Team Events

Venue: Warm Springs Community Center, Fremont , CA.

Date : Nov 8th, 2003, Saturday.

Time : 5:00 PM to 10.00 PM.

No of Attendees: 300 ( approx ).

TEAM Events Compeer : Anandhi.

Chief Guest : Mr. Sridhar Krishnamoorthy (Co-Founder of Sankara Eye Foundation).

Chief Guest Introduction : Karunakaran Palanisamy.

Dear TEAM,

1) The meeting started around 5:30 PM with a prayer song by Divya.

2) Govind Welcomed the TEAM members, Chief Guest, Parents and relatives of TEAM members. He started, his speech with “Thirukkural” in Tamil.

3) School Selection by Udaya Kumar and Selection Co-Coordinators started at 5.45 PM.
School Batch selected by Divya, and Udaya Kumar Announce the selected names.

2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Karthik Ramamurthy(Vimala Moorthy)
2. Raja Doraisamy (Karthik Easwaramoorthy)
3. Sridhar Ramarajan (Elavarasu Arumugam)
4. Balaji Parameshvaran (Kumar Saravanakumar)
5. Senthilkumar Poosappan (Kandasamy Nachimuthu)
6. Sethuraman Rajagopalan (Kumar Saravanakumar)
7. Subburaman Sankaran (Kandasamy Nachimuthu)
8. Sakthivel Natarajan (Rajkumar Thangavelu)

2001 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Ramkumar Vadivelu(Karthik Somasundaram)
2. Saravanan Nagarajan (Ravikumar Dhandivel )
3. Pandiyan Appavu(Karthik S Ramasamy)
4. Sudhakar Sukumar(Karthik S Ramasamy)
5. Ilango Periathambi(Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)
6. Muralikumar Palanisamy(Ramki Natesan)
7. VinayagaMoorthi Pichaikannu(Senthil Subramaniam)
8. Sakthi and Senthil kailasam(Ramki Natesan)

2002 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Anita Rathinam(Kumar Rethi)
2. Vimalanathan Natarajan(Udayakumar Subbarayan)
3. Arulmani Krishnan(Sudhakar Sukumar)
4. Sivabaskaran pachammal(Kumar Rethi)
5. Sakthivel Balasubramanian(Bala Nachimuthu)
6. Sitaramu Kurapati(Saravanan Nagarajan)
7. Ananda Krishnan Narasimhan(Sudha Ganapathikrishnan)
8. Palaniyandi Karuppannan & MaheswariPalaniyandi(Balasubramanian Kulandaisamy)

2003 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Sundaram Jawahar(Narayanasamy Subramanian)
2. Ramesh Bakthavatchalu(Narayanasamy Subramanian)
3. Chandran Ramasamy(Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
4. Sathishkumar Jagadeesan(Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
5. Ravi Raju(Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran )
6. Ram Duraisamy(Rammohan Krishnan)
7. Subramaian(Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
8. Uma Vadivel(Ilango Periathambi )
9. Kumar Kullan(Ravikumar Subramaniam)
10. Andy Nallappan(Anbu Gounder)
11. Sathishkumar Adhimoorthy(Pandiyan Appavu)
12. Rajkumar Vinoth(Varadharajan Rengaswamy)

4)Motivation Speech by Arasikumar started around 6.00 PM.

• She introduced herself as a coordinator, She joined team one year Back.
• She become team member after attending team meeting and got impressed with our TEAM activities.
• She described the following as primary reasons which motivated her to become a proud member of TEAM

Importance of education
Impressed with TEAM motivation
Working with energetic TEAM members

• She said “Others can take every thing from you except education”
• Once she becomes coordinator, she called her friends to join the team.

5)Introduction of Chief Guest by Karunakaran Palanisamy – 6.30 PM.
Karunakaran introduced the chief guest, Mr. Sridhar Krishnamoorthy Co-Founder of Sankara Eye Foundation. Karunakaran   presented bio data of Mr.Sridhar. Some highlights:
Studied from IIT, Madras on 1980.
Moved to bay area on 1990.
Working as Sr.Manager in INTEL, Santa Clara.

6)Speech by Chief Guest Mr. Sridhar Krishnamoorthy – 6.40 PM.

• He welcomed all team members, said thanks to Karunakaran for the introduction.
• He said “Strength must come to nation through by education – by vivekananda”.
• He also said “The difference from developed countries and undeveloped countries is only Education”. As Team is helping to improve education in India, it really good for our growth.
• He also quoted one school head master’s sayings “Team money is start for the school, not an end”.
• He said, “Team should think about people to join from India also,because people are going back”.
• He gave more information about Sankara Eye Foundation, how it helps people in India.
• Rural outrage is big in Sankara Eye Foundation. SEF branches will be opened all over India before 2020 to cure all blinds.
• He also said “Together (SEF & Team) we can achieve lot more and learn from each other”.
• He pointed out the following statistics.

Indian education ratio is 55.8%.
In Tamil Nadu 2000 education ratio is 65 %.
In Tamil Nadu 2001 education ratio is 74 %.

7)Memento was presented to Chief Guest by Michael Sekar – 7.00 PM.

8)Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy – Told us Team Achievement in year 2003 – 7.10PM.

• He introduced himself, he lives in Fremont.
• Proud member of team for four (4) years.
• November 8, 2003 meeting is the last meeting for year 2003.
• He said the Achievement in year 2003

Feb 2003 Team selected total of 32 schools.
July 2003 Team selected total of 32 schools.
Nov 2003 Team selected total of 36 schools.
Total 100 schools selected in year 2003.

• He also said from today in ten (10) years team should have members from all over the world. In Tamil Nadu we should touch all schools in ten years.
• Team Vision ” LIFT THE SOCEITY BY EDUCATION”

Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy answered a few questions from the participants regarding Team’s current and future planned activities.

a) When to stop the membership?
i) New members will go into statewide chapter. In Jan 2004, we will have chapters in India, USA.
b) How to make sure money is going to proper schools?
i) Team members must follow the guidelines.
ii) Team gives $500 and trusts the members as they are the best judge in deciding to which school the money can be donated.
iii) No one has authority to hire or fire any one.
iv) If you don’t know the school please give the money to any friends,who know the correct school or India team will help you to select the school for you.
c) What is the way to publicize the team?
i) We have proved ourself, so now we can publicize team.
ii)Put board in school to publicize in India.
d) Tips given by Team member father to get money from project manager in Tamil Nadu in collector Office with a ration of 1 by 3 – For more info contact him at(408)-252-6989
e) What kind of things we do for schools?
i) How to monitor the progress?
ii) We need stage for all the work. TEAM is the stage.
f) Can we recruit and provide good teacher for schools?
i) Members are the best judge to decide what they can do for their school.If they feel that the school needs a good teacher they are encouraged to recruit a teacher for the school.
g) What are the companies that provide gift matching for our donation?
i) As of now SUN, HP, CISCO, and MICROSOFT provide gift matching
Note: We have developed the software for TEAM. Its developed by “Team soft software team”.From the software we can get the status any time. Every member will get one login ID, to get the status of the team.

9) School Selection for Year 2002.

10) Kandasamy Nachimuthu showed the video clipping of following schools:
a)MinnaPalayam,b) Annamali Kottai, c) SivaKiri

11) Pot Luck Dinner organized by: Sudha and Food Coordinators.
All the Food Coordinators provided delicious food items and the Food arrangement was excellent.Three course meal was  served in a Buffet pattern along with Chips and Soda.
First course consists of Chappathi, Masala, Idly, Chutney, and Vegetable Kurma.
Second course consists of Vegetable Pulav, Tomato Rice, Lemon Rice,Curd Rice.
Third course was mouth-watering dessert items such as Ice Cream, Cakes and other desserts.

12) At 8.00 PM Dance Programme for team members
Organized By: Sridhar Minor

Song     (Artist)      [Choreograph]

1) Ganesha kavuthuvam(Kruthika Senthil, Nithya Nandhakumar) [Kruthika Senthil, Nithya Nandhakumar]
2) Rasika (Amlu Natesan, Tharani Subramanyam) [Amlu Natesan, Tharani Subramanyam (Ragamalika Group)]
3) Alaipayuthey (Kiruthika Senthil) [Kruthika Senthil]
4) Uppukaruvaatu (Gokul Ganesh, Abinaya Sundharam) [Sumathi Natesan (Ragamalika Group)]
5) Om Namachivaaya (Savitha) [Vidhya Venkatesh Teacher]
6) Mundasathaan kattikittu (Bay Area Tappangs ( BATS )) [Bay Area Tappangs(BATS)]
7) Valli kanavan perai (Nithya Nandhakumar) [Nithya Nandhakumar]
Chinna Chinna (Vijaypriya Ganesh)[Vidhya Venkatesh Teacher]
9) Iyyore (Amlu Natesan) [Amlu Natesan (Ragamalika Group)]

13) Vote of Thanks: Karmugilan Rajangam
Karmugilan Rajangam gave the vote of thanks and thanked All the co-coordinators, Volunteers, and TEAM members For their great support, participation and generosity.

14) National Anthem by All members

Once again TEAM members made it possible to conduct a very successful TEAM meeting.
Together we made it happen !!!!

Warm Regards

Lakshmi Narayanan Bangaru and Dharani Lakshmi and TEAM News Group

Date : 26 July 2003.

Time : 12:30pm – 5:00pm.

Place : Elizabeth Park,Fremont, CA.

Number of attendees : 100 (Approx.).

TEAM Events Compere : Ms.Shankari.

Chief Guest : Ms Vetri Selvi ( The president ofCalifornia Tamil Academy)

Chief Guest Introduction : Loganathan.

Dear TEAM,

The meeting started at around 12:30 with a prayer song by Shruthi.

Rajasekar Nallamuthu welcomed the TEAM members, Chief Guest, and parents and relatives of TEAM members present. He also mentioned that he was introduced to TEAM by member Karunakaran Palanisamy.

Prabhu Venkatesh, introduced himself as a new member.Further he mentioned that, TEAM provided him an opportunity to give back to the Society a little, as we take a lot from Society and doing a social service gives a lot of satisfaction.He is also a member of other social organisations and he is very much interested in such activities.Further as TEAM addresses the issue at Grass Root level, it motivated him to become a member of TEAM

Loganathan Palanisamy introduced the chief guest, Ms.Vetri Selvi Rajamanickam, President of California Tamil Academy. He mentioned that, her father Mr S.Madhavan was ex Law Minister during Mr Annadhrai’s period. She is actively invovled in various social organizations working towards upliftment of rural students at Tamil Nadu.

Ms Vetri Selvi stressed the importance of social service organizations like TEAM by providing the following statistics. There are about 24000 panchayat union schools in Tamil Nadu. 90% of govt expenditure is spent on salary of govt. employees and only 10% of the revenue is spent on all kinds of welfare activities. Further on a national level , nearly 60% goes towards salary and only 40% is spent towards development projects. Hence, she stressed the fact that, voluntary organizations are the best hope to uplift the status of the country. She also mentioned about an organization which provides basic, Sanitary facilities at schools. Because of lack of toilets at schools, the possibilities of health problems at an adult age are more for young girls from such environments. She suggested that TEAM can also work towards such initiatives.

After that, a small memento was presented to Chief Guest by Kumarappan

School Selection:

Event Conducted By : Mr.Udayakumar

2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Krishnamoorthy(Rajkumar Thangavelu)
2. Sudha Moorthy(Vimala Moorthy)
3. Sivaganesh.D(Prabhu Palanisamy)
4. Murugesan Subramani(Kumar Saravanakumar)
5. Senthil Raj.D(Prabhu Palanisamy)
6. Rajan Madhavan(Rajkumar Thangavelu)
7. Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu(Kandasamy Nachimuthu)
8. R.Radhakrishnan(Suppusamy D Murthy)

2001 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)
1. Arasikumar(Ramki Natesan)
2. Sridharan Minor(Abirami Jeyaprakash)
3. Kalayansundran.M(Muthusamy Senthilnathan)
4. Sakthivel Muthusamy(Ramki Natesan)
5. Viji Palaniappan(Rajamani Sengodan)
6. Sivakumar Velusamy(Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)
7. Vijay Khanna(Karthik S Ramasamy)
8. Ravichandran(Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)

2002 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Sitaramu Kurapati(Saravanan Nagarajan)
2. Govindaraj Ramakrishnan(Sudha Ganapathikrishnan)
3. Perumal Kuppusamy(Saravana Nagarajan)
4. Sriram Natarajan(Jeganathan R.A)
5. Ayyappan Ponan(Sudhakar Sukumar)
6. Palanisamy Manickampatti(Arunkumar Athaippan)
7. Senthil K Myilsamy(Sathishkumar Gopalasamy)
8. Viji Karthikeyan(Karuppusami Muniappan)

2003 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Ramachandran Janakiraman(Sridharan Minor)
2. Jeyakrishnan Balasubramanian(VaradharajanRengasamy)
3. Sivaganakumar Elangovan(Karunakaran Palanisamy)
4. Eokesh Narajan(Ravikumar Subramanian)
5. Saravanavijayan V Samynarayan(Karunakaran Palanisamy)
6. Gowri Radhakrishnan(Sridharan Minor)
7. Balaji Subramanian(Rammohan Krishnan)
8. Kandasamy(Anbu Gounder)

Saravanakumar introduced T Shirts with TEAM Logo Printed on it.

Devarajan shared his experience about the project work done. His experience “I received the check in 2 weeks after the school selection. I called my father and people back at home got excited and contacted the Head Master of a govt. school of 1000 student strength. HM was happy to accept the proposal and asked himself, about what do they need. He came up with a list such as Repairing Floor, Black Board and School Walls. The budget exceeded the amount provided by TEAM. Many of my friends got excited by the project and provided funds almost equal to the amount provided by TEAM. So it is a pleasant experience and the satisfaction was immense pleasure.

Sakthivel Muthusamy, read a few letters back from the schools and TEAM members.

Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy answered a few questions from the participants regarding TEAM’s current and future planned activities.

Pot Luck Dinner organized by : Sudha, Kalai and Food Coordinators.

All the Food Coordinators provided delicious food items and the Food arrangement was excellent. Three course meal was served in a Buffet pattern along with Chips and Soda. First course consists of Chappathi, Peas Masala, Vegetable Kurma. Secound course consists of Vegetable Pulav, Tomato Rice, Lemon Rice, Curd Rice.Third course was mouth watering dessert items such as Ice Cream, Cakes and other desserts.

Fun Programme : Games for Kids and other Team members Organized By : Gopal and Sridhar

Games were conducted for kids first. All kids were excited and eagerly involved in all the games. Then fun programs were conducted for adults. Everyone enjoyed their time a lot. It was simply Fun !!! Fun !!! Fun !!! everywhere.

Vote of Thanks : Suresh Rajasekaran

Suresh Rajasekaran gave the vote of thanks and thanked all the co-ordinators, Volunteers, and TEAM members for their great support, participation and generosity. Once again TEAM members made it possible to conduct a very successful TEAM meeting.

Together we made it happen !!!!

Warm Regards,

Sambath Subramanian and TEAM News Group

Date : 03 February 2003.

Time : 5:00pm – 9:30pm.

Place : Warm Springs Community Center,Fremont, CA.

Number of attendees : 250-275 (Approx.).

TEAM Events Compere : Ms.Rekha.

Welcome Song By : Amlu.

Welcome Address : Sambath Subramaniam.

Dear TEAM,

School Selection:

Event Conducted By : Mr.Udayakumar

2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Sathishkumar Govindasamy (Ilangovel Thulasimani)
2. Saravanan.R (Suppusamy D. Murthy)
3. Boopathy Subramanian (Prabhu Palanisamy)
4. Ethindra Ramamurthy( Karthikeyan Easwara Moorthy)
5. Elavarasu Arumugam (Elavarasu Arumugam)
6. Nimmi Jagadeesan (Karthikeyan Easwara Moorthy)
7. Nanadakumar Natarajan (Saravankumar)
8. Pravin Balasubramaniam (Pravin Balasubramaniam)

2001 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)
1. Padma Ravi Kumar (Ravi Kumar Dhandivel)
2. Suresh Kanna (Dhivakaran Muruganantham)
3. Subramaniam Ganapathy( Ravi Kumar Dhandivel)
4. Remo Kumar( Ramki Natesan)
5. Karthikeyan Palanisamy( Ravi Kumar Dhandivel)
6. Kamaraj Ramadass( Dhivakaran Muruganantham)
7. Deivaprakash Chinnasamy( Rajamani Sengodan)
8. Narasimhan Gopalan (Udhya Baskar Nachimuthu)

2002 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Krishnana (Saravanan Nagarajan)
2. Prabhakar Mani (Sudhakar Sukumar)
3. Karmugilan Rajangam (Saravannan Nagarajan)
4. Ramasamy (Jaganathan Eswaran)
5. Palaniyandi Karupannan (Balasubramanian Kulandaisamy)
6. Thiruvenitachalam (Bala Nachimuthu)
7. Ganeshkumar Sankara Raman( Bala Nachimuthu)
8. Murthy Sundarajan (Kumar Rethi)

2003 Batch

Member Name (Co-ordinator)

1. Ranganathan Kanapathy (Varadharajan Rengaswamy)
2. Dhanasekaran (Ragouvaran Jayasankaran)
3. Durai Chinnaiah (Anand Gurumurthy)
4. Dayalan Ranganathan (Narayanasamy Subramanian)
5. Velmurugan Madhavan (Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
6. Rarumugam Gurusamy (Ramohan Krishnasamy)
7. Shanthi Kathiresan (Sridharan Minor)
8. Jaishankar Janarthanan (Varadharajan Rengaswamy)

Welcome Address : Sambath Subramaniam

Sambath welcomed the Chief Guest, all the TEAM Members, their Parents and Friends who came for the meeting. Also shared his insight about TEAM.

TEAM Introduction : Senthil K.S.

Senthil narrated the history of TEAM, the primary objectives and how it evolved as a Non-Profit organization. Presented the members with Team Growth Chart. Thanked the Key members behind the scene who did the Logo (Udai Baskar) and the Web site (Kumar Rethi, Karthik, Srini, Sudha, Sakthi and Vimala).

Thoughts about TEAM : Karthikeyan Chelladurai

Karthikeyan Chelladurai shared his thoughts about TEAM with all the TEAM members. He said he was attracted to join TEAM because of its primary objective – helping under privileged students and economically poor rural schools in India. Also told that we need to educate people to be aware of population growth which is root cause for many problems in India.

Introduction of Chief Guest: Kandasamy Nachimuthu

Kanadasamy Nachimuthu indroduced cheif guest Dr.Savitha Krishnan and told the members how privileged we were to have have her as the chief guest.

Chief Guest Address : Dr.Savitha Krishnan

Dr. Savitha Krishnan who did her Medicine in Michigan and currently working in Palo Alto Medical Foundation addressed the group about Preventive care and comparative study of Eastern vs. Western Medicines. She gave a valuable speech about ‘Women preventive care’ and how we have to educate everyone about Preventive Care.

Presentation of Memento to Chief Guest: Varsha

The Chief Guest was honored by presenting a Memento from TEAM members. Varsha, Ravikumar’s daughter gave the memento to the chief guest.

HUNDI : Saravanakumar

Saravanakumar presented TEAM members with the Financial Statement for the year Jan 2002 to Dec 2002. Also explained the purpose of having Hundi and collected money to meet the expenses of Hall rent etc.

General :

Padma Prakash shared her experiences with all TEAM members about what she did with the Money she received from TEAM. Very useful for the people are joined newly to TEAM!

Kandasamy Nachimuthu did a video presentation which gave an insight to all TEAM members about the activities of TEAM in India. One picture is equivalent to one thousand pages of literature and that was what the video presentation achieved.

Pot Luck Dinner organized by : Sudha and Food Coordinators.

All the Food Coordinators provided delicious food items and the Food arrangement was excellent. Three course meal was served in a Buffet pattern along with Chips and Soda. First course consists of Iddli, Chutney, Chappathi, Potato Curry, Vegetable Kurma. Secound course consists of Vegetable Pulav, Vegetable Biriyani, Lemon Rice, Curd Rice. Third course was mouth watering dessert items such as Ice Cream and variety of Cakes.

Special Programme : Light Music

Organized By : Sridhar Minor

Compere : Karthikeyan Chelladurai

Sridhar Minor’s wonderful light music programme in which various TEAM members and their children participated was a grand success.

Vote of Thanks : Manickam Athiyapan

Manickam Athiyapan gave the vote of thanks and thanked all the co-ordinators and TEAM members for their great participation and generosity.

The TEAM meet was concluded with our National Anthem and once again TEAM members made it possible to conduct a very successful TEAM meeting.

Cheers,

Paramila and TEAM News Group!