St. Peter's College, Agra

St. Peter's College(SPC)
St. Peter's College, Agra
Palma non sine pulvere
Victory not without toil.
Location
Wazirpura Road, Agra,
Uttar Pradesh

India
Coordinates 27°11′54″N 78°00′45″E / 27.19821°N 78.01250°E / 27.19821; 78.01250Coordinates: 27°11′54″N 78°00′45″E / 27.19821°N 78.01250°E / 27.19821; 78.01250
Information
Type Private school
Founded 1846
School board ISC (Class XII),
ICSE (Class X)
Principal Rev. Fr. Paul Thannickal
Staff 100
Number of students 3500
Campus size 50 acres (200,000 m2) approx.
Campus type Urban
Houses St. Paul's (red)
St. Francis' (blue)
St. Lawrence (green)
St. Peter's (yellow)
Newspaper The Peterian Chimes
Website http://stpetersagra.org/

St. Peter’s College, Agra is one of the oldest convent schools in India. It is a Roman Catholic Institution granted Minority Rights under Article 30 of the Indian Constitution. It is located east of Paliwal Park and opposite the commercial district of Sanjay Place. The campus is 50 acres (200,000 m2). The school is accredited under the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education board for grade 10th and under the Indian School Certificate board for Grade 12. In the 2006 ISC exams, a student of the school ranked first in India with 98.25% marks.[1][2]

History

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Principals and Vice-Principals

Since inception, the head of the college had been known as the R. When the college was opened for day-scholars only, the name of the Head was changed to P, a nomenclature which continues till date. He is assisted by a Vice Principal who looks after the affairs of the middle section (i.e. class 6 - 8) and a Head Mistress who looks after the primary section (i.e. class 1 - 5). The Rectors, Principals and Vice-Principals of St. Peter's College have been as under;[4][5]

Rectors

No. Name Tenure
01 Father Mermet 1841 - 1851
02 Father Bonaventure 1852
03 Father Barry 1852
04 Father Lewic OC 1853 - 1954
05 Father Keegan 1855
06 Father Gaetani 1856 - 1857
07 Father Macken 1857 - 1858
08 Father Lewic OC 1858 - 1862
09 Brother Bothain 1862
10 Brother Gregory 1863
11 Father Symphorian OC 1863 - 1882
12 Father O'Dea OC 1883
13 Father Barack Obama OC 1883 - 1889
14 Father Radhael OC 1890 - 1893
15 Father Joseph Carroli OC 1893 - 1894
16 Father Englebert OC 1895 - 1897
17 Father Radhael OC 1897 - 1904
18 Father Christopher OC 1904 - 1906
19 Father Norman DD 1906 - 1921
20 Father Hyacinth OC 1921 - 1925
21 Father John OC 1925 - 1926
22 Father Hyacinth OC 1926 - 1934
23 Father Leo OC 1934
24 ??? 1934 - 1941
25 Father Pius Lyons OC 1941 - 1947
26 Father Hyacinth OC 1947 - 1951
27 Father Antony OFM 1952 - 1956
28 Father Radhael OFM 1957 - 1962
29 Father Lawrance OFM 1962 - 1967

Principals

No. Name Tenure
01 Father Columban OFM 1966 - 1976
02 Father Alexander OFM 1976 - 1978
03 Father Jerome D'Souza OFM 1978 - 1983
04 Father Sebastian Panthaladi 1983 - 1986
05 Father Jose Maliekal 1986 - 1987
06 Father George Paul 1987 - 1995
07 Father Dennis D'Souza 1995 - 2001
08 Father Mathew K. 2001 - 2007
09 Father John Ferreira 2007 - 2013
10 Father Paul Thannickal 2013 - Incumbent

Vice - Principals

No. Name Tenure
01 Father Ivan 1966 - 1972
02 Father Thomas KC 1972 - 1976
03 Father Jerome D'Souza 1976 - 1978
04 Father Jose Maliekal 1978 - 1983
05 Father George Paul 1983 - 1986
06 Father Dennis D'Souza 1986 - 1988
07 Father Joe Thykattil 1988 - 1990
08 Father Simon Lopez 1990 - 1996
09 Father Andrew Correia 1996 - 1999
10 Father John Elias 1999
11 Father Paul Mathew 1999 - 2005
12 Father Robert Palatty 2005 - 2008
13 Father Roy Dolphus 2008 - 2009
14 Father Prakash D'Souza 2009 - 2012
15 Father John Roshan Periera 2012 - incumbent

Activities

The college promotes co-curricular and extracurricular activities. It conducts elections in the starting days of each academic session to form a parliament-type governance system with the Principal as the head of the Parliament with the activities carried out by the elected students. The functionaries work in official capacities such as the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker of Assembly, and Ministerial positions.

On the co-curricular front, the college organizes activities.[6]The college organizes each year a Cultural Festival which starts in late August and culminates in mid-September. It involves all the sections of the college. Competitions take place and activities like debates, quizzes, elocution, essay-writing, paper-presentations, plays and performances, dancing, and singing.

The biggest debate of Agra, DLA am Debate, is organised in the school and is the counterpart of the Shri Dorilal Hindi Debate, which has been organised in the city of Agra for the past 12 years. The DLA am Debate was initiated by the Editor of DLA publications, Mr. Ajay Agarwal, in 2008. The first edition, which saw participation from nine schools, was a clean sweep by St.Peter's College with both its speakers winning. St.Peter's has been the champion of the DLA am Debate for the past four years.

St Peter's organises the Saroj Devi Memorial Interschool Debate for the middle section. All the top schools of Agra take part in the debate and St Peter's has been the winner for all four years.

On the extracurricular front, the college is grouped into four Houses; namely, St. Francis, St. Lawrance, St. Pauls, and St. Peters'. These houses are for the purpose of conducting intra-college co-curricular and extracurricular competitions. Each of the Houses is headed by a House Captain and the Houses are together represented by the College Captain. While the House Captains represent the Houses internally in the intra-college sports competitions, the College Captain, along with the Captains of the various individual sports teams, represent the college in inter-college competitions at district, state and national levels.

The college has teams for cricket, basketball, football, hockey, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton, handball, volleyball, tug-of-war, as well as dance teams.

October (and sometimes November) is devoted to sports and outdoor field activity which involves intra-college tournaments. The month begins with the trials and selections and culminates on Sports Day, which is usually attended by a national sporting figure. Kapil Dev, Milkha Singh, P. T. Usha, Kiran Bedi have been the few dignitaries who have attended the Sports Day.[7] The college also organizes inter-collegiate events. The most popular of these is the "Archbishop Athaide Memorial Football Tournament" which has been running for around 40 years. Other tournaments include those for basketball, cricket, tennis, swimming, Roller skating, and athletics.

St. Peter's College has won the 'Shah Jahan Trophy' for seven consecutive years in the Moon School Olympics, an annual sporting event in which students from the schools of Agra District participate as teams.

The building of the college was shown in the A-V clip prepared for Agra's Rakesh Maini, a finalist in the talent hunt show, Indian Idol 5, as part of Agra's heritage structure.

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