MCC 175th year celebrations begin

Updated on: Monday, January 09, 2012

Madras Christian College launched its 175th year celebrations with a series of programmes including a Thanksgiving Service.
 
The service was conducted by the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral Dr Robert Willis, who gifted the college a rare photograph of the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral of 1931 greeting Mahatma Gandhi.
 
An exhibition on 'History and Heritage of MCC' was inaugurated by Canon Ivor Smith-Cameron, former Chaplain to the Queen Elizabeth, UK, and an alumnus of the college.
 
A lecture on ‘Business: Past, Present and Future' was presented by Dr Geeta Menon, Dean of Stern School of Business, New York University, also an alumnus of MCC.
 
Noting that Business was the creation and exchange of ideas and wealth in the global market place,  she said it had the potential to impact how governments behaved.
 
Earlier, college Principal Dr. R. W. Alexander Jesudasan, welcomed the gathering, a college release said.
 
An autonomous institution, Madras Christian College, founded as a small school on April 3, 1837, has become one of the premier colleges with a student strength of more than 5,900 and 32 departments offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

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