The Cathedral and John Connon School was formed in 1922, as a 'grand alliance' of the Cathedral Boys' and Girls' schools of Mumbai, and of the Scottish schools of the city. The earliest of its components was a Cathedral grammar school founded in 1860. It is affiliated with the ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) and ISC boards of the Indian Government. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... , Maharashtra (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र , IPA:  , English: ) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ...

Philosophy

In the words of Mr. Gunnery, one of the school's eminent principals, "the School is a place where everything that goes on bears the stamp of the Cathedral School character and tradition Our education is international. We are an Indian school where foreigners are at home, a Christian school which children of any faith can call their own.

"Indeed the School's objective is all round character formation and the development of proper attitudes. Consciously and unconsciously, pupils absorb a great deal apart from subjects they study and in the great examinations of Life, it is these extra assimilations which speak a school's worth."

The motto of the school is 'Clarum Efficiunt Studia'. This is in Latin and in English means 'Studies Maketh Famous'.

Organization

The school has a house system that is introduced from Grade 3 (though only the activities of grades 8-12 count towards the house championship tally). The four houses are(in alphabetical order) Barham, Palmer, Savage and Wilson named after the founders of the school- Cannon Barham, Bishop Palmer, Arthur Savage and Percival Wilson. The Palmer House motto is "nil desperandum" (never despair), and the Wilson House motto is "per ardua ad astra" (through struggle to the stars).

The school currently has four buildings - the Infant School, Junior School, Middle School and Senior School. Recently, the Cathedral and John Connon also opened a nursery on the property of the St. Thomas' Cathedral at Fort in Mumbai. St Thomas Cathedral - Flying Buttresses St Thomas Cathedral - Altar St Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai was the first Anglican Church in Mumbai (then called Bombay), built in 1718 to improve the moral standards of the growing British settlement. ...

Academics and Future Studies

The school follows the ICSE curriculum until Std. 10 and the ISC curriculum in Std. 11 & 12. Both are examinations of the CISCE, a Delhi-based educational council. After finishing the 12th standard, Cathedralites pursue further studies in India or abroad. In India students have entered into prestigious institutions such as St. Stephen's College, IIT, IIM and St. Xaviers College. A large number of Cathedralites study and have studied at renowned foreign universities as well. Students from the Class of 2007 have been accepted into Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, Middlebury College, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Southern California, New York University, and others. For other St. ... IIT is an initialism which may refer to: A number of institutes of technology, including: Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago Indian Institutes of Technology, a group of 7 autonomous institutes Indiana Institute of Technology, known primarily as Indiana Tech, in Fort Wayne Institute for Information Technology, a research institute... IIM can refer to. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Middlebury College is a small, private liberal arts college located in the rural town of Middlebury, Vermont, United States. ... Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton College Carleton College is an independent, non-sectarian, coeducational liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The school was founded on November 14, 1866, by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches as Northfield College. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is the largest campus in the University of Illinois system. ... The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan in June 2006. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...

Cathedral has a proud tradition of producing scholar-athletes, those that excel not only in a sport but also in academics. In squash, in particular, C&JCS has produced many scholar-athletes. Catalums Anil Nayar (BA '69), brothers Darius & Farokh Pandole, Daniel Ezra and, most recently, Mihir Sheth, all played squash for Harvard, while Cyrus Mehta played for Yale. Former all-India Women's #1 Misha Grewal attended Franklin & Marshall College on a squash scholarship as well. In other sports, former Head Girl and Asian Games swimming medallist for India, Gita Anand (she also a Pulitzer Prize Winner), attended Dartmouth. Ravi Krishna Kumar (ISC '87) attended Harvard on a tennis scholarship.

Notable Alumni

• Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Group and Member of Parliament, India
• Shibani Bathija, Screenwriter
• Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Physicist
• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Rahul Bose, Actor, Member of the Indian National Rugby team
• Cyrus Broacha, VJ for MTV India
• Amit Chaudhuri, Writer
• Alisha Chinai, Playback singer
• Shiamak Davar, Choreographer, Dancer, Singer
• Milind Deora, Member of Parliament, India
• Anita Desai, Author
• Kiran Desai, Author and Booker Prize-winner
• Yusuf Hamied, Industrialist and Chemist
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founding Father of Pakistan
• Karishma Kapoor, Film Actress
• Rajit Kapur, Actor
• Kunal Kohli, Film Director
• Arun Nayar, Socialite
• Divya Palat, Theatre Actress
• Amisha Patel, Film Actress
• Anand Patwardhan, Filmmaker
• Rhea Pillai, Socialite
• Salman Rushdie, Author
• Rajdeep Sardesai, Founder and Editor, CNN-IBN, Former Senior Correspondent for NDTV
• J.R.D. Tata, Industrialist
• Ratan Tata, Industrialist: Chairman of the Tata Group
• Arshard Zakaria, former President, Global Markets & Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch
• Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International

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External links

• cathedral-school.com - official website of the Cathedral and John Connon School
• catalumni.com - website of the Cathedral and John Connon School Alumni Association
• cathedralite.blogspot.com - 'A Cathedralite's Photoblog': pictures of and information on the Cathedral and John Connon School
• cathedraliteheaven.blogspot.com - Seventh Heaven: Blog for Cathedralites around the world
• Cathedral ICSE '85/ ISC '87 - alumni site for the batch of '85/'87
• catalumni.blogspot.com - President's Blog: Blog set up by the President of the Alumni Association

See also

• List of schools in India