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Trio of HFC girls added extra class at St Peter’s – By Algi Wijewickrema The Peterines; Frances Nicholas, Jean Ekanayake and Lilani Fernando Source:Quadrangle (with a little bit of help from the Peterines and also a Peterite) Boys attending a girls’ school as pre-school students is commonplace. But girls attending a boys’ school at A Level! That was (and probably still is) sensational! In 1966, there were three girls from HFC Bambalapitiya (where else but, Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya) who created that rare sensation at St Peter’s College. Frances Nicholas, Jean Ekanayake and Lilani Fernando stepped in through the gates with determination to achieve an objective – to study mathematics at A Level – at a boys’ school.   ...