Royal College Group of 82 - Australian Chapter

Submitted by Mano on Thu, 12/03/2020 - 12:49
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Royal College Group of 82 -  Australian Chapter 

We, the old boys of the Royal College Colombo, 82 Group, after leaving our great school went on our own directions. Members of our group migrated to all parts of the world. Some settled in Sri Lanka and the others settled in different parts of the world. We, who migrated to Australia, settled down in different States depending on their preferences. However, though we are far apart geographically within the country, we try to meet whenever possible to maintain our childhood relationships and links.

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Supporting Chrishantha Fernando 's son Ravish Kanishka

Submitted by Mano on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 21:33

We, the Group of 82 batchmates in Australia, have been supporting the 3rd child of our late batchmate Chrishantha Fernando (well known as Washington) since October 2019. The child receives an amount of Rs.10,000 per month from us towards his welfare and education. Given below is a brief note from Sanjaya Herath and how the project was initiated.

Letter from Sanjaya Herath

Dear Chulan,

Mr. Saman Amarasinghe

Mr Saman Amarasinghe has been appointed to the coveted post of Senior Prefect of Royal College in 1973. He joined the tutorial staff of his "Alma-Mater" in 1978 and served as an Agricultural Science Teacher for GCE (College Prize winner on Agriculture Science in 1971). Also, he served as a teacher for NCGE Vocational Subjects, 'Photography' (College Prize Winner on Photography in 1973) and 'Home Gardening'. 

Mr. Lionel Staples Gunaratne

Mr. Lionel Staples Gunaratne started his teaching career in 1964 as a pupil teacher. In the same year he entered the Peradeniya university and completed Bachelor of Education degree. In 1969 joined St. Thomas's college Mount Lavinia teaching staff. Having completed a master’s degree in 1973, joined Ministry of Education.

Mr. Ranjith Senanayake

I joined Royal in 1976 and retired in 2005 almost 30 years at Royal.

I taught Science, Health Science, From year 6 to year 11.

I was involved in Extra Curricular activities being the Mic in Cricket from under 13 age group to 1st eleven teams.

From 1998 I was the Senior Ganes Master who was the main coordinator of Sports at Royal.

In 2000 appointed as the Asst. Principal in Charge of Extra and Co-Curricular activities at Royal.

Mrs. Anula Balasuriya

පුතා චූලා, අපව මතක් වීම හරිම   සතුටක්. පුතාලා සමාජයේ ඉහළින් කටයුතු කිරීමඊටත් වඩා ආඩම්බරයක්. පුතාලට දළදා සමිදු පිහිට ලැබේවා. සොඳුරු අනාගතයක්පතන්නේ අනුලා  බාලසූරිය ගණිතය ගුරු මෑණියන්.

Mrs. Kusumi Soyza

Mrs Kusumi Soyza, joined the Royal Teaching staff in June 1979 as a Chemistry Teacher. She was one of the popular teachers during our time at the College.

Her teaching technique was quite impressive and she was also kind to all her students. She taught Chemistry to both Maths and Bio streams.

Mrs Soysa retired in 1990 December and migrated to Australia.

Mrs Soysa is still very much active and to keep herself occupied, conducts Chemistry classes to VCE Students.

Mrs. Ranee Balasuriya

Mrs Ranee Balasuriya is a Mathematics Teacher.

Her teaching career spans over 40 years.

She had the opportunity of teaching in the golden era of Royal College, when Mr L D H Peiris was the Principal.

Mrs Balasuriya joined the teaching staff of Royal College in the early 1980s. Her 2 sons also had their education at Royal College.

She retired in the mid 1990s just before the admission of her two grandsons to Royal.

Her passion is to teach maths to weak children and see them progress with good results. 

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