Report: Second Alumni Meeting, USA July 28, 2007

Name of Organization: Juldia Marine Academy Alumni Association
Purpose of Meeting: 2nd Annual Gathering
Date/Time: July 29, 2007 11:00 AM
Chair: Capt. Syed Sultan Ahmed Tawfiq

This year’s gathering was held on July 28 and 29, 2007. Members started arriving from all over the North America around 5 PM on July 28 at the residence of Mr. Ghulam Suhrawardi (6th batch). In the evening drinks, appetizers and dinner were served. After the dinner, the members took photos and some of them sang songs. The best singer was Shankar Panday (12th batch) followed by others including Akhtar Hossain (4th batch). After the songs, everyone danced to the tune of Bhangra and other hard music. Overall, al members really enjoyed the evening and departed around 2 AM on 29th.

On the 29th, a business meeting was held immediately after a breakfast and tea/coffee. Meeting was opened by the Secretary Fakir Ziauddin Ahmed (5th batch Engineering) who thanked all participants, especially the alumni from Canada. They took a long journey along with their families just to congregate with fellow alumni. Fakir Ziauddin thanked Mr. & Mrs. Ghulam Suhrawardi (6th batch nautical) for hosting this event with such a style and flair, making it another memorable reunion. He discussed JMAAA’s recent activities including the two scholarships given to Cadets of our Alma Mater. The Secretary also thanked Mr. Golam Akbar (not an alumni) for his untiring effort to invite and promulgate agendas to all members. He requested Capt. Syed Sultan Ahmed Tawfiq, the President of the organization to preside over the meeting. Captain Tawfiq accepted the invitation and took chair.

 
1. Topic: Mr. Niaz Uddin Hyder (10th batch) from UK sent an agenda item by email requesting a discussion on establishing links with alumnus in UK, Australia, Singapore and any other countries.

 

Discussion: All present agreed on this agenda.

 

Action taken: Executive committee will explore and establish possible links with all alumni.

 

Person Responsible: The Executive Committee.

 
2. Topic: Adoption of the constitution.

 

Discussion: Draft constitution of the Association as distributed in printed form to all participants was discussed. All agreed to accept the drafted constitution as the interim-constitution of the Association with a 30-days review period. Below mentioned committee was selected by the meeting to study and recommend any changes necessary within 30-days.

 

Action: Constitution Review Committee will submit a report within 30 days for any necessary changes to be made to the constitution.

 

Persons Responsible: Constitution Review Committee: Ghulam Shurawardi (6th batch), Nazrul Islam (4th batch), Mafizur Rahman (13th batch) and Showkat Akbar (24th batch).

 
3. Topic: Election of Executive Committee

 

Discussion: Meeting voted to keep the committee to only five members till the next annual meeting.

 

Action: Five members were nominated and were accepted by all present are:

 

President: Syed Sultan Ahmed Taufik
Vice President: Monirul Islam
Secretary: Ziauddin Ahmed Fakir
Treasurer: Ghulam Shurawardi
Member: Nazrul Islam

 
4. Topic: Next meeting

 

Discussion: All agreed to have our next meeting on the first Saturday of August 2008, in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Ashafaqul Haque (13th batch) will form a committee to host the meeting with a reunion.

 

Action: Mr. Ashafaqul Haque will form a committee to host the meeting with a reunion.

 

Person Responsible: Mr. Ashafaqul Haque

 
5. Topic: Admissibility to the Associate membership of the Association

 

Discussion: Mr. Ghulam Suhrawardi proposed to admit all Mariners of Bangladeshi origin to be the Associate Members.

 

Action: Proposal unanimously agreed.

 
6. Topic: All alumni in North America to be contacted.

 

Discussion: All agreed that we should establish contact with all alumni living in the North America.

 

Action: Website of JMAAA will be utilized to promulgate more about the Association. Capt. Shaikh Abdullah (14th batch) agreed that all news related JMAA will be published in www.bangladeshmariners.com. Also a link will be provided to www.juldians.org in the www.bangladeshmariners.com.

 
7. Topic: Each batch should have one person responsible for co-coordinating with members from that batch.

 

Discussion: All agreed on this. A list of selected members to be prepared as soon as possible.

 

Action: Executive committee will prepare a list.

 
8. Topic: RSVP should be a must for the reunion and meeting

 

Discussion: Many members did not send any indication about their participation in the reunion and meeting. This created logistics issues for the organizers of the event. All agreed that members should send RSVP as soon as possible.

 

Action: All members are requested to send RSVP as soon as possible.

 
9. Topic: Funds necessary to conduct Association’s business.

 

Discussion: Executive committee agreed to bear the cost of running the business of the Association as they did in last year. But requested all members to pay their voluntary membership dues as soon as they can.

 

Action: Members are requested to pay their voluntary membership dues as soon as they can.

 
10. Topic: Treasurers report.

 

Discussion: Mr. Ghulam Suhrawardi verbally presented Association’s account. All present accepted the account and thanked him for keeping the account. He promised that a formal account will be circulated on a later date.

 

Action: Treasurers report was accepted by the members present at the meeting

 
President thanked all members present and also the host of this excellent event for making it another success and he declared the meeting closed.

 

List of participants:

 

Name

Batch

Mohammad Munirul Islam 4th

Qazi Maqsudur Rahman 6th

M. Akhter Hossain 4th

Nazrul Siddique 4th

Mohammed Ziauddin 5th

Shankar Panday 10th

Munir Rashid 15th

Hedayetullah Bhuiyan 5th

Mafizur Rahman 13th

Abu Helal Aminul Huq 11th

Lutfur Rahman 12th

Ashfaqul Huq 13th

Md Showkat Akbar 24th

Sultan Ahmed Taufiq 2nd

Shaikh A Abdullah 14th

Ghulam Suhrawardi 6th