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Welcome to Froebel's Online! August 15, 2003 Welcome to Froebel's Online! It took some doing, but we've got a workable Alumni Directory online. Visit the Alumni Directory to find out exactly what information should be submitted, and how. As always, we are just a click away :) Another notable conquest is the completion of our society pages as im sure a quick glance over to your bukkake pictures left will reveal. Interested alumni/perants may now request a copy of this years yearbook for a modest fee as well: it's all happening at the Yearbook Society page. News Word has it the long awaited Literary Society Magazine Etc will be in for a show, so be on the lookout. |
SC Elections
For some, a time of jubilation, for others disappointment. Ballots however, were
cast yesterday morning and a winner determined. Behold Froebel's, your very new
president elect, Sharmine Aziz. Adjoining the ranks we have:
Sharmine Aziz :: President
Murtaza Hussain :: Vice President
Maha Iqbal :: Secretary
A and O Level Results: Continuing their tradition, Froebelians bagged A's yet
again in what proved to be another year japanese bukkake of felicity.
A Level:
Iram P. Billal: 4As
Muhammad Mustafa: 4As
Murtaza Shakir: 3As 1B
Syed Uzair Aqeel: 3As
O Level:
Suhair Khan: 9As
Ahsan Ansar: 8As
Murtaza Hussain: 7As
Kudos guys!
Of course making this years ranking special is the presence of our very own
founding father, Uzair Aqeel on the distinctions list. Way to go sir, we salute
you :)
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Editorial Get the scoop on the behind-the-scenes activity that leads to Finally!
News The latest from school
Another Year, Another Body Zehra Hamdani talks of her feelings about the '98-'99
Student Council elections.
Nowhere to Run An anonymous article about the post-nuclear test situation in the
sub-continent.
Do you have fun in school? The answer to the age-old question!
The Sauna The Finally crew finds out what the new students in school are all
about.
Childless Farrah Chaudhry writes about the love
of a mother for her child.
Froebel's International School
Froebel's International School is the largest co-educational sixth form
institution in Islamabad. Established in 1975 by Mrs. Zamir, the school started
out as a playgroup centre on rented premises.
Froebel's soon became an Elementary School, and in 1984 became the first
institution to prepare students for the University of London GCE Ordinary (O')
Levels, examined through the British Council in Islamabad.
In 1986 Froebel's expanded its programme to include Advanced (A') Levels,
maintaining its academic excellence throughout and producing the best over-all
results. A further extension took place in 1996 in the form of the Rawalpindi
branch of Froebel's International School. With the same
objective of providing
an excellent education in a excellent environment, Froebel's of Rawalpindi was a
revelation in the city, quickly being ranked among the best institutions of the
city. Today Froebel's is proud to be among the few select private institutions
with a campus in the heart of each of the twin cities of Islamabad and
Rawalpindi.
Twenty years after its founding, Froebel's provides students with an
international standard British education from Playgroup to GCE O' and A' Levels.
It is recognised by the EdExcel Foundation, the successor to the University of
London Examinations and Assessment Council (ULEAC), as a Registered
Participating Institution teaching O' and A' Levels in accordance with EdExcel
regulations. Moreover, it is the only institution in Islamabad with a computer
laboratory currently offering an EdExcel-recognised Computing Studies course at
O' Level.
Froebel's student body consists of some 1200 students, from various countries
and cultural backgrounds. We believe that students and faculty alike can learn
from the unique perspective that each provides through their diverse cultural
heritage.
Froebel's students are encouraged to develop themselves to their highest
potential; the school dedicates itself to providing a quality education. The
school has a flexible curriculum that combines the best possible teaching
methods, textbooks and supplementary materials from different sources, and which
is continuously assessed and updated at all levels.
The school places equal if not greater importance on the quality of its teaching
staff; the Froebel's faculty are highly qualified and experienced, and are
responsible for establishing and upholding Froebel's reputation of academic
excellence. All students receive individual attention and guidance, and are
encouraged to develop their own initiative
The Fox of the Desert Yasir Z. Ahmad
Born on the 28th of April 1937, Saddam Hussein was born in a poor family of the
Tikrit District, a northern region in Iraq. Before Saddam was born, his father
had already abandoned the family. In these circumstances, he was named Saddam :
"He who confronts".
At the age of 10, Saddam left his mother and abusive father to live with his
Uncle Khairullah Tulfah, who later became the governor of Baghdad. His uncle was
the author of a pamphlet : "Three Whom God Should Not Have Created : Persians,
Jews, and Flies". When Saddam was fifteen, Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser toppled
Iraq's British-installed monarchy, and became the teenager's inspiration and
idol.
In university, at the age of 20, Saddam joined the revolutionary Baa'th Party.
He launched his political career by assassinating a communist activist, his very
own brother-in-law.
A year later, in 1959, Saddam attempted his second assassination - but failed.
He tried to assassinate the Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Kassem, but had to escape
to Syria in the disguise of a woman after being wounded. From there on, he
established a friendship with Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and through his help got
enrolled into a law school in Cairo.
In 1963, Hussein returned to Baghdad, and was in-charge of running the Baa'thist
torture cells. When the Baa'th regime began to crumble, Saddam quickly began
forming his own secret police, through which he slowly rose to power in the
party. In the same year, Saddam married his first cousin Sajida Khayrallah in an
arranged marriage.
Saddam was imprisoned for a short period of time, but he escaped in 1968 and
started an underground revolution that restored the power to the Baa'th party.
Saddam continued to rise in power in the Baa'th party, and in 1979 he staged a
coup to oust General Ahmad Hassan Bakr, a distant relative who aided in Saddam's
rise to power. Gen. Bakr is placed under house arrest as Saddam becomes the
President, placing many close family members in influential posts.
In September 1980, within a year of coming to power, Saddam attacked Iran and
started the 8-year long Iran-Iraq War, one that ends in a stalemate. In the late
'80s, Saddam took up a mistress, Samira Shahbandar, a flight attendant married
to an Iraqi Airlines official. Hussein's father-in-law objected to this
relationship, and was soon stripped of his property; other family members
dissenting were "wounded" or died in "mysterious circumstances".
In August 1990, Saddam marched his troops into neighbouring Kuwait, but he
mis-judged the reaction of the Arab League--instead of helping Saddam, the Arab
League supported the US coalition to prevent Iraq from attacking Saudi Arabia.
By the February of 1991, Saddam had clearly lost the Gulf War and the US forces
(under operation "Desert Storm") drove Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait.
In March 1991, Shiites in the southern region of Iraq began a rebellion; Saddam
crushed them as the US chose not to intervene. In August 1995, Saddam ordered
the murder of his two daughters and their husbands - they escaped to Jordan, but
then returned when Saddam promised to forgive them. Both the men were killed,
and when Saddam's wife protested, she was placed under house arrest.
In mid-1996, the CIA carried out a $100 million operation to aid rebels in Iraq
to overthrow Saddam, but the plan was unsuccessful. In December, Saddam's elder
son Uday survived an attempted assassination near intelligence headquarters.
Purges followed as hundreds were executed and thousands arrested, but the
identity of the gunmen remained unknown.
In December 1997, CIA reported that Saddam's army was only half what it had been
in 1991, but Saddam was just as powerful. In December 1998, Operation Desert Fox
was carried out, a series of bombings on Iraqi sites containing "weapons of mass
destruction", by the US and UK. The cause was Iraq's refusal to complete
acceptance of the terms of UN weapons inspectors, and their free movement around
weapons sites. The bombings were started again in January 1999, which resulted
in Iraqi forces shooting down one US place. Saddam was, and remains, unharmed :
he is one "who confronts".
A Remote Control for the Web? Yasir Z. Ahmad
Before remote controls came with every television, stereo, or VCR, you had to
get up to change the channel, adjust the volume, or pause a tape. Now such
needless exercise seems almost laughable. The Internet is now a popular source
of multimedia content and games, so why doesn't it have a remote control?
Multimedia tools developer Macromedia, known for the popular animation
applications Shockwave and Flash, on Monday launched its updated Shockwave Web
site, a consolidation of the previous Shockwave.com and Shockrave.com community
sites. The new site offers a wider array of interactive entertainment for use
with two new user control tools, Shockwave Remote and Shockmachine.
Designed as a hub for both online games and entertainment, the Web site first
requires that you download the Shockwave plug-in and Shockwave Remote. Next, a
brief registration form creates "my" Web entertainment center and adds you to
the Shockwave community. Shockwave.com's entertainment ranges from games to
cartoons to music. The line-up of interactive games includes 3D gaming with Real
Pool and classic arcade play with Centipede and Missile Command.
Not surprisingly, and perhaps its strongest differentiator from gaming portals,
the site contains a variety of materials powered by Macromedia products and its
partners. You'll find Shockwave cartoons from South Park, Dilbert, and Peanuts,
a selection of music in MP3 and other formats, and visual Sonicnet Flashradio
files. Pushing further into the portal zone, Shockwave.com also features a
program to create greeting cards and a Web search engine for entertainment and
content.
Limited control until you pay:
All of the site's features and more tailored services, like the MP3 music
directory, animated greeting cards, and episodic comics, are used and controlled
by Remote and Shockmachine on your desktop. The Shockwave Remote is a free
controller that works somewhat like a VCR remote with play, pause, and
fast-forward buttons. It provides a convenient desktop device to search
Shockwave.com and other sites, to e-mail links, and to save up to five Shockwave
files.
In essence, the Remote serves as a free teaser tool to entice you to purchase
the second control device, the Shockmachine, for $19.95. Best suited for avid
Internet entertainment and game buffs, Shockmachine lets you download and save
an unlimited amount of content from the site and organize it into your own
carousels. You can play games with a full-screen view not possible through a
browser, and several games and cartoons are exclusive to Shockmachine
purchasers.
Hardly the first player in Internet entertainment, Macromedia's Shockwave.com
faces significant competition from other gaming hubs like Total Entertainment
Network and Mpath's Mplayer entertainment sites. The entertainment sections of
AOL, Yahoo, and other portals also target the same audience. Still, Macromedia
takes advantage of the popularity of its animation software to forge strong
content partnerships with top media, gaming, and interactive development
companies. Among those contributing to Shockwave.com are Comedy Central, Fox
Interactive, Marvel.com, Sega, and Hasbro Interactive. The allure of their
content, plus the popularity of the Shockwave tool and the intuitive nature of
the two controllers, creates an intriguing entertainment hub in Shockwave.com.
What is Finally? This isn't exactly an article: it's just a short note to address the burning question... what is Finally? To put it briefly, Finally is the name of the school's official newsletter. Why Finally? Each year, the editorial board choose a name for the newsletter. The name for the 1998 edition, Finally, was supposed to reflect a certain sarcasm: there hadn't been a newsletter for more than a year. We hope that puts an end to the confusion and rumours ('They're Finally getting air freshener for the toilets!'). Welcome to the Debating Society Online! Shazia Khan, President First of all, welcome to the official website for the Froebel's International School Debating Society! When I was asked to write an article about the Debating Society, I knew the first topic I would touch would be the tons of work and painfully long hours that I can't help but associate with the Society. Names, dates, tabulation sheets, write-ups, notices, more names -- it's enough to drive a person mad! Yet even today, as I wearily stumbled home after calculating the total marks of some three hundred students -- that’s three hundred students, from thirteen very different classes, who spoke on some very different topics and were marked by very different judges -- well as I stumbled home, I realized that I couldn’t really hate all the work simply because of how much I loved being a part of this wonderful society. Like I always say, the Debating Society is the only society where differences of opinion are actually encouraged! After all, what could be better than a heated argument to sizzle up a steamy debate! Once you get in to debating -- and I mean really get into it -- there’s no way out. It’s no longer just a prepared speech for the finals: debating becomes more like a part of your life. Seriously, if you've been debating long enough, life itself begins to feel like one big parliamentary debate! In simple everyday arguments with your cook, your driver or even your friends, you’ll find yourself on the constant lookout for glitches or contradictions in their arguments -- anything to build a sound retort. There have been numerous instances when I have found myself arguing with a friend, defending something that I absolutely didn't believe in or agree with, just for the sake of having an interesting argument! The most amusing is when you argue well enough to convince the other in to accepting your point, when you yourself never agreed with it in the first place!! Well, before this becomes too long and boring, I guess I’ll sign off. I hope to see you in the next society meeting (Wednesdays 10:40 to 11:00 in the 11th grade class room). Oh, and for those for you that are new to the society, you might want to bring along some protective gear: with all the aggressive and dedicated debaters that Froebels has to offer -- things might just get out of hand! Till then -- happy debating!! |
Welcome to the FIS Dramatics Society Online! Usman
Yusaf, President
First, Welcome to the official Drama Society Page.
Drama; the most hyped up annual event at Froebel's International school, as
always, starts out with very high participation. As the days go by so do the
participants (routine procedure). Putting all that aside I would like to thank
the handful who worked towards the society's goal; to introduce actors to the
stage and bring out high quality drama.
For the audience, the costumes, the set, the lights, the sound system, and the
actors etc are a given, but for us who start from scratch, they are everyday
headaches... ulcers... flu's... migraines... and what not. We bear all (and
would bear more) because they are peanuts when compared to the laughs and
applaud we may receive onstage. It's a dream come true for the actors and
director when the audience recognizes their work.
It seems to me though that some parents and even students still consider drama
to be a less fruitful activity when compared to academics or debating. For all
those critics I have a few words of advice:
Drama can be considered as both subject and method. Through the pupils' active
identifications with imagined roles and situations in drama, they can learn to
explore issues, events and relationships. Thus the drama society emphasizes that
a balanced education includes quality drama in education because it involves and
develops skills and attitudes for living, learning, understanding or customs and
cultures and the world of work.
In addition to providing students with opportunities to experience cultural
diversity, drama education enables them to develop self-confidence and to
improve their communication skills; two invaluable qualities for the
twenty-first century.
With that I sign off hoping to see more participants in next years society;
participants which if not physically, in some other form support the society.
One last thing for the newcomers though.... the first time you audition, be
yourself and be at your best. DON'T BE SHY. Forget about your friends!
Everyone's a critic! Be clear and relax! Conceive... Believe... ACHIEVE and
before I get carried away; Ladies and Gentleman Good Night.
Welcome to the FIS Yearbook Society Page! Sana'a Zuberi,
Editor
This yearbook, the millenium edition, looked like it would never be put
together. It had to be special, it had to be different, and it had to be bigger
and better and more innovative then its predecessors. There were startling
ideas, creativity born out of accidents, and ofcourse, the new, very talented
Ninth Graders. As usual, those working on the class pages put in a great effort
and for weeks cameras were ckicking all over the campus, as enthusiastic
'yearbook photogtophers' chased after students, looking for coloes-ups and
candid shots.
The yearbook not only gives the whole school and others to see Froebelians for
who we really are, but it also gives us, the staff, the opportunity to work
together, make new friends, and let our creative genius take the reins. I can
confidently say that you will be proud of our team!
Coming up with the name of the yearbook wasn't easy. Then suddenly, there it
was! Emotive: tending to arouse strong emotions and feelings. This name is very
special to us all, as it is the perfect description of us: the 'Froebelian
family'. With our heaving cauldron of very different characters with many
idiosyncrasies; together, we came in a package and it's called Emotive.
We hope you find this photographic representation of Froebel's a little
livelier, more colourful and comprehensive of what our school was in the past
year. This year we have done our best
www.bspyle.com to cover all the Froebelian classes.
In the end, I would like to thank Mrs. Abbas for all her help and time; Ms.
Maria for taking all those class pictures, and Mrs. Sajjad, whose unfailing
support is deeply appreciated. I would also like to take this opportunity to
mention Sana Nasir, Mohsin Daher and those great last minute typists, Saad and
Usman; and countless more without whom this yearbook could not have been
possible.
Here I would like to wish next year's staff the best of luck with their
endeavours in taking our product and adding their finesse to it.
As many of us leave this school, never to come back, we carry dreams and
aspirations and look forward to show the world what we are made of. Along with
us, we take a little bit of Froebel's as well. We are proud to be part of this
extraordinaty community and this book will be treasured by us as our last
memories of school. Anythime you feel nostalgic, just remember a turn of the
following pages will bring you back to your spirited Stallion home.