The Holy Cross Col­lege past stu­dents as­so­ci­a­tion is work­ing to­wards mak­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion a very dy­nam­ic one and has em­barked on a num­ber of strate­gies to this end. They have been en­cour­ag­ing the class­es from dif­fer­ent years to have reg­u­lar meet­ings and re­unions sim­i­lar to what is be­ing done by the class of 1963.

Since leav­ing Holy Cross, Ari­ma, 45 years ago, the class of 1963 has been meet­ing reg­u­lar­ly, hold­ing re­unions and keep­ing in touch with one an­oth­er. In fact, there ex­ists a spir­i­tu­al bond amongst them, said Kei­th De­nal­li, a for­mer Ari­ma may­or and past stu­dent. In 1965, the class was pro­mot­ed from Form 3 to Form 5 in a school ex­per­i­ment for ex­cep­tion­al stu­dents and was called 5X. The guys start­ed call­ing them­selves the X Men and still call them­selves so up to to­day.

The group al­so at­tends a month­ly meet­ing, which will be held to­day at the home of Claudius Ramdeen in Palmiste. Re­cent­ly, one of their class­mates, Dave Lal­la, who re­sides in New Jer­sey, and was back home to cel­e­brate the life of his aunt, Vivi­enne, took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate his 60th birth­day with some of the guys at Ameer­ali Av­enue, Ari­ma.

Next year, Jan­u­ary 19, the X Men will be cel­e­brat­ing their 50th an­niver­sary of at­tend­ing Holy Cross with a grand, for­mal af­fair. At this func­tion they are hop­ing to have all their past sur­viv­ing teach­ers, who in­clude Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Ewart Williams and Jer­ry Hospedales.