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House: LJ
Jasbir Singh
Sodhi
Date of Admission
10/02/1945
K1 - 1381
House: LJ
Satyajit Singh
Majithia
Date of Admission
07/01/1946
1411
House: LJ
Dr Harinder
Singh Attari
Date of Admission
23/04/1946
1443
House: LJ
Malindar Singh
Sodhi
Date of Admission
20/04/1943
K1 - 1272
House: Godley
Savindar Singh
Sodhi
Date of Admission
01/02/1943
K2 - 1260
House: Godley
Harkrishan Singh
Guron
Date of Admission
03/01/1942
K1 - 1195
House: LJ then Kelly
Simran Singh
Bahadur
Date of Admission
03/03/1942
K1 - 1213
House: LJ
Gurbirinder
Singh Sandhu
Date of Admission
19/05/1943
K1 - 1293
Verinder
Singh Bedi
Date of Admission
07/01/1947
1508
Indrajeet
Singh
Date of Admission
08/01/1945
E2 - 1359
House: Jubilee
Deepak Raj
Narang
Date of Admission
17/02/1944
1343
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Asif Ali
Qureshi
Date of Admission
01/05/1945
E2 - 1387
Syed Babar
Ali
Date of Admission
13/10/1934
I - 886
Syed Iqbal
Hussain
Date of Admission
04/10/1948
E1 - 1680
Object in Focus
Aitchison Challenge Cup (1903)
The Aitchison Challenge Cup was donated by the family of Sir Charles Aitchison, and presented to the College by his daughter in 1903. It is awarded to the best athlete of the year. The original cup is now housed within the Archive Display Centre and contains engravings of the names of cup holders spanning a period of more than a century.
Principal J.C. Godley wrote of this cup in the 1902-1903 Annual Report of the Aitchison College:
“Founder's Day was celebrated this year on 6th March, when Miss Aitchison, daughter of the Founder of the College, presented the prizes to the winners in the sports. Miss Aitchison at the same time presented to the College a very handsome Challenge Cup, a present from Lady Aitchison and the family in memory of the Founder, Sir Charles Aitchison. This Cup will be presented annually to the best Athlete. It was won this year by Mir Ghulam Raza Khan.”
Engraved on the base of the cup is the following text:
“I WAS WROUGHT TO COMMEMORATE THE FOUNDER OF THIS COLLEGE SIR CHARLES AITCHISON KCSI BY COMMAND OF HIS WIDOW & CHILDREN IN THE YEAR 1902.”
and
“OMAR RAMSDEN AND ALWYN C.E. CARR MADE ME.”
Left: Captain Ajit Singh Butalia (class of 1931) and Haq Nawaz Tiwana (class of 1925) with the Aitchison Challenge Cup and other sports trophies. The original photograph has been generously donated to the College Archives by Ajit Singh’s grandson and our Honorary Envoy Dr Tarunjit Singh Butalia.
Above: A 1931 photo of students from Boarding House No. 2 (renamed Godley House in 1935) with Principal Kelly and staff. The Aitchison Challenge Cup is placed in the foreground.
Left: Captain Ajit Singh Butalia (class of 1931) and Haq Nawaz Tiwana (class of 1925) with the Aitchison Challenge Cup and other sports trophies. The original photograph has been generously donated to the College Archives by Ajit Singh’s grandson and our Honorary Envoy Dr Tarunjit Singh Butalia.
Excerpts
Messages on the publication of the first issue
Of the Aitchisonian Magazine College’s Golden Jubilee in 1936
The First Issue of the Aitchisonian – March 1936
The Editorial
It is clear that an institution such as Aitchison College ought to have a Magazine. Moreover, a tradition has grown up that every issue of a Magazine should be heralded by a few paragraphs from the editorial pen. This places the editorial staff in an embarrassing position as by the editorial, men are apt to judge the Magazine as a whole. However, in this, the first issue of "The Aitchisonian", an editorial is doubly necessary. Thus, having justified the existence of both Magazine and editorial, we can only apologize for their respective short-comings, which we hope to improve with experience and encouragement.
This Magazine should serve as a record of our corporate life, sometimes a life of achievement, sometimes of failure, but always of endeavour. Thus it will provide a link between past and present. It should chronicle the acts of the present generation as a fitting consummation of those of the past to which we owe so much and as an inspiration for those of the future from which we hope still more.
Thus we make a special appeal to Old Boys to keep in touch with us and to further that bond of spiritual and cultural enlightenment which we hope to establish as a hall-mark of all who have received their education at Aitchison College.
Finally, we would like to thank the distinguished personages who have been gracious enough to send us messages of inspiration.
— Editors
Message from His Excellency Sir Herbert Willam Emerson, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., C.B.E., I.C.S.,
Governor of the Punjab
I am very glad to hear that the Aitchison College is starting a School Magazine. Apart from its value to boys at the College, and I hope they will be frequent contributors to its pages, it will be of great interest to the Old Boys, The Aitchison College has always been fortunate in the fact that the Old Boys have maintained their connection with the College and their affection towards it, and a College Magazine will help to strengthen this bond, I wish it every success.
Government House, Lahore Sd. H. W. EMERSON,
January 30, 1936
Message from Lieutenant Colonel H. Wilberforce-Bell, C.I.E.,
The Honourable Agent to the Governor General, Punjab States.
I am very pleased to learn that upon the important occasion of the Jubilee of the Aitchison College the first College Magazine will appear. As I have not seen the matter of which it will be composed I cannot very well offer the Editor at this stage my congratulations, but I feel sure that I shall be able to do so after the first number has appeared.
A School Magazine is always of interest both to parents and to boys, and it plays an even more important function in making for "esprit de corps" and for enabling Old Boys to keep in touch with their "alma mater."
For fifty years the Aitchison College has played a most important part in the education of members of the Ruling Families of the Punjab States as well as of the landed gentry of the province. Its Old Boys are the first to recognise the benefits which its educational advantages have conferred upon them and are ever ready to recognise the value which each of these divisions has received from contact with the other.
I am not unaware of the interest which the Government of India have always taken in the College and in its welfare, and in welcoming this first number of the Magazine on behalf of the States of the Punjab States Agency I have no doubt that I echo the feelings of all Old Boys from those States, be they Rulers or subjects, in wishing the Magazine all success and prosperity. I have every confidence that it will play a valuable part in school life no less than in enhancing the reputation of the institution which has come to its present condition of prosperity through the interest and affection of those who have guided its destinies or been guided by it in the past fifty years.
Lahore Sd. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.
January 27, 1936
Message from Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Bhupindra Singh Mohindra Bahadur of Patiala, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., LL.D., AD.C.
An Old Boy of Aitchison College
As an Old Boy of Aitchison College I welcome the decision to publish a College Magazine. The idea commonly prevalent in India that the activities of an educational institution should be confined to instruction in the class rooms was never accepted in Aitchison College, which, through its residential system and its interest in outdoor games, always emphasized the necessity of developing the outside interests of its pupils. The publication of the College Magazine is to my mind an indication of the growing intellectual curiosity of the students and is therefore in every way to be welcomed.
Looked at from this point of view a College Magazine is a necessity more than a luxury for an educational institution like the Aitchison College and there could be no more appropriate occasion than the present one of the Golden Jubilee of the College to start it. I am sure that the magazine will serve not only as a forum for the students of the College but as a channel of communication between the Old Boys and their alma mater. It will also be a suitable commemoration of an important landmark in the History of the College. On behalf of the Princes and aristocracy of the Punjab I send my cordial greetings to the Magazine and wish it all success,
BHUPINDRA SINGH
MAHARAJA DHIRAJ
MOHINDRA BHADUR OF PATIALA
Motibag Palace, February 14, 1936
Old Boys Gallery
1910
1935
Yuvraj Yadavindra Singh at the Founder's Day Celebrations. Yadavindra Singh, an Old Boy, was the ninth and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala and founded the Yadavindra Public School in Patiala after Partition.
1936
The Old Boys Race at the 1936 Golden Jubilee Celebrations
1947-48
Jubilee House 1947-48. 1st Row: Nasim Akhtar, Pervez Khan, Asad Pervez, Gh. Farid, Sohail Iftikhar, Mahboob Sarwar, Ghazanfar Hussain, Ahmad Faud, Ayaz-ud-Din, Farouq Saigal. Chairs: Pervez Mahboob, Iftikhar Bokhari, Khalid Mahmud (House Prefect), Shahzad Mahbub (School Prefect), M.A. Rahman, M.A. (House Master), Zulfiqar Bokhari (House Prefect), Saleem Muzaffar (House Prefect), Asghar Moiz, Gh. Qutab-ud-Din. Third Row: Asghar Ali Hassan, Mazhar Ali, Arif Iftikhar, Shahzad Hussain, Asghar Ali Hassan, Pervez Husean, Aitzaz, Zulqarnain, Riaz Mahmood, Tufail Ahmad, Ajmal Qazi, Nadir Rahim. Fourth Row: Azhar Hussain, Javid Zaman, Azim-ud-Din, Azaz, Yusuf Jamal, Abdul Qayyum, Khurram Muzaffar, Ahmad Javid, Hasham Jamal.
1953
Aitchison College and Doon School Dehra Dun Cricket Teams. The Doon School sent a cricket team to play against Aitchison in Lahore in 1953, thus reviving what had been an annual fixture before Partition.
1954
After tea with the High Commissioner at New Delhi on 23rd March 1954. The College Cricket Team was on a return visit to the Doon School in Dehra Dun who had come to Lahore to play against Aitchison the year prior. Photo from the Aitchisonian magazine 1954.
1957
The 1957 Godley House Riding Team with Mr. Goldstein. Standing (L to R): Shoket Husain, Fazal Mohd, Mohd Asad, Tauqir Husain. Sitting (L to R): Kamil Khan, Wajid Ali (Captain), Mr. R. K. Goldstein, Iqbal Husain, Nusrat Ali. On Ground: Muhammad Tariq Malik, Muhammad Khalid Malik.
1964
Aitchison College Colts Cricket Team 1964. Sitting (L to R): Muhammad Tahir Khan, Imran Ahmad, Muhammad Zaheer (Captain), S. Naseer Ahmad (President), Waqar Ata, Tariq Zaman, Fayaz Qadri. Standing: Imran Niazi, Kamran Khan, Sarwar Raza, Ehsan Kibraya, Sardar Mahmood Sadiq, Abdullah Kakakhel, Shahid Saleem. Photo by M. Bhatti.
Group Photo of Bahawalpur House
1969
Aitchison College Cricket Team 1969.
Standing (L to R): Ayaz Khan, Shahid Doha, Shakir Ullah, Nisar Ali, Aamir Niazi, Ali Akbar Shah.
Sitting (L to R): Sohail Manzoor, Imran Ahmad, Mr. Monawar Ali, Amin Ullah (Captain), Mr. Aslam Khokhar, Mohammad Zaheer, Iftikhar Husain.
1971
Aitchison College Basketball Team 1971.
(L to R): Maqsood Hayat, Iftekhar Chaudhry, Tanvir Elahi, Atique Khan (Captain), Mr. Mohammad Ahmed Khan (Incharge), Habibur Rahman, Amjad Ali Thariani, Aman Nomani.
1974
Kelly House in 1974.
Chairs (L to R): Mr. Muhammad Haneef (Assistant Housemaster), Tanveer Naseem (Prefect), Mr. A. A. Sadar Jafary (Housemaster), Asim Mohy-ud-Din (Prefect), Nausad Ali Khan (Prefect), Zulf Hussain Shah Haidri (Assistant Housemaster), Jamshed Safdar (Prefect), Wajih Ullah Khan (House Secretary).
Standing First Row: Rasool Shah (Bearer), Babar Badar, Farooq Ali Khan, Muhammad Khan, Azmat Ali Ranjha, Ali Aamir, Oman Aziz, Murad Mazari, Zafar Iqbal, Syed Wasi Haider.
Second Row: Adnan Mahmood, Shahid Abbas, Asrar Jamali, Ali Juzer, Sarbuland Khan, Auqil Ali Khan, Hadi Hasan, Liaqat Ali Jamali, Waqar Abbas, Jalal Alauddin, Najam Iqbal.
Third Row: Tariq Jamali, Nadeem Farooq, Saqib Ahmad, Farooq Akbar, Sabahat Elahi, Mohsin Aladin, Masood Mehdi, Sikandar Magsi, Yawar Badat
1976
2005
Principal's Dinner for Rivaz Gold Medalists, 6 March 2005.
Standing Top Row (L to R): Bilal Ahmed Malik, Haroon Zubair, Asim Ali Bokhari, Nouman Ahmed Khan.
Standing Middle Row: Habib-ur-Rehman, Anwar Kamal, Mohammad Iftikhar Khan Mohmand, Khalid Ibrahim, Umar Ata Bandial, Shaukat Ellahi Sheikh, Tanveer Ellahi.
Sitting (L to R): Khawaja Tariq Rahim, Syed Iqbal Hussain, Syed Mukhtar Hussain, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, Jehangir Ellahi.
1935
The Nawab of Bahawalpur n and S.B. Sardar Mohan Singh, both Old Boys, at the 1935 Founder's Day Celebrations.
1935
Scouts and the Cubs with Headmaster L Dhani Ram.
Principal Barry wrote in the 1935 Annual Report: [s]couting and Cubbing has flourished during the year. A number of week-end trips have been held, and the College has joined with other troops in the work of social service on the occasion of local Melas and festivals. We already have one King's Scout and a considerable number of first-class Scouts. At the close of the year L. Shanti Lal Saihgal undertook training as a Cub Master and will now be associated with Pandit Ram Rakha Mal in the running of the Cub Pack.
1941
Sherjang Singh, Riffat Hayat, M Jahangir, Harcharan Singh, and Maqbool Ahmad in Fancy Dress during the Annual Swimming Gala in 1941.
1951
Aitchison College Senior School in 1951. Photo by Zaidis.
1953
1954
1963
Aitchison College Cricket Team (Winner of the Inter-Collegiate Annual Match against the Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, 1963). Sitting (L to R): Aitzaz Ahsan, Majid Jahangir, Mohammad Ashraf (Captain), S. Naseer Ahmad (President), Akbar Mahmood. Standing: Humayun Elahi, Farooq Saleh, Ata Malik, Mehr Akhtar Abbas, Israr Malik, Javed Ahmad, Saeed Ullah Niazi.
1964
Junior Cadet Corps in 1964. In 1964 the Cadets provided Guard of Honour at the Founder's Day and the opening of the New Junior School by President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan.
1967
Kelly House in 1967.
(L to R): Shahid Husain, Sher Ali, Nasar Khan, Hur Riahi, Haroon Alauddin, Adnan Asad, Asif Zia, Nadeem Naseem, Arshad Javed, Tariq Mahmood, Tengku Omar, Ali Abbas, Naeemuddin, Shah Zaman, Aasim Durrani, Mehr Ghilani, Farooq Lakhani, Altaf Husain, Khalid Toru, Zafar Mahmood, Arshad Ali, Tahir Khan, Bakhtiar Pataudi, Abid Ibrar, Javed Hassan, Sheharyar Pataudi, Javed Hamid, Abid Husain, Nadir Khan, Jan Mohammad, Alamgir Khan, Parvez Khattak. Iftikhar Khurshid, Tariq Ahmad, Ali Sibtain, Manzoor Husain, Malik Iftikhar, Falah Uddin Abbasi (Prefect), Mr. T. L. G. Mullan, Mohammad Zubair (Prefect), Mr. M. S. Khan, Shamim Ahmed (Prefect), Hamid Hassan, Shaukat Ali.
1970
Aitchison College Football (Colts) Team 1970.
Sitting: Zulfiqar Haider Khan
Chairs: Ahmad Shuja, Wajiullah Khan, Moeen-ul-Haq, Haq Nawaz (Captain), Syed Imtiaz Ali, Nasir Khan, Sohail Malik.
Standing: Asadur Rehman Mazari, Zafar Iqbal, Adnan Rauf, Mr. Zafar Ahmad Khan (Incharge), Syed Mehdi Hassan, Sohail Khakwani.
1974
Aitchison College Hockey Team 1974.
Winners of the Jaffar Memorial Tournament in 1973, winners of the Annual Fixture with Ghoragali (5-1), and completed a successful tour of Sri Lanka.
On ground: Qammar-uz-Zaman,
Chairs (L to R): Habib, Farooq, Naveed Haider (Captain 1974-75), Dr Ghulam Rasool Chaudhry (Principal), Mohammad Zahir (Captain 1974), Mr. Mohammad Ismail (President), Imran-ul-Haq, Moqbool, Hassan Sardar.
Standing First Row: Mr. Hanif (Games Incharge), Arshad, Zulfiqar Haider, Hafeez Ullah, Kiyani, Liaqat Jamali, Sohail Aslam, Nasir Khan, Asim Nawaz, Mr. Amin (Coach)
1976
College Prefects of HSC-2 Class 1976.
1986
Godley House 1986.
Sitting (L to R): Malik Imran Bashir Awan (House Secretary), Khurram Agha, Asghar Ali Khan, Malik Mohammad Saifullah Khan Tiwana (Full College Blazer, Best Rider of College, Winner of Aitchison Challenge Cup), Omar Iftikhar (Prefect), Mr. Tahir Sheikh (Assistant Housemaster), Mr. Masrur Kaifi (Housemaster), Junaid Jafar (Prefect), Karam Dad Wahla, Mir Haroon Zehri, Syed Hammad Amjad Raza.
Standing First Row: Agha Ali Haider (College colour in swimming, Winner of Rani of Mandi Challenge Cup), Hussain Raza, Tanveer Hussain, Tahir Mahmood, Rai Shahzad Ahmad, Omar Bashir, Khawar Sher, Mehr Hayat Tiwana (Winner of Centenary Horse Show), Abdul Maquit Pirzada, Abdul Malik, Aurangzeb Khan Khichi.
Second Row: Ali Akram, Jawad Saeed, Sajjad Ali Khan, Imran Mehmood, Wasim Ahmad, Asif Minhas, Ali Abbas Rizvi, Abu Bakr Jameel, Hassan Riaz, Ashraf Hayat, Mohammad Haroon Saeed.
Third Row: Kamal Din (House Bearer), Omar Waqar Latif (P.M.G), Sajjad Ahmad Khichi, Aezad Mahmood, Tahir Rashid, Mohammad Asif (House Bearer)
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