REMEMBERING DIANA CAPTAIN – By SARATH AMUNUGAMA Source:Island A few weeks ago I was preoccupied with a devastating personal tragedy when the news of Diana’s death reached me adding to my grief. She was a beautiful,compassionate and lovable lady whom I had known from my student days at Trinity College Kandy. Kandy in the nineteen fifties was an idyllic town with many civic amenities. Of them the most important for us were the libraries and bookshops that dotted the town. Trinity had an impressive library which functioned under our teacher Vernon Jansze. He had co-opted some of us as curators who helped in the ordering of books, classifying them and stamping them with the college seal. As curators we could use the library freely not only during off periods but also during weekends. ...

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