Thurstan College Old Boys’ Union felicitated Old Boy Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera who was appointed as the 19th Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy at a largely attended function at Mirage Hotel Colombo 6 on August 16th, 2014 He was garland by the Senior Vice President on the OBU Vasantha Kottearachchi and a bouquet was presented to Mrs Shalika Perera by Kumari Kottearachchi. The General Secretary of the OBU Priya Paranavitane welcomed the Vice Admiral and other guests. As there was wide spectrum of Old boys from the 1950’s to 2010, hence he briefly highlighted Jayantha’s achievements as a School boy and his Career in the Navy. Jayantha thanked the OBU for organizing this function and the thanked the large number of Old boys and their spouses for being present. He briefly reminiscence his days at Thurstan and his career in the Navy and onerous duties he will have to perform as the Commander of the Navy. A memento was presented to the Vice Admiral on behalf of the OBU by the President / Principal Mr Daya Bandara, Senior Vice President and the General Secretary. Another two mementos were presented by Kumar Perera on behalf of his Class Group ’73 to’76 and Lishan Amarasekara / Daminda Cooray on behalf of the 1985 group. The vote of thanks was proposed by Vasantha Kottearachchi who was classmate of Jayantha, where he thanked Old Thurstanite Prabath Fonseka for providing the hotel at a concessionary rate and the Council Members who made this function a reality. Fellowship followed where Jayantha made it a point to interact with many old boys & their spouses as possible and followed by “sing song” and dinner. Everybody had an enjoyable evening
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Thurstan OBU will felicitate the Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera who was appointed as the 19th Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy on 1st July 2014.
Jayantha is the first Thurstanite to head one of the Tri services of Sri Lanka.
This function will be held at MIRAGE HOTEL COLOMBO at 61 Moor Road on Marine Drive Colombo 6. on Saturday August 16th,2014 at 7.30 PM
Thurstan College felicitated the distinguished Old Boy Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera who was appointed as the 19th Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy at a ceremony held at the College on July 31st,2014 Vice Admiral had a very distinguished career at Thurstan in the mid 1970 where excelled as a cadet and in Rugby. As the Senior Sergeant he was adjudged the Best Commander at the 3rd Battalion Cadet Camp in 1975 where Thurstan became the champion battalion. In 1976 he was appointed as the Company Sergeant Major [ CSM ] of the 3rd Battalion. He was the College Rugby and Athletic Captain in 1977 and that year he was the College Head Prefect After leaving College he joined the Sri Lanka Navy in August 1978. He had his basic training in the Naval & Maritime Academy in Trincomalee. He was a Gunnery Specialist trained in Kochi India and has undergone many training programmes in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom & Hawaii United States. He holds a MSc in Defence Studies from the University of Madras. He has the privilege of commanding many ships of the Navy including the Flagship SLNS Sayura. He has also held many important Staff appointments in the Navy and the last being the Chief of Staff. At the ceremony, there were a large number Old Thurstanite high ranking Officers from the Navy, Army, Air Force and the Police. There were many of his teachers, past Principals, other distinguished Old boys, Present staff members and senior students. Principal Mr Daya Bandara welcomed the Vice Admiral and others. A close classmate and a Naval Colleague Cdr [rt] S U Lanka Prasada spoke about his friend Jayantha’s achievements at Thurstan and Navy. In Conclusion, Vice Admiral reminiscence his days at Thurstan and thanked the school for organising this function. He was presented with momento by the Principal and he too presented to College a Naval plaque in remembrance of his visit
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THURSTAN COLLEGE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
THURSTAN COLLEGE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
29th July to 1st August 2014
Tennis is a popular sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. Thurstan Tennis has a history of going back to the mid 60’s when the then Principal late Mr M D Gunawardane & the Vice Principal late Mr A B J L Fernado were regularly seen on the courts playing with the students. But it never caught up to be a popular sports at Thurstan. We have now 3 courts, a luxury which only a few schools in the island possess. The OBU is making a concentrated effort to popularize tennis so that in the near future we could produce players of Public School standard.
Thurstan College Old Boys Union organizing Inter School Tennis Championship 2014 at the college Tennis court premises from 29th July to 31st July 2014. Award ceremony will be held at the auditorium on 1st August 2014 at 2pm. With this tournament we are internally ranking our players to meet future challenges of the game.
You may contact OBU Functional Secretary – Tennis
Our distinguished old boy Rear Admiral Jayantha Perera has been promoted as Vice Admiral & appointed as Commander of SL Navy with effect from 1st July 2014.
Congratulations! A proud Thurstanite.
ICT Steering Committee handed over the Laptop donated by distinguished old boy Mr. Nath Cooary to Deputy Principal ? Education Development on 19th June 2014 at the College lobby. She will use it for preparing education plans, scheduling, scrutinising results, formulating statistical reports, presentations, and communicating with others, etc.
Mr. Cooray is a true Thurstanite and most importantly, a real professional who understands the technology and how it is being used for improved productivity. Thank you very much Mr. Nath Cooray for your valuable contribution to education development of the college.
Executive Committee Members of the Thurstan College Doctors’ Association (TCDA) came to their Alma Mater on 6th March 2014 and had a discussion with the Principal and Deputy Principal on how to uplift the standard of education. They are Dr.Gamini Perera, Professor Lal Chandrasena, Dr.Narendra Pinto, Dr.Priyantha Tibbotumunuwa, Dr.Ruwantha Viathanage, Dr.Gomi Arambawela and Dr.H.S.R Perera.
TCDA conducted their first career guidance seminar for students who sat for the G.C.E O/L examination held in December 2013 at the college main hall on 20th March 2014. Key speakers were D.Narendra Pinto & Dr.Gamini Perera (Biology) Dr.Prasanna Lokuge (IT), Dr.Malika Gunasekera (LAW) and Mr.Mahesh Fernando (Marketing & E-Commerce).
The inaugural meeting of the “Thurstan College Engineers’ Association was held at the College on 2nd June 2014. It was a very successful meeting and many Senior and Junior Engineers were participated. The objectives of the association are Education Development, Infrastructure Development and support other activities
THURSTAN CLINCH LIMITED OVER TITLE FOR THE FIRST TIME
by Reemus Fernando
Thurstan College captain Kavindu Kulasekara receives the championship trophy from Kumar Samarasinghe, Director (Marketing) Singer Sri Lanka, after Thurstan beat S. Thomas? College at De Soysa Stadium, Moratuwa yesterday.(Pic by Pinsiri Ariyaratne)
Thurstan College registered a 50 run victory over fancied S. Thomas? College according to D/L Method to win their maiden title as they reached 187 runs for two wickets in chase of a target of 218 runs before the Inter School Under-19 Limited Overs Tournament final was affected by rain at De Soysa Stadium Moratuwa yesterday.
The stage for the victory was set up by left arm spinner Arjun Gunawardena who picked up four key wickets to restrict Thomians to 217 runs before openers Sajith Gunathilaka and Minhaj Jaleel provided a solid platform for their chase.
Thurstan College team celebrate their victory after beating S. Thomas? College by 50 runs in the Inter School Under-19 Limited Overs Tournament final at De Soysa Stadium, Moratuwa yesterday. (Pic by Pinsiri Ariyaratne)
Thurstan had a bitter disappointment last week when they were denied the opportunity to take part in the quarter-final of the Under-19 Twenty-20 tournament, the dates of which clashed with their Big Match. After witnessing St. Peter?s advance to the semi-final of the Twenty 20 tournament in their absence, Thurstan had many reasons to celebrate when they beat the eventual champions of the Twenty 20 tournament at yesterday?s Limited Overs Tournament final.
Led by Sri Lanka Under-19 player Kavindu Kulasekara, Thurstan did well to contain the formidable batting line up of Thomians, who chose to bat first after winning the toss.
In their chase, Thurstan were given a robust start by Jaleel and Gunathilaka who added 77 runs for the first wicket. After Jaleel departed for 28 runs, Gunathilaka took the score to 120 with Thilan Gunaratne before retiring hurt.
Gunathilaka scored 67 runs in 76 balls with eight fours and a six. While Gunaratne made 32, Thimira Jayasinghe and skipper Kulasekara guided Thurstan to 187 runs in the 36th over before rain brought about a sudden end to the match. Thurstan were well ahead of the D/L target.
Unlike Thurstan, the Thomians had a disastrous start when they lost three wickets for 14 runs with paceman Achintha Kalpana removing the openers before they reached double figures.
On a wicket conducive for spinners, Thurstan pacemen Kalpana and Charana Nanayakkara did well to restrict them to 28 runs at the end of the first ten overs.
Sanesh de Mel who was anchoring the top order had to retire through an injury when the score was 62, leaving Thomians in a dire state. By that time he had added 48 runs for the fourth wicket. Then followed a valuable partnership of 111 runs between Chenutha Wickramasinghe and their Sri Lanka Under-19 player Thilaksha Sumanasiri.
But a dependable score was out of their reach when left-arm spinner Arjun Gunawardena picked up four vital wickets of Thomians? innings when they were just getting the momentum. He removed Wickramasinghe and Sumanasiri in quick succession before accounting for skipper Madushan Ravichandrakumar (15) and Tharindu Rathnayake (03).
He was adjudged the Man of the Match for his four wickets.
Scoreboard
S. Thomas? innings
Rashmika Opatha c Gunaratne b Kalpana 01
Nipuna Gamage c Gunaratne b Kalpana 04
Sanesh de Mel retired hurt 25
Dulanja Silva c and b Nanayakkara 03
Chenutha Wickramasinghe b Gunawardena 72
Thilaksha Sumanasiri lbw b Gunawardena 63
Madushan Ravichandrakumar c and b Gunawardena 15
Tharindu Ratnayake b Gunawardena 03
Helakamal Nanayakkara not out 13
Kulunu Rodrigo st Gunaratne b Weeratne 05
Nimesh Fernando b Jaleel 03
Extras (b2, ,b2, nb1, w5) 10
Total (all out: 46.2 overs) 217
Fall of wickets ? 1-6, 2-7, 3-14, 4-173, 5-174, 6-182, 7-195, 8-205, 9-211.
Bowling ? Charana Nanayakkara 5-1-10-1, Arjuna Gunawardena 10-0-35-4, Thimira Jayasinghe 5-0-22-0, Senal Wijesinghe 7-0-40-1, Kavindu Kulasekera 4-0-30-0, Minhaj Jaleel 4.2-0-30-1.
Thurstan innings
Minhaj Jaleel c de Mel b Ratnayake 28
Sajith Gunatileke retired hurt 64
Thilan Gunaratne st de Mel b Sumanasiri 32
Thimira Jayasinghe not out 37
Kavindu Kulasekera not out 11
Extras (lb1, nb1, w13) 15
Total (2 wickets: 36 overs) 187
Fall of wickets ? 1-77, 2-138.
Bowling ? Dulanja Silva 4-0-15-0, Helakamal Nanayakkara 2-0-10-0, Chenutha Wickramasinghe 2-0-17-0, Tharindu Ratnayake 9-0-47-1, Kulunu Rodrigo 3-0-18-0, Nimesh Fernando 3-0-14-0, Thilaksha Sumanasiri 5-0-21-1.
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MEDICAL CAMP – 2014
