Green meets evergreen on WCC campus
The 2001 graduating batch of Women’s Christian College in Chennai held a 25th-anniversary reunion focused on ecological sustainability and simplicity. The event eliminated single-use plastics and incorporated discussions on health topics like perimenopause.
Why it matters
It demonstrates a growing trend of integrating sustainable practices and meaningful social discourse into traditional alumni gatherings.
After the film 96 , there is a pervasive trend of organising the silver jubilee reunion on a grand and memorable scale. ‘Memorable’ usually translates to adding extra layers to the celebration, sometimes making it extended to include a stop at a scenic location beyond the campus, say, a dinner at a resort. Rarely does ‘memorable’ mean paring the celebration to its bare minimum and make it meaningful, not just to the alumni but the wider world.
When they met for their 25th on their campus in Nungambakkam on July 10, the 2001 batch of Women’s Christian College embraced the rarer version of “memorable”, having the event guided largely by two factors, simplicity and ecological sustainability.
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