Vincenti Dabitur

Thu June 02 2005, 11:20 pm

Some things in life are just not planned.

After lunch, Vik and I out of the blue landed up at India Ice Cream. Though just 2 mins from home I have never been there since I left St. Vincent’s. This is no multinational chain of ice creams. It’s a local ice cream store, but is every Vincentian’s lunch break hang out!

Soon after, we were walking towards school! Absolutely unplanned. Summer vacations are still on, and there was pin drop silence in the huge campus which is otherwise bubbling with activity. Except for a small boy desperately trying to fly a kite in the middle of the ground and a few peons doing regular maintenance work there was no one. I remember coming to school last year around the same time … its very much the same … except the addition of the magnificent Fr. Oesch Hall and a new school bus with a new color! Vik preferred the old blue trademark Vincent’s bus shade, I didn’t mind this one either … it finally looked like a school bus!

We sat under the huge pipal tree of the school and memories of the best days of our life flashed across our minds … all the mischief we did in class … principals … teachers … friends … the canteen … scouts … everything!

And just like us, Balwinder (Balli) a classmate of ours, casually walked in, just to pay school a visit! Vow, what a surprise! And then it was like a mini reunion of the batch of 1997! We talked and laughed and laughed … haven’t laughed like that in ages. Didn’t realize how time flew!

All plans for the afternoon went kaput … but it was worth it!

The Vincents Anthem:

Vincenti Dabitur ! That noble clarion call
Resounds in every heart, and beckons us all
Come, let us rally round, and by its spirit stand
Thus, shall we truly serve our School, our Home, our Land

Vincenti Dabitur ! Vincenti Dabitur !
Students fair and true, we shall dare and do, and win.

Vincenti Dabitur ! We follow with delight
Though paths beset with woe we'll ne'er quail with fright
Though life may take us far o'er sea or mount or plain
From proud and grateful hearts we'll swear our School refrain

Vincenti Dabitur ! Vincenti Dabitur !
Students fair and true, we shall dare and do, and win.

-S