-economic fields and mention may be made of its former President Felix
Barnes is Director of Model Co-operative Bank. On this occasion we
wish its members all the very best, to do even better, in years to come,
in the service of community and a
needy fellow Barkurian. Before
concluding, let me put on record that, great people put in their time,
labour and resources, to form, continue and make it so familiar today,
in Bombay, and this web-site ‘Amchen
Barkur’
always welcome contributions from -
readers as well as previous and present office bearers and
members, so as to enable us, to recognise, respect and focus them, in
coming days… With
regards, On
behalf of CYM – Barkur Ex-Member’s Committee, P.Archibald Furtado, Muscat,
25th May 2002.
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