KARACHI, Dec 10: A total of 87 students of 2005 class graduating in Fine Arts, Design and Architecture were conferred bachelor degrees at the 12th convocation of the Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture on Saturday
The chairman of the board of governors of the school, Najmus Saquib Hameed presided over the convocation, while noted Urdu poet Jamiluddin Aali delivered the convocation lecture. Parents, government officials, art, literary and academic personalities were among the guests.
Umair Anwar, a student of the communication design programme, who graduated with the highest percentage of marks (91.92), was awarded with the academic award of the school. He also presented the valedictory speech on behalf of the 2005 batch.
Of the outgoing graduates of 12th batch, a maximum of 38 belonged to the communication design department, 18 to the architecture faculty, 14 to the textile design department; eight belonged to the fine arts department, seven to weaving department and 2 belonged to the ceramics department.
The 2005 award for outstanding research and dissertation instituted in memory of Dr Saleemuz Zaman Siddiqui went to Ahmad Asad Zuberi of architecture faculty. A student of Architecture, Sanya Merchant, was presented the Agha Hasan Abidi Award of Excellence, while Adeel Warraich was given the Founders’ award for being adjudged as the best student on the ground of discipline and academic performance.
Those who secured 90 per cent marks or above in their thesis works included Afsheen Shoukat Popalzai, Khurrum Hamid Alavi, Khushboo Shaukat Soomro, Mohammad Fahad Qureshi, Nagin Ahmed, Nida Tariq, Sanya Merchant, Syed Arif Hyder and Umair Anwar.
The graduates, teachers and others, who were included in the academic procession, wore a convocation robe based on the ceremonial robes of the Mughal courts-Aba, while the headgear was a combination of the Mughal turban and Hunza cap.
Speaking to graduates, Mr Aali said that they were the product of a prestigious institution and as such there lied immense responsibilities on them while entering the practical field.
He said that you had been working hard under the guidance of your teachers, but now it was time for you to demonstrate what you could do for the society and country as an individual or member of a dedicated team.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Saleem Thariani, Chairman of the executive committee of IVS, said that Mr Aali hardly merited an introduction, being a prominent personality with multi-faceted talents as one of the brightest stars in the firmament of Urdu literature.
He has the distinction of having a number of his works translated at the international level, he added.
Coming on to IVS, he said that it continued to grow and hopefully the sapling of sixteen years would mature to strength with dignity and respect. He informed that a four-year degree course had been initiated in interior designing under the faculty of architecture and a batch of it would pass out in 2007.
In his concluding remarks, Mr Najmus Saquib, said that graduates were going forth at one of the most hopeful time in the country’s chequered history. I grew up during the early days of Pakistan and for me the past 50 years have been a journey of disappointment and disillusionment, he added. He further said that the strength of a nation was not in its armed forces or its natural resources but it was in its intellectual resources.
Mr Saquib said that the future world economy was a knowledge-based economy and nations with the greatest amount of intellectual capital would be the winners in the future.
KARACHI, Dec 10: A total of 87 students of 2005 class graduating in Fine Arts, Design and Architecture were conferred bachelor degrees at the 12th convocation of the Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture on Saturday
