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GMCANA
/ RMC/
AMC
8th
Biennial Reunion 2002 Hilton
Chicago, Chicago ( Michigan Avenue) Dates:
August 31 - September 2, 2002
(Labor Day
weekend) GMC/RMC/AMC Reunion is scheduled for the Labor Day Long Weekend at the world renowned Chicago Hilton and Towers just across from the beautiful Grant Park on the famed Michigan Avenue overlooking the magnificent Museum Campus, Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan. 1. The Reunion is organized in a first class hotel at deep discount price of only $99 per room per day. Limited numbers of rooms are available Aug.30 Friday also. Rooms are also filling fast and if you have any problems or needing any special requirements contact Dr. Ravella at 847-675-5891; Email: pravella@aol.com. 2. An entire day (Friday evening to Saturday evening) is left for alumni families to enjoy the beautiful Lakefront and Museum Campus on their own. 3. The official program starts Saturday evening with a 4 hour Cruise on Lake Michigan, boarding at 6.30 P.M. at the lively Navy Pier. This ‘Odyssey’ cruise boat is first class, next best thing to a private yacht with banquet style dinner, entertainment on board, views of beautiful Chicago lakefront and culminating in the fantastic display of fireworks at the Navy Pier -- a truly memorable evening. We assure you the cruise is well worth its subsidized price. We were able to reserve an exclusive deck with a capacity of only 140. We are expecting a total of 600 or more for the Reunion. Reservations on the cruise are on strictly first come first served basis. A large number of tickets were already sold. We urge you to send in your registrations immediately so you are sure of a spot on the deck. For those who cannot make the Cruise, a sumptuous buffet dinner is arranged at the Hotel. 4. Since there is a Farewell Breakfast on Monday morning in the Grand Ballroom, plan your return travel after 2p.m. 5. Dr. K. Anji Reddy, M.S., our alumnus and Director General of Medical and Health Services, Government of Andhra Pradesh has kindly consented to be our Chief Guest and will give the key note speech. 6. Early Registration Deadline Extended: The deadline for early registration discount has been extended in response to delayed mailing of this newsletter. You can still pay the early registration fee if your registration form is postmarked by July 31. Remember early registration saves you money and helps the organizers plan the event better. Registrants will be informed of their confirmation of the registration in early August. The Registration Form is enclosed and is also available online at www.gmcana.org. Please register as soon as possible and reserve the hotel room and buy the air tickets at the same time. See you soon. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS The tentative program for the Reunion is as follows: Saturday August 31 9.00 a.m. Golf Outing at Kemper Lakes Golf Course 2.00 p.m. Registration at the Hotel 6.30 p.m. Dinner Cruise and Fire Works on Lake Michigan at Navy Pier 7.00 p.m. Buffet Dinner at the Hotel for those not on cruise 10.00 p.m. Late night Disco
Sunday September 1 7.30 a.m. Breakfast 8.00 a.m. C.M.E. Program 12 Noon Lunch 1.00 p.m. General Body Meetings 4.00 p.m. Photo Sessions and Class Reunions 6.30 p.m. Cocktails 7.30 p.m. Dinner, Keynote speech and Entertainment
Monday September 2 9.00 a.m. Farewell Brunch and Business Seminar Executive Committee meetings Please note this is a preliminary schedule and the final program will be provided at the time of Registration. REUNION TRAVEL INFORMATION As indicated earlier, American Airlines had 10% discount until June 30. They still have a discount of 5% available. Please call 1-800-433-1790 (American Airlines Services Desk) and provide them with ‘GMCANA Conference’ Authorization Code “A5082AJ”. Please call Avis Car Rental at 1-800-331-1600 for rental car discount at $40-63 per day between August 22 and September 11. Weekend discount rates are also available. Please mention the Avis Worldwide Discount code AWD D086572 (GMCANA) For transportation from the airport to the Hilton Chicago, please call Airport Express at 1-888-2 THE VAN. The fare for one is $20 one way and $36 round trip from O’Hare and $15 and $27 from Midway. Fares are higher for additional passengers – 32 and 58 from O’Hare and 24 and 40 from Midway for 2 passengers, 36 and 66 for three from O’Hare. For those who want to travel by subway take the " Blue line' form Chicago O'hare airport and get off at Jackson station in the downtown and walk for 7 blocks to the hotel which is on the Michigan avenue between Balboa and 8 th street OR transfer to " Redline" at Jackson station and get off at Harrison station and walk for 2 blocks to the Hilton Hotel. Parking is provided at the Hotel for a discount price of $15 for 24 hours with in and out privileges. ENJOY CHICAGO An entire day from Friday night to Saturday evening is set aside for the pleasure of our guests to explore and enjoy Downtown Chicago which has so much to offer. From Museums to Theater to Grant Park to Navy Pier to Shopping on the Magnificent Mile to Lake Front to Planetarium to Aquarium, everything is within walking distance or a short hop by a cab from the Chicago Hilton and Towers, our reunion hotel. Because of all this, we did not arrange our usual picnic. We invite all the members, their spouses and children to come early, enjoy all that Chicago offers and truly make this a memorable weekend for all. GMCANA GOLF OUTING For the first time, GMCANA is organizing a golf outing at Kemper Lakes, a PGA championship course, one of the best in Chicago area on August 31, 2002 with a discounted rate of $125 which includes a tee-time, cart, Box lunch and balls for practice. The tee times start promptly at 9.30 a.m. Please arrive by 9 a.m. to register. The driving range and putting green will be available for use. The number of participants is limited to about 32-40 people. It is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those staying in the Chicago Hilton will be arranged transportation on advance request. It will take about one to one and half hours from the Hotel. Please respond to this letter with a check payable to GMCANA by July 31 to the address below (NOT to the Convener). For any questions and information, please call upon Dr. Nageswara Rao Latchamsetty, 2640 Salceda Drive, Northbrook, IL.60062 . Phone: 847-564-1278; Fax: 847-564-0131 Email: Rao2345@aol.com. We applaud Dr. Latchamsetty for taking the lead in this concept and its execution. ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment is focused on the talents of our alumni and their children. The program is anchored by a concert by Radhika Chimata and her professional orchestra. She is the daughter of our alumnus, Dr. Gopalakrishna Murthy Chimata. If you are interested in presenting any item, please call Dr. Ramaraja Yalavarthi at 815-485-1124 immediately. MEMORY LANE We are organizing a display of photographs from our past, our glorious college days at GMC. Just imagine how much fun (not funny) you could have watching your friends and classmates as they were in their now forgotten youth. The only way we could pull this off is if all of you contribute your best (in your opinion!) pictures for the show (and tell). Any picture is fine, especially those that tell a story. Dr. Uma Devi Gavini has kindly consented to take charge of this Memory Lane. We promise to return the pictures intact either at the Reunion or by mail to you. The success of the celebration of this Nostalgia is entirely in your hands. The sooner you send the better is the display going to be. The address is: 2015 Midwest Club, Oak Brook, IL.60523. The phone number is: 630-986-8099. Thanks. Plans for our reunion are going on at a very rapid pace to make a memorable and enjoyable. We sent a second mailing of registration forms and hope you all have received it. We are also sending our reunion newsletter this week. If you did not receive the news letter in the next week means we do not have your accurate address in our database and please enter it in the Data Registration form in our website www.gmcana.org or email or postal mail it to Ravikumar Tripuraneni (ravi@tripurannei.com) immediately so we can include the information in the new Alumni Directory 2002 that will be printed and released at the time of Convention. Convener & Members , Convention committee, 8th GMCANA reunion Executive Committee GMCANA
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SEE THE NEWS SECTION FOR THE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION.
Message from the President: November 26, 2001
Greetings.
We have some good news to share with you.
At last, the Auditorium project is on the threshold of
successful implementation. Inaddition
to the obvious news of the enclosed G.O., we have secured
permission for calling the building 'GMCANA AUDITORIUM'.
We will have input into the design process.
There will also be acknowledgement of all donors.
We anticipate display of all donors with $1000 or more
donation in a prominent fashion in the building itself.
We
have currently $176,000 in the Building account and our commitment
is for $225,000. We
did not want to ask for funds unless and until the project is
an absolute 'go' and hence this last minute appeal.
We are leaving to
Dr.Ramakrishna
Rao Pinnamaneni, Dr.Sudarshana Rao Akkineni, Dr.Ramaraja
Yalavarthi (our Building Committee Chairperson and Past
President), Ravikumar Tripuraneni (our President-Elect whom
everybody knows) and myself will
be in
As
all of you know, we did best when Dr.Anji Reddy was the
Superintendent of GGH. The
good news is that he is now the 'Director General of Medical and
Health Services', a newly created post to supervise DMS, DME and
APVVP -- in other words, he is 'the health care czar' in A.P.
He is also personally responsible for the enclosed G.O. And
with him at the helm, we have every reason to
believe the Auditorium is a reality in a very short time.
Sincerely,
Venkata Subba Rao Uppuluri
President, GMCANA
p.s.:
Please send your donations directly to our Treasurer in the
name of GMCANA to,
Dr.Nagarjuna
Ponugoti,M.D.,
From: "kallam anjireddy"
<reddykanji@rediffmail.com>
Subject: Re: FW: Auditorium and Comprehensive Proposal Date:
Iam
herewith sending you the operational part of G.O. regarding our
auditorium.
G.O.NO.
448
DATED
4.
The Govt. after careful examination of the above proposal of
Director General of Medical& Health Services hereby accord
permission to Managing director APHMHIDC TO ACCEPT THE DONATION OF
2.25 LAKH DOLLARS offered by GMC ANA for construction of the
multipurpose Auditorium including seminar and conference hall in
the premises of Guntur Medical College,Guntur with the amount
donated by GMC ANA and also with the amount of RS.80 lakhs already
allocated for the said purpose.
5.The
managing director APHMHIDC. is requested to take further action in
the matter accordingly in consultation with Director General of
Medical and Health services/director of medical education,
SD/ XXXXXX
SPL.CHIEF SECRETERY TO GOVERNMNT.
GMCANA General Body Meeting in TANA on June 30, 2001
Gmcana held a general body meeting in TANA in Philadelphia on Saturday June 30 th from 1.30 PM to 3.00 PM in the third floor conference halls (Room 307 A/B) in Pennsylvania convention center, the location of the TANA biannual meeting.
Dr.Subbarao Uppuluri presided over the meeting. Minutes of the general body meeting held at New York were approved unanimously Update 2001 was presented. He presented in detail COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSAL for improvement of medical education and teaching and patient care at teaching hospitals. It was unanimously approved at the meeting. Endowments committee report was presented along with the announcement of the Tummala Ramabrahmam research award for 2001 to Dr. V.R. Tarakanath. MD DM Professor of Neurology. Sri Vasireddy Seethapathi and Smt.Gowri Devi Memorial GMCANA Scholarship Awards 2001 will be announced shortly. These awards will be presented to the awardees in the next GMCANA Awards function. Dr.D.Bhaskarareddy,MD Retd principal of the GMC attended the meeting and addressed the alumni.
Detailed discussion of GMCANA Auditorium was made. Dr.Nagarjuna reddy presented the treasurer’s report and the funds available for the auditorium. Fund raising was done and over $ 50,000 was pledged in the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 3.15 PM.
7th GMCANA BIANNUAL REUNION was held successfully in New york from Aug 4-6 th ,2000 in Huntingtoin Hilton Hotel, LongIsland, New York.
Volunteer professionals get their satisfaction out of their work, not the paycheck. It is important someone says: ‘Thank you very much, you’ve made a major contribution.’ -- Peter Drucker
Here is our thanks to the following and others who have contributed their invaluable time and energy to put on a grand show of the reunion.
Organizers
1. Dr. Rajeswara Rao Patcha
2. Dr. Shalini Patcha
3. Dr. Babu Bangaru
4. Dr. Vijaya Lakshmi Atluru
5. Dr. Venkateswara Rao Atluru
6. Dr. Sudharam Idpuganti
7. Dr. Kalavathi Katikaneni
8. Dr. Nagamma Duddapaneni
9. Dr. Sivannarayana Paturi
10. Dr. Mani Paturi
11. Dr. Uma Chalasani
12. Dr. Mullapudi Vijaya Lakshmi
13. Dr. Seshagiri Doddi
14. Mrs. Padma Surapaneni
15. Dr. Pratima Kunchala
16. Dr. Rajyasri Bangaru
17. Dr. Tulasi Parvati Polavarapu
18. Dr. Kolli Rajasekhar
19. Dr. Koppola Sundarrao
Children That Helped :
Naveen Atluru, Pooja Atluru, Saroja Bangaru, Aneela
Cherukupalli, Vikranth Patcha, Ravi Idupuganti
Entertainment
M.C. Babu Bangaru and Santi Nandiwada
1. Naveen Kumar and Company dance group
2. Telugu Orchestra by Thangirala group
3. Great Dances by youngsters Ms. Anjali Nigalaye and Ms. Smitha
Badhey
4. Songs by Mrs. Sita Devi Pillarisetty
CME
Organized by: Dr. K.V. Krishnasastry, Dr. Venkateswara Rao
Atluru
Speakers
1. Dr. K.V. Krishnasastry- Carotid Artery Disease
2. Dr. Ram Kailram- How Not To Treat Epilepsy
3. Dr. Vijaya Lakshmi Atluru- Migraine Headache
4. Dr. Mark J. Geller- Congestive Heart Failure
5. Dr. Bradley Sporkin- Peripheral Arterial Disease
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Andre-Jacques Neusy, Global Health-Common
Threats and Benefits
Picnic Organizers: Dr. Rajeswarao Patcha and Ravi Idpuganti
AMC President: Dr. Sriram Sonti ; RMC President: Dr. G.R.
Reddy
Here are some of the pictures of the reunion. Please click on the pictures. Some of the pictures are big jpeg files and may take sometime to download.
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Y2K BIANNUAL REUNION OF GMCANA: Aug 4-6, 2000 inLong Island, New York at Huntington Hilton Hotel, Melville, Long Island, N.Y
Reunion was held successfully and all the details and pictures will be posted on the website in the next few days. PROGRAM DETAILS: Friday August 4 Registration
2-8 pm Saturday
August 5 Registration
7:30 am- 12 noon Sunday
August 6 Breakfast
8 -11 am Agenda
for General Body Meeting: Call
to Order 1975-80 Batch Silver Jubilee reunion was held on July 8-9, 2000 Click here for a group picture of the reunion.(117K download) Details of the reunion will be posted soon. 1974 batch Silver Jubilee Reunion in Guntur on Dec 11-12 '99 About 80 of classmates
attended the reunion in Guntur held on Dec 11-12 '99.Click here
for a group picture (99 KB) Michigan Fund raising Dinner on October 23rd 99 Detroit Fund Development meeting was organized successfully at New Priya Restaurant, Farmington Hills on 23rd of October. About 40 guests attended the meeting. Dr.Kondragunta Venkata Rao, Dr.Kodali Srinivasa Rao, Dr.Bandla Hanumaiah and Dr.Mandava Vasudeva Rao are responsible for the success of the meeting. Dr.Venkata Rao coordinated the discussions. Dr.Kanuru Sreehari Das and Dr.Venkata Subba Rao Uppuluri presented "GMCANA UPDATE 1999". Dr.Appa Rao Mukkamala and Dr.Pydipati Butchi Babu spoke eloquently on the occasion. Others contributed significantly to the discussions. A total of more than $20,000 was contributed instantly and several thousand dollars more are expected from members who could not attend the meeting. Dr.Das, Endowments Committee Chairman, announed that these funds would be a great beginning towards upgrading the Radiology department, primarily the purchase of a fullfledged Ultrasound machine with color doppler(Cost:approx.$50,000). A flouroscopy attachment(cost: $30,000) to the x-ray machine we already bought is also scheduled to be purchased, hopefully before the end of this year. GMCANA is appealing to all the members to please contribute generously to complete this project soon Even if you could not attend please contribute generously. Your dollars will help medical care of poor people and improve Medical Education. Write your tax deductible checks to GMCANA and mail it our treasurer. Back
to top The graduating class of 1974 had a reunion in Albany,NY.from Aug 6 to 8 organized by Dr. Pratima Kunchala. More than 20 classmates attended some with spouses and children.Everybody enjoyed the reunion and were glad to see some of the classmates for the first time since leaving Guntur in 1976. It was decided to have another reunion in about 2-3 years. The group also raised $8000 to buy a much needed bronchoscope for Guntur Govt.General Hospital. The funds will be channeled through GMCANA on behalf of entire graduating class of 1974. Further efforts are underway to raise additional funds for similar badly needed equipment at Guntur GGH. GMCANA meeting in TANA, July 5, 99 : GMCANA held a general body meeting at TANA meeting this year which was attended by well over 120 people. The executive committee presented various activities that have been undertaken over the last year and being undertaken in a slide presentation including x-ray machine, chemistry analyzer, OR renovation among various other things. Future projects being considered are also presented including CME/ multimedia center research awards and scholarships. Building Project fund was also discussed. Click here for a picture of audience. Dr.Jayprakash narayan IAS also spoke on the occasion. Click here for the picture Dr. K.Vasudeva Rao Prof. of Biochemistry spoke on the occasion and had very useful advice and suggestions to the alumni including acquiring a room at the college premises for the alumni. He released the 1999 Alumni directory,(Click here for a picture) which was distributed to all the attendees. Dr.Thota Asha MD Assoc. Prof. Pathology also spoke and stressed the need the need to develop a student counseling center for educational, financial and psychological counseling of students who undergo severe stress and major depression especially at the time of examination. (Click here for a picture) Fundraising campaign was kicked off with the introduction of mission statement by Dr. Aruna Prasad Kancherla and Dr. Subba Rao Uppuluri. Dr.Ravikumar Tripuraneni
presented the details of the website since it was started
including the various sublinks including database search and
the future plans. He also discussed the details of
CME/Multimedia center that will be established soon at GMC
library with state of art computers, CD-ROMs, internet
access, various medical journals in form of CD’s &
audio and video equipment with needed video cassettes.
Dr.Gowtham Mulpur presented the financial statement of the
association and discussed various ways Alumni can donate
including appreciated stocks, estate planning etc.
Dr.Sulochana Yalavarti presented details of their recent
trip to GMC/GGH and discussed various projects. Dr. Polarapu Tulasi Devi donated $ 5000 to the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology at GGH (Click here for a picture) and seven other female OB & Gynecologists have donated $ 1000 each (total of $12000) which is being used to purchase Ultra sound machine with vaginal probe. Dr. Ravikumar Tripuraneni and his two brothers have committed $10,000 to the CME/multimedia center in the name of their grandparents Sri Gattineni Ramaswamy Choudary and Mahalakshmi. Dr. SubbaRao Uppuluri announced institution of Research Award project, in name of his relative, Dr.Tummala Ramabrahmam,M.D. Memorial Research Endowment Fund. He was our alumni and passed away recently.The interest on the$10000 donated will be used to reward those who present research to the scientific journals. Sri Vasireddy Seethapathi and Sreemathi Gowri Devi Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund is being established with a donation of $ 20,000 which has been already committed and the interest on the fixed deposit will be given to two best students in year. Dr.Aruna Prasad (Click here for a picture)announced that separate Reunion at Hyderabad at the turn of the millennium is cancelled because of inadequate response. Those who are interested may attend the AP medical college Alumni reunion that is held at Hyderabad at the end of December. The location of the next reunion was also discussed. Two batches of 1975 are interested in having their 25th reunion along with GMCANA biannual reunion in 2000. Fundraising Dinner in Huntsville: December 12, 1998 Dr. Sriharidas Kanuri
came back from to India recently. He and other alumni
members met in an informal way and discussed his recent trip
to GMC. All the people felt the urgent need to help the GMC
education needs. He announced that GMCANA bought 500 mA Xray
machine to the Radiology Dept. at a cost of about $ 20,000
and it is being delivered this week. Prior to this generous
move the dept. has no functioning Xray unit. They are very
grateful to us. It goes a long way in not only helping the
needy but also for better teaching in radiology. Similar fund raising dinners are being considered and planned in different parts of the country. Chicago focus group meeting: November 11, 1998 Our President Aruna Prasad met with several members in Chicago and discussed various issues. The following is a summary: The Focus Group agreed with the President that the Directory Project is the number one priority. The idea is to include all alumni of GMC – whether members or not. Data is to be collected via our Website or the postcard enclosed with the newsletter as soon as possible. This GMC Directory is intended to be more comprehensive than the previous and is due out in early 1999. The Focus Group also developed a Mission Statement for our GMCANA JANMABHOOMI PROJECT: "To help develop Guntur Medical College and Government General Hospital, Guntur as premier, modern Medical Education facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, staff and medical community at large". In other words, our focus should be primarily Educational activities and secondarily Patient Care Projects. Accordingly our major goals are GMCANA CME Center staffed by visiting Faculty and GMCANA Multi- Media Center. However, all activities that increase Occupancy Rates and enhance Patient Care and thereby promote Educational activities should also be supported. All Departments at GMC and GGH submitted lists of their needs. With the help of corresponding Specialty members, GMC Co-ordinator in Guntur and other interested members, the Executive Committee will categorize all the requests into four baskets: 1.High impact and high feasibility 2.High impact and low feasibility 3.Low impact and high feasibility and 4.Low impact and low feasibility. This final product will form the primary basis of our activities for the next year or two. GMCANA Executive Committee decides all policy decisions and the President will implement the decisions by delegating responsibility to different people for selected projects. Define goals and implementation guidelines clearly before fundraising for specific projects. Special emphasis should be placed in enhancing our credibility both here and at GMC. As such, only high impact and high feasibility projects should be undertaken, at least in the beginning. We need to continually inform our members of all our donations-past, present and planned and their impact –real and potential through our newsletters and our website. At GMC, we should only promise what we can deliver and deliver what we promised in a timely manner. Appoint GMCANA Janma Bhoomi Project Representative or Coordinator and an Advisory Board in Guntur with possibly a part-time office to facilitate our GMC activities as soon as possible. It is noted that the Auditorium Project is being thoroughly reassessed by the Building Committee in consultation with all the Donors for the project. The Executive Committee is to act on the recommendations as soon as they are submitted. Explore Janma Bhoomi Scheme and Naandi Foundation to find out if we can enhance our donations with matching grants from the government of A.P. Fundraising activities discussed in detail. Multiple approaches are advocated. Donations by (1) individuals (2)groups – eg.: (a) different classes (class of 67 or 72 etc.) or (b) different specialties (Ob.Gyn. or Anesthesia) adopting and overseeing specific projects ; (c) donations in memory of friends, classmates, parents etc.; (3) donations through pension plans (post-humus) as part of Estate Plans to maximize tax efficiency; (4) VDTPP (Voluntary Deferred Tuition Payment Plan); (5) Fundraising events. (6) Marriage and grandparent gifts etc. discussed. We need to refine and implement these and other ideas. It would also be helpful if all alumni channel their donations through GMCANA so that all efforts could be coordinated. Finally, all these and other ideas are to be discussed, ratified and acted upon by the President and Executive Committee. ---- submitted by Venkata Subba Rao Uppuluri.--- Nov.11, 1998, Chicago.
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