The first attempt of sorts of an Alumni organization of the College was made on January 1, 1875 when a re-union of past students took place in ‘Marakata Kunja’-Emerald Bower of the Tagores. The occasion has been made memorable by Rajnarayan Basu in his history of the Presidency College written in Bengali.

On the College Founders’ Day January 20, 1915, some alumni, under the leadership of Prof. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh decided to establish an old Boys Association. Unfortunately, nothing came out of that move.

In 1925, a similar initiative taken by the same Professor met with identical fate. On March 20, 1926 some sort of an ‘alumni meet’ took place when the College arranged a gathering of ‘Veteran graduates of fifty years’ standing.

On January 19, 1951, a meeting of the former students of the College was called by a Press Notice. It was held in the Physics Lecture Theatre with Mahmood Ahmad (1903-1908), the senior most alumnus present on the chair. Among other things, the meeting set up an Organizing Committee with Atul Chandra Gupta (1901-1906) as Chairman and Jatish Chandra Sengupta, the then Principal of the College as the Secretary.

On April 17, 1951 the Organizing Committee called a General Meeting of the members. Of the 300 members (life and ordinary members) enrolled, 117 attended that meeting. It was chaired by Satinath Ray (1893-1898). The first office bearers and members of the Executive Council were elected as Atul Chandra Gupta (President), Satinath Ray & Shyamaprasad Mukhopadhyay (Vice Presidents) & Jatish Chandra Sengupta, Principal (Secretary).