Standing on the threshold of our Diamond Jubilee, I pause to look back at the year gone by. We have indeed come a long way both figuratively and literally. Through moments of trial and fulfilment Scholars Home has grown from a handful of five children in a small house in Neshvila Road in 1949 to a sprawling campus that caters to the needs of more than three thousand children from far and near. Our most fulfilling moments have been watching them grow from cocoons of diffidence and insecurity into beautiful personalities , while the confident and self assured have soared to unparalleled heights.

We extend our heartiest congratulation to the Class X and XII examinees who have done us proud once again by producing excellent board results and topping the district. Some have even gone to the extent of receiving certificates of merit from the CBSE. To name of few Eeshan Kumar, Deepan Gupta, Gunpreet Sokhi, Padma Rigzin, Tarunika Kalita from Class XII and Dikshant Manori, Shalini Agarwal, Nikhil Gupta, Anshuman Mehta, Snigdha Kuriyal and Ankit from Class X.

Our children have excelled on the sports field and on the stage for Inter House and Inter School Activities thereby acknowledging the lessons given to them by the school in areas teaching kindness, sharing, equality and loyalty. At Scholars Home sincere efforts are constantly being made to provide qualitative, value based, activity oriented education. On striving for excellence in this direction we believe that interest and curiosity of the child is of utmost important and needs to be kept alive. In the process our teachers work hard for raising standards, setting examples and being role models thereby making sure that "They live, so that when their children think of fairness and integrity, they think of their teachers."

I take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation for our dear parents, friends and well wishers whose presence at various functions has been a joy and inspiration. Thank You indeed.

I would also like to place on record our gratitude to the outgoing class XII for their parting gift to the school. We shall cherish it.

I am specially grateful to Mr. K.L. Khanna, Executive Director and Mr. A. Khanna, Director F&A for their tremendous support and help.

And finally I wish to thank the members of my staff for all their untiring efforts and valuable time (often overtime) in making this a very sucessful year.

With best wishesto all our readers.

(Chhaya Khanna)