Don Bosco School is a school located in Guwahati, Assam, India. This was the first school in north-east India to have computer education (1987), Rev. Mgr. Fr. E. C.
It is a Catholic school founded on the teachings of Saint John Bosco and is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco. FOUNDATION HISTORY:
May 24, 1926 was a red letter day for the catholic mission, Gauhati (the then spelling of Guwahati). On that day ‘Our Lady’s Orphanage’ a school for poor and abandoned boys of Assam plains was inaugurated by Rt. Mathias S.C.D.D., Prefect Apostolic of Assam. It started
with the help of many benefactors. A residence and a workshop were constructed. The technical school which started in 1928 with 12 students had grown into two large workshops with 200 students by 1938. ‘Our Lady’s Orphanage’ thus changed to Don Bosco Technical School, Guwahati. In 1937 the students had classes from I to IV. Then the Second World War broke out and in June 1942, the school and the premises were taken over by the army. The school had to be closed.
[edit]Second Phase
St. John Bosco, the "Friend of the Young and the Poor," on whose teachings Don Bosco School, Guwahati is established
In February 1948, in an inaugural ceremony presided over by Dr. Bhubaneswar Barua, the school was formally restarted with an enrolment of 92 students in five classes from III to VII, with Mr. Har Mohan Das as the Headmaster. The number of students according to the enrollment classwise was:
Class Students
III-----------29
IV-----------16
V-------------7
VI-----------18
VII----------21
THE FIRST STAFF MEMBERS of DON BOSCO SCHOOL GUWAHATI in 1948 were
Rev. Attilio Colussi Principal
Mr. Harmohan Das Headmaster
Rev. Morra Asst. Teacher
Rev. Burns Asst. P.Taverna Asst. Teacher
Mr. B.R.Kakati Asst. B.Das Asst. M.Sharma Asst. B.Sarma Asst. Teacher
Mr. Harmohan Das 1948-1953
Fr. Patrick Burns 1953-1968
Fr. Thomas Vattoth 1968-1971
Fr. K.S.Paul 1971-1973
Fr. T.T.Thomas 1973-1979
Fr. J.Thelekkatt 1979-1980
Fr. V.J.Sebastian 1980-1982
Fr. V.M.Thomas 1982-1990
Fr. M.C.George 1990-1993
Fr. Mathew Vellankal 1993-1995
Fr. C.Kuriala 1995-2001
Fr. J. M. Thelekkatt 2001
Opening of Class VIII was approved by the director of public instruction in February 1948. The school was affiliated to Gauhati University in 1951 and its candidates were permitted to appear for matriculation from 1952, when nine out of 12 students in Class X appeared and eight succeeded. Mr. Nirmal Kumar Choudhury former Vice Chancellor of Gauhati University was one of them. Parts of the school buildings were used by Assam Civil Engineering School prior to 1948 and by Gauhati University in 1948. Public demand in 1958 led to the opening of the English section from Class VIII with required permission from the University. Class IV, V and VI in the English section started from 1962 and soon the school forged ahead.
