St. Thomas's Hall: May 2012

Come all you gay young fellows, who like to sing and cheer,
Come all you gay young fellows, and join us one and all,
We're the jolliest fellows in Tambaram, the boys of Thomas's Hall!

CHORUS:
O, we are all St. Thomas's Hall, St. Thomas's Hall are we,
We are all St. Thomas's Hall, St. Thomas's Hall are we,
Come all you gay young fellows, and join us one and all,
We're the jolliest fellows in Tambaram, the boys of Thomas's Hall!-------------

We come from Coromandel, from Coorg and Coimbatore,
From Trichy and Trivandrum, Bellary and Tanjore,
We're Hindu, Christian Musalmaan, of every sort to see,
But when there's a difficult job to do St. Thomas's Hall are we!

And here's to former students, wherever they maybe ,
In huts on the Himalayas, in Chatramas by the sea;
We send our Namaskarams and cheer them all today,
And we know that where they're wanted, they'll surely lead the way!

Selaiyur my friend is a non-entity,
Heber is a fish pond, a sad calamity;
Then there are the females- The Dodo's of Martin Hall
But we are the best its natural, we've always had the edge!

Indian Constitution System

The Hall adopted the Indian system of constitution in the year 1950-51. Under the Indian Constitution system, the hall was to function with the Speaker and Prime Minister as the two most important posts in the hall. While the Speaker was to function as a elderstatesman responsible for the moral conduct of the Hall and the orderly conduct of the General Body meetings. The Prime Minister was in charge of the Cabinet and the functioning of the hall in matters of finance and public affairs. The First Speaker of the Hall was K.S.S Sharma and the First Prime Minister was S.Suryanarayan. The hall constitution was drafted by K.S.S Sharma, R.Ravi Varma and Ponampalam.

Hall Cabinet 2012-13

Speaker : A. Kishore

Prime Minister (Finance and public affairs) : Mr. Selvarajah Lavakeshon
Welfare Minister & Deputy Prime Minister (Hall maintenance and Health) : Mr. S. Suresh
Information Minister (Library, literary and debating activities) : Mr. Rupesh Daniel. P
Entertainment Minister : Mr. Arunkumar. S
Vegetarian Mess Minister : Mr. Mr. SamsonRaj. S
Non-Vegetarian Mess Minister : Mr. Arunachalam. M
Indoor Games Minister : Mr. OzungToshi
Outdoor Games Minister : Mr. Vishakan. N

Activities & Traditons

Hall Activities
Inter Block Freshers culturals
Inter Block culturals
Inter Block Basketball tournament
Inter Block Table tennis tournament
Inter Block Badminton Tournament
Inter Block Volleyball Tournament
Inter Hall Basketball Tournament
Inter Hall Volleyball Tournament
Exhibition Match (Football)- Martin Hall vs. Outgoing Batch
Exhibition Match (Basketball)- Martin Hall vs. Outgoing Batch
Freshers Arm wrestling Competition
Freshers Weight Lifting Competition

Traditions

Cabinet Train
Bullock Cart procession on the day of Inter Hall Sports
Mess Rules like no crossing of feet permitted, no caps allowed, mobile phones cannot be used in the mess.

Hall Forums
Jatra
Jatra is the Theatre Society of St. Thomas's Hall . It was started in 1980 and the first play to be performed was Utpal Dutt's ‘Hunting the sun'. The last play performed was ‘The Siren Call of C A Rangasamy' in 2005 under the directorship of Anil Ramaprasad and Satyajit Ranjeev.

Convener: Mr. Jesbin Aby Johnson

STOBA

St. Thomas's Old Boys Association is the society to maintain the records of the alumni of St. Thomas's Hall. The convenor is supposed to help out with the details of the address book that is published every year also.

Convener: Mr. Mathews T Ozhathil

STHLP

St. Thomas's Hall Literacy Programme is traditionally organizes debates and help out with the distribution of the money collected as donations during Republic Day and Independence Day (where the residents forfeit one meal).
Convener: Mr. Kurian George

Tennis Club

St. Thomas's Hall is the only hall to maintain a tennis club as such and allow residents to play who have membership in the club. Money is collected through the residents equally and the money required has to be passed in the General Body Meeting.

Convener: Jijendra. M

Bharathi Mandram

Bharati Mandram is the Tamil society of St. Thomas's Hall. It's the oldest private body of St. Thomas's. It organizes debates, lectures, seminars mainly to promote Tamil culture in the college.

Office Bearers of the academic year 2012-13:
Mr. Shibi Laxman (Chairman)
Mr. Moorthy. A (Secretary)
Mr. Devan (Joint Secretary)
Mr. Vignesh. S (Treasurer)

UTSAV

Utsav is the annual festival of St.Thomas's Hall. It is an inter collegiate dance competition followed by a rock show. Started in 1984, it attracts the top colleges from the city for the dance competition and get livewire bands to play for the rock showdown.

Mr. Gautham. C is the UTSAV Convener for the academic year 2012-13.

USHA

The Hall Magazine is called USHA, named after Prof. Gandekar's daughter. It is our hall's annual magazine and it was started in 1956 and 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of our Hall Magazine.

Working of the Hall
The Hall has the cabinet ministers to take care of the various activities in the Hall. In addition to this, a block captain is appointed for each block who are responsible for the health and general welfare of the residents of their respective block.

Also a prayer Secretary is appointed to take charge of the daily prayers in the hall. Also a Gardening Convener is appointed to oversee the gardening sessions of the residents. Thus an effective system of decentralization is followed in the hall. The Hall Parliament is a unicameral legislature and the general body sessions happen at least thrice a semester.
Amenities

Flag Post - 16 ft
Hall Pond- 3.6 ft
Rock Garden( built in 1990)
Rods for hanging pots
Sausage seats
Stone Bench
Table Tennis tables
Baketball grounds
Hall Gym
Library
Lounge for reading newspaper, etc..
Photo Gallery
Titbits of yesteryears
The block captains were earlier known as ‘Health Secretaries' and ‘Radio In Charge.
The longest serving warden of St. Thomas's Hall is M.A Thangaraj(17 years).
The place were the library is at present situated was earlier known as ‘Sleeping Porches'.
There are 8 paintings and 6 pictures in the Hall mess.
Earlier elections were done by the Electoral Tribune consisting of the Warden, the Returning Officer and the Speaker.
The present ‘E' block was earlier a campus school and was known as St. Thomas's Annexe.

St. Thomas's Hall

Friday, 18 May 2012

Entrance de Paradiso

Hall Song

Activities & Traditons

Hall Forums

Working of the Hall

Amenities

Titbits of yesteryears