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Old Thurstanites Tennis Tournament
Thurstan College has been blessed with three tennis courts, a luxury not enjoyed by many schools in Sri Lanka. Tennis at Thurstan has seen a great improvement in the past three years. Our school tennis team has dedicated players that are serious about the game and the school has recently produced island ranking players.
This year we are happy to announce that the first Old Thurstanites Tennis Tournament will be held on Sunday, 17th July at the Thurstan College Tennis Courts. This would be an annual event organized by the Thurstan College OBU Tennis Committee.
The tournament is open only for Old Boys of Thurstan College.
Details of the tournament are as follows:
Date: Sunday, 17th July 2016
Time: 9:00 a.m. onwards
Venue: Thurstan College Tennis Courts
Registration: Free
Rackets and Tennis Balls will be provided.
To register for the event and/or to obtain further information please contact:
Prasanna Wanigasooriya
Radike Dalpatadu
Please help us by forwarding this message to Thurstanites who play and enjoy the game of tennis.
Thank you.
Prasannna Wanigasooriya / Radike Dalpatadu
Functional Secretary TC OBU Tennis / TC OBU Tennis Committee
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අන්තර් පාඨශාලීය මාධ්‍ය තරගාවලිය 2016
තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය මගින් තෙවන වරටත් සංවිධාන කරනු ලැබූ මාධ්‍ය දිනයට සමගාමීව මාධ්‍ය දින තරගාවලිය 2016 මැයි මස 27 වන දින පැවැත්වූ වගයි.මෙම තරගාවලියට ආරාධිත පාසල් 22 පමණ සහභාගි වුණි.
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NEXU 2016
තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය තෙවන මාධ්‍ය දිනය 2016 ජුනි මස 10 වන සිකුරාදා දින ප.ව 2.00 සිට ප.ව 5.30දක්වා අතිඋත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය ප්‍රධාන ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්වුණි.මෙම උත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන අමුත්තා ලෙස පැමිණ සිටියේ රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්‍යක්ෂක වන රංග කලංසූරිය මැතිදුන්ය.
තවද ආරාධිත පාසල් 25 පමණ මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වුණි.මාධ්‍ය දිනයට සමගාමීව පැවැත්වූ තරගාවලියෙන් ශූරතාව දිනා ගනු ලැබුවේ කොළඹ සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක විද්‍යාලයයි.
SPONSORSHIP FROM OBU
The OBU Education Committee along with 90 Group sponsored Rs.50,000/-
for Thurstan Kala Ulela – 2016, to be held on 1st July,2016.
Mr. Thilan Dharmaratne of 90 Group handed over the sponsorship
cheque to Mr.E.M.S. Ekanayake (principal) while Mrs. Shyamali Liyanarachchi –
Head of Arts Section , Mr. Upul Gajaweera – Education Secretary – OBU &
Mr. Wimal Fernando – Vice President – OBU looking on.
The OBU Education Committee along with 90 Group sponsored Rs.50,000/-
for Thurstan Kala Ulela – 2016, to be held on 1st July,2016.
Mr. Thilan Dharmaratne of 90 Group handed over the sponsorship
cheque to Mr.E.M.S. Ekanayake (principal) while Mrs. Shyamali Liyanarachchi –
Head of Arts Section , Mr. Upul Gajaweera – Education Secretary – OBU &
Mr. Wimal Fernando – Vice President – OBU looking on.
Thurstan vs Isipathana Old Boys match played for the Priyantha Kulasekara Memorial Trophy at Thurstan Grounds on 21st February 2016 [ 35 overs ]
Isipathana – 151 all out in 34.1 overs. ( Ravindra Subasinghe 33, Buddika Abeysiriwardane 24, Nishantha Dias 4/18, Kamal Mahendra 3/24)
Thurstan – 152/9 in 34.1 overs( Kamal Mahendra 34, Gamini Nanayakkara 36, Ravindra Subasinghe 2/18, Vipula De Silva 4/25 , Rajapakse 2/22)
Results – Thurstan won by 1 wicket
- Man of the Match – Kamal Mahendra Thurstan
- Best Batsman – Ravindran Subasinghe – Isipathana
- Best Bowler – Nishantha Dias Thurstan
- Best Fielder Melanka Gunasekara – Isipathana
Thurstan Old Boys’ Team
K D H Wijesekara [Capt], Vasntha Warnasuriya, Gamini Nanyakkara,Nishnatha Dias,Kamal Mahendra,Jayajeewa Karunarathna,Rohitha Priyantha, Rohitha Jayasinghe, Asanaga Vithanage Sumith Wasage,Duminda Jayaratna
Isipathana Old Boys’ Team
Melanka Gunasekara [Capt],Manjula Yapa, Sadun Lugoda,Dhammika Rajapaksa, Indika Kumara, Ravindra Subasinghe,Buddhika Abeysiriwardane,Vipula De Silva,Manoj Maddurapperuam,Janaka Pushpakumara, Sagara Duminda Perera,
23rd MINI BIG MATCH ENCOUNTER
THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA 2016
played at Thurstan Grounds. on 18th and 19th of Feb. 2016
Thurstan – 1 st Innings. – 191 all out in 55.3 overs ( Chanuka Prabath 50 , Salinda Samaranayake 22, Nemesh Lakshan 50, Madushika Sadaruwamn 6/81, Sanjula Bandara 3/58,)
Thurstan 2 nd Innings – 208/6 dec in 63.1 overs ( Salinda Samaranayake 27, Pansilu Deshan 69 n o , Prageesha Mendis 76 , Sanjula Bandara 3/50, Madushka Sadaruwan 2/79)
Isipathana- 1 st Innings – 97 all out in 28.4 overs ( Rasula Viksura 34, Maneesha Rupasinghe 21, Ridmka Nimesh 25, Akila Ranathunge 4/42, Yeshan Wickramaarachchi 5/26,)
Isipathana 2nd Innings- 75/7 at close in 32 overs ( Maneesha Rupasinghe14, Ayesh Weeratne 6/37)
Result – Match Drawn
Man of the Match – Yeshan Wickramaarachchi – Thurstan
Best Batsman – Pansilu Deshan – Thurstan
Best Bowler – Madushika Sadaruwan – Isipathana
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Annual inter-House Sportsmeet 2016
Thurstan College
are pleased to invite
for the annual inter-House Sportsmeet
under the patronage
of our distinguished old boy
Air Commodore Sampath Thuyacontha
on
Friday the
12th of February 2016
from 1.30 p.m. onwards
at the
Thurstan College Cricket Grounds,
Stanley Wijesundara Mawatha ,
Colombo 07.
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THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA MATCHES 2016
FEBRUARY 26TH FRIDAY & 27TH SATURDAY ? 53rd THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA BIG MATCH @ SSC
MARCH 13TH SUNDAY 36TH THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA LIMITED OVERS MATCH AT P SARA OVAL
MARCH 20TH SUNDAY -9TH THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA TWENTY-20 MATCHES AT THURSTAN GROUNDS
FEBRUARY 18th THURSDAY & 19TH FRIDAY- THURSTAN-ISIPATHANA MINI BIG MATCH @ THURSTAN GROUNDS
FEBRUARY 21ST SUNDAY ? THURSTAN- ISIPATHANA OLD BOYS? LIMITED OVER MATCH @ THURSTAN GROUNDS
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FOUNDER’S DAY ORATION 2016
This year Founder’s day oration to celebrate the 66th anniversary was delivered by distinguish old Thurstanite Prof Rohan Samarajiva
Prof Rohan Samarajiiva
Professor Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across emerging Asia. He was its CEO from 2004 to 2012. His most recent co-authored book (2013) is Information lives of the poor: Fighting poverty with technology, published in English, French, Myanmar and Spanish. In 2012 he co-authored අපට ගැළපෙන ආර්ථික ක්‍රමවේද with C.J. Amaratunge. He regularly writes on economics, technology and governance issues in Sinhala and English newspapers and also serves as a resource person on electronic media programs.
Professor Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Sri Lanka Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms, including participation in the design of the e Sri Lanka Initiative. He was Director General of Telecommunications in Sri Lanka (1998-99), a founder director of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (2003-05), Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka (2003-04), Visiting Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2000-03) and Associate Professor of Communication and Public Policy at the Ohio State University in the US (1987-2000).
Professor Samarajiva was recognized as an Internet Pioneer of Sri Lanka by the Internet Society of Sri Lanka, in 2015. In 1998, 1990 and 1989 he was voted Faculty Member of the Year by the students of the School of Communication at the Ohio State University. In 1992 he was awarded the Ameritech Prize for accomplishments in the field of telecommunications. At Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he completed his Masters and PhD, he was awarded several Graduate Research Fellowships, two Open Graduate Scholarships, 1981 and the Steel Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University. At Sri Lanka Law College he was awarded First Scholarship at the Attorney’s Preliminary Examination and Prizes in Roman Law and Criminal Law and was a member of the Sinhala and English debating teams. He was Secretary of the Law Students Union and was editor of the Sri Lanka Law College Review in 1978. He entered Thurstan College in 1964 to Grade 6 had the best results at the GCE (Ordinary Level) Examination at Thurstan College in 1968 and gained admission to the University of Peradeniya along with most of his classmates.
MR B A ABEYRATHNE – THE NEW PRINCIPAL FOR THURSTAN COLLEGE
Mr B A Abeyrathne assumed duties as the Principal of Thurstan College on Thursday December 10th, 2015
Mr Abeyrathne is a very experienced Principal having served as the Principal of Ananda, Bandaranayake Vidyalaya Gampaha, Kingswood, Nugawala Central for a period in excess of 25 years. Prior to his appointment he served as the Director, Physical Education and Sports at the Ministry of Education.
He is an Honours graduate in Political science at the University of Peradeniya and for short time was attach to the Sri Lanka Police before he joined the Sri Lanka Education Administrative service and had his first appointment as the Principal of Nugawela Central in 1988
As the school was on Vacation, he was welcomed at a simple ceremony attended by the current school administration, officials of the Old Boys? Union, Junior Old Boys? Union and School Development Society.
His appointment was sanctioned by the Minister of Education Mr Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, on the recommendation made by the senior officials of the Education Ministry