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DineshandGeetaShah Ramesh&ShobhanaKothari
In thelateryearsfollowingvolunteersjoined:
YogeshandSaurabhShah SailesandSachiJain
Kalyanji andJyoti Mota KishorandKavitaSanghvi
NavnitandNiru Shah HasendraandBinaShah
VikramandSmitaDoshi KiritandPallaviGala
Mahesh andMaltiMaheta ChandrakantandHasmitaParekh
AnandandYogi Shah Divyakant& SaralaSheth
Manyother JCSC membershelped enthusiastically with their views
and ideas. Tolist their names would be space prohibitive and makeothers
uncomfortable whose names might be inadvertently left out. The JCYC,
JCSC andentire Jain community thankall ofthem. Jt is reallya team work.
Individuals alone could never have accomplished all these. The glory of
achievementsbelongstoallofustogether.
After moving JCYC to Jain Bhavan,the attendance increased from
70 (1988) to about 150. More classes wereadded. Othersjoinedinteaching,
e.g., Dilip M. Shah (religion), Ramesh & Chandrika Khandhar(religion),
Rashmi Shroff (religion), Sailes Jain (Gujarati), Bakulbhai Shah 'Bapuj!'
(Gujarati), SurendraJain(Hindi)etal.
Around 1993, there were several meetings between Mahendra
Khandhar, Kalyanji Mota, Sailes Jain, Pallavi Gala and Executive
Committee to make JCYC grow further. Classes were expanded, many new
classes were added, several volunteers joined as teachers and assistant
teachers. Several teachers were recruited from Girishbhai B. Shah's Sunday
class. ManyJCSCmembers cameforwardformiscellaneousvolunteerwork
and children's snack program. Girish C. Shah and Mahendra Khandhar
retired in 1995,after 14 years ofteaching and having a managementrolein
JCYC. Sailes Jain thentook a major role, and since thenhe is working very
hardanddiligently.
In 1982,nobody imaginedordreamedthatthe small beginningofone
class of20 with three teachers will become a hugeinstitution ofabout 400
students, 29 classes, and 86 teachers and volunteers. JCYC shinesas a role