Mr. Lionel Paul receives the Governor's Prize from Sir C. V. Raman

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Third Convocation, 1966

Institute Events , Convocations , Students

Seen in the image from the left: Mr. Lionel Paul (Governor’s Prize winner), Prof. B. Sengupto (Director) and Sir C. V. Raman (Indian physicist, Nobel laureate).

The Governor’s Prize was awarded to Mr. Lionel Paul (B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering-5 Years) who represented IITM in a number of inter-collegiate sports tournaments and meets. He played tennis, hockey and table tennis. He also participated in track and field events. During his time at IIT Madras he evolved into an outstanding singles player and won the Stanley Cup, conducted by the Loyola College, for inter-collegiate tennis a number of times. His tennis prowess even allowed him to tuck away a win against the Wimbledon semi-finalist Anand Amritraj one year! Lionel Paul served as General Secretary of the student body (Gymkhana) during the final year of his B. Tech. Upon graduation he worked briefly in EID-Parry and India Pistons. He returned to IIT Madras for his M. Tech. in Industrial Engineering. Later he joined Tube Investments. He moved to the Netherlands to join Shell International. His assignments at Shell took him to a number of countries including Canada, Kenya and Malaysia, where he worked on multiple projects.

An identical photograph can be found in the Gourishankar Collection in Album 0241 under the ID: 001/0241/IMG_79

Collection:

Central Photographic Section Collection

Album Name:

Third Convocation, 1966

Photograph ID:

001/0024/IMG_0750_1

Album ID:

0024

Date:

1966-07-30

Place:

Open Air Theatre

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:

Convocation