Marutham Alai May 2017
Marutham Alai May 2017
Marutham Alai May 2017
Issue # 5 of 2017 May Issue 4 Pages Circulation Private Price equals sin 00
HIGHLIGHT Know about our COIMBATOREs most precious natural history museum
IN THIS ISSUE
Page 2 Message
Page 2 JCIBI
Page 3 Listick
Page 3 All the Fun
Page 4 INJC
Page 4 Storyboard
PIN UP Page 4 Highlight INJC
Jc.R.S.Prabhu for being positive always now Know the two Jaycees who inspire ZVP from
statistically as an EVP Erode Jc. D.Ranjith
Gass Forest Museum is a government run natural history museum situated in the Forest College
Campus, situated on Cowley Brown Road. RS Puram, the heart of Coimbatore city.
Gass Forest Museum is named after Horace Arichibald Gass , the first curator of the museum.
Toward the end of the 19th century, an aborted attempt was made by J. A. Gamble, the
conservator of forests of Madras Presidency to establish a forest museum in the province. A few
years later in 1902, Gamble's successor as Conservator of Forests, Horace Arichibald Gass,
succeeded in establishing a museum for forestry. It was opened to the public 15 April 1902 by
Baron Ampthill, the then Governor of Madras.
Gass Forest Museum was maintained by the Government of Tamil Nadu after Indian
Independence. It is currently administered by the Institute for Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
(IFGTB), which is also situated in the same campus as the museum. The museum was recently
renovated in May 1, 2015. A 3D diorama depicting wildlife in its natural habitat is a major
attraction.
Gass Forest Museum boasts more than 6000 exhibits that ranges from birds such as kingfishers,
cormorant, egret, hawks and eagles, to more than 600 timber species including a 456-year-old cross
section of a teak tree to more than 300 samples of rock, minerals and soil formations.
Gass Forest Museum will remain open between 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. on all days except Sundays and
holidays. This is a place to take our children.
STORY
INJC Revering an JC
who has been an inspiration BOARD
A Tale to Tell
I have been associated with Jaycees for nearly 15
years & I am an active Jaycee for six years now. One day a fisherman and a monk were walking on the
When I close my eyes thinking Jaycees, two beach soon after a storm. The storm had washed up
people come to my eyes, mind and heart. They thousands of starfish on the shore, and very soon all of
have always been inspiring. They are veterans in them would be dead. The monk quickly went to the
Jaycees and have been hailed by one and all as shore, picked up starfishes and threw them into the sea.
outstanding leaders. As far as I am concerned, I The fisherman said, Surely, you cannot hope to throw all
am always amazed by the way they maintain these starfish back into the sea? They will die in their
relationships in spite of taxing schedules and thousands here. Ive seen it happen before. Your effort will
issues. I am sure everyone who have come across make no difference.. The monk replied
the legends JCI.Sen.K.Vallabhdas and It will make a difference to the ones I threw into the sea.
JCI.Sen.S.Balavelayurham have always been
inspired by them. I am one in that sea of Lesson : You can always make a difference
humanity.
Jc.D.Ranjith Kumar, ZVP, Zone XVII Story Courtesy : Jc.M.K.Kumaravelan