The 1971 BA Economics batch of Vivekananda College brings a pattern to its reunions

1971 batch of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in BA (Economics) organises a reunion meet on May 1 every year

Five decades would have elapsed since they graduated from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in BA (Economics), but this 1968-71 batch managed to roll back the years in no time.

They became school students once again, instantly. Some of them had brought their spouses along, but that was not going to stop them from being childlike once again.

The reunion happened on May 1 at The Mylapore Club. Thirty-nine alumni were in attendance, some with their spouses.

It was the third reunion of the Alumni Association Vivekananda College BA (Economics).

“During a social gathering, one involving a wedding in a classmate’s family, we decided to form an alumni association exclusively for our batch.

A small group of us have been meeting unofficially for the last six years. In 2022, we formalised May 1 as reunion day. Only the venue changes,” says P.T. Murthy, who along with S. Veeramani, initiated an exercise to bring the classmates together.

The batch had 80 students and “We are in our 70s now and it is not easy to gather all our friends together, so we insisted that each of us bring one new person to the meet-up,” says Murthy, a chartered accountant turned developer.