My STC Book Website Is Now Live Thomia by Richard Simon is scheduled for publication in early 2025 Source:Shoutout Greetings. You’re receiving this rather impersonal communication from me because you helped me in some way with the research for my forthcoming history of STC and Sri Lanka, Thomia. I thank you – and shall acknowledge your help in the book itself, which I hope will be published in early 2025. Meanwhile, to introduce and promote Thomia and to build up a mailing list of prospective customers, I’ve set up a website, www.thomia.com. Please take a look at the site – and if you feel like it, tell me what you think, using this reply address. There’s plenty of interesting stuff in there, including extracts from the book, a detailed table of contents, reviews by pre-publication readers and more. ...
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Errol Knower – by Richard Simon ( Farewell, Atahualpa – by Richard Simon) source: notesfromceylon.blogspot.com Visiting the mortician’s parlour to pay his last respects to the remains of Errol Knower, one of Errol’s former teammates on the crack athletics squad that St Thomas’s College fielded in the mid-Seventies reminisced to his fellow mourners how, on track days, Errol – always a dedicated truant – would sit with his louche, unathletic cronies at a tea-kiosk up on the Galle Road, smoking and telling funny stories, listening all the while with half a ear to the voices of the meet marshals calling events and results over the PA system on the school grounds below. When they called an event he was in, he would drink up his tea, stub out his ‘fag’ and race down the hill, arriving at the starting-line just in time for the gun. He would then run the race without ...
Mar 14, 2022
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The admired captain who navigated Loyola College to greatness-by Rev. Fr. Sudath Gunetileke Source:Dailymirror No matter the seas, it is the skill and efforts of the captain that would ensure the safe sail towards the harbour’. That is exactly what Loyola College, Daluwakotuwa experienced under its beloved current Rector Rev. Fr. Sudath Gunetileke who is to bid farewell to the college he loved so dearly, in the very near future. Rev. Fr. Sudath Gunetileke is an empathetic priest who always thinks about his students and teachers. He never thinks twice to go many extra miles to do good for the students, for students and their betterment are his utmost priority. This made the students of all the schools Fr. Gunetileke served, excel in studies, sports, extra-curricular and co-curricular activities. He has an open mind thus he listens to others’ views. He is a silent role model for all under him ...
Jan 5, 2022
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eLanka Newsletter – 24th October 2021 – 7th Edition – Sri Lankans In Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “LOVE SONGS, LANKAN STYLE” – by Des Kelly Watch Sri Lanka vs Netherlands ICC T20 World Cup 2021 Cricket Match Highlights (Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets) Alston Koch sings a special song for the T20 World Cup Cheers – Sri Lanka Cricket – Supreme Cheers Lahiru, Hasaranga,Theekshana unplayable as merciless Sri Lanka crush ignorant Netherlands by eight wickets – by Sunil Thenabadu (eLanka Sports editor) Sri Lanka Tourism to appoint Yohani as a brand ambassador A Nest of Vipers – by Rajitha Ratwatte Active Super partners with MultiConnexions to tap into Australian diversity Sri Lanka’s likely schedule for SUPER 12: First Game against Bangladesh – by Sunil Thenabadu (eLanka Sports editor) Mr Sachithananthan St Thomas’s College longstanding teacher celebrates his 97th birthday ...
Oct 24, 2021
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Mr Sachithananthan St Thomas’s College longstanding teacher celebrates his 97th birthday – by STC OBA NSW/ACT Source: Chitty Samy of STC OBA NSW/ACT Mr Sachithananthan our longstanding teacher at STC Mount celebrating his 97th Birthday on the 15th of October in Toronto. Pictured with his son and daughter. ...
Remembering cricketing great, P.I. (Ian) Pieris (1955) Source: Queen’s College, Cambridge University Website Ian Pieris (1955), the former international cricketer and President of Sri Lankan Cricket, has died aged 82 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ian came up to Queens’ from St Thomas’s College to read Economics and won his Blue in a very strong era for Cambridge University cricket. He was President of SLC on two occasions and represented his country with great pride and passion. His best contribution for his country was as a batsman at No. 11, when he scored 46 not out in an entertaining last-wicket partnership of 110 in 53 minutes with Neil Chanmugam in an unofficial Test against West Indies at the P. Sara Oval in March 1967. Photo Caption: Cambridge University XI Ian is in the back row, second from the right, of this photograph: the1957 Blues XI. It also features ...
Jan 8, 2021
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