AFVOA Newletters of Year 2003

Page 158 of 170 b) Sow Srividya, daughter of Wg Cdr J Ramani was married to Chi Dinesh Kumar, on 30 Oct at Chennai. c) Shri VS Arun son of Smt and Brig VA Subramanyam, was married to Sow Latha, daughter of Smt and Shri P. R. Vaidyanathan on 12th Nov at Chennai. Life Partners Required 49. Rear Admiral A Ganesh, AVSM, VSM, is looking for an alliance for his elder son, who was commissioned into the Executive Branch of Indian Navy in 1999. The boy is fair, 170 cms in height, 26 years of age, and is now posted at Vishakapatnam. His birth Star is Poosam, and they are lyers, and belong to Srivatsa Gothram. For more details please visit “www.tamilmatrimony.com ” - M203489” which will provide details of profile, photograph and horoscope. Expectations are that the girl should be fair, smart and reasonably good looking, most of all, capable of adjusting to the transferable job, if pursuing a career. For further particulars, please contact the Admiral at: B-13, Manmohan Park, Bibavewadi, PUNE 411 037. Tel: 020 – 428 3184; E – Mail: radmaganesh@vsnl.net Data Sheets 50. The response to our appeal, to complete the data forms and return them to us, has been quite poor till date. About 25 percent of our members have completed the forms and retuned the same. We once again APPEAL to the balance numbers to return the forms duly completed. This will facilitate in keeping in touch with you both by talking and writing. ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ Editorial Team Contributions/Assistance From Brig V A Subramanyam Tele: 2491 7446 Wg Cdr M E Muthu; Tele 2441 6289 Wg Cdr Ravi Mani Tele: Tele 2491 6705 ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ ˵ Obituary 51. The members of AFVOA mourn the demise of the following: a) Wg Cdr I G Bhaskar, F(P), passed away on 23 Oct 2003. He was 59 years of age. He had flown almost all the transport aircraft in the IAF inventory. He is survived by Stella Bhaskar, his wife and two children. {tele No 2229 2046} b) Shri T. Jayaraman, retired from Defence Accounts and father of our member, Col J Natarajan, Engrs passed away on 03 Nov 2003, after a long illness, {tele: 2240 2034) c) Capt NGP Bhat, passed away in Nigeria, where he had gone to visit his son {tele no 5218 4500. d) Mrs Hema Krishnaswamy, wife of Cmde TN Krishnaswamy, passed away on 03 Dec 2003. The Commodore was President of AFVOA during 1997 – 98. At that time Mrs Hema Krishnaswamy was instrumental in finalizing Maharaj as the caterers. The present caterer is the nephew of that Maharaj. {tele no 2493 5753} PVC Winners 52. As mentioned earlier, brief accounts about 2 Lt Arun Khetarpal, and Major Hoshiar Singh, the other two winners of the Param Vir Chakra during the 1971 operations are given below. 53.