One of the highly popular women’s colleges in Chennai city is Stella Maris College located in Cathedral Road. Not many would have known that this superb college was established on 15th August in the year 1947 with just 32 students. Now, this college has more than 5500 students in various departments.
Yesterday, 15th August 2021 was a special day for this college because it celebrated 75 years of its existence. The day saw many special events and various activities to celebrate women devoted to academic excellence and all round development.
The special initiatives that have been lined up for the silver jubilee celebrations came to light through the principal of the college Dr Sr Rosy Joseph. She spoke about the initiatives like online certificate and diploma programmes from the Digital Learning and Research Centre, moving towards zero waste campus, Cloud based ERP and Learning Management Systems or LMS, a skills enhancement programme for self employment through outreach programmes.
It is worthy to note that Brigadier Dr G. Himashree, Brigadier Medical, HQ Dakshin Bharat Area hoisted the national flag. Popular personalities like Dr. C. Rangarajan, former RBI Governor and Justice Prabha Sridevan( Retd)made their presence felt at this college yesterday. Point is that they addressed the students on the occasion. The superb piece of information is that the college would be releasing postcards of the iconic structures of their campus and the postcards would be available in colour/black and white. Various milestones of Stella Maris College were presented on that special day.