"I swear by Apollo, the physician..." every medical student utters these words with all finesse but tend to fly away for the calls and demands are different after college life. There, certainly should be an initiation for the final explosion to occur. Till 1997, there was none. The credit goes to Dr. M. Aravazhi Annal D. Ortho (DAE Hospital, Kalpakkam), the the founder of Ch.M.C. Alumni Association who had laid down the plans and had successfully executed it. And the final fruit was the birth of Chengalpattu Medical College Alumni Association. It had taken seven long years of hardship.