Environment Affinity

Group

Aditya Manral

This year saw the creation of the Alumni Environment Affinity Group. The group aims to bring together alumni, staff and friends of the school having a common interest in or affiliation with the environment, whether through profession, hobby, or avocation. Interested alumni who represent the field have met a couple of times virtually and are eager to connect with others from our community. Darab Nagarwalla, Class of 1980 and former staff, is one of the regular attendees and a naturalist who talks about his association with the group.

I was excited to discover that a Zoom meeting was being organized by the Advancement and Alumni Relations Office to initiate the Alumni Environmental Affinity Group. The first virtual interaction allowed many alumni spanning all the way from the 60’s to a current senior at Woodstock to share a brief introduction about themselves and speak about their interests.

It was heartwarming to experience the enthusiasm and passion with which all the members of the group spoke. I was excited to discover the wide range of work fields represented in my fellow alumni including forestry, community forest management, water and gender, water management, climate change, political advocacy and solid waste

Sports Affinity Group

Sports Affinity Group Committee Members

The Alumni Sports Affinity Group was formed this year. Picking up from the virtual sessions on sports that took place in 2021 and 2022 during the FWS/WOSA virtual reunions, Jamie Alter ’99 and Suheil Tandon ’06 took the idea of forming the Sports Affinity Group along the lines of the already established Artist Affinity Group and met with other alumni interested in forming the group.

The group is still in its infancy and would welcome more participants from the management, among others. The range of work experiences and expertise on offer was also exciting. After some general discussion we focused on how we might potentially initiate some collaborative projects with the school on and around the school campus and Landour hillside. alumni community who either represent sports professionally or have an interest in the field. The steering committee for the Sports Affinity Group represented by Former Head of Sports Ajay Mark ’71, Jamie Alter ’99, Suheil Tandon ’06, and Prithvi Ramakrishnan ’06, would like to invite other members of our community who are interested in contributing towards leading this group to reach out and join the committee.

We came up with some potential themes around which smaller groups could be formed with common interests for ease of functioning. The themes suggested were forest management, wildlife/biodiversity, water heritage, climate change, waste management, and campus/ school sustainability.

The second virtual interaction was taken up almost entirely by a slide presentation which had been earlier made to the Board by the Director of Estates showcasing the various campus sustainability initiatives undertaken over the last few years. It was an eye-opener for many of us, and I found it satisfying to see some very positive, environmentally-sensitive changes to the campus infrastructure.

Please write to: alumni@woodstock.ac.in if you’re interested in joining the group or would like to find out more.

"We’re excited to initiate the Woodstock Alumni Sports Affinity Group and view it as a unique platform to get together alumni with a shared interest in sport. As we continue to develop the group and ideate about how we want to engage with the school and alumni network through sport, we encourage all those alumni who have an interest in sport, work in sport, or love

Coming Soon!

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Newsletter and social media for news about the Sports Affinity Group’s Sports Weekend to take place on the Woodstock School campus in April 2023 participating and following sport to come join us and grow this group together."

Anyone interested in joining the group please sign up using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/xd8im6eVSY