All the students who have represented the college in various intercollegiate competitions, and the students who have secured full attendance in various subjects, for the academic year 2011-12 were awarded certificates and honoured.

Dr. U.S Mohandas Nayak, President,C.H.S Association, passed away on Monday February 20 due to Ill health at the age of 76.

Born in the year 1936 Dr. U.S. Mohandas Nayak was an alumnus of Canara High School.  He secured his B.D.S. degree from Madras University during the year 1959.

Thereafter he worked as a Dental Surgeon at Govt. Wenlock Hospital with the collateral appointment as Reader in dental department of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore till 1974.  He was an active Member of Indian Dental Association and he has served as Secretary & President of the I.D.A. Dakshina Kannada Branch, as founder Secretary and later as President of – Karnataka Branch of I.D.A.

During the year 1992 – 1993 He was the National president of I.D.A..  He was conferred with “Life Time Achievement Award” in recognition of service rendered to the professional field during the 61st All India Conference of Indian Dental Association held at Mangalore during January 2008. He has served as a member of Dental Council of India, a policy forming body constituted by the Govt. of India from 1984 to 1993.  He also received district level “Karnataka Rajyothsava Award” for meritorious service rendered in the fields of Health, Social Service and Education.

He has served the Managing Committee of Canara High School Association for the past 21 years and was appointed the president in the year 2007.

A condolence meeting was held on the campus on 21^st Feb 2012 to pay homage to the departed soul.

We the Staff, Students and Alumni pray to Almighty for eternal peace for the departed soul. Our heartfelt condolences to the members bereaved family.

Dr. Venkatesh Sanjeeva, Consultant Surgeon, Specialist in Breast Surgery was the resource person.

The workshop was attended by all the members of women empowerment cell along with other interested students.

Left: Dr. G.N Bhat
Right: Prof. M Satish Bhat

Scientica 2012 was inaugurated this year by Capt. Ganesh Karnik,MLC,Deputy Chairman, NRI Forum Karnataka  and Prof. Vishwanath Bhaktha, Founder Lecturer, Canara College, on 23rd January 2012. The event was conducted for 2 days with 7 events conducted for the students of various colleges across the state, and model competition for the students of our college. The model exhibition was visited by 10 different schools from mangalore and some P.U Colleges.

After the span of 2 days, the results were announced at the valedictory function which was addressed by Prof. K I Vasu, Patron, Swadeshi Vijnan Aandolan, and Prof. Ravindra, Founder Lecturer, Canara college.
The overall Champions were St. Aloysius College, Mangalore and SDM college of business management were the Runners-Up.

For all of them it was once again back to college days and such an atmosphere was recreated in the college.   On December 25, at 9.30 am all the students assembled at the college campus for breakfast.  The function started with the hoisting of national flag and by garlanding the bust of the founder of the college Ammembal Subba Rao Pai.   The students of yesteryear sat in the same class and in the same seats (as much as possible) and Prof Sathish Bhat gave the entire class a nostalgic feeling by calling out attendance and by  giving a mock lecture.   The highlight of the event was that a 10 feet cake was cut by all the 66 students to mark the occasion.  A Badrinath Kamath, who was instrumental in coordinating the event with active support from a few other batch mates, termed it as “a wonderful experience” to come together after a gap of 25 years.  “In these 25 years all of us have undergone marvelous changes and one or two of our classmates are all set to get their children married within a short period”, he opined.

The reunited students took the opportunity to felicitate their teachers as both college and pre-university lecturers and even retired lecturers were also invited for the get together.

Having re-lived the moments of their college days the ‘students’  disbursed after   lunch to meet once again  in the evening at “Ocean Pearl” for a family get-together.  Versatile singer Srikanth Kamath, who belongs to the same batch, provided a perfect milieu for the evening family gathering through his orchestra.  Principal of the college Dr G N Bhat  speaking on the  occasion appreciated the students for the success they have achieved in their career and in different walks of life.  He recalled the indelible mark left by this  batch by setting up a garden, the precedent they have set by celebrating Sharada Pooja at College and the social service they rendered by their active participation in National Social service.

On the occasion the reunited students of the batch decided to institute two scholarships in the name of the 1987 batch to two meritorious and needy students of the college.    The classmates who collected the email ids and mobile numbers of their batch mates disbursed after dinner but with a promise to be in touch and to meet again.   Badrinath  Kamath has thanked all his batch mates  for making it an enlivening and  memorable event.