THE JOURNEY OF "GLIMPSES..."
From the time of its launch during Founder's of May 2017 by Ms Rukmini Reddy Krishnan, the then President of the Old Lawrencians Association (OLA) , " Glimpses Of A Glorious Past: An Informal History of The Lawrence School, Lovedale " found a home in the website of the OLA in the form of a ebook.
In keeping with the changing times, we now present to you, "Glimpses..." (or "GGP" as it is popularly called by my younger friends) in the blog format.
We see these advantages in the new format :-
- Now and over time, we can add hyperlinks, videos, podcasts and images to enhance the reading/viewing experience for our audience.
- This format leads itself more easily for updating, editing and revising the text of the e-book
- Likewise, we expect more engagement in this mode from the Old Lawrencian community through their comments on the blog posts and their contributing their own blog posts.
It is common for a series of blog posts to be combined and made into a book. Our challenge here is to present a book in a series of blog posts! We will not therefore publish the book in its entirety in the form of blog posts but will publish interesting extracts from time to time.
For the convenience of those who prefer to read the book in it's current form, we have Book 1 (1858-1908), Book 2 (1908-1958) and Book 3 (1958 to 2017) as pdfs for your easy reading. These are in three separate posts here in this blog.
Since May 2020 the OLA has organized the "OL Assembly", a monthly Virtual Entertainment Show by the OLs for the OLs broadcasted over YouTube and Facebook on the second Saturday of each month. It was decided to use the OL Assembly as a platform to present "Glimpses..."in November 2020.
Since then in every OL Assembly there has been a segment devoted to "Glimpses...". In this we have traced the history of the School since it was founded in 1858, in memory of Major General Sir Henry Lawrence KCB.
Effective October 2021, "Glimpses..." is being spun off from the OL Assembly and will be broadcast in YouTube and Facebook as a separate show.
The Journey of "Glimpses..."! :
How " Glimpses..." came to be written is covered in the OL Assembly of November 14, 2020.
Here, Wing Commander Joseph Thomas, Retd, (ex ARV 1957); Prem Rao, (ex- NIL 1967; Nitya Cherian Matthai, ( ex-Sum1977) and Mr Thomas George of The Lawrence School, Lovedale's Dept of English explain how the project was initiated and completed.
2010: Wg Cdr Joseph Thomas & Mrs Beena Belliappa nee Elizabeth Tharakan (EX- DEO 1970) met Mr Nitya Cherian Matthai during Founder's. They learnt that he and his colleague, Mr Thomas George had prepared a manuscript of material about the School sourced from the Archives and issues of The Lawrencian dating back to 1911.
2014 : Prem Rao planned a book on the School hopefully to be ready for the 50th year of his batch in 2017. In April 2014, he started a Facebook Group called "Glimpses of a Glorious Past: An Informal History of The Lawrence School, Lovedale". This group currently has over 850 members.
2015: J T and Beena arranged a meeting with Nitya and Prem in May 2015, and that's where the project began. NCM and TG shared the material they had put together with Prem.
The team then got contributions from many OLs across the ages (including JT himself, Kevin Phillips, Peter Forkgen, Moira Breen, to name a few) and "Glimpses..." was put together in book form by Prem after he added material that he had researched.
2017: :Glimpses..." was released as a ebook in 3 volumes by OLA Presiden, Rukhmini Reddy Krishnan, (Head Girl, 1961) during Founder's 2017. Book 1 was released on May 22, 2017 and the other two some time later.
2020: "Glimpses......" appeared for the first time in the OL Assembly in November 2020
2021: OLA's Glimpses Blog created in October 2021
"Glimpses" spun off from OL Assembly as a stand alone show on social media in October 2021
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