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GETHSIE SHANMUGAM: THE STORY OF A SILENT FIGHTER-By Avishka Mario Senewiratne Source:Tillthemountainsdisappearams\ “Well, I think you are more suitable somewhere else. I will send you to a much senior priest” said Fr. Noel Perera, the Primary School Principal of St. Joseph’s College to a young teacher who was being interviewed. This was in 1967. The young lady had applied to fill the vacancy of a primary teacher, but since she was unexpectedly asked to meet the Rector of SJC, Fr. W.L.A. Don Peter, she was not sure how her fate was going to change. During this time though there were plenty of lady teachers in the primary school, there was not more than one lady teacher in the Collegiate Section. Fr. Don Peter, being the strict administrator he was, meticulously interviewed her. The young teacher though nervous, was able to perform well in the interview and the next day she ...