Past Events

Date: Saturday- Nov 16, 2002
Time: 6:30-10:30PM
Place: Robert Frost Middle School, 9201 Scott Dr., Rockville, MD 20850

Program: Annual Meeting: Review our activities for the year and plans for the next year.

Entertainment: Promita Chatterjee, Tapati Das, and others will perform Rabindra Sangeet. Raja Banerjee and his group will perform Adhunik and variety Bengali songs.

Dinner will be served after the meeting.

Dinner Menu: Chicken Biriani, Alu-Gobi, Mixed Vegetable, Chatni, Misti

Subscription:  $12.00 per person for the evening. (Children below 12 are free)

Contacts:
Mintu Pal       410-715-0795
Tarak Bhar      703-241-8574
Deb Chatterjee  301-251-4732
Kausik Roy      301-519-2669
Tapas Pradhan   301-577-3240

We had a pretty good gathering (more than 25 people) at the Banga Sammelan 2001 meeting. The following well wishers were present. These names have been added to the directory on our web site www.cuscaa.org

Banerjee,Abhijit,,MI, ab274@cornell.edu 

Banerjee,Amiya & Sipra,,216-444-0631, banerja@ccf.org, banerjs@ccf.org 

Basu,Sankar,,MD,,

Basu,Sunanda & Shantimay,VA,703-841-1352, sbasu@nsf.gov , basu@ppd.nrl.navy.mil 

Biswas,Dipak,,MA,508-393-0411,

Biswas,Tapti,,MA, b_biswas@gin.net 

Chakravarti,Kalidas,,VA, kalidasc@aol.com 

Das,Bijan,,GA,404-874-7880,

Dasgupta,Ashish,,India, adg1bkpr@hotmail.com 

Dasgupta,Subal,,Canada,514-398-6499, dasgupta@physics.mcgill.ca 

Dhar,Rupa,,MA, RupaDhar@hotmail.com 

Ghorai,Susanta K.,,AL, skghorai1@yahoo.com 

Ghosh,Kalyan,Abha,MA,, kghosh@worchester.edu, ghoshka@att.net 

Maitra,Kinsuk,,MA,607-274-1736, kmaitra@ithaca,edu 

Mukherjee,Rupa,,NJ,,rupa. mukherjee@yahoo.com 

Pal,Mintu,,MD,410-715-0795, Sumitro@erols.com 

Pal,Shyamalendu, ,MD,301-236-9492, spal@worldbank.org 

Roy,Subrata,,NC,704-597-5519,

Som,Dilip K.,,MD,301-424-9439, dsom@cpcweb.com  

We went over each and every agenda [may be found on our web site www.cuscaa.org ]

There were a good deal of discussion on each and every topic. In summary we agreed to the following.

1. To let all CUSC Alumni be aware of our organization and get input from other Alumni. All of us need to spread the news to our friends. That is a very simple way to expand our organization.

2. To raise money to dedicate an award in the name of Satyen Bose or Meghnad Saha. The resolution was to name the award as CUSCAA award.

3. When a new student comes to US, we need to have some volunteers in this country to help them to relocate and make their visit more welcoming.

4. We already started a page on our web site on helping students from CUSC. We need to add more faculty names there. These faculties can guide the interested students to join US universities.

5. To expose our web site www.cuscaa.org more to the CUSC students, we need to put advertisements on Calcutta local newspapers. That�s the only way the students back home would be aware of our web page and they can get help.

6. Many of us who are in the academic field, get lot of books from the publishers and we do not use them all. Without spending any money (except the shipping cost) we can send those books to CUSC.

7. Similarly, as we get newer scientific equipments in our laboratories in North America, the older ones, even though they are still usable, can be sent to CUSC. The only cost is the shipping. But it�s a much bigger effort to find the people here who has these old equipments and to locate places in CUSC who need them.

8. To raise money to help build the new Technology Campus of Calcutta University (The details may be found on our web page www.cuscaa.org )

Here is an email I received from Subal DasGupta. I am excited to see that Subalda spent some time on the issue of raising money to help build the new Technology Campus of Calcutta University. Please feel free to comment on this issue.

Date Mon, 9 Jul 2001 112246 -0400 (EDT)
From Subal DasGupta dasgupta@hep.physics.mcgill.ca 
X-RCPT-TO dsom@cpcweb.com 

Dear Dilip,

I am calling you by your first name because you are much younger than me. I hope you do not mind. I have gone through Professor A. K. Das Gupta's appeal and would like to see what we can do. The goal is to raise money which is at least a very well defined goal. Let us start a discussion on this through e-mail. There are many of us in North America who regularly donate to the University in North America where they did their Ph. D. It should not be too difficult to turn our attention for once to Calcutta University.

The number that was quoted was one million dollar. This may be too ambitious but that is my perception. I like to know what you think.

How should we go about this?

1) should we prepare a document (based on Dr. Das Gupta's write-up) and include that when we contact alumni?

2) when we appeal we should state a guideline for donations. One should not set it at too low of course. One should not set it at too high either because the number of contributors will fall off.

3) We should try to make a comprehensive list of our alumni. I can take the responsibility of making the list from Canada. But the number in the USA must be at least twenty times more. How do we go about making the list?

4) Probably when we contact new people, we should let them know about what CUSCAA has done in the past so that people know that this did not spring up in one day.

Please send a copy of this to the President(?) of CUSCAA ( the actuarist). I do not know his e-mail address. Please send me his e-mail address. I am sending a copy of this to Partha Ghose who gave the last talk in NABC and it seems this sort of discussion has taken place in other seminars. He gave me his e-mail address as parthasg@aol.com

I am willing to spend sometime on this effort on a regular basis.

Subalda (Subal Das Gupta)
dasgupta@physics.mcgill.ca 

CUSCAA is going to hold a meeting with Calcutta University Science College Alumni at the 21th Banga Sammelan.  A large number of Bengalese from all over the Northern America come to this Banga Sammelan. Since a large number of them went to CUSC, we hope to spread the news of our effort organizing our Alumni Association which we formed about five years ago in Maryland, USA.

We will meet on July 7 (Saturday) at 12:30PM at a designated room. The exact room has not been assigned yet. But the information may be found at the registration desk. We are also hoping to put a few posters on the walls and distribute flyers at the Sammelan. Please keep your eyes open.

 The objectives of the meeting are:

• To let all CUSC Alumni be aware of our organization.

• To get input from other Alumni

• To request other Alumni to join our organization

• We will also discuss the following on-going agenda we have in our hand:

1. To raise money to dedicate an award in the name of Satyen Bose or Meghnad Saha. It is difficult to ask people outside of our area for $20 annual fee. But it might not be that difficult to collect some money for a definite cause like an award mentioned earlier.

2. When a new student comes to US, we need to have some volunteers in this country to help them to relocate and make their visit more welcoming.

3. We already started a page on our web site on helping students from CUSC. We need to add more faculty names there. These faculties can guide the students interested to  join US universities. 

4. To expose our web site more to the CUSC students, we need to put advertisements on Calcutta local newspapers. That�s the only way, the students back home would be aware of our web page and they can get help.

5. Many of us who are in the academic field, get lot of books from the publishers. And  we do not use them all. Without spending any money (except the shipping cost) we can send those books to CUSC.

6. Similarly, as we get newer scientific equipments in our laboratories in USA, the older ones, even though they are still usable, can be sent to CUSC. The only cost is the shipping. But it�s a much bigger effort to find the people here who has these old equipments and to locate places in CUSC who need them.
   
   Please come and join us to make it a successful meeting.

Date: Saturday- Dec. 8, 2001
Time: 6:30PM
Place: Robert Frost Middle School
9201 Scott Dr.
Rockville, MD 20850

Program: Annual Meeting: Review our activities for the year and plans for the next year.

Entertainment: Song, Dance etc. Dinner will be served after the program.
Pritwish DasGupta (disciple of Debabrata Biwas) will sing Rabindra Sangeet and 
Mandira Sarkar (disciple of Chabi Banerjee) will sing Narul-geeti, Dijendra-geeti and Atul-Prasadi.  
Enayet Rajjak will play Tabla with them.

Subscription:  $12.00 per person for the evening. (Children below 12 are free)

Contacts:
Tarak Bhar:           703-241-8574
Deb Chatterjee:       301-251-4732
Kausik Roy            301-519-2669
Tapas Pradhan         301-577-3240
Mintu Pal             410-715-0795
Dilip Som             301-424-9439

Agenda:    Snack, Lunch, and discussions on CUSCAA events 
Donation: $8.00 per person (Children under 12 are free) 

Direction:

From  Washington, Virginia:

• Take I-270 North to toward Frederick, Take Exit #10, Clopper Road (MD Route #117 West). Continue through five stop lights (appox. 2 miles), Seneca Creek State Park is on your left.

Look for the Picnic Area. Fawn is located on the south side of the lake.

From  Frederick:

• Take I-270 South towrds Washington, Take Exit #11B, Quince Orchard Road (MD Route #124). Turn right onto Clopper Road at the second stop light. Continue through three stop lights (appox. 2 miles), Seneca Creek State Park is on your left.

Look for the Picnic Area. Fawn is located on the south side of the lake.

The Annual Picnic was held at the Black Hill Regional park on June 13, �98. The picnic was a great success. It was a day when the weather started magnificently but turned a little nasty later as the day wore on. But the strong winds and the heavy downpour did not dampen the spirit of the members who stayed on for an impromptu concert.