Comments on: Correspondence with Mr. Ronald Goss : https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/ OLD COTTONIANS ASSOCIATION Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:54:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Nitin Chauhan https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-710 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:23:07 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-710 You will have to trust me when I say that I derived as much pleasure (accompanied by a sense of blissful excitement) when I read this article as I do when I read the great Victorian novelists. The generation of Cottonians to which I belong would surly envy both the authors of this epistolary exchange for having a memory which is both meticulous and precise in character. It was a treat to read these letters, honestly.

]]> By: Nitin Chauhan https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-7255 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:23:07 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-7255 You will have to trust me when I say that I derived as much pleasure (accompanied by a sense of blissful excitement) when I read this article as I do when I read the great Victorian novelists. The generation of Cottonians to which I belong would surly envy both the authors of this epistolary exchange for having a memory which is both meticulous and precise in character. It was a treat to read these letters, honestly.

]]> By: Ravi Inder Singh (I) 1956-65 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-709 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:25:07 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-709 Dear Vijay,
It was nice reading your correspondence with Mr Goss and your reference to my brother Param Inder Singh (I) 55-62 who lives near Boulder, Colorado. Very heartening to know that Mr & Mrs Goss are in good health and cheer.
Regards,

Ravi Inder Singh (I) 56-65

]]> By: Ravi Inder Singh (I) 1956-65 https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-7244 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:25:07 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-7244 Dear Vijay,
It was nice reading your correspondence with Mr Goss and your reference to my brother Param Inder Singh (I) 55-62 who lives near Boulder, Colorado. Very heartening to know that Mr & Mrs Goss are in good health and cheer.
Regards,

Ravi Inder Singh (I) 56-65

]]> By: My pet rabbit and Mr. Goss | Old Cottonians Association https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-7242 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:20:37 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-7242 […] Old Cottonians Association The Old Cottonians Association of Bishop Cotton School Simla India. OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD. Skip to content HomeOCAHistoryFirst 17 OCsHeritageBCS HistorySubscribeDirectoryBCS Batch Year pagesContactContact : OCA Magazine EditorContact : OCA India SecretaryOCA India – PresidentContact : OCA India – Delhi officeContact: OCA Canada coordinatorContact: OCA UKContact: OCA ThailandContact – OCA HPContact OCA India NORTHERN Chapter ← Correspondence with Mr. Ronald Goss : […]

]]> By: My pet rabbit and Mr. Goss | Old Cottonians Association https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-708 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:20:37 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-708 […] Old Cottonians Association The Old Cottonians Association of Bishop Cotton School Simla India. OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD. Skip to content HomeOCAHistoryFirst 17 OCsHeritageBCS HistorySubscribeDirectoryBCS Batch Year pagesContactContact : OCA Magazine EditorContact : OCA India SecretaryOCA India – PresidentContact : OCA India – Delhi officeContact: OCA Canada coordinatorContact: OCA UKContact: OCA ThailandContact – OCA HPContact OCA India NORTHERN Chapter ← Correspondence with Mr. Ronald Goss : […]

]]> By: Dhananjaai Singh https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-7241 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:59:09 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-7241 Awesome ! Indeed…the dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth ! Cheers…

]]> By: Dhananjaai Singh https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-707 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:59:09 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-707 Awesome ! Indeed…the dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth ! Cheers…

]]> By: Dick D'Abreu. Curzon 1936 -46. https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-706 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:45:29 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-706 Good to read the correspondence between student and teacher. It was refreshing to know how the student Vijay accepted the strict marks handed out by his teacher, Ronald Goss. Reading Vijays letters, he must have been well taught.

I was also intrigued at the comments made about the Chapel and the organ. During the late 1930’s and 1940’s the school had a great majority of Christians. I was not very religious, however because the choir master thought I could sing, I had no choice but to join the school choir. Sunday evenings was when the headmaster Rev Sinker would deliver his sermons from the pulpit. We all had to listen intently to his words, as quite often we would be asked at Divinity classes to recall the headmaster’s Sunday sermon. It is good to know that the Chapel is a place of worship for all religions at the school to come along and meditate.

The Chapel organ was awesome to listen to as it bellowed out the music of the psalms and hymns played. Like the old school bell it was a relic well before my time at the school. Though I am in my mid eighties, recalling my time at BCS seems just like yesterday.

Best wishes to all Old Cottonians and Cottonians of today….Dick D’Abreu.

]]> By: Dick D'Abreu. Curzon 1936 -46. https://oca.marketingsavvy.dev/2012/03/mr-goss/#comment-7240 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:45:29 +0000 http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/?p=2942#comment-7240 Good to read the correspondence between student and teacher. It was refreshing to know how the student Vijay accepted the strict marks handed out by his teacher, Ronald Goss. Reading Vijays letters, he must have been well taught.

I was also intrigued at the comments made about the Chapel and the organ. During the late 1930’s and 1940’s the school had a great majority of Christians. I was not very religious, however because the choir master thought I could sing, I had no choice but to join the school choir. Sunday evenings was when the headmaster Rev Sinker would deliver his sermons from the pulpit. We all had to listen intently to his words, as quite often we would be asked at Divinity classes to recall the headmaster’s Sunday sermon. It is good to know that the Chapel is a place of worship for all religions at the school to come along and meditate.

The Chapel organ was awesome to listen to as it bellowed out the music of the psalms and hymns played. Like the old school bell it was a relic well before my time at the school. Though I am in my mid eighties, recalling my time at BCS seems just like yesterday.

Best wishes to all Old Cottonians and Cottonians of today….Dick D’Abreu.

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