Mathew Vempala (fondly known as Bompy, by his students), taught history in the late 60s to 80s. He is survived by his wife and children. His wife, was a nurse in the school dispensary for several years.
Vampy as he was known in our time was a Maths teacher and a wonderful human being. I remember he almost told us what questions he would set for the exams by saying 'important', 'very important' and most important'. We were fortunate to have such dedicated and loving teachers. R.I.P. and thanks for the help we can never repay.
Mathew Sir used to teach us History. He was so loving, we never feared him, however his class used to be playground sometimes. Since history was mosty after tiffin period, his class used to be either playing with chawk or sleeping. He noticed us and used to add his comments along with the passage he read through. Like, "In 1914, Germany attacked France, and i can see Vikas throwing chawk and alok missing it, and Belgium." It used to be hilarious. And if any one of us complained that, sir, he is sleeping...his regular answer used to be, "O, Let the sleeping dog lie". in Civics, his favourite clause use to be, MLA means yeh mein le and yeh mein le (showing both pockets). :-) Such memories makes me nostalgic. On this Teacher's day, I bow down to the great departed soul. RIP Sir.
Ujjwal Jha (1987)
Great teacher of history. I believe Anupam and Sunil Aggarwal will never forget his classSoumit Dutt (1971)
Vampy as he was known in our time was a Maths teacher and a wonderful human being. I remember he almost told us what questions he would set for the exams by saying 'important', 'very important' and most important'. We were fortunate to have such dedicated and loving teachers. R.I.P. and thanks for the help we can never repay.
Abhijit Chatterjee (1987)
Mathew Sir used to teach us History. He was so loving, we never feared him, however his class used to be playground sometimes. Since history was mosty after tiffin period, his class used to be either playing with chawk or sleeping. He noticed us and used to add his comments along with the passage he read through. Like, "In 1914, Germany attacked France, and i can see Vikas throwing chawk and alok missing it, and Belgium." It used to be hilarious. And if any one of us complained that, sir, he is sleeping...his regular answer used to be, "O, Let the sleeping dog lie". in Civics, his favourite clause use to be, MLA means yeh mein le and yeh mein le (showing both pockets). :-) Such memories makes me nostalgic. On this Teacher's day, I bow down to the great departed soul. RIP Sir.