Prof. S. Sampath addresses the audience at the Ninth Institute Day celebrations at the Open Air Theatre, 1968

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Prof. Srinivasa Sampath (Deputy Director) joined IIT Madras as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1961. In 1965 he was named Deputy Director, and in 1973 took the role of Head of the Computer Centre, when the institute got an IBM 370. Prof. S. Sampath was the Chairman, Council of Wardens; Warden, Narmada hostel. In 1981, the Government of India appointed Prof. S. Sampath as Director of IIT Kanpur.

From left: Mr. C. V. Sethunathan (Registrar), Prof. A. Ramachandran (Director), chief guest Dr. Karl Pfauter (Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany), Prof. N. Klein (Gymkhana President) and the Student Secretary (yet to be identified).

An identical photograph can be found in the Gourishankar Collection in Album 0265 under the ID: 001/0265/IMG_0084

Collection:

Central Photographic Section Collection

Album Name:

Ninth Institute Day, 1968

Photograph ID:

001/0020/IMG_0660_1

Album ID:

0020

Date:

23 March 1968

Place:

Open Air Theatre (OAT)

Photographer:

C. Gourishankar (1936-2002). A geologist by qualification, Gourishankar started his career as a photographer after working for many years with the Geological Survey of India. In everything that he did, Gourishankar strove to achieve flawlessness and impeccable quality. Thus his photography too was characterised by this drive for perfection. Every photograph that Gourishankar took was meticulously planned and shot and printed with diligence and patience. Gourishankar carried out most of the official photography at IIT Madras in the 1960s.

Event:

Ninth Institute Day