Executive Committee Board of Trustees GSS Directors GSY Directors
Vipul A Patel (Acting Presi-
dent & Vice President)
Devang Sheth (Secretary)
Pathik Mody (Joint Secretary)
Bharat Patel (Treasurer)
Girish Patel (Joint Treasurer)
Nayana Patel (Director)
Ketki Tikewala (Director)
Vipul Shah (Director)
Aashish Shah (Director)
Raju Patel (Chairman)
Shailesh Jain
(Vice Chairman)
Vinay Patel (secretary)
Jatin Desai (Trustee)
Darshan Parikh (Trustee)
Dr. Velji Kansara (Trustee)
Asha Vora (Trustee)
Hitesh Parikh (Trustee)
Dr. Rajesh Doshi (Trustee)
Suresh Shah Kanu Desai
Megha Patel Nirali Makim
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Directory 2011
Gujarati Samaj is planning to publish 2011 Directory for this year. We request all members to visit GSOD.org to update/verify their membership before Aug 2011 to get their listing in
directory. Only current Gujarati Samaj members will get the directory so please become member before June 2011.
Dear Members, Since its inception in 1975, Gujarati Samaj has served huge Gujarati community of Metro Detroit area. However 2011 Holi program - “Raangberangi Holi” will be the most memo-rable. Because, we were able to celebrate historical win of World Cricket Cup. The festivity started with historical victory of India with just in time National Anthems of our both countries.
With every one witnessing India win cricket world cup after 28 years and GSOD kids starting the program with National Anthems at the auditorium, atmosphere was Festive and Patriotic.
We are proud to announce that this year’s Holi program GSOD had registered over 600+ partici-pants, 44 emcees and 23 choreographers. Not to mention record participation from the parents, relatives, friends, GSOD sponsors, advertisers, committees, and volunteers.
Performances included all verity of colors from India and participants had lit up the stage with high energy performances. Surat Valsad Samaj provided delicious food and GSY did wonderful job with bake sale. GSOD operating team was involved in managing the program to provide a comfortable atmosphere for everyone involved including time management of record participation.
This year’s program will be remembered for two historical events: one is India winning the world cup and second facility losing power in the middle of the program. GSOD team did wonderful job of re-scheduling remaining performances on April 16th.
On behalf of Gujarati Samaj of Detroit, We would like to thank all of you for participating in 2011 Holi Program - “Raangberangi Holi” with record participation.
Vipul Patel Raju Patel President- Gujarati Samaj of Detroit Chairman
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Now coming soon our(GSS) next 2nd event of 2011 “Masti Cruise” - Detroit River Boat on June 12th Sunday from 2:00 pm to
6:00 pm evening Snacks, Tea and Full Dinner with live Music, DJ and Sangeet all included charges: $30.00 per person.
Registration along with check payment required as follows check of $30.00 for each person.
Name: ___________________________________________
Spouse Name (Required):_________________________________
Phone No.: (H) _______________________ (M) _______________________________
Payment by check No. #______________ Date: ______________________
To be made in the Name of ― Gujarat i Samaj Inc.‖
To Mail: Suresh Shah
2341 West Miller circle, Westland, MI 48186
* You can use this page as a form of reg istration.
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Gujarati Samaj of Detroit in association with Kaplan, Inc.
and The Jain Temple of Farmington Hills has organized the
Annual
SAT / ACT/MCAT Educational Seminar Address: The Jain Temple 29278, W. 12 Mile Road,
Farmington Hills, MI 48334 P:(248) 851-5246
For questions: call Vipul Shah @ (586)-206-6326
OR Raju Patel @ (248) 982-7140 Darshan Parikh @ (248) 894-8032
Agenda: Students should arrive for registration around
2:30. The test will begin at 3:00 and will go
until 7:00. (With Two Breaks) Kaplan will
bring the test materials and extra pencils, students should bring a calculator and pencils
as well. Students will be taken a combo test
which is a shortened version of both the SAT
and the ACT in order to give them an idea on how they would do on each test respectively.
Kaplan scheduled a follow-up seminar the
following Sunday at 4:00 at Jain Temple
again. This seminar will give Kaplan the op-
portunity to give students there scores back and teach them ways to boost their
score on both tests. It'll last around an hour to
an hour and a half.
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