All Saints’ golden jubilee celebrations kick off
SHILLONG: Home Minister Roshan Warjri has asked the youths to think out of the box and take the challenge of being leaders with a difference.
Speaking at the inauguration of the golden jubilee celebration of All Saints’ Diocesan Higher Secondary School here on Saturday, Warjri also urged the students to dare to dream big and be change makers and role models in different walks of life thus contributing to the economic growth and development of the state and the nation.
Appreciating the school for rendering quality service to society for the last 50 years, she said that the school in its 50 years of journey has withstood the test of time.
“Its visionaries, former principals and all those involved in making the school deserve to be saluted,” she added.
Established on October 8, 1967, the school began as a concept of and an initiative taken by the then Bishop of the Diocese of North East India, late Bishop E Nasir.
The school, which presently has over 1500 students, was recognized by the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MB-OSE) in 1984 and was upgraded to higher secondary level (Arts & Commerce) in 2008.
Past pupils of the school coming from different parts of the country and even abroad were present during the inaugural function of the golden jubilee celebrations.