Hartley College Past Pupils Association (Canada/USA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007

Date:	Saturday December 08, 2007
Time:	6:00 p.m. sharp
Venue:	Click here to get the Google Map for the venue. Click here to get the Canada411 listing of the venue. Celebrations Banquet Hall 174 Bartley Drive, North York, Ontario M4A 1E1 Canada (Victoria and O'Connor)

Agenda:

Moment of silence Confirmation of minutes of the annual general meeting - 2006 The annual report of the executive committee - Secretary The audited statement of accounts - Treasurer Editor's note Constitutional amendment (Please see below) Resolutions submitted by members (if any) President's address Election of office bearers for the year 2007/2008

Any resolution by members to be discussed under item No. 5 of the agenda shall be sent to the Secretary in writing NOT LATER than 14 days before the date of the meeting (Clause 10(ii)(b) of the constitution refers).

All members are invited to be present.

Please click on the following links to receive the formal notice and nomination form.

Proposed constitutional amendment:

In clause 16, following section is to be added:
iii. Any proposal for amendments shall be submitted to the executive committee and the executive committee after due consideration, shall circulate the proposal to the members at least two weeks before the annual general meeting or special general meeting.

Driving directions to 174 Bartley Drive:

• Eastward on Eglinton E. - Drive one km past DVP, turn right on Bermondsey, Bartley is the first signal lighted left turn.
• Westward on Eglinton E. - Turn left on O'Conner, cross Victoria Park, Bartley is in 10 yards at right

Regards,

The annual Picnic of Hartley College Past Pupils Association & Methodist Girls High School Old Girls' Association will be joinly held on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at Neilson Park, Scarborough, Ontario. Please convey this message to all Hartleyites.

The programs starts at 10:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m. Many events will be held throughout the course of the day. All the Members are requested to be present on time at 10:00 a.m., and please participate along with their family and friends.

Members are requested to bring food items. In order to find out what food items you could bring, please call:

• Sivarajah: 647-340-7903
• Vasuki: 647-208-4148
• Subo: (416) 439-9445
• Vije: 416-877-8409

The 14th Annual Cricket match between Hartley College and Jaffna Hindu College will be held at Sunnybrooke Cricket grounds on Monday, July 02, 2007. (which is an official holiday, in lieu of Canada Day)

Match will start at 11:00 a.m.

Additionally, there will be softball Cricket match for "over 40" between Hartleyites and Hindus. Please call Sivapalaratnam at 416-565-2814 or me to register.

We cordially invite all young, middle aged and senior Hartleyites for this match. Please come and support your team at the same time enjoy the summer with your fellow Hartleyites and make it a day full of fun. Also, volleyball court will be ready for volleyball fans.

Sunnybrook Park is located at North York, Ontario at the North-west corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Leslie Street. If you come from 401, take Leslie exit, drive south, and just before Eglinton intersection, turn right into the park. If you come from Don Valley Parkway, take Eglinton, drive West, turn right at Leslie and turn left immediately into the park. Keep right when you drive into the park, and our cricket grounds is almost at the end of the road. Look for blue and yellow balloons.

There will be food and beverages for the cricket fans. Feel free to bring any food items or beverages.

Please contact Mr. W.Manoharan, the coordinator of the match at (416)899 9785 or (416)773-1065 or manowijayaratnam@hotmail.com or me for any further details.

Additional announcement:

The annual picnic is set for July 28, 2007 at Nielson Park at Nielson and Finch, Scarborough.

We are proud to announce that all the arrangements for the Hartley Kalai Vilza 2007 is complete.

Birchmount does not have exit from Hwy 401, so please exit at Warden, go north, turn right at Sheppard, turn left at Birchmount and the school is at left side at 2nd signal. For parking, please take a left at the first light and immediately make right turn into the school parking lot; you can go through the south side door to the auditorium. Follow directions.

1. Welcome Baratha dance by teacher Ms. Shiyama Thayalan
2. Thala vaaththiyak kachcheri by students of Vasudevan master
3. Kolaaddam - colorful dance by students of Ms. Shiyama Thayalan
4. Light music show by students of Ms. Kuganeswary Sathiyamoorthy, and Ms. Sivaloganayagi Gengatharan;
5. Kaanamum Kaadchiyum Baratha dance by Peel cultural arts association
6. Comedy drama - Vayiru Kulungka.. by Sinnapodiyar cast by Suresh Rajah to laugh out loud.
7. Songs and dance by Agni (After the break)

Short eats and refreshments will be available at the lunch room throughout the event.

20% of the revenue from this event will be sent to needy Tamil population that are suffering due to the civil war and neglect by the Sri Lankan government.

For tickets or any other information, please contact any of the executive committee members.

In order to offer an opportunity for the younger generation of Canadian Thamils to demonstrate their talent in general knowledge and math, Hartley College Past Pupils Association has decided to conduct a combined general knowledge/math competition.

This competition will be held in English.

Place:	Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute 2450 Birchmount Road, Scarborough, Ontario (North of Sheppard)	Hartleyites, please distribute the contest flyers. Click here to download the flyer.
Date and time:	Saturday May 5, 2007 9:00 a.m.
Registration ends:	Thursday May 03, 2007

S a m p l e    Q u e s t i o n s
General Knowledge | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Math | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 |

You may register through phone, fax or email by giving your children's name, grade, birth month and year, phone number and email address.

Phone:	416-854-5413
Fax:	416-696-6894
Email:	hartleycollegeppa@rogers.com

Winners will be awarded gold, silver and bronze medals and the next ten highest scores will be presented with achievement awards.

Prizes will be awarded during the Hartley Kalai Vilza held May 26, 2007 at Stephen Leecock CI, Scarborough.

Contest sub committee request that all the Canadian Hartleyites print at least 20 flyers and distribute among their friends and relatives and encourage them to bring in their kids to participate in the contest.

I would like to inform you about one of our annual fund raising activity "Hartley Benefit Show".

We are going to play a popular tamil movie "Veyyil" on Mar 17 at 1:30pm at Woodside cinema.

Our executive committee members are actively taking part of ticket sales. As usual, ticket fare is five dollars. For tickets, please contact one of our executive members. Don't wait until last minute. Tickets are selling fast.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely
C. Manoharan
Secretary
HCPPA Canada/USA
416-299-5143

• Movie: Veyil
• Language: Tamil
• Cast: Pasupathi, Barath, Bhavana, Shreya Reddy, Priyanka (debutante from Malayalam TV industry) and others
• Music: G.V. Prakash (A.R.Rehman's nephew)
• Cinematography: Madhi
• Direction: Vasantha Balan
• Production: Director Shankar's S pictures

Veyil is a story which does not rely on heroisms, punch dialogues, a separate comedy track, extravagant sets, double meaning dialogues et all for success.

Veyil relies on a strong story line, beautiful cinematography, best actors, good music.

Story
Veyil starts with the childhood life of Murugesan (Pasupathi) and Kadhiresan (Barath) in a small village near Virudhunagar. Pasupathi is a movie junkie and is severely punished by his dad for bunking school and watching movies. His dad, a butcher by profession, beats him up severely and leaves him in hot sun for a whole day. Murugesan flees his house with his mom's jewels and a little money stolen from home. He reaches Thirukazhugunram where he spends and loses all the money watching movies. Nowhere to go, he stays in the cinema theatre and grows to become operator in the cinema theatre. Meanwhile, kathiresan (Barath) goes to school and is nursed by his parents and he starts an advertising company in his village. Every tamil movie must have a Villain and in this movie, it is Barath's ex-employer Bose. He is jealous of Barath's growth and tries to hinder it by all means. Meenakshi (Bhavana) is a college girl who meets Barath while recording for his adverts. Barath is shown as an arrogant and angry young man who forces Bhavana to record the way he wants. Director has not relied on a separate comedy track as Barath does this part well. A subtle comedy track to be precise. Pasupathi grows out to become the theatre operator and falls in love with Thangam (Priyanka) who is the daughter of a tea shop owner. Love blossoms between the two and they plan to get married. Pasupathi, in his Johnny style look, steals the show. He has once again proved that he can speak volumes with his eyes. The love ends in a tragedy with Thangam forced to kill herself and Pasupathi left stranded alone. Pasupathi starts drinking and is forced out of the place when the theatre is closed down. Pasupathi, on his mentor's advice, leaves for his home town. Barath builds his advertising empire and expands in a big way. The enmity with his ex-employer Bose also grows larger. Barath expresses his love for Bhavana which she accepts. Barath's life goes all his way with he winning big contracts for local advertising.

Pasupathi reaches his home town after twenty years and is chased away by his dad who does not forget the prodigal son's deeds. Pasupathi happens to meet his younger brother Barath and is brought home. Barath fights with his dad and Pasupathi is allowed to stay at home with his parents and siblings. Pasupathi happens to meet Pandiyamma (Shreya Reddy), his childhood sweetheart, and finds that she is left single after a broken marriage. Pasupathi finds nothing to do at home and at is not allowed to work at his brother's place. He feels like a unfit piece of a jig-saw puzzle. He is not shown love by his younger sisters or his father. He feels solace in Shreya Reddy's company. He fights with his emotions and thinks that he has wasted his life and has nothing to do. He yearns for the love which is showered on his younger brother Barath. Barath fixes up marriage for one of his sisters. Pasupathi is blamed and insulted for the loss of marriage jewels. The family comes to know that he is not the reason for it when the jewels are recovered. Pasupathi decides to leave the house and goes away from the family. Meanwhile, Bose plans to kill Barath and employs people for the task. Barath is attacked by villain's men when he goes in search for his brother. Pasupathi finds Barath amidst the pool of blood and comes to rescue him.

18th Hartleyite Nite will be held this time at Celebrations Banquet Hall, North York, Ontario, Canada 18th day of November 2006 at 6:30 pm starting with the fellowship of 1 hour for Old boys and girls and magic show to entertain the children and magic lovers. Magic show will start sharp at 6:30 p.m.

Date:	Saturday November 18, 2006
Time:	6:30 p.m.
Tickets:	Adult: $20 Teens: $10 Children of 12 and under - free admission
Venue:	Click here to get the Google Map for the venue. Click here to get the Canada411 listing of the venue. Celebrations Banquet Hall 174 Bartley Drive, North York, Ontario M4A 1E1 Canada (Victoria and O'Connor)

Tickets can be obtained from

HCPPA Canada/USA is taking an unusual step to notify all the Hartleyites in Canada and USA of its annual general meeting this year in a hope to motivate more Hartleyites to become proactive in HCPPA activities and its election process.

Please note that in order to be present at the meeting, you must be a member of the association. Annual membership is $10 and life membership is $100. If you are currently an ordinary member, that membership is valid until September 30, 2006 only and should be renewed.

Now the notice:

Hartley College Past Pupils Association (Canada/USA)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2006

Date:	Saturday November 18, 2006
Time:	5:30 p.m.
Venue:	Click here to get the Google Map for the venue. Click here to get the Canada411 listing of the venue. Celebrations Banquet Hall 174 Bartley Drive, North York, Ontario M4A 1E1 Canada (Victoria and O'Connor)

Agenda

Moment of silence Confirmation of minutes of the annual general meeting - 2005 The annual report of the executive committee - presented by the Secretary The audited statement of accounts and the Auditors' report -presented by the Treasurer President's address Resolutions submitted by members (if any) Election of office bearers for 2007

Any resolution by members to be discussed under item No. 5 of the agenda shall be sent to the Secretary in writing NOT LATER than 14 days before the date of the meeting (Clause 10(ii)(b) of the constitution refers).

All members are invited to be present.

Please click here to receive the formal notice (Press ctrl+P to print).

V. Vijenthira
Secretary, HCPPA Canada & USA
41 Windom Road
North York, ON
M3C 3Z5

However, on the same day, between 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., we are organizing a fundraiser to help support rebuilding the Sencholai Children's Home in Mullaithivu. So, if you previously planned to attend the Picnic, please meet us in Toronto at the Downsview Dells Park (1661 Sheppard between Jane and Keels -- Click here for the map) and make your contribution to this deserving cause. Even if you cannot make it that day, you can send your contribution to our Treasurer, at:

Mr. C. Manoharan
48 Bethany Leigh Drive,
Scarborough, ON M1V 2N7

Please address the cheque to Hartley College Past Pupil Association, and for the memo, please write 'Sencholai'.

Details of this fund will be published on the Hartley website and updated regularly.

Thank you for your generosity.

The 13th Annual Cricket encounter between Hartley College and Jaffna Hindu College will be held at Sunnybrooke Cricket grounds by the noon of July 03rd, 2006 Monday which is an official holiday, in lieu of Canada Day.

We cordially invite all young, middle aged and senior Hartleyites for this match. Please come and support your team at the same time enjoy the summer with your fellow Hartleyites and make it a day full of fun.

Sunnybrook Park is located at North York, Ontario at the North-west corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Leslie Street. If you come from 401, take Leslie exit, drive south, and just before Eglinton intersection, turn right into the park. If you come from Don Valley Parkway, take Eglinton, drive West, turn right at Leslie and turn left immediately into the park. Keep right when you drive into the park, an cricket grounds is almost at the end of the road.

There will be food and beverages for the cricket fans. Feel free to bring any food items or beverages.

Please contact Mr. W.Manoharan, the convener of the match at (416)899 9785 or (416)773-1065 or manowijayaratnam@hotmail.com or me for any further details.

Additional announcement:

The annual picnic is postponed to August 19, 2006. It will be held at Lot #2 of Downsview Dells Park at Sheppard Avenue between Jane and Keels.

The Annual Kalai Vilza of HCPPA Canada/USA will take place on Saturday, June 10, 2006. The Chief Guest for this event is Mr. Siva S. Sothy, a devoted and charismatic HCPPA member.

(Major intersection: Burnhamthorpe Road and Fieldgate Drive)
• 401 to Dixie Rd South wards, turn left on to Burnhamthorpe Rd Eastwards, turn right on to Fieldgate Drive
• 427 to Burnhamthorpe West wards, turn left on to Fieldgate drive
• QEW to Dixie North, turn right on to Bloor Rd East wards, turn left on to Fieldgate Drive
• View the PDF map or Click on the map below to enlarge it ...

Featured programs include:

• Pushpaanjali - Dance
• Karnatic music - classical songs
• Tamilzan Vaalzvu - Solo Drama by Veera PaaNan Nambi
• Baratha Naaddiam by Charla Niroopan
• Magic show by Vije Kulathungam
• Villu Paaddu by Arunthavanathan
  
  
• 8:30 pm - Father James All Star Show, a Cabaret style Caribbean showcase
  and

  9:00 pm - Arvinth's Mega Tuners presents Tamil light music show with live bands collaborating with stage show by young entertainer.
  
  

  10:30 The end.

As usual, a souvenir will be published for this function. Advertisements are welcome from well wishers.

Since the tickets for the available 400 seats are expected to be sold out well ahead of the event date, we suggest to purchase tickets early and come to the auditorium by 5:00 p.m. to get a convenient seating.

Food stall will be opened from 5:30 p.m. until the end of the event. Varieties of food items such as Kottu Rotti, Rolls, Vadai, Samosa and drinks such as tea, coffee, soft drinks, and juices will be available.

We expect you all to come with your friends and families and enjoy this well organized spectacular event.

V.Vijenthira
Secretary
HCPPA Canada/USA

PS:

Father James All Star Show

Father James All Star Show Elsworth James who is affectionately called "Father James" has performed in over 25 countries, winning the hearts of many. He is truly loved by all. This pulsating performer will walk away with your heart & soul.

Due to the high demand of tickets, and aggressive ticket sales by the committee members, HCPPA Canada/USA decided to screen a second Tamil movie show this year.  If you like to join the euphoria, please come over Sunday to watch this brand new movie at a 50% discounted price of $5

V. Vijenthira
Secretary

Thambi is a portrait of an individual whose ruthless ambition and self-inflicted obession is to fight for the betterment of the society.What makes the movie tick is its eye-catching opening credit sequence, a self-concious visual style and some pretty head-on violence.

Seeman has not only showed his deftness in directing, but also his penning skills. He successfully maintains the movie's pace with sharp dialogues and perfect screenplay.

Here goes the sotry...

Thambi Velu Thondaiman (Madhavan) is a man of fury and his rages comes to fore if he see any wrong around him. However, his revolutionary throughts drives him to reform bad guys rather than fight them.

He confronts Annachi alias Sankara Pandian (Biju Menon),a local don who is a terror to the locals. He decides to reform him.Archana (Pooja), a student of the college sees Thambi fighting with gangsters,and mistakes him to be a goon.However, she changes her heart after hearing Thambi's troubled life in the past.

After touching briefly on Thambi's past life, in particular how his entire family is killed by Annachi's gang,the film's focus is on Thambi and how he brings a change in Shankara Pandian's heart and mind.Meanwhile,Archana after knowing Tambi's true character,starts loving him. However,Shankara Pandian gets out of jail and hotly pursues Thambi to draw his blood.How Thambi manage Shankara Pandian is told in reviting climax.

With director Seeman on top form, Thambi finishs on high, but one lasting memory is the stunning performance of Maddy. He guides the film throughout with ease. Biju Menon, as Annachi essays his role with ease. Pooja gives the movie a passion that is simply enthralling. The supporting cast including Illavarasu, Vadivelu, Mannivanan and Manobala add value. Music from Vidhyasagar is average. Cinematography by Balasubramanyam captures the vigour and exitement in many of the scenes.Vikram Dharma's stunt scenes are commendable, and Mani Raj's art work is noteworthy.

Watching this movie, your heart srings will certainly be pulled.

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Courtesy: http://www.nowrunning.com/film/review.asp?movieNo=2658&mv=Thambi

HCPPA Canada/USA will be screening a Tamil movie as their benefit show and solicit your support to finance ongoing Hartley College projects.

V. Vijenthira
Secretary

The movie has a powerful and emotional theme.

Kulandai Subbaiah, who is the father of the director, appears in a cameo role which is one of the highlights of the film. Saravana Subbiah plays the 'bad man' of the film, the rude, rough, overbearing, sadist husband of Sneha.

The movie is about a man who is loved by three different women. Anand (Shyam) is a bachelor, his landlord is Kulandai Subbaiah, an orthodox aging Brahmin; Chandra (Sneha) is the landlord's daughter. Anand is a polite, caring person, considerate to all, and liked by one and all. Chandra is impressed by him, and continuously compares him with her late husband (played by Saravana Subbaiah), who was a sadist, continuously humiliating and torturing her. After her husband's death, Chandra returned to her father's house; by her dress or behaviour, she did not reveal that she was a widow, since she felt free and independent after his death. She develops a soft corner for Anand. Kulandai Subbaiah plays his role of an orthodox aging Brahmin, worried about the future of his widowed daughter, to perfection.

Bharathi (Nandana) lives with her mother, sisters and brother, having been deserted by her father. She has an antipathy towards all males. While traveling in a crowded bus, Anand hands over his degree certificates to her while he is hanging on the footboard, and the certificates are left behind with her. She recovers them, finds his address, and delivers them to him. Coming to know Anand, she falls in love with him. But Anand calls it infatuation, and suggest that she should marry the boy who had already been approved by her mother.

Divya Daisy (Aparna of Pudukottailirundhu Saravanan) is an orphan, a ward of the church. She has an accident, Anand saves her, takes her to hospital, signs as her guardian, takes good care of her, thus saving her life. When he goes to church to return her gold chain, she is not available, and he does not meet her. Later, the doctor who treated her after her accident tells her how Anand saved her life. So she also develops romantic feelings about her.

Whom does Anand finally marry? What is the logic? What about the other two heroines? See the movie to find out.

This is a clean but serious family entertainer, the music is enjoyable, and the re-recording is done in a novel manner.

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Synopsis courtesy: tamil.galatta.com

Nominations for Executive Committee:

DIRECTION TO THE VENUE

This year's Kalai Vizha will also be a joint venture by both Hartley and Methodist Past Pupils' Associations.

All Hartleyites and Methodist Past Pupils are in for a great show of Tamil culture both past and contemporary. We expect you all to come with your friends and families.

As usual, a souvenir will be published for this function. advertisements are welcome from the members.

- HCPPA Canada & USA.

Annual General meeting will be followed by Fellowship and during that time members will be able to view Hartley as it stands today in the video clips taken by Mr.Atputhanathan who visited recently.

We are appealing to all members to keep this date free and even if you have some other engagement give priority to Hartleyites Nite. Our special appeal to USA members to make it a point to come this way.

Important notes:

Tickets can be bought from

The annual Picnic of Hartley College & Methodist Girls High School will be held on Sunday July 11th, 2004 at Lakeview View Park in Oshawa.

The programs starts at 10:30 a.m. till 7:00 p.m. Many events will be held throughout the course of the day. All the Members are requested to be present on time at 10:30 a.m., and please participate along with their family and friends. Please convey this message to all Hartleyites.

- BBQ,
- Games for children,
- Tug-o-war for adults (ladies and gentlemen),
  ... and many more

- A Koul party is being planned.

 Siva. S. Sivasothilingam : 905-275-1821
 Sivapalan ...............: 416-746-0307
 Sivanesan ...............: 416-298-8497
 Paranthaman .............: 905-277-2774
 Rajezwaran ..............: 905-896-7982
 Thayaparan ..............: 905-454-8568 

This year's Kalai Vizha will also be a joint venture by both Hartley and Methodist Past Pupils' Associations like last year.

All Hartleyites and Methodist Past Pupils are in for a great show of Tamil culture both past and contemporary. We expect you all to come with your friends and families. We are making a special appeal to our membership in USA to come and enjoy the events.

As usual, a souvenir will be published for this function. Articles and advertisements are welcome from the members.

- HCPPA Canada & USA.

Info provided by: Mr. V. Shanmuganayagam (Secretary, HCPPA Canada & USA) and Maps courtesy from your webteam.

Nov. 29th, which falls during the United States Thanksgiving weekend, has been chosen specifically to facilitate our USA-based members. We sincerely hope that many of the USA-based members will participate.

For Further information, please contact the organizing committee:

This year's Kalai Vizha will also be a joint venture by both Hartley and Methodist Past Pupils' Associations like last year. Mr. S. Sathyamoorthy will be the convener and he will be assisted by the Methodist Past Pupils' Association representative.

Judging by the subcommittee meetings that are taking place very often, it looks they are determined to make this event better than the excellent show put up last year by our two Associations.

All Hartleyites and Methodist Past Pupils are in for a great show of Tamil culture both past and contemporary. We expect you all to come with your friends and families. We are making a special appeal to our membership in USA to come and enjoy the events.

As usual, a souvenir will be published for this function. Articles and advertisements are welcome from the members.

Dr. Shan A Shanmugavadivel (President)

416 293 0966

V. Shamuganayagam (Secretary)

905 305 1958

Mr. S. Sathyamoorthy (Convenor)

416 289 2788

- HCPPA Canada & USA.

Info provided by: Mr. M. Atputhanathan and Maps courtesy from your webteam.

Please book your tickets early with any of the committee members or with the conveners in advance as there will be no issue of fresh tickets at the gates.

The HCPPA Canada & USA has informed the webteam that the 9th annual cricket match will NOT take place on this Saturday as it was announced earlier. You will be notified if the cricket match is re-scheduled on a future date.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Regards,