Lawrence School, Lovedale Totally Explained

Everything about Lawrence School Lovedale totally explained

The Lawrence School, Lovedale (near Ootacamund ), Tamil Nadu, is named after Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence. Lawrence had mooted the idea about the establishment of a chain of schools with a view to provide education to the children of the deceased and serving soldiers and officers of the British army. Lawrence was himself killed in the Indian rebellion of 1857, also called India’s First War of Independence. His dream took shape and four such schools, initially known as Lawrence Asylum, were established in different parts of India: the first two during his lifetime in the year 1847 at Sanawar, the second at Mount Abu in 1856; the third at Ootacamund in 1858 and the fourth in Ghora Gali, Murree in 1860, (Murree was then a part of undivided India, but became part of Pakistan after partition).

The name, emblem and motto

In the year 1913, the name of the school was changed from Lawrence Asylum to Lawrence Memorial School. On being accorded the royal patronage in 1922, the name of the school was changed in 1925 to the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School. Soon after India’s independence, the school was handed over to the civilian authorities of Government of India in 1949 and the name of the school was changed to the Lawrence School.
As the school was located in Lovedale, the school and Lovedale became synonymous, and the school became familiar as simple 'Lovedale', by which name it continues to be widely known.
The motto of the school is "NEVER GIVE IN" as visible in the school emblem. The motto embodies the spirit of the Lawrencian – to pursue a task to its fullest, giving one’s best at all times. The motto is believed to instil in the pupils the spirit of excellence and the tenacity to overcome obstacles and blocks to achieve one’s goals.

The campus

The Lawrence School, Lovedale, has a sprawling campus of 750 acres (3 km²). Lovedale, six kilometres (3.7 miles) from Ootacamund, is located at a height of 7200 feet over sea level, slightly lower than the Dodabetta peak (altitude: 8000 feet), the highest peak of the mountain ranges of the Niligiris. The school campus is divided into prep school, junior school and senior school based on the classes.
   Prep school - Class 4 to Class 6
   Junior School - Class 7 & Class 8
   Senior School - Class 9 to Class 12
   The classrooms and dormitories of the different schools are housed in the respective buildings. All the girls are housed in the girl's school and are required to go to the respective schools for classes. Though the campus is huge, the built up area is only 45 acres (0.2 KM²).

The school songs

Never Give In
   At the dawn of life's endeavour
   With our hopes strung high we stand
   In our childhood's home which ever
   Spreads wide her bounteous hand.
   Here a glorious inspiration
   From our founder we'll surely win
   And with strong determination
   Play the game and Never Give In. Chorus: Lawrencians! Lawrencians!
   Keep the dear old school in mind.
   With strength in our hearts to play our parts
   Thrust fear and wrong behind.
   We'll live our lives 'mid stress and strife
   With the power and the will to win
   And we'll show the world, our flag unfurled
   With our watchword Never Give In.
   At the noon of life's endeavour
   While we toil to win the prize
   There'll be memories naught can sever
   Thru heart and soul they'll rise.
   To the Blue Hills they'll restore us
   From the heat and toil and din
   To the home whose haunting chorus
   Still rings out its Never Give In. (Chorus) At the eve of life's endeavour
   While the sands of our work run dry
   All Lawrencians dull and clever
   Will hear the loud "Well done."
   And our rest will be the better
   From convictions so deep within
   That in spirit and in letter
   We did strive and Never Give In. Words: R. H. Rolfe (1928) Music: J. Hennesey Sabse Sundar Sabse sundar jag se pyaara
   Vidya ka yeh dhaam hamaara
   Shobha iski ati hi nyaari
   Iski shaan niraali hai.
   Neelagiri yahan neelagagan
   Yahan neelavan shital samiran
   Shobha iski ati hi nyaari
   Iski shaan niraali hai.
   Iska naam amar karenge
   Iski shaan badhayenge
   Bal-buddhi mein sarvottam ho
   Veer Lawrencya kahaayenge.
   Haar na maanenge, hum haar na maanenge
   Haar na maane, haar na maane, haar na maanenge! Lawrencia Nilgiri Hills, the home of our Schooldays,
   Where once we learnt that great Lawrence rule;
   All our lives, through highways and by-ways,
   Lingers the memory of dear old Lawrence School.
   Distance may part and seas may divide us,
   Fortunes may frown and ardours grow cool,
   But, still, these words will inspire us,
   Never Give In the motto of our School.
   Where'er you go keep this in mind,
   The darkest cloud is silver lined.
   What'er the future holds for you,
   Lawrencians to your School be true. Words and Music by Bandmaster J.B.Hunt, M.M., IX Lancers.
Eminent old Lawrencians
ARTS / LITERATURE / JOURNALISM HY MONEY (nee Hyacinth Price-Daniels) - UK's FIRST Woman Sports Photographer
   Nicholas Horsburgh - Author
   Arundhati "Suzie" Roy - Author of Booker Prize winning novel The God of Small Things
   Zayd Yar Khan - Creative Director, Dynamite Digital Media Padmashree Anjolie Ela Menon - Artist (Padmashree Award Winner)
   Neena Heble - Artist
   Mr. Shanth Kumar - Proprietor, Deccan Herald
   Madan Mohan Rao - Reuters
   Farrokh Chothia - Leading Fashion Photographer
   Pratap Pothen - Actor & Director
   Arish Fyzee - Film Director
   Anand Parthasarthy - Music and Film critic Akshaye Khanna - Actor
   Zaffar Hai - Film Producer/AD Films
   Malini White - Director, Amateur Theater
   Adil Gandhy - Art Gallery Chemould
   Rukhmini Krishnan - Interior Designer/Costume designer
   Kapila Venu - Bharatnatyam
   Revathi Swaminathan Mukherjee - Producer of award winning film on "Silent Valley".
   N Chandramohan, Ph.D - Consulting Editor, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi CORPORATE WORLD Arjun Rajaratnam - V.P. Compliance, GlaxoSmithKline
   Nadir Yar Khan - Marketing Manager, W.J.Towell's Consumer Products Division Sashi Reddi - CEO, AppLabs M.A. Alagappan - Chairman, Murugappa Group
   Mathew Antony - CEO, Softscan
   Zarir Batliwala - Director-HR, Hewlett Packard India
   Krishnadeva Rao, MD, Orient Longmann & Co.
   Theo Devagnamam - CEO, Needle Industries
   Rajiv.K.Shivashankaran - CEO, Benchmark Softec Limited
   Jose Dominic - CEO, Casino Hotels Groups
   Michael Horsburgh - GM, Holiday Inn, Bangkok
   Niloufer Kapadia - CEO, Everest Advertising
   Vikram Kirlosker - Kirloskar Industries
   Anand Gopal Mahindra - Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
   Vice Admiral Krishna Raina, AVSM - Chief of Logistics, Indian Navy
   Rear Admiral Anil K. Chopra, AVSM - Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet
   Arvind Mathew - Managing Director and President, Ford (India)
   Aditya Menon - Proprietory Software Co. - Visual Web
   V. Narayanan - Former Chairman, Ponds
   Raghu Ravunni Palat - banker
   Viju Parameshwar - President & CEO, Klueber Lubrication
   K V L Narayan Rao - Group CEO & Executive Director, NDTV M. M. Murugappan, Chiarman, Carborundum Universal (CUMI) Ltd.,
   M.M. Sundaram - CEO, Tusker Paper Boxes
   Abraham Tharakan - CEO, Amalgam
   Ramesh Venketaswaran -
   A. Palaniappan, MD, Chess Management Services Pvt. Ltd.
   Nikhil Chandra Varma - Skills Enhancement, EDS BUREAUCRACY / ARMED FORCES / POLITICAL / BANKING Rear Admiral K.R. Menon - Defence Analyst/Author
   Brig. A.I.S. Dhillon, VSM,Col. of the Garhwal Rifles
   T Gundan - ex-Member of Legislative Assemby, Ooty
   Ashok Koshy - IAS Gujarat Cadre
   Latika Saran - IPS Tamilnadu Cadre
   Wing Cdr. Ravi Kapoor - Senior Pilot Jet Air
   Rajesh Vidyasagar - World Bank
   Capt. Lal Sadrangani - Boeing Capt., Air India Retd.
   Capt. Gubby Krishnan - Capt. Indian Airlines Retd. SOCIAL WORK / NGO Srilatha Swaminathan - Social Activism
   Nomita Chandy - Ashraya and Citizens Action Group
   Dr. Uttara Vidyasagar - Vishawas Nikhi Dey - Associate of Aruna Roy -(Magsaysay awardee) Social activist on Right to Information
   Vipul Purohit - State President (Youth Wing ) - Socialist Party, Rajasthan
   Shireen Vakil Miller - Head of Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children (Bal Raksha Bharat) DOCTORS / MEDICAL Dr. Sherene Devanesen (Nee Hensman) - Director,Medical Services, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria
   Dr Kenneth Hine ) - Kendal, Cumbria, U.K.
   Lieut.Commander (Dr.) Salim Joseph Thomas- Nao Sena Medal- Indian Navy (Retired)-Member and Doctor of the First Indian Scientific Expedition to Antactica-Practising Oncologist and Surgeon-Apollo Cancer Hospital Chennai-Professor of Surgery-Saveeta Institute of Medical and Technological Sciences, Chennai.
   Dr.Dilaawar Mistry - Co-Medical Director of Sports Medicine, University of Virginia, Team Physician - USA Swimming, Charlottesville, VA, USA ACADEMIC HONOURS / EDUCATIONAL/ TEACHING / RESEARCH Harsha E. Chacko, Ph.D. - Professor, Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration, University of New Orleans
   Dr. K. George Chandy, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. - Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (External Link). K. Mani Chandy, Ph.D. - Simon Ramo Chair Professor and Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology. Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (External Link).
   R.P. Gokarn - Professor of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur
   Shanto Iyengar, Ph.D. - Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communications, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Laboratory, Stanford University (External Link).
   Uday Karmakar, Ph.D. - Times Mirror Chair Professor in Management & Policy and Research Director of the Center for Management in the Information Economy at the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Received the Distinguished Service Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 2006 (External Link).
   Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ph.D., Professor of Collective Bargaining, Comparative Industrial Relations & Asian Studies at the Industrial Labor Relations School, Cornell University (External Link). Ravi Arvind Palat, Ph.D., Political Economist and Historical Sociologist (External Link) Rashna Batliwala Singh, Ph.D. Professor of English and author of "Goodly is Our Heritage: Children’s Literature, Empire, and the Certitude of Character" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); "The Imperishable Empire: British Fiction on India" (Three Continents Press, 1988); contributor to "Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002). One of two professors in the state awarded the Massachusetts Council for International Education Lectureship.
   Sangram S. Sisodia, Ph.D., Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of Neurosciences, Dept. of Neurobiology, and Director, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Chicago (External Link). SOCIALITES/BEAUTY WORLD Meher Mistry - Miss India - Fashion Design
   Neena Pillai
   Roopa Satyan - Miss India & Miss Young India 1972
   Gul Kirat Panag - Miss India 1998 SPORTS N.C. Subbhiah - Equestrian
   J.J. Chakola III - Silver Medallist, Doha Asian Games 2007
   Jennifer Fraser Nandi - Adventure Sports
   Col. Ravi Shanmugam - Golf
   Kirtana Bidappa - Golf
   Sherbir Panag - Shooting India
The Affiliation

Currently, the school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
Member of IPSC
Member of RSIS
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