RANGPUR, Dec 29, 2019 (BSS) – The whole campus of the historical Carmichael College, Rangpur turned into a triumphant look today following beginning of the two-day celebration of the centennial anniversary of the educational institution.
Principal of the college, Professor Dr. Sheikh Anwar Hossain and Convener
of centennial anniversary celebration committee Professor Bimal Chandra Roy
hoisted the national and institutional flags to begin the celebrations amidst
playing of the national anthem.
Later, thousands of registered former and incumbent teachers and students
of the institution participated in the colourful centenary ‘Shobhayatra’
(procession) brought out on the college campus, colourfully decorated and
illuminated.
Cheerfulness of former and incumbent students and teachers of the college
knew no bounds while celebrating its centennial anniversary with the theme of
“Hundreds of lives in a hundred years, a triumph of tradition.”
Member-secretary of the centennial anniversary celebration committee
Associate Professor, Akhteruzzaman Chowdhury, General Secretary of Rangpur
city Awami League (AL) Tushar Kanti Mandal, Joint General Secretary of
district AL Motahar Hossain Mandal Mowla, its Organising Secretary Tauhidur
Rahman Tutul, among others, participated in the ‘procession ‘.
Later, Principal Professor Dr. Sheikh Anwar Hossain presided over the first
day discussion session on the colourful stage erected on the college campus.
Former Principals of Carmichael College Professor . Mozammel Haque and
Binte Hossain Nasrin Banu, former Head of the Department of Bengali Professor
Mohammad Abdul Alim, Professor Bimal Chandra Roy, Professor, Akhteruzzaman
Chowdhury, Tushar Kanti Mandal, Motahar Hossain Mandal Mowla, among others,
addressed.
On the inaugural day of the two-day colourful celebration programs today,
the celebration committee accorded reception to the family members of the
martyred teachers of Carmichael College during the Great War of Liberation in
1971.
The programmes included distribution of crests, discussions, reminiscences
and cultural functions featuring songs and group dances by the country’s
renowned Betar and television artistes.
Besides, artists of the “Joler Gan’ band party began their colourful
performances since the late afternoon on the college campus enthralling tens
of thousands of former and incumbents students and teachers of the
institution.
On the closing day tomorrow, artistes of different cultural organizations
of the college, leading Betar and television artists and artists of LRB, the
band party of the late music artist Ayub Bachchu, will render a series of
songs .
Talking to BSS, Member-secretary of the Centennial Anniversary Celebration
Committee Mohammad Akhteruzzaman Chowdhury said former and current registered
teachers and students collected T-shirts, bags and directories from different
booths today.
Convener of the centennial anniversary celebration committee Professor
Bimal Chandra Roy expressed satisfaction over the festive and peaceful
environment on the college campus hoping that the two-day colourful events
would be memorable to everyone.
Talking to BSS, former Principal of Carmichael College Professor Mohammad
Mozammel Haque said the institution started its journey on November 10, 1916
with laying down of its foundation stone by the then Governor of undivided
Bengal Lord Thomas David Baron Carmichael.
“The institution was named after Lord Thomas David Baron Carmichael as
Carmichael College, Rangpur which completed its hundredth year on November
10, 2016,” he added.