Winner of January 150 Quiz
Congratulations to Ms Saher John for being the first respondent to get all the answers correct in the January 150 Quiz. Ms Saher John wins Rs 1,500 of book tokens from Readings, with the prize funded by Dr Arfa Syeda. Saher, please contact the Communications Office to collect your prize. The following contestants also got all answers correct: Aroosa George, Wahab Ahmed Khan, Kamran Tariq, Nouraiz Nazar, Afaq Ahmad, Nimra Nazar, Dr Sufian Aslam, Asad Saeed Awan, Zeeshan Saleem, Zeeshan Saleem, Rizwan Gul Hassan, Maaz Gillani, Danish Gul, Zunaira Zubair, Umaima Mehmood, Rahat Fatima, Eraj Naeem John, Jacqoline J Austin, Muhammad Basharat, Sehar Imdad, Moosa Eleazar, Sehrish Mushtaq, Rahman Rasool, Akif Wasim, Ruth Gill, Rahman Rasool, Syed M Saqib Saleem, and Izah...
January 150 Quiz Answers
Thank you for participating in the tenth and last FCC Sesquicentennial Quiz. We had over 100 responses this time. Here are the answers. 1. Mercy Health Center was inaugurated on 11 February 2014. How much do services to students cost? They are free 2. The Annual Alumni Reunion was held on 1 March 2014. Which group performed in the music program following the dinner? Noori 3. On 3 March 2014, FCC celebrated Founder’s Day with the largest birthday party in its history. Celebrations included the performance of a military band. Which regiment did the band belong to? Azad Kashmir Regiment 4. 3 March 2014 was also the date that a special supplement was printed commemorating FCC’s 150th anniversary. Which newspaper did the supplement appear in? Dawn 5. Pakistan Post published a special commemorative stamp for FCC’s sesquicentennial on 14 May 2014. What denomination was the stamp? Rs 8 6. On 8 August 2014 a wreath laying ceremony was held at the grave of FCC’s founder, who is buried in the Christian cemetery near Taxali Gate. The Rector Dr James Tebbe laid a wreath at Dr Charles Forman’s grave while Mrs Elizabeth Tebbe laid a wreath at the grave of Dr Forman’s first wife. What was Mrs Forman’s first name? Margaret 7. A groundbreaking ceremony for the extension of the Business & Social Sciences Building was held on 30 September 2014. The extension has been jointly funded by UBL and Bestway Foundation to the amount of Rs 150 million. How many additional classrooms will the extension house? 24 8. Hope Tower was inaugurated on 12 November 2014. Ms Farah Shah, a Hope Tower resident, addressed the audience speaking about her experiences of living in the new hostel. What part of Pakistan does Farah hail from? Chitral 9. The annual Grad Party was held on 28 November 2014 and the theme was neon disco. Neon is one of the naturally occurring noble gases. How many noble gases are there in total? 6 10. Commencement was held on 29 November 2014. This was the largest number of students graduating at one ceremony since FCC became a chartered university in 2004. What was the total number of graduates? 665 ...
Winner of October 150 Quiz
Congratulations to Mr Nouraiz Nazar for getting 9 answers correct in the October 150 Quiz. Runner up, with eight answers right, was Mr Tajammul John Munir, Director Building and Works. Please contact the Communications Office, room 217, N Block to collect your...
The Story of Folio
The Folio can rightly claim to be the oldest college magazine in West Pakistan. Its inaugural issue came out in November 1903. It was then a monthly publication containing about thirty pages. Annual subscription was fixed at Rs. 4 for students of the college and Rs. 3 for members of the Graduates Association, as the Alumni Association was then known. The magazine at that time was known by the simple name of the F. C. College Monthly and it was managed exclusively by the members of the teaching staff, who hastened to assure their readers that the bringing out of this journal was “not an aimless task”. “The college staff,” says an editorial note, “is not suffering in the least from lack of work. All are very busy men but so earnest is their desire to supplement the work of lecture room by perpetuating, in a sense, the relation which they bear to the pupils here that they most cheerfully assume this additional burden.” The staff members in charge of this publication, who chose to remain anonymous, laid down that the policy of the journal shall be “to speak the truth in love and to abstain scrupulously from anything savouring of harshness and uncharitableness in our judgements of opinions of others who honestly differ from ourselves”. This, in the year 1903, must have seemed downright radical. The main aim was, however, confined to enabling old students to keep themselves in touch with the college and its work. Expectations and hopes were realistic and pragmatic rather than enthusiastic. “Should experience prove that we can be helpful to graduates, undergraduates and other English speaking gentlemen of North India, the task now undertaken will be one of very genuine delight.” The magazine, apart from a few articles, contained some regular features like news about old boys, current life of the college, “science” and “notes and comments” which consisted of commentaries on various happenings at home and abroad. In the first issues, there was a note on the Investiture of the Nawab of Bahawalpur. Another ran like this: “We witness with dismay that at parties where Indians are the host and Europeans are guests a liberal supply of intoxicants is provided.” There were also comments upon the struggle in England between Free Traders and the Protectionists, the fact that MA English classes have been started in both F. C. and Government Colleges and “the hope that cordiality will prevail between the two colleges without the objectionable spirit of rivalry”. There was also a small article on Wireless Telegraphy which began: “By improving his ingenuous apparatus, Signor Marconi has made considerable progress in...
Winner of September 150 Quiz
Congratulations to Dr James Tebbe, Rector FCC, for getting all the answers correct in the September 150 Quiz. Runners up, with nine answers right, were Mr Tajammul John Munir, Director Building and Works and Mr Haroon Samson, Chief Advancement Officer. Please contact the Communications Office, room 217, N Block to collect your voucher. The answers to the September 150 Quiz can be seen at this...
September 150 quiz Answers
This is the eighth in our series of quizzes to celebrate FCC’s 150th anniversary. We look at the on-campus USAID-funded hostel for women, which is nearing completion. 1. The groundbreaking ceremony for the hostel took place on 29 May 2012. In addition to the Mission Director USAID Pakistan, who took part in the groundbreaking? Dr James A Tebbe 2. Unlike most of the university’s buildings, the hostel has an unusual shape. What is it? 6 wings from a central hub 3. The hostel will be 77 ft high, which makes it the … second tallest building on campus 4. The hostel is currently called … Hope Tower 5. The hostel will have beds for how many residents? 366 6. The hostel rooms will be … both single and double rooms 7. At present FCC’s women students reside in Shirazi Hall. How many beds does Shirazi Hall currently have? 140 8. Women hostel residents at FCC currently come from which regions? 3 provinces of Pakistan, the Northern Areas and abroad 9. To look after the larger number of residents, in addition to the warden, how many assistant wardens will there be in the hostel? 3 10. When will the hostel be inaugurated? Before the end of...
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