AFVOA Newletters of Year 2009

Page 3 of 37 ARMED FORCES VETERAN OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION CHENNAI (Established 1994) (Registered Under Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. 1975) Registration Certificate No. 3/2004 Patron Lt Gen C Sundara Rao, PVSM Tele: 24461085 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Maj Gen A Balasubrahmanian AVSM Sigs Tele: 24993148 Brig Mohan Thomas, AOC Tele: 22294080 Lt Col CR Sundar, Madras Tele: 22290186 Lt Col M Narayanan, Engrs Tele: 24488546 No 3 of 2009 Newsletter #03/2009 25 May 2009 (FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS ONLY) The next bi-monthly meeting will be held at the Palm Grove Ecological Park and Sports Complex, Island Grounds on Sunday, 28 Jun 2009. It will be our Annual General Meeting. The meeting will commence with Tambola at 1800 h. AGM will start at 1900 h. Please read on for further details. The Only gift is a portion of thyself Ralph Waldo Emerson From the ‘Editorial Team On to New Horizons When disparate consciences of discerning men and women can be harmonized into unison the outcome could well astonish the casual observer. This is exactly what is happening in our Association. Though all our members have the common antecedent of having served in our Armed Forces, in thinking and outlook each of us is a separate person with matured individual ism and distinct ive personal ity. Certainly the common threads of character and patr iotism str ings us together and yet