We wish you many happy returns of the day Mr. Goss! Thanks to Mrs. Goss for posting a message on Facebook and reminding us!
Gurrinder [Indi] Singh Khanna wrote, and sent this photo:
How well I remember Mrs Goss.
Motherly and so very caring.
Ma’am, just want to thank you for seeing me the other tykes like me through my first two years (59/60) in your care.
May 3rd 2023
My dear Mr Goss,
Warm and sincere wishes on this your 94th (Ninety Fourth) birthday. My friends, I and our respective families wish you a wonderful day. May the years ahead, and may there be many, many more, continue to bring you good health, great happiness and tons of laughter.
Looking back and from my collection, I am sending as attachments to this mail a few photographs of the way we still remember you. The change, which has surely occurred over these long years, does not register in our mind’s eye. You are still the spritely young man we knew who walked in briskly into the class and went about the assignment without much ado. What was enormously enjoyable was your introducing us to Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Those class sessions were inevitably the most enjoyable and certainly the most remembered. It certainly did inculcate the reading habit in so many of us. Sometimes I wish we had started with P G Wodehouse though Conan Doyle is a class apart in an entirely different genre. In those mostly quiet corridors, peals of laughter generated by a Jeeves incident may have had other consequences, I suspect !!
I will not recount your fearful and stern marking record but I think it was all well-meant. No blemishes ever attached to us but it was a good inkling, a warning lesson, perhaps, of how tough life can be. It all began with red ink in the classroom !!
Thank you, Mr Goss.
With great warmth and affectionate wishes from us all, once again
Vijay
Vijay Khurana
- BCS Staff 1959
- Mr & Mrs Goss with Ibbetson class of 1962
- Mrs Yvonne Goss
- Mr. Ronald Goss (1961)
- RS with Chief Guest, Mr Goss in dinner jacket- RS Sodhi Collection
My dear Mr Goss,
A very Happy Birthday to you.
I recall our Geography lessons, 39 Steps, and your being our Housemaster !
Many Happy Returns !
Our best regards to your family.Govinder Singh
Ibbetson 1952-1963
Hi Mr Goss: I wish you a very happy birthday. May all your wishes come true. Best regards also to your charming wife.
Joe Joshi 1
Rivaz 1954 – 1963
Commercial airline / combat pilot and war correspondent in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
Senior editor of print and broadcast news with worldwide experience.
Joe Joshi
Dear Mr. Goss,
Wishing you a most wonderful and a very happy birthday with all my heart.
Respectfully yours,
NP Pawa
Dear Mr.Goss
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday.
May God give you good health and happiness.Warm regards to Mrs Goss.
With lots of love.
K.Vijay Singh
Lefroy.1958-’66.
Here is David’s email reply to the greetings message:
Dear All
Ranjana, Umesh Dutta’s wife put together video clips from friends and family wishing Umesh on his 75th birthday.
I am forwarding the link [Editor: Video embedded below] for you to hook up and watch this excellent compilation of messages from his friends from School.
Ranjana informs me that “Umesh went through so many emotions while watching all the videos and messages. We received almost 60 of them. He laughed, he cried, he chuckled………….. it was so wonderful. He’s already watched them about three times. It is fresh and heartwarming for him each time he watches it. Thank you so much, Vijay. You helped make this a memorable birthday for him. Bless you”
I wish we were present to have him watch through our messages but during these unusual times that was not possible.The accompanying emotions would have overwhelmed everyone present that day.
Our compliments to Ranjana for a brilliant effort
Warmly
Vijay
Dear O.Cs:
Deepak Thakur, N.K. Akers, Gurrinder Khanna, Arvind Narula, and I am sure I came across Dan Dhanoa somewhere on this page, thank you so much for your greetings. I wish I could have had a big party on my 91st birthday and had all of you there, but this pesky virus made that impossible. However, I had a wonderful birthday; first of all, the day couldn’t have started off any better than it did with that phone call from Delhi from a gentleman by the name of Vijay Khurana; it made my day. The rest of 3rd May, 2020, was spent on the phone talking to so many beautiful people and reading and responding to fifty or more messages. You call that “isolation”? It was very kind and thoughtful of you to remember an old teacher who has now moved into that stage so aptly described by Will Shakespeare thus:
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
And Vijay (Khurana) thank you for relaying our conversation of the 3rd so brilliantly. As always, you were so generous in your remarks. Mrs. Goss and I feel so blessed if in any small way we contributed to your success in life. Congratulations to you, one and all, for your remarkable accomplishments as true ambassadors of your school and your families.
Many thanks again. It is a privilege to have know you and had some part in who you are today.
Ronald Goss (BCS 1956-64)
P.S. Gurrinder Khanna, Mrs. Goss was so thrilled to read your message. She loved you boys as your matron.
Mr. Ronald Goss is 91 today, and we wish him a very happy birthday!
Mirrored Reflections and Reflections of the Soul
From the very instant I arrived in this world way way back, yesterday felt like yesterday.
Many I met along the road were mere travelers and others with whom I cemented relationships; at least I tried to, but heavy landings on the runway did bring cracks which again need repair, patience and hard work to bind together.
Reflections do sharpen the Brain as now you would capture the essence on your iPhone but during those misty years, the camera roll stayed within your head and now the urge to speak out..
I THINK I WILL CONTINUE WITH MY REFLECTIONS …AS I ENJOY THE COMPANY OF MY TWO YEAR OLD GRAND DAUGHTER.
As Mr Bob Marley said:
‘’..don’t gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver or gold..’’
I thanked my Mother for giving birth to me as I turned 60 yesterday.
Vivek Bhasin
Lefroy 1961-1970
A lunch was held at the Barn Ruislip on the 2nd November to celebrate the 84th birthday of PETER EVANS those attending with their wives were:
Peter and Elisabeth Evans ( Ibbetson 1938 to 1944)
John and Catherine Phillips (Curzon 1939 to 1944)
Clive and Shirley Hardie ( Lefroy 1940 to 1945)
Click the picture for a larger view.
Richard D’Abreu [Curzon 1936-46] turned 83 on January 23rd this year.
A VERY HAPPY 83rd, AND BEST WISHES FOR MANY MORE BIRTHDAYS TO COME!
Here is a photo of Dick at home in Bunbury Western Australia, pictured with his three youngest granddaughters Rhiannon 20, Chiara 14 and Laura 16.
