• Old Boys' Association

  

  Welcome to new OBA Website.

  This website is aimed at providing a platform to bind and bring together the Old Boys of St. Joseph's College, Nainital and network with each other and use the forum for personal advancement.

• Celebrating 125 Years

  

  "Certa Bonum Certamen"

  Thousands of young men have passed from the college portals to the strains of the College anthem "Make sure you play the game", and with a determination to build their careers on the firm basis of the college motto.

About SEM OBA

St. Joseph's College, Nainital has been one of the premier schools in the country since its inception in 1888.The school is now 125 years old and during these years, a very distinguished list of Old Boys have been through the portals of the school. Over the years the need of a body to bind and bring together the Old Boys under one umbrella was felt. This body would not only give us the opportunity to relive the good old days spent in Sem, but also provide us with a platform to network and use the forum for our personal advancement.

Sem celebrated its Centenary in 1988 with a week-long celebration held in the school. In order to make these celebrations, the great success that they were, the first Sem Old Boys Association was set up. The founder members were Tariq Qureshi (1965), Arun Sahay (1963), Kamal Sehdev (1970), Arvinder Singh (1971) and Ranvir Singh (1968) amongst a host of other ex-students. This association did yeoman service in reaching out to the ex-students spread all over the Globe, raising funds for the school and getting souvenirs ready. There can be no doubt that the OBA was the single main factor behind the success of the Centenary Celebrations. Unfortunately, with the conclusion of the Centenary Celebrations, the OBA went into hibernation. It was as if the very reason for its existence had ceased to exist.

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