K T Gyaltsen, Speaker,Sikkim Assembly, making a point to explain the working of the Assembly during our visit to Sikkim in March, 2010
Gangtok, May. 23, 2009 -- When Congress leader Charles Pyngrope will take oath as the new Speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly on Monday, he will script a double success for the century-old Goethals Memorial School (GMS). GMS is one of the many schools administered by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in India. It is situated between Siliguri and Darjeeling at an altitude of 5500 feet above sea leve. It is set amid an expanse of forest 5kms from Kurseong town. It is set to have two of its former students as Speakers in a span of three days. Goethals Memorial School, located in Kurseong, Darjeeling, in W Bengal has produced several distinguished personalities for the nation, especially in the Northeast. The school had completed one century in service in 2007.
Mr Pyngrope, a student of 1976 batch of Goethals Memorial School, had been announced today as the consensus candidate of the Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) for the post of the Speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
Interestingly, his one year junior in Goethals,Karma Tempo Namgyal Gyalsten had been sworn-in as the new Speaker of the Eighth Sikkim Legislative Assembly on May 22 here. Mr Gyalsten, who is from the 1977 batch of Goethals, belongs to the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)which had swept the recent Assembly polls in the state. During a felicitation ceremony in Gangtok today at his residence by the Goethals Alumina Association (Sikkim), the Sikkim Legislative Assembly Speaker, popularly known as 'Tempo' in his school days, was informed that his school senior Charles Pyngrope aka 'Charlie Hanaman' or 'Duggy' will be following his footsteps as the Speaker of the Meghayala Legislative Assembly. A few minutes later, one ex-Goethalite Jerry Palden dialled the number of his batchmate 'Duggy' and initiated a conversation between the Meghayala Speaker designate and the Sikkim Speaker. The two former school mates exchanged pleasantries over the phone and refreshed those Goethals days of three decades ago. ''We congratulated each other,'' Mr Gyalsten told UNI.The Sikkim Legislative Assembly Speaker recollected his disciplined days of Goethals and said the school had taught him 'team work and leadership qualities'.
''I was the school prefect and school captain for hockey, football and volleyball.The discipline I learnt in Goethals has played a big part in what I am today,'' he said.
I just came across this today although Ranjan had mentioned it quite sometime back in Sikkim.
We have to now only sit on our laurels because first Ghising and now Gurung have massacred Goethals and all the other Hill Schools in Darjeeling District.
We cannot expect any more laurels.
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