Another Sporting Moment!

As Cottonians, all of us will remember our heroes smashing records and winning medals for Cottons at the Inter School Athletics Competitions...For those who studied in the 70's, names such as Nandini Prasad, Hema Shetty, Nirmal Cariappa, and Kala Arasi will strike a chord...Mind you there were hosts of other champs...my apologies..their names escape me at the moment!

The non sporting ones like me sat in the stands of Kanteerava Stadium and cried ourselves hoarse :
"GINGER LIME AND SODA POP...WE WANT COTTONS ON THE TOP"
and "2 4 6 8 ... WHOM DO WE APPRECIATE? .... COTTONS"
or "KALA" (clap clap clap) "KALA" (clap clap clap) "KA la ... SHhhhhhh....Quiet Girls! Swaree says HUSH!!! Don't distract the girls!...."

The competition and rivalry at the School Sports was equally fanatic...our own version of Quidditch...when the 3 houses in those days Barton Maiden and Foley were pitted against each other "in the spirit of sportmanship to the honour and glory of sports"!

So against this background here is a classic... Latha Gowda or GOWDI, as Suaree christened her, from Maiden House and Nimmi Ramakrishnan (not Rao as I first posted, thanks Lakshmi Daniel) relegate Barton House darling and Queen of Sports Kala Arasi to 3rd place in the Discuss Competition in 1977! (...Lakshmi thinks Nimmi was also in Barton)

Face spotters will enjoy the picture of Latha receiving her prize from chief guest Sr Vaughn who was principal of Sophia's. We can spy Miss James, and a bunch of Foleyites - Maya Mathani, Shanthalakshmi, Jyoti Devraj Havilah, Lisa Koshy, and Amina and of course Latha's many Baby Dorm PHANS perched on the parapet!

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