At a glittering function in the college hall, TV anchor Pankaj Pachauri, former IB director RK Khandelwal, and several others, recalled their student days at the college.

 Former president Shankar Dayal Sharma, Choudhary Charan Singh, GS Pathak, Khursheed Alam, present ambassador to US Meera Shankar etc., were students of St. John's, senior professor Madhurima Sharma told Agratoday.in.

 Khandelwal appealed to the students to live a disciplined life. Bishop Cuttings presided over the function.

The imposing red sand-stoned edifice of the college, architectured in the Indo-European traditions, has been in the news for the past one year due to the siting of a foot overbridge that heritage conservationists said would disfigure the frontal view. The coming together of the ex students all over the world and raising a voice collectively against the project helped stop the "gortesque aberration on MG Road," according to Vishal, a photographer.