|
| 1949 | |
| 49/08/' |
In August the Vice
Chancellor of Patna University asked Fr. Moran to go to Nepal
to supervise examinations for IA, ISc, BA, & BSc
|
| 49/10/01 |
Fr. Moran reaches
Raxaul and crosses into Nepal. Spends night at guest
house above Bhim Phedi. Pradyumna Rana, studying at St. Xavier’s
Patna, returning for Dasain accompanied Fr. Moran.
|
| 49/10/02 |
Fr. Moran reaches
Kathmandu. Housed in Government guest house. Met Gen.
Mrigendra SS Rana, Director of Public Education
and son of CNC Babar SS Rana. On one Sunday visited Godavari.
|
| 49/10/12 |
Fr. Moran meets
the Prime Minister Mohan SS Jung Bdr. Rana.
|
| 49/10/27 |
Examinations finished
Fr. Moran met with the Prime Minister. He was presented
with gifts including autographed picture of the Prime Minister
in a frame of silver, a gold mohar, and a khukri with the Prime
Minister's coat of arms. Prime Minister inquired about Jesuit
history. Fr. Moran left Kathmandu on Oct. 30
|
| 1950 | |
| 50/11/01 |
Gen. Mrigendra
SS Rana comes to Patna to inform Fr. Moran that the government
of Nepal invites him to open a school in Nepal at Godavari.
|
| 1951 | |
| 51/01/06 |
Fr. Moran arrives
in Kathmandu with Fr. Joseph Egan, the Chicago Province Provincial,
to see Godavari and make arrangements for opening the school
|
| 51/03/17 |
Final approval
from the government of Nepal for the opening of Godavari School
received by Fr. Moran
|
| 51/05/03 |
Fr. Moran returns
to Kathmandu to prepare for the opening of the school.
|
| 51/06/03 |
Fr. Moran returns
to Patna, goes to Calcutta to purchase supplies, returns to
Patna. Plane chartered to bring a Land Rover, two tons
of supplies and Frs. Moran, Frank Murphy and Ed Saxton to Kathmandu.
Customs clearance took 5 hours.
|
| 51/06/25 |
300 applicants
screened at Singha Barbar by Rudra Raj Pandey (Principal of
Tri Candra), Netra Bdr. Thapa (Sec. Ed.), Tara Man Singh (Ed.
Dept), and Burathoki (TC) and Fr. Moran. 300 interviewed in
3 hrs. 60 boys selected. Pradyumna Rana was roll no. 1
and first captain.
|
| 51 |
Lay pioneers who
helped Fr. Moran were: Sharda Prasad Upadhyay (Director General
of Education), Netra Bahadur Thapa (Inspector of Schools), Dr.
Jit Singh Malla (Director General of Health), Jyan Bahadur Pradhan
(Engineer), Mr. Surya P. Upadhyay (Home Minister), Rudra Raj
Pandey (Educationalist)
|
| 51/07/01 |
Godavari School
opens with 65 students
|
| 51/12/' |
Fr. Murphy-Superior,
Fr. Moran-Principal, Fr. Saxton-teacher, two Nepali lay teachers
|
|
Buildings used
first year: Main building (named Xavier Hall), Bungalow,
old dining room with outside kitchen attached, godown,
Keshar Mahal belonging to Keshar SS Rana. Bahadur Bhavan
(a quarter of a mile away) belonging to Kiran SS Rana.
dhobi's house. generator room by the stream (later
reconditioned for one of the sweeper’s quarter).
Also two small “lean-to’s”: one of which originally
was a gun room. “Fish pond” with a small wooden
shelter, turned into swimming pool.
|
|
| 51 |
The Godavari Song
Book, the English Elocution Contest, the Essay Contest, and
the English Spelling Contest originated.
|
| 1952 | |
| 52/01/14 |
Fr. Saubolle arrives
from Darjeeling
|
| 52/01/29 |
Fr. Downing
arrives to teach at Godavari School.
|
| 52/02/01 |
New school year
opens, 100 boys in classes 2-6. Ramnath Sharma, Moran,
Downing, Saubolle, Murphy teach all classes except Nepali by
Mr. Bishnu Prasad Jha. Also Aian Bahadur Shrestha and
Krishna P. Pradhan joined.
|
| 52/05/13 |
First performance
of Hansel & Gretel. Chiran Thapa and Bhakta Rana were Hansel
& Gretel.
|
| 52/05/15 |
First boxing match
at Godavari, trained by Fr. Murphy, best fight between
Kabir Rana and Hira Kaji of fifth, each awarded a prize:
one Guatamala stamp. Hira Kazi does not collect stamps!
|
| 52/07/01 |
First Anniversary
of the school.
|
| 52/11/20 |
Schol. Bob Mayer
arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 52/06 | Volleyball court was completed behind the Bungalow. |
| 52/10/14 |
Work begun today
to convert the horse and elephant stables at the gate into classrooms
|
| 52 |
Xavier Hall was
reconditioned to make second storey into two floors.
|
| 52 |
Nara Mahal compound
was purchased.
|
| 52 |
The daily tournament
games started
|
| 1953 | |
| 53/01/12 |
New school year
begins with classes 2-7, by 29th Jan. enrollment was
119
|
| 53/02/07 |
First debate at
Godavari School, participants classes 6 & 7
|
| 53/04/03 |
Crown Prince Mahendra
visited the school.
|
| 53/05/02 |
Some boys refuse
to take a bath as they say it is forbidden to take a bath in
the afternoon if their parents are still alive.
|
| 53/05/27 |
School. Fred Moore
arrives to join the staff at Godavari School
|
| 53/0529 |
Fr. Niesen arrives
from Patna to advise on the development of the school returns
3 June after a severe asthma attack
|
| 53/06/16 |
Sir John and Lady
Hunt visit the school. He gives talk on the ascent of Everest
|
| 53/06/23 |
Reception at the
school for Sir Edmund Hillary
|
| 53/08/17 |
Fr. Downing gets
his visa renewed new visa good as long as he remains at Godavari
School
|
| 53/08/25 | Mr. Ramnath Khanal joins staff of Godavari School |
| 53/02/08 |
New classrooms
at gate finally finished. Fr. Moran paints the windows. Classes
held there today
|
| 53/12 |
Annual Sports Day
started.
|
| 1954 | |
| 54/02/01 |
Fr. John Blanchard
came to join Godavari.
Classes from 2-8, total enrollment about 180 this year |
| 54/06/23 |
New cook hired
for the kitchen pay: Rs. 20 per month plus rations
|
| 54/09/06 |
Move to Jawalakhel
begins
|
| 54/09/07 |
Fr. Downing and
ten boys move to the new school everything has
to be carried and everyone has to walk from Harisiddhi
classes 2-4 to be moved to Jawalakhel
Staff: Fr. Moran (Principal), Fr. Downing, Mr. Ramnath Sharma |
| 54/09/08 |
Official opening
of St. Xavier's, Jawalakhel.
third standard boys come in all bedding, desks, chairs and boxes bought by coolies |
| 54/09/27 |
Barber hired: he
use to cut hair for all the boys twice a month for Rs.3 each
time.
|
| 54/09/30 | Charles Leneghan mentioned for the first time under this date he is at Godavari |
| 54/11/28 |
Fr. Niesen arrives
from Patna to join Godavari staff
|
| 54/12/18 |
Fr. Niesen
appointed Superior and Principal of Godavari School.
|
| 1955 | |
| 55/02/12 |
First mention of
Br. Lucas being at Godavari
|
| 55/02/15 |
St. Mary’s
School started with 15 girls.
|
| 55/04/21 |
Two scholastics
arrive in Nepal: Alfred Poovatil (Jawalakhel), Abraham Thannikapara
|
| 55/04/28 |
The deed for the
purchase of the Jawalakhel property was signed today
|
| 55/05/15 |
Fr. Gene Watrin
arrives to join the staff of Godavari School.
|
| 55/08/12 |
Allan Starr arrives
to help out in Nepal
|
| 55/08/20 |
Dhobi payments:
Rs 2 per month per boy
|
| 55/10/17 |
Bro. David Rai
arrives to work at Godavari
|
| 55 |
Ceiling repairs
were done in the Bungalow.
|
| 55/56 |
Verandas were added
to the classrooms by the main gate (former “elephant stables”)
|
| 55/56 |
The “Big”
Field located below Keshar Mahal
|
| 55/11 |
Scouting started.
Also Scout Carnival started in the late ‘50s.
|
| 55 |
The daily Drill
started. Also Penthathlon started in the ‘50s.
|
| 1956 | |
| 56/01/23 |
Fees raised from
Rs. 75 to 90 per month for boarders plus deposit of Rs. 200
day scholars Rs. 15 per month
|
| 56/02/15 |
First mention of
Bro. Johnson being at Godavari School.
|
| 56/04/05 |
Peter Rosemeyer
arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 56/04/16 |
Barber, came did
105 boys and three fathers for Rs. 11.50
|
| 56/04/27 |
First mention of
Br. Joe Sah, working at Jawalakhel to take care of garden
|
| 56/05/12 |
Coronation of King
Mahendra. Frs. Niesen and Watrin assisted in organising
the Coronation Games. Fr. Moran in his red British ariel 350
cc motorcycle was the “pilot” for the marathon race.
We own in the basketball tournament (coached by Fr. Watrin)
and 200m relay. In hockey we lost to North Point.
Our boys in white pants, sky blue shirt and blue and gray-striped
ties were classy looking in the march past.
|
| 56/05/13 |
Br. Karpinski here
for the holidays to help out
|
| 56/08/17 |
Fr. Joe Scharf,
Schols. Bill Schock and Lud Stiller arrive to teach at
Godavari
|
| 56/12/02 |
School. James Dressman
arrives to join the staff of Godavari School
|
| 56 |
The first Swimming
Meet held
|
| 1957 | |
| 57/03/27 |
Col. Clarke came
to Godavari to inspect whether the school could be a Centre
for Senior Cambridge exams. (Class of 56 had to go to
Patna to give their SC exams. From 1957 the exams were
held in Nepal.
|
| 57/03/29 |
First Cambridge
results received- 2 first, 2 second, 1 third, 1 GCE. Exams were
taken in Patna (class of 56)
|
| 57/??/?? |
First Old Boys
Association of Godavari School begun by Fr. Niesen with Suraj
Nath Rauniyar, Shyam K.C. and a few others (contradicts diary
record below)
Old Boys’ Day started. |
| 57/ |
Fr. Chambers arrived
|
| 1958 | |
| 58/02/24 |
School. Patrick
Henry arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 58/03/29 |
Results of the
first Senior Cambridge exams held in Nepal (class of 57)
|
| 58/06/01 |
First mention of
Fr. Jack Lane being at Godavari
|
| 58/09/02 |
School. Edward
Kaciur and Casper Miller arrive to teach at Godavari
|
| 58/09/20 |
Francis the horse
arrives at Jawalakhel
|
| 58/11/10 |
School. Charles
Law and John Locke arrive to teach at Godavari
|
| 58/59 |
A major overhaul
was done in Nara Mahal by raising the roof and making a second
floor to it. A second 2-storey building added for unmarried
lay staff
. |
| 1959 | |
| 59/03/29 |
Easter Sunday.
Cambridge results-9 first, 4 second, 1 third. First Cambridge
exams in Nepal
|
| 59/06/20 |
Meeting of Old
Boys of Godavari School presided over by Fr. Niesen. Group call
themselves “Alma Mater's Call”
|
| 59/10/30 |
Godavari Elocution
contest held at Jawalakhel on the new stage in the quadrangle.
The winners were: Sr: Kalyan Thapa “My Financial Career”
and Jr: Yeberna Rana “Columbus”
|
| 59/11/05 |
School. Thomas
Gafney arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 59/12 |
Fr. Moran estab,lished
his HAM radio: Mickey Mouse 9NIMM. 1st contact was with
VU2IJ Jimmy Mistry in Bombay. (Pradyumna Rana – WB4NFO
later also became a HAM operator)
|
| 59/60 |
Boys’ library
was refurbished. Boys’, Masters’ and
Fathers’ kitches and the bakery – three separate rooms
were constructed.
|
| 1960 | |
| 60/02/04 |
The new boys' kitchen
nearing completion
|
| 60/05/09 |
Fr. Dick Curry
comes to work at Godavari until tertianship
|
| 60/05/12 |
First successful
production of gobar gas at Godavari by Fr. Saubolle
|
| 60/10/28 |
Lease signed
with Promode SS Rana for the rent of Xavier House (to be used
as an Alumi Centre and city office for Fr. Niesen)
|
| 60/11/26 |
Official opening
of Xavier House. Ribbon cut by Fr.Moran's mother who is visiting.
About 40 old boys present.
|
| 60 |
Boys’ washroom,
bathroom and showers in the upper Xavier Hall compound were
constructed.
|
| 60/61 |
The “New”
field
|
| 1961 | |
| 61/04/17 |
School. Martin
Coyne arrives in Nepal (with a boxer dog) to join the staff
|
| 61/05/08 |
Fr. Al Poovatil
and Schol. E. Beamish arrive to join the staff of Godavari
School.
Fr. Poovatil takes over as Minister from Fr. Saubolle |
| 61/07/01 |
Tenth anniversary
of Godavari School. program presented to audience of
students from Jawalakhel and St.Mary's
|
| 61/07/06 |
Leo Cachat and
Dick Moodey arrive to join staff of Godavari School
|
| 61/07/09 |
Official tenth
anniversary celebrations.
King Mahendra attended with the Home Minister, the Education Minister, the CNC (Kiran SS) and several members of the diplomatic corps |
| 61/10/31 |
Fr. James
Donnelly and Schol. Frank Hillebrand arrive to join the staff
|
| 61/08/21 |
Buildings in progress:
expansion of the boys' dining room renovation and expansion
of the western “guard house” for a science lab,
toilets and generator room
|
| 61/62 |
Boys’ dining
room was extended with one extra room. A smaller room
was added for use as Masters’ diring room (later turned
into clothes room)
|
| 61/62 |
A separate generator
room with an additional toilet was completed near the science
lab.
|
| 1962 | |
| 62/01/12 |
Reference to Schol.
Thomas Vilangpara at Godavari School.
|
| 62/01/17 |
Tom Gafney is spending
each afternoon during the holidays at Xavier House in an attempt
to develop the Alumni Centre
|
| 62/02/07 |
National Sports
Day, Fr. Niesen head referee, Fr. Moran chief announcer , Fr.
Watrin and Schol. Coyne also judges
|
| 62/03/27 |
Fr. Watrin takes
over from Fr. Niesen as Principal of Godavari School
|
| 62/06/06 |
Decision has been
taken and plans approved for a new building at Jawalakhel
|
|
It is to be a 10
room one-storied building (later permission extended to a second
floor third floor added with 'left-over materials)
|
|
| 62/06/12 |
Announcement
made that Fr. Moran has been awarded Gorkha Daksin Bahu III
|
| 62/06/21 |
Fr. James Donnelly
installed as Minister at Godavari
|
|
Fr. Dick Curry
arrives to join the staff of Godavari School as sub-minister
|
|
| 62/11/03 |
Br. Don Walter
arrives to join the staff of Godavari school
|
| 62/12/03 |
King Mahendra and
Queen Ratna make a surprise visit to Godavari
|
| 62/12/”” |
Godavari: Guest
House was completed
|
| 62/01/12 |
Renovation and
expansion of boys' dining room completed, masters' dining room
and sitting room nearly completed (between boys' dining room
and toilets)
|
| 62 |
Guest House with
two single rooms was completed.
|
| 62/63 |
Construction of
a 150’-long dormitory building having three equal sections
was started and named Gonzaga Hall when completed.
|
| 62 |
The “Bamboo”
Field located near the main entrance.
|
| 62 |
Wrestling Tournament
started after British wrestler Bill Robinson visited.
|
| 1963 | |
| 63/04/15 |
School. George
Thanappanal arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 63/07/01 |
School. Sebastian
Carri arrives to teach at Godavari School
|
| 63/07/16 |
Raju Pun, 5th standard
boy of Godavari, dies at Santa Bhavan Hospital of advanced TB
|
| 63/08/18 |
Current enrollment
at Godavari School: 200
|
| 63/08/27 |
Keshab SS. Thapa,
6th standard student at Godavari, dies in Santa Bhavan Hospital,
had been bitten by a mad dog, death due to allergic reactions
to injecions
|
| 63/09/08 |
Anniversary of
the founding of Jawalakhel School. Foundation stone for new
building laid and blessed
|
| 63/08/17 |
Work begun during
the summer holidays on the new building at Jawalakhel
|
| 63/64 |
The first tennis
court located across the road from the Bamboo field.
|
| 63/64 | Nara Mahal received major rennovation. |
| 63 |
Student Council
started
|
| 1964 | |
| 64/02/02 |
First day of new
school year first classes held in the new building at
Jawalakhel
|
| 64/03 |
Fr. Watrin becomes
Principal
|
| 64/04 |
School motto contest.
Chiranjibi Karki won: Live for God, Lead for Nepal
|
| 64/05/16 |
The first issue
of the Godavarian was published. Rajan Lal Maskey
– Editor.
|
| 64/07/01 |
School. Matthew
Monippolil arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 64/07/16 |
Fr. Lud Stiller
takes over as Minister at Godavari School and Moderator of Xavier
House
Fr. Jim Donnelly becomes Vice Principal |
| 64/11/24 |
Fr. Downing obtains
Nepali citizenship, the first to obtain citizenship under the
new law Fr. Moran had been given it before the law
|
| 64/65 |
Keshar Mahal field
north of the main road.
|
| 64 |
Closed retreat: days of orientated motivation – for
senior boys |
| 1965 | |
| 65/01/03 |
Fr. Stiller begins
weekly visits to Xavier house
|
| 65/01/25 |
Applications submitted
for new boys at Jawalakhel 300 applications submitted
|
| 65/02/01 |
School opened at
Jawalakhel 220 boarders
|
| 65/02/08 |
Wedding of Princess
Shanti to Dipak Singh (subsequently Raja)
|
| 65/03/14 |
School. Gary Gerwe
arrives to teach at Godavari
|
| 65/07/08 |
Francis the horse
died, buried in the backfield
|
| 65/07/31 |
Fr. Moran installed
as rector of Godavari School Niesen-Principal Jawalakhel
school, Treasurer and running ETS Fr. Downing-minister
for Jawalakhel community
|
| 65/10/24 |
Tea at Xavier House
for Senior Cambridge boys first one?
|
| 65/11/05 | Fr. Stiller spends each weekend at Xavier House |
| 65/11/18 |
Tenth Scout Anniversary
at Godavari. Crown Prince Birendra presides and
distributes the prizes
|
| 65/12/"" |
Godavari: first
building along west wall of lower compound built as a crafts
room and one additional classroom
|
| 65 |
Annual One-Act
Play. Silver team’s “The Bishop’s Candlesticks”
took first place, Gold team’s “Quack! Quack!”
came second and Red team’s “King John and the Abbot
of - Canterbury” came third.
|
|
Debating Festival
started. Green team won. Topics:
|
|
|
Sr – Boarding
schools are better than day schools in present day Asia
|
|
|
Jr – Sports
are better training for leadership than the student council.
|
|
| General Knowledge Quiz Contest started | |
|
Mental Arithmetic
Contest started
|
|
|
Junior Red Cross
started
|
|
|
The Best Boy Award:
Rajan Lal Maskey was named the Best Boy. Bijay Krishna
and Sriram Mathe were runner-ups.
|
|
| 65/08 | Scout Carnival held at Jawalakhel. Each of the troop’s 24 patrols has a booth |
| 65/10/25 |
English Elocution
Contest held in town (in the Police Club Hall?).
|
| 1966 | |
| 66/02/26 |
Fr. Stiller holds
elections for the first president of GAA
[subsquently-Kumar] Khadga Bk. Shah elected first president |
| 66/04/21 |
School. Mathew
Mannaparambil and Joseph Njarakulam arrive to teach at Godavari
|
| 66/05/07 |
School. Joe Mannaravelil
arrives to join the staff of Godavari School
|
| 66/05/29 |
Wedding of Princess
Sharda to Khadga BK . Shah
|
| 66/12/"" |
Godavari : Third
large classroom built along the western wall in lower compound
|
| 66 |
Scout-O-Rama started.
|
| 1967 | |
| 67/01/24 |
Fr. Locke becomes
Vice Principal at Godavari replacing Fr. Donnelly
|
| 67/04/10 |
Fr. Miller installed
as Principal at Jawalakhel
|
| 67/05 |
The Godavarian
appeared in printed form – a new look.
|
| 67/07/01 |
Fr. Locke announced
as Principal of Godavari School
Fr. Tom Gafney becomes Vice Principal |
| 67/07/21 |
School. Don Brugger
arrives, assigned to study Nepali and help out at Jawalakhel
|
| 67/08/26 |
GAA quiz contest
at Rastriya Nach Ghar (first one?)
|
| 67/10/11 |
First mention of
School. Augustine Ambrose being in Nepal
|
| 67/12/"" |
Godavari: cemented
tennis court in upper compound completed
|
| 67/01/23 |
New kitchen at
Jawalakhel completed
|
| 1968 | |
| 68/01/14 |
Snow fall at Godavari
at 2:30 PM
|
| 68/04 |
Aluminium plates
and cups were replaced by chinaware in the dining room.
|
| 68/06/28 |
Completion of Fr.
Stiller's book: Prithwinarayan Shah in the Light
of the Dibya Upadesh
|
| 68/08/28 |
Corporation electricity
installed at Godavari inaugurated today
|
| 68/10-11 |
Speaking Nepali
was permitted on Sundays, holidays and at picnics. Wearing
of Nepali
Daura-suruwal on Saturdays (tea time) and Sundays (lunch time) |
| 68/11/01 | Decided to move primary boarding to Godavari & high school to Jawalakhel |
| 68/12/03 |
School closes move
of schools begins Br. Karpinski comes to help
bulldozer brought in to make proper playing fields in back of Jawalakhel School |
| 1969 | |
| 69/01/09 |
Official shift
of communities- primary school to Godavari , high school to
Jawalakhel
Fr. Downing arrives to be Minister at Godavari |
| 69/02/07 | School starts |
|
Godavari:
Rector-Fr.Moran (Rector of both schools), Minister-Fr.
Downing, Principal - Fr. Miller
|
|
| Jawalakhel: Superior & Principal-Fr. Locke, Minister Fr. Dressman | |
| 69/02/07 |
Fr. Watrin becomes
director of GAA, Fr. Stiller remains as Moderator
|
| 69/09/02 |
Fr. Frank McGough
arrives in Nepal to teach at Jawalakhel for a year and a half
|
| 69/10/25 |
School. Bill Leurck
arrives to teach at Jawalakhel
|
| 69/12/03 |
Jawalakhel made
separate community. Fr. Gafney installed first rector
Fr. Cachat-Principal |
| 69/12/31 |
GAA moved into
its new, not quite completed building
|
| 69/""/"" |
Fr. Stiller becomes
the third Jesuit to obtain Nepal citizenship (after Fr. Moran
and Fr. Downing)
|
| 1970 | |
| 70/02/12 |
Schol. Lawrence
Brooks arrives in Nepal to join the staff of St. Xavier's School,
Jawalakhel.
|
| 70/05/18 |
Br. John Harris,
Holy Cross Brother from Dacca, arrives for a visit
|
| 70/06/"" |
Fr. Gafney rents
part of Mahendra Youth Hostel to begin social work
the first beginnings of what later
became St. Xavier's Social Service Centre
|
| 70/08/28 |
Fr. Kaciur appointed
Minister at Jawalakhel Fr. Dressman
appointed to Xavier House
|
| 70/10/15 |
Ram Nath Sharma,
Tamilian who is the oldest lay teacher at the schools ,dies
at Santa Bhavan
|
| 1971 | |
| 71/03/26 |
Rector St. X informed
by the Ed. Minister that St. Xavier's (Godavari and Jawalakhel)
will have to conform to provisions of the new education plan
and convert the schools to Nepali medium matric schools plan
to come into effect 73/04/13 (030/l/1)
|
| 71/07/15 |
Fr. Jack Ferguson
of the California Province comes to teach in the school at Jawalakhel
for one year
|
| 71/07/'''' |
Fr. Niesen returns
to Nepal to participate in celebrations for the 20th anniversary
of the opening of Godavari School
|
| 71/09/22 |
Fr.Martin Coyne
installed as Rector of Godavari School succeding Fr. Moran
|
| 71/11/22 |
Fr. Miller received
his Nepali citizenship
|
| 71/12/30 |
Auditorium under
construction at Godavari
|
| 1972 | |
| 72/03/11 |
King Birendra and
Queen Aishwarya visit Godavari
|
| 72/06/23 |
Fr. Charles Law
(on a cycle, holding an umbrella, in the pouring rain and on
the way to the dentist) collides with a mini-bus resulting in
severe facial lacerations, broken jaws and considerably more
work for the dentist
|
| 72/08/13 |
Official date of
the formation of the Nepal Jesuit Society, i.e. the date of
association contained in the original articles of association,
not the date of the registration of the Society
Director: Fr.Gafney Deputy
Dir: Fr.Stiller Secretary:
Fr.Moran Tresurer: Fr. Downing
|
| 72/11/23 |
Fr. Downing suffers
slight stroke at Godavari no permanent damage put on
medication for high blood pressure
|
| 72/12/14 |
Date of the official
registration of the Nepal Jesuit Society (2029/08/14)
|
| 72/73 |
Three private one-storey
residence buildings for married Masters constructed below Keshar
Mahal.
|
| 1973 | |
| 73/05/'''' |
Publication of
Fr. Locke's book: Rato Matsyendranath of Patan and Bungamati
by the Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Historical Series
No. 5
|
| 73/06/28 |
Fr. Coyne gets
his Nepali citizenship papers
|
| 73/07/'''' |
Scholastics Don
Serva (DET) and Frank Clooney (NY) in Nepal for two years of
regency at St. Xavier's school
|
| 73/09/01 |
First of a long
series of English exams conducted by Fr. Donnelly at St. Xavier's
for candidates for jobs at RNAC first lot: 313 candidates tested
for two openings as Cabin Attendants
|
| 73/09/11 |
Fr. Stiller's book
“The Rise of the House of Gorkha, A Study in the Unification
of Nepal, 1768-1816
|
| 1974 | |
| 74/02/04 |
Both schools open
for the year with the New Education Plan implemented in classes
1, 4, and 8 the new syllabus moves up thereafter year
by year
|
| 74/03/12 |
Death of Fr. Edward
Niesen, former Superior of Godavari School, at Holy Family Hospital
in Delhi
|
| 74/07/1 |
Br. John Harris,
CSC arrives to teach in St. Xavier's School after working in
Holy Cross schools in Bangladesh for seventeen years
|
| 74/07/18 |
Fr. Art Rutledge
arrives in Nepal about this time to teach at Jawalakhel for
two years
|
| 74/08/31 |
Celebration today
and tomorrow at Godavari for Fr. Moran's Golden Jubilee in the
Society
|
| 74/10/21 |
Fr. Larry Brooks
ordained at Jawalakhel by Bp. Eric Benjamin of Darjeeling service
in Nepali with a commentary by Fr. Antu Sharma of Darjeeling
the first ordination in Nepal
|
| 74/""/" |
Sometime during
this year Br. Bruno Karpinski came to Nepal to join the Godavari
Community, takes charge of craft
|
| 1975 | |
| 75/01/01 |
GAA is asked to
organize country-wide Hockey and Basketball tournaments to be
held on the occasion of the coronation of the King. Fr. Donnelly
organises the basketball tournament
|
| 75/11/27 |
Fr. Locke obtains
Nepali citizenship (11/08/33)
|
| 75/12/12 |
Admissions being
processed at Godavari 296 boys tested and interviewed
|
| 75/12/24 |
Fr. Cap Miller
leaves Godavari to join the Research Centre Fr.
Marty Coyne becomes Principal of Godavari School
|
| 1976 | |
| 76/01/19 |
Schol. Lawrence
Maniyar joins the staff of Godavari School, teaches there until
October
|
| 76/02/11 |
Fr. James Dressman
installed as Rector of St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel
|
| 76/03/30 |
Research Centre
made a separate community Fr. John Locke installed as the first
superior
|
| 76/06/'''' |
Fr. Allan Starr
comes to Nepal, replaces Fr. Donnelly who goes for home leave
|
| 76/11/01 |
Fr. Ed Kaciur leaves
Nepal for Manila where he will leave the Society
|
| 76/11/"'' |
Publication of
Fr. Stiller's book: The Silent Cry, The people of Nepal 1816-1839,
by Sahayagi Prakashan
|
| 76/''''/'''' | |