St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun

St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun
Arms of the St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun
Rajpur Road
Dehradun

India
Information
MottoLaborare Est Orare
(Work is Worship)
Religious affiliationPatrician Brothers
Established1934 (1934)
PrincipalRev. Bro. Joseph M. Joseph.
GenderCo-educational
Enrollment3500
Houses4
PublicationThe Academician (Annual)
The SJA Epistle (tri-annual)
AffiliationCISCE
Websitestjosephacademy.in

St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun (SJA) is a co-educational Indian Certificate of Secondary Education school in Dehradun, the capital of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Founded in 1934, the school is governed by the Society of the Brothers of St. Patrick (Ireland). It is located in the heart of the city of Dehradun on the main thoroughfare Rajpur Road.


History

St. Joseph's Academy was formally opened and blessed on 2 March 1934 by Rev. Fr. Antanasius. Rev. Bro. A.M. Keogh was the first principal of SJA. St. Joseph's Academy has an auditorium, built in 1984 and inaugurated by Mother Teresa.

In 2004 St. Joseph's completed 70 years, to commemorate the occasion, the play ‘Peter Pan’ was staged. The musical 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' was staged in 2006 and on the 80th anniversary the musical 'Anandsagar' was staged.[1]

Motto

The school motto (Latin) is "Laborare Est Orare", which means "Work is Worship".

Academics

Until 1975, the school prepared students for the Senior Cambridge Examination for which, the answer scripts were sent to England. In the year 1976, the school officially became an affiliate of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi, which conducts the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ICSE - X) and the Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC - XII) Examinations. [2]

House system

The student body is divided into four houses. Events such as Cultural Week (Confluence), the Sports-Day and the House Cup are held each year.

The four houses, named after the former Principals of the school, are:

  • Bergin (Blue)
  • Donovan (Yellow)
  • Dooley (Green)
  • Duffy (Red)

[3]

List of Principals

The following is a list of principals of the school, along with their years of service.[4]

List of School Principals
Name Years of service
BRO. A. M. KEOGH 1934
BRO. V. M. MCEVOY 1935–1937
BRO. X.W. HENDERSON 1938
BRO. A.M. MULVIHILL 1939–1941
BRO. C. J. BERGIN 1942–1944
BRO. V.M. MCEVOY 1945–1946
BRO. I. W. O'BRIEN 1947–1949
BRO. C.P. BURKE 1950–1952
BRO. A. P. DOOLEY 1953–1958, 1960–1962, 1966–1968
BRO. L.T. DINEEN 1959
BRO. M. K. DUFFY 1963–1965, 1972–1974
BRO. E. T. DUNNE 1969–1971
BRO. S. C. COFFEY 1975–1976
BRO. T. J. MULDOWNEY 1977–1982
BRO. J. C. CARROLL 1982–1988, 2002–2009
BRO. X. THONNIPARA 1988–1991
BRO. B. ATHAKKAD 1991–1993
BRO. B. VALLOCHERIL 1993–1997
BRO. DOMINIC JACOB 1997–2002
BRO. A. J. GEORGE 2009–2014
BRO. DENNIS JOSEPH 2014–2017
BRO. BABU VARGHESE 2017–2019
BRO. JEYASEELAN 2019–2024
BRO. JOSEPH M JOSEPH 2024–


Notable alumni

The school has an official alumni association that has its own website.

References

  1. ^ "St. Joseph's Academy".
  2. ^ "St. Joseph's Academy".
  3. ^ "St. Joseph's Academy".
  4. ^ "St. Joseph's Academy".
  5. ^ "Anirudh Thapa captain of the Indian National Football Team (Under-19)". Indian Gorkhas. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  6. ^ "All you need to know about IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna". The Times of India. 31 January 2020.

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