AFVOA Newletters of Year 2005

Page 7 of 75 Survey Result, and the team awarded points. The winners were the team comprising Ms Kesika Devi, Capt CR Neelakantan, Ms Chitra Rajan, Lt Col VS Rajan and Brig VA Subramanyam. 19. Mrs. Sulochana Krishnaswami and Col A Krishnaswami, VrC, VSM**conducted the next game which was to Name the Country with the help of given clues. An example of a clue was - It is used as a lubricant, the answer obviously being Greece. It was an enjoyable game and the team who won the earlier game, romped home as winners here also. 20. Mrs Lalitha Mohandas, duly assisted by Gp Capt Mohandas conducted the next game, which was titled ”Quiz-O-Car”. Twenty words which began with the word CAR had to deciphered based on the clues given out. In order to assist the members, the number of letters in the word was also indicated in parenthesis. To cite an example - A vegetable car of six letters meant C A R R O T (6). Mrs. Chitkala Govindaswamy, Mrs. Sulochana Krishnaswami, Mrs. Sridevi Parthasarathy, Mrs. Chattaraman and Wg Cdr J Natarajan, bagged the prizes. 21. The last of the games prior to lunch was conducted by Mrs. Sulochana Alexander. This again had to do with writing down the name of the place with the clue which was pictorially depicted. To illustrate, the clue was a picture of a snake + - - r. The answer was the Hindi word for snake “NAG” to which one had to add “PUR”, to get “NAGPUR”. This proved to be the toughest of the written games. Nevertheless Mrs. Chitkala Govindaswamy, Col A Krishnaswami, Maj CA Parthasarathy and Air Mshl S Raghavan came out as worthy winners. 22. As soon as this game concluded, Mrs Lalitha Mohandas was requested to render a song. Her rendition of “India, this is India”- a song sung with patriotic fervor struck the right chord. On popular request, she sang the ever favourite “Hari Om Hari”, where the entire gathering joined her by clapping. Major Parthasarathy then entertained the gathering with his Mouth Organ. He played two old evergreen melodies which enthralled the members. Thereafter, Mrs Raji Raghavachari ,Mrs Chitkala Govindaswamy, Lt Col R. Ramachandran, Maj Gen N Viswanathan and Brig Balachandran, regaled the gathering with numerous jokes. 23. Lunch was announced. The members were tired due to playing the strenuous games, with the result that the puris, pulav, gobi mutter, dal makhani and the other tasty dishes spread out, vanished in minutes. And to round up all this was the delicious hot jelabis, with cold ice cream topped with fruit salad. The meal was so good and filling, that it was difficult to keep the eyes open and move in for the next item of the programme which was the Tombola. 24. The first game of Tombola, was played with cards given out to the members gratis. The prizes were selected gifts which the organizing Committee had specially chosen. Thereafter two more houses were conducted by Smt Rajeswari Raghavachari and Brig VA Subramanyam. The winners of the full houses in the three games played were Capt CR Neelakantan, Wg Cdr K Rajagopal and Lt Col T Janardhan Reddy. 25. Once the Tombola was over, the prize distribution ceremony was held. The Secretary requested Mrs Sudha Raghavan to give away the prizes to the winners of the games as well as those who helped in conducting them. Later Mrs. Govindaswamy gave away Souvenirs, which were provided by the kind courtesy of Col R Subramanian, of the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industries. Packets of Mosquito coils thanks to Lt Col Sundar were also given to the Veterans. Nobody left the picnic disappointed - everybody got something or the other - in fact a few needed extra bags to cart their gifts home!!! 26. The President thanked the Organising committee profusely and thanked the veterans and their families for their wholehearted support without which the picnic would not have been a success. He had a special word of thanks for those members who had sent in contributions