40th Anniversary Reunion of Class of 1975 Submitted by Kishwer Aziz
Kishwer
Aziz, is a Senior Consultant at BankT&D Consulting and
is based in the United Kingdom. She has over 30 years of
corporate banking experience in five different countries
including 11 years as Vice President Citibank’s
Financial Institutions and Transaction Services in
London and New York. Besides an MBA from IBA, she has a
PhD in Finance and also attended AMP at Harvard Business
School.
The 40th
Anniversary Reunion of the Direct MBA Class Graduating
in 1975 was held in Surrey, United Kingdom between July
23rd and 25th 2015. 21 people joined in the 3 day
celebrations. The Class members who attended and were
they came from is listed below and most were accompanied
by their spouse:
- Anjum Iqbal, UK
- Aslam Aziz, UK
- Dennis D’Souza,
UK - Kishwer Shaikh
Aziz, UK
- Mukarram Sattar,
UK - Imran Saeed Khan,
UK - Rosamin Hussain
Bhanpuri, USA
- Anwar Salimi, USA
- Shahla Qadeer Aly,
USA - Aftab Mustafa
Khan, USA
- Javaid Rahmat,
Mozambique
- Arif Gulzar,
Pakistan
It was just
wonderful getting back together after nearly 40 years.
The intervening years seemed to just slip away and we
were our old selves again, joking and playing practical
pranks just as we did 40 years ago. It was truly an
unforgettable occasion. Many of us were meeting our
classmate's spouse for the very first time but they soon
became "one of us". Three days and evenings of informal
get together, jelled the group beautifully and there was
never a dull moment.
Most people
coming from abroad stayed in a hotel in Surrey. On the
first day we took a boat cruise on the River Thames
followed by a long lunch by the riverside. On the second
day we visited the houses of Parliament at Westminster
Palace and Westminster Abbey followed by a lunch at the
Abbey Restaurant. On the final day we had the reunion
lunch which started at noon and went up to 8pm at the
home of Kishwer and Aslam Aziz. We shared a presentation
of our classmates’ pictures from 1973 to the present day
including the pictures of those who could not join us.
We also shared the latest IBA presentation sent to us by
IBA and this was really well received. There was great
appreciation for all the great things happening at our
Alma Mater. Four group photos are attached.
We closed the
reunion on a high note making plans for the next
reunion. Since then we have successfully located all our
classmates including Valiullah Zarsov from Iran, Akbar
Panjwani in USA (thanks to Shahla Qadeer’s research
abilities) and Tariq Owais, who has just been located in
Australia.
All the class
mates contacted have since voted to have another reunion
in the summer of 2016 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, a
seaside resort in the UK. |