Team Events

Date : Nov 13 2004

Time : 6 PM

Place : Mountain View Community Center

Compered By: Premila Kumaraswamy

Highlights of the meeting:

• 100 schools selected.
• Distributed $ 500 to every school.
• 100 * 500 = $ 50,000 = 25 lakhs.
• Approximately, every school will have 150 students.
• Total students get benefited from this 100 project = 100 * 150 = 15,000 Students.
• If our project sustains for 10 years, total students get benefited by this 100 school is 15000 * 10 = 1.5 lakhs kids.
• TEAM touched 1.5 laksh kids by this Nov 13th, 2004 meeting.
• Hats off to everyone.

Even though there was delay in opening the community hall, the TEAM meeting kicked off pretty quickly as everyone volunteered in making the arrangements.

6:50PM Welcome Song:

The TEAM meet commenced with the prayer song, sung by baby Sahana Jayamani.

6:54PM Condolences:

As Anbu Kounder presided, TEAM members expressed condolences for TEAM member Annamalai who passed away on August 1 2004.

6:56PM Welcome Address:

Ravi Welcomed everyone for the TEAM meeting saying that this meeting is for getting constructive and encouraging inputs for the TEAM. He mentioned that the mission of the TEAM is to create educational awareness ALLOVER INDIA,improve the infrastructure and build confidence in children. He added that TEAM’s vision is to reachout to more schools. He appreciated everyone for doing such a great work.

7:00 TEAM Action:

Ganapathy Subramaniyam Mentioned that he is a TEAM member for the past 3 1/2 years and 6 months after being a TEAM member. He pointed out that even though he had bought benches and screens for the school, the school HM told that there was NO INSPIRATION among children, when he visited India 2 years back. Thinking about “where can we go from here?”, he said that we should

1.Inspire Teachers,

2.Improve the Process,

3.Change the Curriculum.

He added that these 3 along with Infrastructure form the pillars for Child Education.

7:05 Project Activities:

Jaganathan Radhakrishnan who is a TEAM member for the past 2 years and who got selected for project execution, shared his experiences on selecting a school, executing the project with the help of his brother and sister-in-law who is a school teacher.

Jaganathan’s mother spoke about their project execution in Gommudipundi. She said that there were no benches in the school and when they heard about TEAM, they were so glad and thankful. She told that this service is done past the oceans and giving something to someone who does not have it, is a noble service. She blessed everyone in TEAM to have good health and life.

7:10PM Introduction to Chief Guest:

Karunakaran Palanisamy Welcomed chief guest Mr.Sivakumar Seshappan who was 2002-2003 president and a current member of Bay Area Tamil Mandram and Mrs Sivakumar who is a Tamil Teacher. He added that Sivakumar is from Pudukottai, Tamilnadu and has completed Masters in National College, Trichy and presently working in Visa Technologies. He brought to our notice that Mr.Sivakumar is working on getting Tamil on the web. What a challanging job!! Then he spoke about the events that took place in bay area when Mr.Sivakumar played a major role in Tamil Cultural Center.

1. Musical concert by K J Jesudas for Shankara Eye Foundation

2. Muthamil Mandram by Soloman Papaiya.

3. How did Tamil Originate? by MadhiVannan who is a disciple of Devaneya Pavanar.

4. Agni Kunju drama in Bharathi vila.

7:15PM Speech by Chief Guest

Mr.Sivakumar expressed that he is very honored by the invitation for the TEAM meeting and said that education is must for everyone. He said that a similar event (no key for building) occurred at Vasantha Vila 2003 which was conducted by Tamil Kalachara Maiyam for Tamil New Year.He asked how many of us read “Anbulla Sinaykitheay” in Thendral where many problems are discussed. He added that few years back when he came to USA, many looked forward for Tamil friends. He said that we see the distance between countries when there is a problem and there is no one to guide us. Tamil Kalachara Maiyan was formed for his purpose to help people in need. He blessed TEAM that it should grow beyond Tamilnadu to allover India.

7:22PM Gift to Chief Guest:

Baby Sunmitha gave the special gift to the chief guest and he received it blissfully.

7:23PM Speech by Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy:

He thanked 2 TEAMSOFT contributors saying that names are not usually mentioned. The credits went to

1. “It should work now!!” Kumar Rethi.

2. “Done!!” Sakthivel Muthuswamy.

Keep it up, Friends!

7:27PM Hundi was circulated to collect money for the hall arrangements.

7:29PM Video Presentation:

Sridharan Minor gave a clear and organized video presentation on

1. TEAM event on Oct 2 2004 for Gandhi Day. 2. TEAM Walk for education, which was on August 28th at Shoreline Park. 3. School Projects at Thondamuthur and Kumbakonam high schools. 4. The heartbreaking “Kumbakonam Tragedy” with the message “Feelings don’t prevent anything. Do something”

7:35PM Dinner Time:

Everyone started to smell the hunger-creating aroma of delicious food prepared by TEAM members. There were Idli, Sambar, Chutney, many varieties of rice, juice and Ice Cream. There was plenty of food for everyone and everyone enjoyed it and got ready for the culturals, recharging themselves for enjoyment.

8:25PM Cultural Began: Below are the list of events and participants.

Sr#	Event	Detail/ Note	Kids Name	Coordinator Name
1	Dance	Appam Murukku Vadai- Pushpavanm	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Ranjani Narasimhan 3.Gokul Natesan 4.Megana Ravikumar 5.Abinaya Sundaram 6.Akshita 7.Lalitha Thirunagiri	Sumathi
2	Song	Bajan	Divya	Geetha
3	Dance	Train Song	Sarvesh Mayilvahanan, Malar Kumarappan, Ram Nallappan, Divya Nallakumar	Malar
4	Slogam/ Song / Story	Vasudha, Varun, Madhu	Sujatha
5	Dance	Alaala ganda/Sangamam	Ramya Priya	Siva Girija
6	Song	Barathiyar Song / Odi vilaiyaadu paappa	Arvind, Akila, Shruthi Bala	Karunakaan
7		Fashion Medley of Tamil Songs	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Saffra Raja 3.Gokul Natesan 4.Megana Ravikumar 5.Abinaya Sundaram 6.Akshita 7.Lalitha Thirunagiri 8.Nadiya 9.Somesh
8	Magic	Magic Show	Vishwaesh Rajiv	Santha
9	Dance	Kannum Kannum kallandhu	Vijaypriya, Nithya Priya	Siva Girija
10	Song	Natesa Gowtham	Hema and Kids	Hema
11	Dance	Aasai Adhigam Vatchu	Stefanie, Nithya	Richard , E.Raja Kumar
12	Dance	Tamil Mix	Shruthi, Sudharsan	Shanthi Kathiresan
13	Dance	Hindi Song Dola Re dola Re -DEVDAS	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Lalitha Thirunagiri 3.Abinaya Sundaram	Sumathi

8:50PM TEAM Announcement:

Senthil KS made the following announcement.

• No. of Schools Selected – 100
• Amount distributed in USD – $50,000
• Amount distributed in INR – Rs 25 Lakh
• No. of Students benefited per school – 150

TEAM Project Selection Members list- TEAM CHAPTER 01

2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Anandakumar K (Suppusamy D Murthy)
2. Arun Rajamanikam (Rajkumar Thangavelu)
3. Jaganathan Eswaran(Pravin Balasubramaniam)
4. John Kuilan (Pravin Balasubramaniam)
5. Mathi Ganesh (Rajkumar Thangavelu)
6. Micheal Sekar(Kumar Saravanakumar)
7. Ramachandran(Elavarasu Arumugam)

2001 Batch

1. Anand Gurumurthy (Ramki Natesan)
2. Ezhilarasi Rajendran (Abirami Jayaprakash)
3. Gopal Kumarappan ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)
4. Jayshree Rajagopalan ( Abirami Jayaprakash)
5. Kalyanasundaram Muthusamy ( Muthusamy Senthilnathan)
6. Kokila Natarajan (Muthusamy Senthilnathan)
7. Manickam Athiyapan (Ravikumar Dhandivel)
8. Mohan Babu (Senthil KS)
9. Rajendran Arumugam (Karthik Somasundaram)
10. Ramanan Dayalan ( Dhivakaran Muruganantham)
11. Ravikumar Subbarayan ( Ravikumar Subbarayan)
12. Sakthivel Sabapathy ( Ravikumar Dhandivel)
13. Senthil Kumar (Abirami Jayaprakash)
14. Senthil Varadappan (Rajamani Sengodan)
15. Subbarao Dogiparthi ( Karthik Somasundaram)
16. Venkat Damodharan (Ramki Natesan)

2002 Batch

1. Arivalagan Kaliyaperumal (Kumar Rethi)
2. B.mugunthan (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
3. Hariharan Sivakumar ( Bala Nachimuthu)
4. Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
5. Kamaraj Shankar ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
6. Kavitha Thangavelu ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
7. Kumar Easwaramoorthy ( Kumar Rethi)
8. Perumal Gopal ( Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
9. R.Sabhapathy (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
10. Solomon Rajkumar ( Udayakumar Subbarayan)
11. Suresh Kathirvel ( Palanisamy Manickampatty)
12. Thiagarajan Ramachandran ( Balasubramanian Kulandaisamy)
13. Vaidyanathan Sambasivam ( Karuppusami Muniappan)
14. Vasanth Mohan (Hemalatha Sivakumar)
15. Venkatesh Annamanaidu ( Karuppusami Gounder)
16. Viswanath Raghavan ( Saravanan Nagarajan)

2003 Batch

1. Anand Ramasamy ( Ravikumar Subramaniam)
2. Ananthakrishnan ( Kavitha Thangavelu)
3. Deva Ramasamy ( Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
4. Gayatri Gopalan (Narayanasamy Subramanian)
5. Gunasekar Jeevarathnam (Anand Gurumurthy)
6. Illavarasan SADAYAPPAN (Sridharan Minor)
7. Kannan Shanmugam (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
8. Lakshmi Santhamorthy (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
9. Maha Sengottaiyan (Kavitha Thangavelu)
10. Maheshkumar H Rangaswamy (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
11. Naveen Venugopal (Kavitha Thangavelu)
12. Ravi Kumar (Rammohan Krishnan)
13. Ray Vrudhula ( Rammohan Krishnan)
14. Saravanan Agasaveeran (Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran)
15. Sathish Kumar Palaniappan ( Murali Subbu)
16. Seetharaman Venkataramana (Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
17. senthil Ranganathan (Kavitha Thangavelu)
18. Sethuraman Rao ( Karunakaran Palanisamy)
19. Sivakumar Veerappan ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
20. Subbu Ganesan (Narayanasamy Subramanian)
21. Subramanian Venkateswaran ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
22. Sundar Karuppusamy ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
23. Venkata Sathya Gupta Gonugunta (Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
24. Viswanathan Sahadevan (Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran)

2004 Batch

1. Arun Ganesan ( Arun Ganesan)
2. Babuji Ambikapathy ( Raj Subbiah)
3. Balajee Seshadri ( Murali)
4. Ganesh Thambiran ( Ramesh Kuppuswamy)
5. Immanuel Pachaiyappan ( Lakshmi Santhamorthy)
6. Kirubakaran Pakkirisamy ( Ramesh Kuppuswamy)
7. Pichappan Pethachi ( Krishnaraj Pandurangan)
8. Rajendran P ( Krishnaraj Pandurangan)
9. Rajesh and Priya ( Kavitha Balasubramanian)
10. Ramesh Babu Balan ( Arun Muthukumar)
11. Rasappa Palaniappan ( Sakthi Senthil)
12. Sam Shanmugan ( Sakthi Senthil)
13. Saravanan3 ( Arun Ganesan)
14. Shanmuga Sundaram ( Sugeerthi Loganathan)
15. Shyam Nagarajan ( Arun Muthukumar)
16. Yuvaraj Arumugam (Sakthi Senthil)

TEAM Project Selection Members list- TEAM CHAPTER -02

1. Vijay Radhakrishnan Hariharan Sivakumar
2. Sudha Rajaprabakaran Uma Subramaniam
3. Banu Nathan & Swaminathan Nathan Lakshmi Venkateswaran
4. Shafi Syed Govindaraj Haridass (Manish
5. Saravanan Murugaiah Nirmala Balakrishnan
6. Kannan Sivanesan Karmugilan Rajangam
7. Kannakumar Kittusamy Latha Kandy
8. Nalini Hariharan Sivakumar
9. Duraisamy Gopalsamy Balaji Vasan
10. Radhika Ravikumar Sumathi RamkiNatesan
11. Mohan Babu Vidya Ganesan
12. Banu Chander Vidya Ganesan
13. Gajapathi Kannan Raghu Raman
14. Arun Raj Manish S
15. Vijayanand Jayaraman Karmugilan Rajangam
16. Selvakumar Eakabaram Hariharan Sivakumar

8:53PM Cultural Continued.

9:50PM Vote of Thanks:

Govindaraj Ramakrishan Requested sorry for the delay that occurred in the beginning of the meeting. He thanked chief guest, team members, friends, parents and kids for attending the TEAM meeting.

9:55PM National Anthem:

Everyone dispersed after singing the Indian national anthem, proudly!

Together we made it happen !!!!

Warm Regards,

Lakshmi Sudha Duraiswamy and TEAM News Group

Date/Day: : Saturday, October 02, 2004

Time: : 2pm to 4pm

Place : Community meeting room, Normal Public Library, Normal,IL

Dear TEAM,

1. • Deepa Chelladurai
   • Ramesh Janarthanan
   • Babu Thangaraj

2. Welcome address by compere (Balaguru Paramasivan)
3. Prayer Song by all
4. TEAM updates from last quarter by Senthil Shanmugam
5. 2004 new members (2) talk
6. 1st quarter selected members project experience
7. Question and Answer -By Senthil
8. 2004 4th quarter (Oct, Nov, and Dec) members selection for project execution – by Vijay Radhakrishanan and Vijay Balasundram

Selected Members:

9. Vote of Thanks
10. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date/Day: : Saturday, June 26, 2004

Time: : 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Place : Community meeting room, Normal Public Library, Normal

Dear TEAM,

1. Welcome address by compere – Radhika.
2. Prayer Song (Vandae Madaram) by Hamsika.
3. TEAM updates from last quarter – Senthil gave an update on TEAM’s activities from the last quarter.
4. School Selection and Project Execution Procedures – Sugum Subbarayan explained the procedures for excuting projects.
5. Video Display – Video prepared by TEAM film division was screened. Also, we show some picutes on the already executed projects.
6. Question and Answer by Senthil
7. 2004 2nd & 3rd quarter members selection for project execution – Lead by Vijay Radhakrishanan and Vijay Balasundram – TEAM selected six members for the 2nd & 3rd Quarter of year 2004. They are:
   • Radhika Jayaraman
   • Babitha Pelluru
   • 3. Meenakshi Sundareswari
   • 4. Sureshbabu Gajendran
   • 5. Raja Chandrasekaran
   • 6. Balaji Rengarajan
8. Vote of Thanks – by Kasturi Santanam
9. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date            : March 13th, 2004, Saturday

Time            : 6 PM to 10 PM

Place           : Community Center,

                            201 S Rengstroff Ave

                            Mountain View, CA - 94039

# People attended        : 300+    

Compered By        : Sangeetha Sampath

Welcome Song By      : Nila and Preethi (Daughters of Siva and Rajasekar)

School Selection        : Sakthi and Govind

# Schools Selected         : 52

Total Money distributed: $26,000

Total Indian Money   : 11.7 Lakhs

2000 Selected Members: 

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Anbu Gounder  ( Kandasamy Nachimuthu )

2) Aravind Kumar Ponnusamy ( Elavarasu Arumugam)

3) ChandraSekar Appachiyannan ( Ilangovel Thulasimani )

4) Kuppusamy Ramasamy (Prabhu Palanisamy)

5) Mathi Ganesh (Rajkumar Thangavelu)

6) Ramesh Ramalingam (Kandasamy Nachimuthu)

7) Siva Nallaswamy ( Kumar Saravanakumar)

  Sivakumar Rathinavelumani ( Prabhu Palanisamy)

2001 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Arun Muthukumar (Senthil KS & Kanchana)

2) Gomathy Chinnayan (Ravikumar Subbarayan) 

3) HajaPeer Adaiya (Karthik Somasundaram)

4) Hemalatha Sivakumar (Ramki Natesan)

5) Karunakaran Palanisamy (Karthis S Ramasamy)

6) Radha Bala ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)

7) Raman ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)

  Sankaran Raman (Senthil KS & Kanchana)

2002 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Natarajan Srinivasan ( Karuppusamy Muniyappan) 

2) Sakthivel (Jagannathan Radhakrishnan)

3) Inbasekar (Saravanan Nagarajan)

4) Palanisami (Devi Prasad)

5) Shanthi Bala (Palanisamy Manickampathy)

6) Manish Satyanarayana (Sudha GanapathiKrishanan)

7) Brindhadevi (Saravanan Nagarajan)

  Karthikeyan Swaminathan (Saravanan Nagarajan)

2003 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Ananth Subramaniam (Anbu Gounder)

2) Appasamy Srihari ( Rajendram Murugapadayachi)

3) Baluswamy (Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)

4) C.M. Venkatesh ( Vijayakumar Duraikannu)

5) Jayalalitha Pallatdaka  (Anbu Gounder)

6) Kamala Srinivasan (Prema Ramasamy)

7) Krishna Prasad (Varadharajan Rengaswamy)

  Laxman Naik (Anbu Gounder)

9) Ram Kaomati (Rammohan Krishnan )

10) Ramu Chidambaram (Muralidharan Subbarayalu)

11) Senthil Kumar Kanniyappan (Muralidharan Subbarayalu)

12) Thiyagarajan Balasubramaniam (Prema Ramasamy)

2004 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Appan Ananmalai (Ramu Chidambaram)

2) Lzxman (Umarani Lakshman)

3) Muthusamy Swami (Raj Subbiah )

4) Sangeetha Sampath ( Selvi sundaram)

5) Ramasamy Kuppusamy ( Ramu Chidambaram)

6) Saranavan (Arun Ganesan)

7) Selvi Sundaram ( Selvi sundaram)

  Senthil (Viswanath Raghavan)

9) Arumugam Ramasamy (Govindaraj Haridass)

10)Gurusankar Sankararaman (Meenakumar Vaikundam)

11)Kalyani Rajaraman (Meenakumar Vaikundam)

12)Lakshmi Sudha Duraiswamy (Sudha Moorthy)

13)Ravi Sivaramakrishnan (Ganesan Subramanian)

14)Selvi (Raghunathan Raman)

15)Subramanian Kumaresapillai (Devarajan Kaladipet)

16)Tito Thomas (Balaji Vaasan)

1) Welcome Address: Shivakumar Jayaraman 

He welcomed all TEAM Members, Parents and Friends to the TEAM Meet. He 

mentioned that he is a new member for TEAM and pointed out that 

reasonable amount of crowd are new members. He shared his good thoughts about 

TEAM which inspired him to join TEAM. 

2) TEAM History: Sudhakar Sukumar 

He talked about TEAM History. He mentioned that in the year 2000, when 

about 10 people were talking casually and that lead to a thought of 

forming TEAM.

3) TEAM Selection and Project Execution: Udaykumar

He gave a clear and crisp explanation about school selection and 

execution process to new team members.

4) Project Execution Experience Sharing by Dhanasekaran 

He shared his project experience. He visited a school in his village 

with no basic facilities. When he talked HM of that school, they 

requested a big list of items. Then he processed on that list and selected few 

essential items for immediate needs. The requirement processing time 

took long time. Overall process while executing this project went well 

and didn't face any problems. He thanked all TEAM members for their 

support.

5) New Member Speech: Shankar Narayanan 

He mentioned that he joined TEAM recently. He was eager to help others. 

At that time, he came to know about TEAM through Ramesh and 

Chithambaram (From Napa Valley). He was impressed about TEAM activities and he 

decided to join TEAM.

6) Chief Guest Introduction: Anand Gurumurthy 

He gave a very good introduction about Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar to 

other TEAM members and welcomed him to share some comments about TEAM.

7) Chief Guest - K.B. Chandrasekar speech

* He mentioned that he studied in Mythraeyi corporation school in 

Trichy.

* He is been here in US for 14 years.

* He is a Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jamcracker.

* Proud of TEAM and appreciated for helping schools in India.

* He pointed out that TEAM is working as a Co-operative model and not a 

organizational model. TEAM is successful because of people's 

dedication.

* He suggested starting TEAM in each village in India. By this way TEAM 

can generate lot of money in each villages and can help every school in 

that village.

* He hopes together we can make India as Super Economic Power in this 

world.

* India is not having enough resources. So, he pointed out education in 

India is very important at this stage.

* He also hopes that by 2025 India's 40% of exports can be from 

intellectual knowledge.

* He asked TEAM members, when they are visiting India, talk to students 

and encourage them to achieve some thing and do some thing for our 

country.

* He agreed to help TEAM in promoting a school if TEAM comes up with a 

good plan !!! Thanks to him !!!

* He also agreed to be TEAM's Advisory Board Member!! Thanks to him !!!

* Kid Varsha presented a memento to Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar.

  Q & A by Karthikeyan Eswaramoorthy

a) What is TEAM's Achievement?

* TEAM is a working model and cooperative model.

* Every TEAM member's effort is there in success of TEAM

* So far, 300 schools got benefited and more schools will be benefited 

in future.

b) What we are planning to achieve next?

* Right now 300 schools got benefited, i.e. 200 students from each 

school, total of 60,000 students got benefited.

* In future, we continue to work together like this, 6 lakhs students 

may get these benefits or may be 60 Lakhs or even 6 Crores. No wonder, 

even if 60 Crores of student may get these benefits.

* He requested to all TEAM members to bring more members to TEAM.

b) What is a Chapter?

Chapter is internal TEAM Management structure. It is just for easy 

management.

c) What is India TEAM?

* TEAM member who went back to India, they adopted a school as model 

school.

* If a TEAM member got selected for a project execution and unable to 

decide a school or what are things we can donate, they can contact India 

TEAM for more information. India TEAM will take them to this model 

school and give some ideas.

d) How people from different Indian state can make contribution to TEAM 

Activities?

* Language doesn't matter. Any one can join TEAM.

* People from a state can be under one Chapter.

* By this, we can expand TEAM through India and more students will get 

benefited.

e) If people are moving to India, how they can contribute to TEAM?

* Some people donate more amounts before they leave to India.

* Some people used to join India TEAM and help in executing TEAM 

projects.

f) Does TEAM have any plan to expand its support to Hospitals in India?

* TEAM doesn't have current plans to help Hospitals.

* May be in future, as TEAM expands.

g) What is plan for promoting TEAM?

* We proved ourselves.

* People executing projects in India, made created awareness about 

TEAM.

h) What is TPC?

* TPC - TEAM Policy Code is a manual.

* This manual will be released soon.

* If any one have a question about school selection process or 

execution process or any information they want, they can referrer this manual. 

i) Does a TEAM member follow-up with schools, which he/she has donated?

* Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar pointed out this and asked TEAM members 

to follow-up with schools.

* This will be helpful, if a school needs more help or school is happy 

with that project.

* Karthi requested TEAM members to follow-up with schools when they are 

visiting India.

j) Why TEAM is so special?

* TEAM not only purifies the mind and thought of its members.

* It also purifies the mind and thought of its family here and back 

home. 

* This will expand and one day it will purify the whole society with 

its noble thought and cause. 

* Practical example is, before when Karthi visits India, if some school 

teacher comes for donation his dad will ask him to hide so that they 

need not donate any money. 

* When Karthi got a chance to execute a project with help from his 

father, his father understood the noble cause of helping poor school, it 

got lot if respect for him among the public. Now his father is also 

inspired by TEAM's activities.

* One time, money given by Karthi to execute a project was not enough. 

So his father invested his own money and completed that project 

successfully. This shows how his father is inspired by TEAM's noble work. 

* Like this, many people are coming forward and joining TEAM and they 

are getting inspired by TEAM's activities.

9) Hundi was circulated to TEAM members to collect money for that 

meeting expenditure.

10) TEAM Film Division projected an excellent TEAM Video. 

Project Video was displayed - organized by Thulasi

Video compiled by Sridhar - Excellent One. 

* It projected the inspiring thought of TEAM coordinators. 

* It projected the new member's inspirations towards TEAM. 

* It projected the thankful and thoughtful speech by a school teacher 

who's school got benefited by TEAM. 

* It was really Excellent !!! Hats-off to TEAM Film Division !!!

11) Pot Luck Dinner - Organized by Chitrabanu, Deepa and Food 

Coordinators.

o Sudha G, Chitrabanu and Deepa worked together in food assignments.

o All Food Coordinators collected all foods from TEAM members and Food 

arrangements was really excellent.

o Food course consists of Idli, Chutney, Sambar, Veg Palav, Variety 

Rice and desserts.

o Excellent food and mouth-watering dishes.

o Hats-Off to all TEAM Members, who prepared all these delicious items.

o Hats-Off to Food Coordinators.

12) Singing Programme:

Organized by        : Sridharan Minor

Compered by        : Rajan

Krishna         : Flute

Sridhar         : Tabla

Keyboard            : Siva, Sridhar, Karunakaran

Drums:          : Siva, Rajan

Audio Setup         : Thulasi. 

Lights          : TEAM Volunteers

* Rajan started with Mimicry.

* He talked like Kamal, Mammutti, "Poornam" Viswanathan, Janakaraj, 

Charuhaasan, "Loose" Mohan, Karthik, M.N. Nambiyar

* Rajan welcomed singers in Bharathi Raaja's voice.

* Four Kids came to stage and started with a song - "Kaakai 

Siraginiley" - Beautiful.

* Gokul and Co - Wonderful Gana Song

* Rajan now welcomed singers in Rajni's voice.

* Gayathri and Sudha G - "Asaiya Kathula Thoothu vittu" - Wonderful 

Performance.

* Lot of kids liked this song and started dancing in front of that 

stage. Cute, Cute, Cute !

* Karunakaran - Folk Song of "Pushpavanam" Kupuswamy.

* Sudha G and Raja - "Andiyila vaanam"

* Sruthi, Sudha G, Raja and Gayathri - "Sithada Kattikittu"

* Now, Guys also started dancing along with kids. That was a real fun.

* Gopal Kumarappan was dancing in front of that stage, called for more 

members to come forward and dance.

* Sridhar - "Thaga Thaga venu ..." - A Song sung by K.B. Sundharambal.

* Sridhar mimicked this song in different actor's voice. Tough one. He 

did it excellent. Hats-Off to Sridhar.

* Then he sung original song in K.B. Sundharambal's voice.

13) Vote of Thanks:        Hariharan Shankara

o Thanked all TEAM Members

o Thanked all the people who reserved the Hall.

o Thanked all the people who did food arrangement.

o Thanked all the people who did school selection.

o Thanked all the speakers and compere.

o Thanked people who arranged the FUN Event.

o Thanked all the people who brought food.

o Thanked parents from India.

o Thanked other friends who came to the meeting.

o Thanked people who arranged and managed audio & video.

o Thanked Chief Guest.

14) National Anthem

General Notes:

* Hall Arrangement was very well coordinated by Dhivakar and his troop. 

* They worked hard from 4 PM to 10 PM !!! Excellent Job !! Hats Off to 

them !!!!

* Excellent Presentation of TEAM Achievements and Word of Thanks were 

presented in the background when School Selection was in progress.

* TEAM Promotion Division sold lot of TEAM T-Shirts during the meet and 

displayed TEAM Posters !!

* It motivated New members and Friends who came to the meet !!! Great 

Job !!!

* Meeting was very well organized by Sudhakar Sukumar.

* He worked with different people to keep this meeting Agenda intact. 

Excellent Work !!

                    *** SUBHAM ***

Cheers !!

TEAM News Group

Date:   03/07/2004 (Sunday)
Meeting Name: TEAM Meeting – Bloomington