On Oct 13, 2023 we announced that our Nov 15 DRGS website update would be our last and final update.  While this ​DRGS website will remain frozen in time, the website and Class Newsgroups will continue to be ​accessible until such time our host ​for these services changes ​its policies.  

The reaction to the announcement judging by the numerous phone calls and emails ​we have received has been truly touching.  On ​Monday Nov 13, 2023  Ray (Bijoo) DeMello wrote:

I read with some dismay that the DRGS website will be winding down.  

Thank You Merv. for your ongoing brilliance, and keeping us connected......

and "Thank You" Carol for graciously sharing Merv. with us.  

Merv. is clearly a 'chip of the old block!​' 

I sincerely thank you all for your kind words and sentiments​ but most of all I wish to thank all of you who contributed articles, bios, obituaries, photos, etc. over the years.  It was really YOU who kept the website continually refreshed, interesting and the pride of our alma mater.

My dad, Christie D'Souza was a man of many talents and a tough act to follow.  Among other things:

He penned a column for a Nairobi newspaper periodically,  he led a committee of Nairobi South B residents to bring tarmac roads to the area.   He was a past President of The Goan Institute and vice-President of the Kenya Asian Civil Service Association.  He was a founder member and vice-President of the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association and a founder member of the Kenya Goan Sports Association.  And, he was also Chairman of the Education Committee of the Dr. Ribeiro Goan School.....   I could never ever fill his over-sized shoes !

In his 'spare time' dad was also an archivist.  I recall him having an over-sized album made to preserve his memorabilia collection and maintain a record of the community's time in Kenya.  A sucker for organization, he would diligently categorize items and spend hours painstakingly clipping articles and typing photo captions and pasting them to each photo.  His album also contained a trove of DRGS and GI history/photos (which you can also find in the Nairobi Clubs section on our website .  Following his passing, my family presented the album to the Nairobi GI for posterity.  

Shortly after creating the DRGS website,  I attempted to track down my dad's album to retrieve and publish some of the DRGS content contained therein, only to find that his cherished album had mysteriously 'disappeared' from the GI library.  Fortunately several months later, Luban Pereira came to the rescue offering me a batch of DRGS photos for the website. I was shocked to discover these were copies of the photos which were in my dad's album.  Thankfully, his dad had the good sense to preserve  a set of his own.   I also discovered our parents had commissioned their good buddy, the late M. A. Rosa, to take those seminal 1952 photos of the school, the teachers and the various classes. You can find many of those photos in our Old Photos Album on the DRGS website. They represent a record of some of our tiny footprints on this planet.