School Days

Fouz:

Thanks for a gratifying trip down memory lane. St Pat's is a grand old school, and you evidently did very well there.

Ejaz

A mesmerizing account of your school days.

‘They were sporadic flashes of images, a cacophony of sounds, wafts of scent too intimate to name and a mélange of colours all mixed up to be recognizable; but they were strong, and I could no longer contain myself from walking inside and sitting on one of the benches in front of the Primary Section.’

Brilliantly articulated. Nearly every visit to Karachi includes a trip to my own alma mater.

‘Outside of my life at home, I owe perhaps everything to St Patricks.’

That says it all. As I do to St. Josephs!

Thre was one just as good in Lahore. 'St Anthony's High School' on Lawrence Road. Iit was run by Patrician Brothers from Ireland.

What an institution. It produced international level sportsmen, soldiers, politicians, civil servants and businessmen. Even today, most of the top brass in Pakistan belongs to this institution.

But what was so special about it?
Character building, self motivation, confidence building and a spirit of adventure. Most it was like St. Patricks, an inclusive institution.

Right now, Bishop Lobo who had been the Principal of St Pats and myself strive to raise the first university college of similar stature in Pakistan.

fouz mian,

.... father raymond must be turning in his grave ! ...... first he had to listen to musharraf butcher the english language for nine years and now you have managed to destroy whatever was left of st pat's reputation ........ i could not get past the first paragraph

..... chowk staff, please pull this article off the fp and send it to fouz's sixth grade english teacher for corrections ........ i hope she gives him three raps on the knuckles with a ruler (aka foota) for making her look like a fool !

I was at St Patricks in Karachi, and it was the most miserable dump I ever saw. Not a blade of grass on the grounds. Eagles would hover overhead during recess, and one of the bastards actually swept down and grabbed the french toast I was eating as lunch, and flew away. That lady teacher was a b#$%^h who caught me reading a comic book in class and took it away and never returned it - I was told she did this regularly to avoid paying for her own comic books. And then there was that sob sadist who picked up a student with both ears. The missionary father had the face of a constipated mummy. Musharraf was one of the pathetic specimen produced by that joint.

Needless to say, once I got the picture, I conveyed it to the bosses (my parents) who then put me in kindly old Mrs. Jennings school, where I first learnt that Pakistan was part of Asia. Although that school cant have been much either - I understand one of the pathetic specimen it produced was "gimme third term" benazir.

Re: # 5

Was this school run by Irish Christian Brothers?

There are quite few of them spread over India .India gov since Independence have been Indianising it by refusing any new visa to 'unmarried irish christian brothers '.

The buildings are elegant built more than 100years ago

it was built basically to teach the Anglo only .Now its just another english medium school who has a sari wearing principal with no european discipline

Re: # 3 IG
"...one just as good in Lahore. 'St Anthony's High School' on Lawrence Road. It was run by Patrician Brothers from Ireland."

Now Cecil Chaudhry (ex-PAF) runs it. Nawaz Sharif didn't exactly have his name up on the Roll Of Honour there!

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Re: # 7
The Prinipal now is Noel Cyprian.
Cecil Chaudry is the Principal of St Mary's Lalazar, Rawalpindi.
Yes Nawaz Sharif, Salman Taseer, Mushahid Hussain, Majid Khan, at some stage Imran Khan, Javed Burki, Kamran Lashari, Ishaq Dar, Ramiz Raja,Shabbir Sharif Shaheed,Khwaja Harris and his brother Waqas all studied there.

Re: # 9
Thanks for the update; what was YOUR year there?

tahmed32: BB's character flaws could also be blamed on her later education (at Convent of Jesus and Mary and Karachi Grammar School!). All the girls I ever met from CJM were actually exactly as snotty as she was, come to think of it.

Rabia,
She studied at Presentation Convent Rawalpindi and not J&M.
Tahie,
I was Zubair's Colleague, but he did Matric.

I think she studied in quite a few different schools... Jennings and CJM in Karachi and then presentation convent and then murree and finally kgs. Maybe I'm wrong about cjm, but I have heard of her mentioned as their most famous alumna.

but do you really feel she was snotty?

Afterall she had to live and fight in a man's world.

#14 Posted by ijaz_gul,

Benazir was arrogant as hell. Scornful is the word I think. And this is first-hand.

did she shout at you?