eLanka Newsletter – 13th March 2023 – 4th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter ABSC INC. HOLDS MEDIA CONFERENCE AND DINNER TO PROMOTE EKONOMOS, ISSUE 5, 2024 Sri Lankan band Mirage’s final appearance, as they signed off in style after a third sellout performance. – By Trevine Rodrigo (eLanka – Melbourne) This bulletin focuses on managing type 2 diabetes and was created for Sri Lankans worldwide. – By Dr Harold Gunatillake The Swinging 60s – Royal College Group of 82 – Celebrations – Snippets from the Royal Thomian Game in March 2024 The Bambalapitiya Flats Colombo 4, Sri Lanka – Celebrating Friends, Families and Community – The website – dedicated to a far flung diaspora of some 250 families from Sri Lanka who lived at the ‘Bambalapitiya flats’ Empowering Sri Lanka: Women Lead in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability ...

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Centenary Celebrations of the Big Club Grounds at S.Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia Source: Thomians Centenary Group As part of the celebrations, the New Sports Pavilion and Refurbished Indoor Nets will be opened on the 12th March 2024…. A T20 Triangular Cricket Tournament between S. Thomas’ College, Royal College and Trinity College will be played for the Anura Tennekoon Challenge Trophy on the 12th and 13th of March at S. Thomas’ College Big Club Grounds, Mount Lavinia. This four-game competition will be played to celebrate 100 years of the Big Club Grounds and the opening of the newly-renovated cricket pavilion. Match 1 – S. Thomas’ College vs Royal College – 12th March – 9:45am Match 2 – S. Thomas’ College vs Trinity College – 12th March – 2:00pm Match 3 – Royal College vs Trinity College – 13th March – 9:45am Match 4 – Final – 2:00pm We were honored to ...

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OBITUARY – PRASANNA NIMAL WIKRAMANAYAKE. KC (11 August 1933 – 20 December 2023) – By Hugh Karunanayake Nimal Wikramanayake, KC, eminent lawyer and the only Asian born Kings Counsel in Australia, passed away on 20 December at a private nursing home where he was recuperating following surgery. He celebrated his 90th birthday just a few months ago. Born in Colombo as the second son to EG(Guy) Wikramanayake, a leading counsel in Colombo in his day, Nimal schooled at S Thomas College, Mount Lavinia. On leaving school, unlike his elder brother Ranji a well known endocrinologist  in Sydney, Nimal chose to follow in the footsteps of his forefathers. His paternal grandfather Edward Beauchamp was a lawyer himself, but it was Edward Beuchamp’s two sons Eric Bird, and Emil Guy, who created legal history by being granted silk, the only instance in Sri Lanka of two brothers being appointed Kings Counsel. Nimal’s ...

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Thomas’ College OBA Annual Dinner Dance in aid of the Bishop Chapman Scholarship Fund We are reaching out to you on behalf of the OBA of S Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia to request your kind support for the captioned event which will be held on the 25th of November 2023 at the Grand Ballroom of the Colombo Hilton. With the entire proceeds derived from the event being donated, the Annual Dinner serves as a significant fundraising event for the scholarship fund, bringing together alumni, parents, local businesses, and philanthropists. Unfortunately, a greater percentage of students are now in need of financial assistance due to the prevailing adverse economic circumstances in the Country. We believe that while your support towards the scholarship fund will increase bursaries to students, ” your institution too will derive a reciprocal benefit through bringing your products and services to the attention of an audience that will ...

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 Surprise Dinner to fete Sriyan Jayasekera convenor of the Class of 59 at S Thomas College Mount Lavinia in Sri Lanka, Circa 2002 for his dedication and consistent efforts to help us celebrate and renew friendships forged in the school by the sea Download the PDF file . ...

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Thomians Class of 62 and O/L 70 Group celebrate 60 year nexus-by Rohan Mathes   Once again the old boys of the Class of 62 and O/L 70 Group of S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia gathered on January 22 under one banner to celebrate their sixtieth anniversary of their association and loyalties with their prestigious Alma Mater. The long relationship between these Thomians began in 1962 when they were admitted to the school.   This rendezvous was of paramount importance to the membership near and far, inclusive of those domiciled overseas, who had turned up in their numbers to enjoy the long-awaited fellowship, with their comrades, despite the prevailing Covid pandemic restrictions. Nevertheless, those who could not make it had been amply served by the provision of a Zoom link. Kudos to the organizers who had painstakingly and meticulously planned the nitty-gritty of this epoch-making celebrations; however with less pomp and ...

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Reminiscences of my Work at S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia (1963 -1980) – by G. Thambithurai Source:Thomiana Newsletter It was a Friday, the third week in March in 1963. I was walking back after having completed my Interview with Warden Davidson and the Departmental Heads. The Sub Warden, the late Mr. S. J. Anandanayagam, came behind me and asked me whether I could start work as a teacher on the following Monday. This left me speechless. Now I was both scared and excited. On Monday morning I was in the staff room when the peon came and handed me my appointment letter and the timetable. Soon teachers trooped in and introduced themselves. The former Warden, the late Mr. Neville de Alwis, also joined the staff on the same date. There was one teacher, who had noticed that I was very nervous, and came and sat beside me and told me that ...

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Dr. Wijayananda Dahanayake – Galle’s most flamboyant son – By Ruhunu Puthra Source:The Island Great sons of Galle Part III Born on October 22, 1902, he was the twin son of Muhandiram Dionysius Sepala Panditha Dahanayake. He was named Wijayananda after the Wijayananda Vihara in Weliwatta, Galle, where Col. H. S. Olcott first observed the five precepts. His learned father was the chief lay disciple of this Vihara. The eminent astrologer Karo Gurunnanse, who read Dahanayake’s horoscope had predicted that one day he would rule the country. With Ceylon under the British Raj at the time, and with no independence in sight, it was treated as a far fetched prediction. He was educated at Richmond College, Galle and later at S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia. The born fighter that he was, he one day created a rumpus, while lunch was being served, when Warden Stone sternly said, “Dahanayake! the next train to ...

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“ IT  IS  WELL  WITH  MY  SOUL “: video clip of Canto Perpetua Choir of STC .   Members of the Canto Perpetua Choir of S.Thomas’ College – Mount Lavinia, come together in the Virtual Choir Recording of Horatio Spafford’s ‘It Is Well With My Soul’, During the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is Well With My Soul” (Cover) Music Directed and Arranged by: Kisholi Mathiaparanam Audio Mixed and Mastered by: Devdun Fernando Video Compiled by: Janith Dassanayake     ...

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