Air Marshal Adi Gandhi PVSM AVSM Vr C (Class of 1960)

Adi is the youngest pilot to be awarded the "Vir Chakra", for having shot down a Pakistani F-86 "Sabre" from his Hunter during the 1965 Indo-Pak war. He was also awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished services of an exceptional order at the Republic Day in 1994. He has also been awarded the "Three Star" category for safe and accident free flying. He was awarded the "Gaurav Puraskar" for his gallantry by the Government of Maharashtra in 1991 and is also the recipient of the Colonel Tarapore Annual Achievement Award. In the Republic Day honours' list for the year 2003 he was awarded the Param Vishist Seva Medal for distinguished service of the most exceptional order as the Air Officer Commanding in Chief of Western Air Command, the largest and most active Air Command of the IAF.
As a young boy Adi had shown a keenness for the Armed Forces by joining the Sea Cadet CorpsIt was, however, during the Indian Air Force air show at Bombay off Marine Drive in the year 1960, when Adi was in his final year, and the whole of Campion had gone to see it from Nariman Point, that he changed his mind, after seeing all the aircraft streaking across the Bombay skyline, and decided to join the Air Force. He was commissioned in the Indian Air Force on 28 Oct 63 as a fighter pilot. During his 41 years of service, he has flown a variety of fighter aircraft including the venerable Vampire, Hunter, Gnats, as also more contemporary aircraft like the MiG 21, MiG 29, Mirage 2000 and the latest SU 30. He has flown over 5500 sorties on fighter aircraft during his service career. 
Adi has also undergone a variety of professional courses from Junior Commander's Course, to Joint Warfare Course, Higher Air Command, Senior Defence Management and National Defence College Course. He is a Master Green Pilot, the highest professional grading and Command Examiner of long standing. He is a Fighter Combat Leader (Directing Staff) and served two tenures at Tactics and Combat Development Establishment (TACDE) AF as O i/c Development and O i/c Training. Air Marshal Ghandhi has also served tenure abroad on deputation to the Nigerian Air Force for two years as an instructor pilot.

Rear Admiral Mahendra Pratap Taneja AVSM NM VSM (Class Of 1963)

Mahendra is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, and was commissioned on 01 January 1970. During the early part of this career he served as a Missile and Gunnery Officer and Executive Officer on board a number of missile vessels, commanded a minesweeper and thereafter went on to command the Training school of the Nigerian Navy. His later afloat assignments are that of Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Ship Varuna during which he made four record hauls of smuggled gold totaling to over Rs.50 crores, and thereafter of Commanding Officer INS Tir and TS 1. His shore appointments include those of Battalion Commander at the NDA, Chief Staff Officer (Operations) of the Coast Guard Western Region, Chief Staff Officer (Training) of the Southern Naval Command, Chief Staff Officer (Operations) of the Western Naval Command and Chief Instructor (Navy) at Defence Service Staff College, Wellington. Prior to assuming his present duties as Flag Officer Offshore Defence Advisory Group, Mahendra was the Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area. He is the recipient of Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Nau Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal, three commendations by the Finance Minister and one by the Director General Coast Guard. His wife Neelam is a B.Ed in Fine Arts and besides having served in Air India, has been actively involved in welfare activities of the Navy culminating in being President of the Navy Wives Welfare Association of the Western Region. He has two children, a married daughter aged 27 and a son aged 25 .

Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri (Class Of 1968)

Rinaldo was one of three (Francesco, Rinaldo & Danilo) Veri brothers who studied in Campion. After returning to Italy he joined the Naval Academy in Leghorn from where he graduated in 1975 with the rank of Ensign. After graduation he spent almost two years in the United States of America attending Pilot Training and in Dec.1977 was pinned with wings both for turbo prop A/C and Helicopters. From 1978 till 1982 he served as pilot both in land-based Helo Squadrons and on board various ships, flying mainly ASW and ASUW missions. In July 1982, in the rank of Lt., he took command of his first ship ITS LAMPO (phb), while a year later, in the rank of Lt.Cdr., he commanded the corvette AQUILA. He was promoted Captain in 1995. On 1 July 2001 he was promoted to Rear Admiral (1*). On July 1s t 2005, he was promoted to Rear Admiral Upper Half (**) Rinaldo has the distinction of holding several prestigious appointments : Commandant of the Cadet Course at the Naval Academy. Office of the National Armaments Director Defence General Staff in the Office of the Chief of Defence Head of the Maritime Policy Division in the General Plans Department Italian Senior National Representative in USCENTCOM (Florida ) for Operation Enduring Freedom Commander Italian Naval Task Group Commander Italian/Spanish Amphibious Force Commander European Maritime Group and CTF 150 (responsible for the Horn of Africa) participating in Operations Resolute Behaviour / Enduring Freedom. Since March 9, 2004 he has been appointed Chief of the General Plans Department. Rinaldo has earned, with honours, a BS in Maritime & Naval Science and a Masters in International & Diplomatic Science. He is married to Rita and has three children, and they live in Rome. He enjoys reading, fresh air walks and jogging, while the sports he prefers to practice are tennis, swimming and horseback riding .

Vice Admiral Pradeep 'Billoo'Chauhan VSM (Class Of 1969)

A second generation Naval Officer (his father, a Marine Engineer, retired from the Indian Navy as a Commodore), Rear Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (or ‘Billoo’ Chauhan, as he is commonly known) is proud to be a true-blood, blue-blood Campionite, having passed out with the ISC Batch of 1969 (Class XI-A : Science) — with a First Division, to boot! He then joined St Xaviers College, Mumbai (or Bombay as it was then called) for a magical spell of a little over a year (‘Inter’) indulging in the liberal arts, before setting off — in June of 1971 — to join the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, (near Pune – or ‘Poona’ as it was then) for his three years in this very prestigious tri-Service ‘cradle for leadership’. He underwent his early naval training aboard INS Delhi and INS Tir, emerging as Best Cadet and first in the order of merit as a Midshipman and was commissioned into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy, on 01 Jul 75. After obtaining his ‘Bridge Watch-keeping Certificate’ aboard INS Himgiri , followed by stints aboard INS Nirbhik and INS Amba, he was selected for the Long Navigation-Direction Course and graduated, at the head of his course, in 1981. After successful tenures as a specialist ‘Navigation, Direction and Operations’ officer aboard IN Ships Talwar and Himgiri, he was appointed on the instructional staff of the ‘Navigation & Direction School’ at Kochi, Kerala. During this tenure, he went as apart of the ‘Fourth Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica’, as the ‘Expedition Navigator’ as well as the ‘South Pole Probe Team’ navigator. In 1986, he was deputed to Mauritius, as the Commanding Officer of MNS Amar. While in Mauritius, he was privileged to conceive-of and to set-up the ‘Mauritius National Coast Guard’ and to thereafter, be its first Commandant. Upon his return from this three-year deputation to Mauritius, he was select-listed for Commander and, in 1989-90, underwent the 45th Staff Course at the DSSC, Wellington and was awarded an MSc (Def Studies) from the Madras University, in the ‘First Class with Distinction’. This was followed by three professionally rewarding years at Naval Headquarters as the ‘Commander, War Room’, in the ‘Directorate of Naval Operations’. In 1993, he assumed command of the Missile Corvette, INS Khanjar, which was, under his leadership, adjudged the ‘best ship’ of the Eastern Fleet. He was, thereafter, appointed on the faculty of the ‘Defence Services Staff College’ (DSSC) at Wellington (a verdant hill-station in Tamil Nadu) and, in Jan 95, upon his promotion to the rank of Captain, was appointed as the Head of the Training Team (Navy). In 1996, he was honoured by the award of a ‘Vishisht Seva Medal’ for distinguished service of an exceptional order. He then shifted to Mumbai, where he served as the Captain Work-up (West) — an organisation functioning under the ‘Flag Officer Sea Training’ that ensures and certifies our warships as being professionally-fit to join the Fleet. During this tenure, he underwent the 9th Naval Higher Command Course (NHCC) at the College of Naval Warfare (CNW), Karanja. This was followed by his assumption of the directorship of the prestigious ‘Indian Naval Tactical Evaluation Group’ (INTEG), and, of the Maritime Warfare Centre (MWC), Mumbai. In December 1999, he was chosen to commission the Indian Navy’s latest multipurpose frigate, INS Brahmaputra, and held that command until December 2001, when he was promoted to the rank of Commodore and selected to undergo the 42nd Strategic Studies Course at the National Defence College at New Delhi. Having graduated from the NDC, he did his second tour of duty at Naval Headquarters (newly re-named the ‘Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence [Navy]’ or ‘IHQ/MoD (N)’ for short) this time as the Principal Director, Directorate of Naval Operations. This was followed by a successful and enriching 18-month experience in command of the aircraft carrier INS Viraat, the very top-most of the Indian Navy’s sea-going commands. He was promoted to Flag rank on 01 September 2005 and assumed his present appointment as the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (FCI) i.e, Foreign Co-operation and Intelligence) on that date. Admiral Chauhan retains his fondness for aquatics (he has been an NDA ‘Blue’ in swimming and in water-polo) and is considering taking-up the formidable challenge of golf. He enjoys reading and dabbles at writing from time-to-time. He is is happily married to Nisha, having remained in a state of marital bliss for the last 28 years. They have a daughter, Karishma, who ihad graduated in 2006 from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

Joint Commissioner Of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy (Class Of 1978)

After school Himanshu did science with the intention of following in his doctor father's footsteps. Ironically bood & gore turned him off and he switched to commerce and completed his Chartered Accountancy. After some years with Citibank Hmanshu discovered that his calling was to serve society.
He cleared his IPS exams and joined the Maharashtra cadre of the Indian Police Service

Joint Commissioner Of Police (Law & Order) Rajnish Seth VSM (Class Of 1978)

A second generation IPS Officer (his father served with the CBI), Rajnish as he is commonly known) is proud to be a true-blood, blue-blood Campionite, having passed out with the ISC Batch of 1969 (Class XI-A : Science) — with a First Division, to boot! He then joined St Xaviers College, Mumbai (or Bombay as it was then called) for a magical spell of a little over a year (‘Inter’) indulging in the liberal arts, before setting off — in June of 1971 — to join the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, (near Pune – or ‘Poona’ as it was then) for his three years in this very prestigious tri-Service ‘cradle for leadership’. .