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Tributes from Past Presidents
It is easy to bask in the sunshine of prosperity but the true test of a community rests for proof of times of adversity and surely those times of adversity must beset us as they did that little band of pioneers who led the way for us -- they faced it and laid a solid foundation on which were were to build. Do not let us be found wanting -- the future must, and can be faced with calm, confidence and optimism, as a tribute to those who came before us, and a lasting benefit to those who came after us.
J.S.T. Ferrao
Ex - President
During the fifty years of its existence the Institute has passed through difficult times, but thanks to the co-operation and support of all its Members, who have cherished and zealously guarded the great legacy left by the Founders, have helped to maintain the good name of the Goan Institute above board. It is the bounden duty of every member of this great Institute to stand solidly behind it and to sink their differences and always work for the greater good of the Institute and its Members thus be worthy of the trust placed in them by the Founders.
R. B. GONSALVES
Ex-President
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Winners of the Six-A-Side Competition
Goan Institute carved a niche of fame for themselves by winning the Inter-racial Six-a-side Festival Hockey Competition, 1953. The competition organized by the Hockey Union of Kenya attracted 28 entries in its inaugural year.
The line-up is as follows:
Standing from left to right: M. Castellino; B. Mendonza
Sitting from left to right: C. Fernandes; S. D'Souza (Capt); S. Pinto
Ground: S. George
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Artist Extraordinaire & All Rounder
Mr C. Fernandes has been one of the mainstays of the Institute hockey team and has played soccer for the Club. He started his sports career in St. Sebastians's School, Bombay and thereafter played in all the senior divisions of hockey and football. Once represented Bombay XI in the festival hockey tournament.
He has played for the Kenya XI in hockey and football against touring teams like All-India, Tata, Pakistan and Norkopping F.C
He is a remarkable artist in private life and has exhibited his paintings in Nairobi and elsewhere.
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Billiard Champ
Goans have been champions in several public events. Mr. Vincent D'Sa a veteran of G.I had won Billiard trophies every year in succession.
Budding Cricketer
Osbourne D'Souza a budding cricketer and pupil of Dr. Ribeiro Goan School scored 76 not out for the Bachelors in the annual cup fixture, Bachelors vs Marrieds on 23rd Feb, 1955.
This promising cricketer if given all encouragement would prove an asset to the Goan Institute.
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Chef to the Royals
Mr. P.I.M. Fernandes had the honour of being the chef to Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh during their brief stay in Kenya at the time of Her father's death. Of all continental chefs available, a Goan was selected
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1. Mr. Salus D'Souza - the first manager of the M.R. de Souza & Co. and the donor of the famous Salus Cup for soccer.
2. Mr. Victor Gonsalves who scored the first century in East Africa - still not out.
3. Mr Thimothy D'Souza a merchant, pioneer and very influential figure in his days as a past President of the GI towards which he contributed much.
4. Mr. Wences D'Souza, Chief Audit Clerk and ex-President of the Goan Institute.
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Mayor J.R. Gregory
Alderman Dr. J. R. Gregory, the Mayor of Nairobi, speaking in the Goan Institute, Nairobi, on the occasion of Silver Jubilee celebration of the Goan Overseas Association, on 17th July, 1952, replied to the toast thus: Two important events
occurred 25 years ago-the Goan Overseas Association was founded and he (Dr Gregory) arrived in Nairobi
"On arrival here the first person to shake my hand was a Goan," said the Mayor. "And there started the friendship with the Goan people which has increased as the years went by."
"The Goan people have a special affection in the hearts of all those who love Kenya. The Goans attend their services on Sundays and their work for the rest of the week in a very law-abiding manner."
Alderman Dr. Gregory recalled that when he came to Nairobi all the grocers in the town were Goans. Then a depression came and these grocers supported their customers so effectively that they went bankrupt themselves.
This was typical of the sort of things Goans did, he said. They were so generously-minded towards other people that they seemed to forget their own problems.
On Goan educational facilities Alderman Gregory said they all realised that the Goans were an English-speaking race who enjoyed English literature, but there was another and even greater problem facing them and that was the problem of adequate housing.?
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Cardinal Gracias
At the secret and public consistories the masters of ceremonies did not have to prompt him once in the intricate ritual. As he stood on the great day of the public consistory in St. Peter's, impressive in his robes and towering above his peers, a whisper of regret went round the public tribunes: "What a pity he is not papabile" (Pope-worthy). For, if there is a non-Italian
Pope, the Armenian Cardinal Agagianian, is currently the most hotly tipped.
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Man Eater of Kima
The following extract is taken from the E.A. Standard under "The Story of the Man Eater of Kima" which appeared in the issue dated 15th August, 1952:
REWARDS OFFERED: The grim tragedy stirred a keen interest in the summary execution of the man-eater. Sir George Whitehouse, Chief Engineer of the Uganda Railway, offered a reward of £13 for every lion killed between Makindu and Nairobi-a distance of 119 miles. Ryall's mother offered an additional reward of £100 for the man-eater of Kima, dead or alive.
Many lions were killed but none proved to be the man-eater.
Then Costello, a locomotive foreman at Makindu, joined forces with Rodrigues a fitter chargeman at Makindu, in an effort to win the reward. They constructed an ingenious trap, baited it with a live calf, and placed it in the bush within a mile of Kima station. On the first morning of inspection, it was seen that the trap's door had dropped and they had strong hoped of finding the brute securely captured. But within, they found only a couple of small Mkamba boys who had tried to steal the calf.
The trap was set again. But it was two months before the patient efforts were rewarded and the man-eater was securely captured. The ingenious cage, with the vicious killer within, was photographed from almost every conceivable angle. And, as man-eating forthwith ceased in this area, there could be no doubt that the captured beast was one which had been responsible for the terror at Kima.
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When Dr. Valerian Gracias was nominated Cardinal the following passage appeared in the "Picture Post" of 7th February, 1953:
The following day the Pope nominated Valerian Gracias, 53-year-old Archbishop of Bombay, India's first cardinal, reducing by one the number of Italians in the sacred College. From the first, Gracias magnetised public interest and not merely by his great height or the impressive contrast of his brown skin among the pale faces of his fellow princes. At the ceremony of the 'Biglietto di Nomina,' when the Pope's messengers sped round Rome delivering official nomination documents, his was the most moving speech of gratitude to the Pope. The same afternoon, during the 'Visite di Calore' (visits of warmth), when high ecclesiastics and diplomats make their rounds of congratulation, it was with him they stayed the longest. It was for his photograph that the Vatican photographers had most requests from pilgrim and ecclesiastics of all nationalities.
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