25th Anniversary get to-gether, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

25th Anniversary get to-gether pictures, of Batch 1960 entrants

25th Anniversary get together in Kandy

Presiding officer Kapuwaththe and colleagues.

This was another picture taken at our 25th Anniversary get to-gether in Kandy.

Dr.WRL Fernando holding the floor.

Dr.WRL Fernando, the agitator on behalf of the dwindling elephant herd of Sri Lanka, holding forth at our 25th Anniversary held at 'The Topaz Hotel', Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Cover of souvenir of 40th anniversary from entrance in 1960

This reunion was held at 'The Village' Dambulla, Sri Lanka. 92 participants were present. We had a two day stay in the hotel and a rollicking time. There was a seminar, concert and dinner bust-up. Jeri Jayasekara did a presentation on the use of a bar code, to identify persons. There was a poster parade. The party was superb due to the efforts of the organising committe headed by Kapuwaththe.

The University Surgical Department, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1960s'.

Cartoons of some teachers of 1960 at the Colombo Faculty.

The entrants for 1960 to the then only Medical Faculty, in The University of Ceylon.

The batch intake for the Medical Faculty, was double the usual number. This was because the usual First MB in the Science Faculty was done away with. From the following year the Faculty of Medicine at Peradeniya would take half the batch. But this batch of 1960 in Colombo had to accomodate about 275 students. There was a question of accomodating this large crowd, in a single lecture lecture theatre, available at that time. The batch was divided into two and the lectures were repeated. An extra dissecting room called Dissecting room C, was opened. The canteen, rest rooms and libraries were filled to capacity.
In the first two weeks what with the freshers 'rag' and the general cluelessness regarding the lectures in Anatomy, Physiology and Bichemistry, life assumed a surreal quality. Quite a lot of us coming from the outstations did not know 'where we were going'. White shirts and trousers were the norm for the males. The females mostly wore the sedate sarees. Bright colours and moppy hair were a long way off. We were expected to conform to the norms of upper middle class society.
The female of the species was forbidden ground. Being too familiar with members of the opposite sex was more an adventure than an accepted norm.

The aim of this blog.

This blog has been designed and opened, for interaction with the members of the 1960 entrants to the Medical Faculty, Kynsey Road Colombo, Ceylon. We use the word Ceylon because this was what Sri Lanka was called in 1960.
Father time has passed over all the members of this batch of 1960. Quite a few who were in various positions are now retired and enjoying leisure after a hectic lifetime of work.
It is a time for us to think back and recall old times. We welcome contributions from batch-mates to this blog. The email address is
1960batch@gmail.com.