131 Monday Oct 11

Monday Oct 11 Day 131

I went down to Woodstock this morning and made arrangements with the Director of Facilities to tape the school buildings. The classroom buildings will be empty from Oct 25 to Oct 29. I walked around the buildings trying to get an idea of what I wanted to tape or not tape. That week is Activity Week and the students are not allowed access to the school. They travel to different parts of India and into the local mountains. Later this week I shall visit each of the residence dorms for an initial walk through of the facilities. I will tape inside the dorms in November.

I discovered that Sports Day will occur this Thursday. Evidently it is not the highly organized event that it was 50 ears ago. Evidently the Olympics do not occur any more. The Olympics was a track and field day where Woodstock competed against the other 3 or 4 English based schools on the hillside. Competition on Sports Day is between 3 teams with students from 7th through 12th grades completing. Members of each class are assigned to one of the teams. In the “old days” the competition was between the various standards (there were 10 Standards 1st grade through senior in high school) In order to get 12 years of education with only 10 Standards there were two 6th Standards, Lower and Upper 6th which was 6th and 7th grade and a Lower 7th which was 8th grade. 7th Standard was the freshmen year and 10 Standard was the senior year. The competitive groupings were as follows: 4th thru lower 6th. Upper 6th thru 7th. 8th thru 10th standards. The class of 1960 won every year except in 4th standard.