Mr. C. Rajathurai

Mr. C. Rajathurai hailed from a very respectable family and felt proud to call himself an "Alvayan" - Alvai being his village.

A Hartleyite, always optimistic, cheerful, warm hearted and a sincere friend. He had an assortment of friends and moved with politicians and bureaucrats in the same way as he mingled with those at the grass-root level. He was always at ease making himself quite at home wherever he went. He was unruffled at all times.

`Raja' as he was affectionately called, would ungrudgingly come to the rescue of those who sought his assistance. He always considered the problems of his associates as his own and would readily console or counsel them.

An excellent sportsman, excelled in soccer, veteran teacher of Physics and Mathematics, he guided his alma mater as Principal guided for a short term and sought `greener pastures', lived a very simple life during his stewardship as Hartley's principal at the `Turret' within the four walls of the school - he will be remembered by all those who were associated with him.

In family gatherings he shone himself. He was never a party to a family squabble- he often functioned as a peace-maker. To him every man counted.

Hartleyites mourn his loss together with his grieving family.