Loyola College - Chennai, India.

Till 1990 the Principal of Loyola College also acted as the Coordinator of the Loyola Alumni Association. From 1991 to 1998 Rev. Fr. Lawrence Sundaram, S.J. was the Director of the Alumni Association. For eight long years he was very active giving directions to the association. Loyola Alumni Association has grown to great heights during this period. After his demise in 1998, Rev. Fr. P. Susai, S.J. was the Director for one year and Rev. Dr. J. Inchackal, S.J. took over the reins and directed the association till June 2000. Rev. Dr. S. Peter Xavier, S.J., was the Director of Alumni Association from July 2000 to June 2005. Under his leadership, the association scaled new heights. Since July 2005 onwards Rev. Dr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. has been holding the coveted post. After two years of service to Loyola Alumni Association Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. on 17th September 2006 he was transferred to St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai. During his tenure Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. strengthened the LAA very much. Rev. Dr. S. Peter Xavier, S.J. once again was appointed as the director of LAA on 27th September 2006. He brought out the Loyola Alumni Directories and strengthened the Alumni database. Many poorer students got much benefits and concessions through Loyola Alumni Association during his time. Fr. N. Casimir Raj, S.J., was appointed as the New Director of LAA on 1st September, 2008. Loyola College hopes to strengthen the Alumni Association given his vast and rich experience in the various Business Schools in India like LIBA, XLRI, XIM.


Fr.S. Peter Xavier, S.J. (2000-'05) & (2006-'08)		Fr. Danis Ponniah, S.J. (2005 -2006)	Fr. N. Casimir Raj, S.J. (2008- )

Sincere thanks to the Principals - Prior to 1990 - who were the coordinators of Alumni Association and to Rev. Fr. Lawrence Sundaram, S.J., the Alumni Association's first Director. Prof. S. Swaminathan who was shouldering the responsibility of the President of the Alumni Association for more than five years passed away all of a sudden. He was really an exemplary person. He associated himself with Loyola for many years. He guided the Association in the proper direction. He was truly a Jesuit Alumnus in every sense. A Young, Gentle and unassuming Mr. B. H. Kothari (Chairman, H.C. Kothari Group of Companies, Chennai - 34) is the present President of the Loyola Alumni Association.

Loyola College aims at the training of young men and women of quality to be leaders in all walks of life and to serve their fellowmen in justice, truth and love. It is expected that this training will play a vital role in bringing about the desired change for the betterment of the people of our country, particularly the poorer and marginalised sections of society, especially the dalits. Further, it will foster an atmosphere of intellectual vigiour and moral rectitude in which the young men and women of our Country may find their fulfillment and achieve greatness as eminent men and women of service. Loyola Alumni Association collaborates towards this great venture effectively preparing the students to become socially conscious men and women.

As on 1st March 2010, there are 20264 members in our Association, out of whom 2351 are life members and the rest are under the category of new graduates. This year alone 2239 students enrolled themselves as new graduates. We encourage all our outgoing students to enroll their names into the Association and to become life members. We wish that the life members of the Alumni Association could suggest their colleagues to join the Alumni Association if they have not yet become its life members.

Keeping in line with our admission policy - namely to educate the marginalised students, the need was felt for a long time to help the poor and deserving students to meet their educational expenses. This academic year we have contributed Rs.2,40,000/-towards Students Scholarships in the form of Semester fees and Hostel mess fees.
We have planned to collaborate with the service organisations and undertake activities for out reach programmes.
To support the economically poor students, we have planned to orgainse batch-wise reunions. One important motive of the reunions is to raise funds for poor students' scholarship.
Scholarships are created for deserving current students with the support from our Alumni. Different batch groups have been encouraged to create a corpus and scholarships for the poorer and needy students. Accordingly B.Com. - 1982 Batch, has created a corpus to the tune of Rs.2,20,000/- and sent the amount to Fr. Principal with the request that this amount may be a corpus and the interest earned from this corpus to be utilized towards the educational needs of the poorer students. The Golden Jubilee Batch of Economics has also created a scholarship for Rs.47,000/- for the deserving needy students and also a endowment scholarship of Rs.10,000 is instituted by Sri K. Koti Reddy in the name of Fr. Royappar. Batch 1978 has instituted Silver Jubilee Commerce 1978 - Scholarship with the initial amount of Rs.1,07,500/-.
To revive the northern chapter.
Planning to start a new chapter in Salem, Pondicherry, Coimbatore, Virdhu Nagar, Erode and Bangalore.

Dates of the meeting will be put up in Notice Board of the site. Kindly give your reply to alumni@loyolacollege.edu, if you are attending the meeting. The purpose of this meeting is just to come and share our views and ideas.

Kindly go through our Web site (Notice Board) for additional information in that month and give your response by email to us.

We publish Alumni Bulletin in the month of August. Kindly go through our Website (Alumni Bulletin Page).

Our eminent Alumni include - late R. Venkataraman, Cardinal Lourdusamy, C. Rangarajan, P. Chidambaram, M. M. Jacob, Vittal, Varghese Kurien, Kripal Singh, Milka Singh, Ramanathan Krishnan, Amirtharaj Brothers, Bhaskaran and Viswanathan Anand.

As this junture, we deeply mourn the demise of our beloved past president and our illustrious alumnus Mr. R. Venkatraman.

Each member of our Association is a genius and places a mark in the history of our beloved Country, India. You too can and should become great.