Recipient of ‘State Best Teacher Award ’90’ Fr Alexander Lobo (85 years) No more
Fr Alexander Lobo, Priest of Mangalore Diocese expired today (23 July 2018) at Fr Muller’s Hospital-Mangaluru. His Funeral will be held at Valencia Church on Wednesday 25th July 2018 at 3.30 pm.
Mangaluru: Fr Alexander Lobo was born in Barebail, now in the Derebail Parish Mangalore on 12-12-1933 to Marian Lobo and Mrs. Piad Lobo. He had his early education at Bejai School and High School at Padua School. He joined the Jeppu Seminary for the priestly education.During this period he studied at the St. Aloysius College for B.Sc. and at the Government College of Education, Mangalore for B.Ed. He was ordained on 2nd March 1959. Much after this he got M.A. from Karnataka University, Dharwad through correspondence course.
Fr. Lobo has served as an Assistant Parish Priest at Milagres Parish, Kallianpur and then at Puttur as Warden of St. Philomena Educational Institutions. He served as Asst. Parish Priest and Headmaster of the High School at Kundapur for 7 years. While he was at Bolkunje( 2 years and few months) he started the High School and while serving at Moodubelle( 7 years) he founded the Junior College. He served at Rosario High School, Mangaluru for 9 years.
Wherever he has served he improved the situation not only of the school campus but also he gave more importance towards the studies of student folk. His modus operandi was that first he selects the students especially facing SSLC Public Examination who are backward in studies. He gathers them at the School or Church campus after School hours and make them to study. He himself was present at these study sessions and giving special coaching to the needy. The result – even hopeless student also passed in the public examination. There are hundreds of such examples.
Recognising all these services of Fr. Lobo to the society and to the education field Government of Karnataka bestowed upon him ” State level Best Teacher Award – 1990″ . This is all before his retirement from teaching service in 1991. After that Fr. Lobo served as a Parish Priest at Madanthyar for a short term and served at Allipade for Seven years. From 2003 till his retirement, Fr. Lobo served as the Parish Priest of St. John the Evangelist Church, (Pangala Parish), Shankerpura