HARRY DE SAYRAH REMEMBERED – by sunny perera
AS THE FORUM AND ST JOSEPHS ACROSS A WIDE SPECTRUM OF JOSEPHIANS WHO KNEW HIM OR OF HIM GRIEVES THE LOSS OF A GIANT – HARRY DE SAYRAH FORMERLY OF BORELLA SRI LANKA, AND PRESENTLY SYDNEY AUSTRALIA, ENTREPRENEUR, PHILANTHROPIST, BENEFACTOR, AND MERITORIOUS HOLDER OF AUSTRALIA’S HIGHEST ORDER THE OAM AND BELOVED SON OF OUR ALMA MATER, HE MUST BE REMEMBERED AS SOMEONE WHO EMBODIED THE TITLE “A TRUE AND DEDICATED OLD JOSEPHIAN WHO CARRIED THE PRIVILEGE OF THE TITLE TO ITS GREATEST HEIGHTS BY LIVING THE PART OF THE COLLEGE MOTTO ” IN SCIENTIA ET VIRTUTE ” AND THE OPENING LINES OF THE COLLEGE ANTHEM “FRUITS OF VIRTUE AND OF VALOUR …..(Ad infinitum) ” THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
NEVER UNDAUNTED DESPITE BEING IN IN HIS ’80S TO MOVE FORWARD IN A POSITIVE MANNER, MANY ARE THOSE WHO BENEFITED FROM HIS ENDEARING SPIRIT ESPECIALLY THE ALMA MATER ITSELF FOR WHICH HE MUST BE REMEMBERED.
HIS PASSING HAS REGISTERED DEEP SHOCK AROUND THE FRATERNITY OF OLD JOES AND MORE AS DESPITE HIS AGE HE WAS A YOUTHFUL PERSON AT HEART ALWAYS ON THE GO.
MAY GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST AND MAY HIS WIFE IMELDA AND FAMILY BE COMFORTED AS WE CELEBRATE HIS LIFE WITH PRIDE AND JOY.
A LIFE WELL LIVED INDEED!
