Girls in Green
Subtitle: Memoirs from St Mary's
Contributors: Edited by Frederick Noronha. Multiple authors. Arlette Azavedo. Yma Pinto. Caroline Andrade. Ingrid Valles Po. Lumen de Souza, Anna D'Souza, Lydia de Souza, Sr Margaret Correa, Hazel Pereira (nee Mascarenhas), Agnes B. D'Souza, Joyce Heredia Fernandes, Blanche D'Souza e Fernandes, Lavie Fernandes, Miguel Arcanjo de Braganza, Raida Duarte, Dorothy DeSouza Almeida, Selina Elaine DeSouza e Fernandes, Yolanda D'Lima e Lobo, Hazel Pereira, Odilia Das Chagas e Silva, Karyn Beckett
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Goa,1556 http://goa1556.goa-india.org
Published: April 2009
Place of publication: Goa, India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9788190568227
Subjects: alumni, education
Genres: non-fiction
First sentence: In the good old days, St Mary's Convent at Mapusa was a home away from home for most of us who spent our entire mornings there.
Description: A book about alumnae memories from a prominent school for girls in Goa, India. In English. Talks about life in Goa in the 1960s and 1970s. Specially at times when many students here 'boarders', as their parents worked overseas and transport facilities were limited. Interesting narration about the tough and challenging, though interesting, lives of those times. Many seem to agree that the school made them what they were, and some of the chapters underline how the Goan educational system of those times worked well for the upcoming generations from here, despite all its problems!
Notes: FROM THE BACK COVER: What was it like to study in a convent with wooden floors and a leaking roof? What does it mean to nostalgically walk down  the past and remember our schooldays, even as the next generation takes our places at benches we once sat on? What does puppy love mean to a convent girl? And what did boarding life translate into in a Goa of the seventies?

Alumnae groups have a useful role to play in any society, more so in an emigration-oriented one like Goa.

This book is made up of essays penned by past-pupils of St Mary's Convent. This prominent six-decades old institution is based in the North Goa town of Mapusa, in coastal western India. The network that contributed to this book emerged from a virtual community built in cyberspace by past-pupils of that institution, and an electronic mailing list called   GreenChillies.
Table of contents: title: Wood floors, leaking roofs... (by Arlette Azavedo)
pagenum: 5
class: chapter
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 7
class: chapter
title: Maths via Archie comics (by Yma Pinto); label: 3
pagenum: 13
class: chapter
title: Memories from Scandinavia (by Caroline Andrade); label: 4
pagenum: 16
class: chapter
title: School, boys, college, love... (by Ingrid Valles Po); title: Citius, Altius, Fortius (by Lumen de Souza)
pagenum: 20
class: chapter
label: 5; title: Strict, handsome, understanding (by Arlette Azavedo)
pagenum: 23
class: chapter
label: 6; label: 7
pagenum: 28
class: chapter
title: Love, kisses and letters (by Anna D'Souza); title: After dropping the chalk (by Lydia de Souza)
pagenum: 33
class: chapter
label: 8; title: Moira to Mapusa, on 40 paise (by Sr Margaret Correa)
pagenum: 39
class: chapter
label: 9; title: Friendships re-found (by Caroline Andrade)
pagenum: 41
class: chapter
label: 10; label: 11
pagenum: 45
class: chapter
title: Laughter, punishments (by Arlette Azavedo); label: 12
pagenum: 51
class: chapter
title: That which lasts a lifetime (by Anna D'Souza); label: 13
pagenum: 56
class: chapter
title: Those wonder years... (by Hazel Pereira); title: Who'd miss boarding school? (by Agnes B. D'Souza)
pagenum: 61
class: chapter
label: 14; label: 15
pagenum: 66
class: chapter
title: Can't find my keys (by Joyce Heredia Fernandes); title: Boarding fondness (by Anna D'Souza)
pagenum: 70
class: chapter
label: 16; label: 17
pagenum: 72
class: section
title: Those days (by Blanche D'Souza e Fernandes); label: 18
pagenum: 75
class: chapter
title: Writing on the convent wall (by Lavie Fernandes); label: 19
pagenum: 77
class: chapter
title: The spice of my life (by Miguel Arcanjo de Braganza); label: 20
pagenum: 80
class: chapter
title: How we got networked (by Arlette Azavedo); title: Pupil, teacher... and grand-mom (by Raida Duarte)
pagenum: 85
class: chapter
label: 21; label: 22
pagenum: 87
class: chapter
title: Days worth dreaming about (by Dorothy DeSouza Almeida); label: 23
pagenum: 90
class: chapter
title: Boarding pass: circa 1967-70 (by Lumen de Souza nee Pereira); title: Oh, that chicken biryani (by Selina Elaine DeSouza e Fernandes)
pagenum: 92
class: chapter
label: 24; label: 25
pagenum: 94
class: chapter
title: Over the years, in verse (by Yolanda D'Lima e Lobo); label: 26
pagenum: 99
class: chapter
title: So long, farewell (Hazel Pereira); label: 27
pagenum: 103
class: chapter
title: Nostalgia, and more (Odilia das Chagas e Silva); title: Linking up once more... (Anna D'Souza)
pagenum: 108
class: chapter
label: 28; title: Encore in Toronto (Karyn Beckett)
pagenum: 110
class: chapter
label: 28