Madurai:

Walking into their alma mater after 50 years on Sunday was a joyful experience for the 1960-1965 batch of students of the Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

The batch comprised the creamy layer of students who entered the premium institution that was founded in 1957. Correspondent of TCE Karumuttu T Kannan presided over the function and listened to the elderly alumni narrating their experiences as carefree students in this institution. He said the alumni would be an inspiration to the present day students.

They had gone on to become chief engineers of PWD, defence, electricity board, steel plants, harbours, while some of them contributed to the various space projects in their capacity as research scientists at ISRO. Forty of them attended the event along with their families.

The old students re-lived their days in the institution and visited various departments. “This is a place that brings us immense joy that cannot be replaced by any other,” they said sharing their experiences with the students of today who were eager to listen to them.

V Sathappan, president, 1965 batch alumni reunion committee, welcomed the gathering, N Shanmugam, secretary explained the objectives of the reunion.