Remembering incidents of days of old.

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Alumni Association, Colombo Medical Faculty

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Blog of the Alumni Association of the Colombo Medical Faculty, Sri Lanka.

Dear batch-mates,
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Philip

Logo for COMSAA

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Colombo Medical School Alumni Association - CoMSAA

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association

Minutes for the third meeting of the General Committee of CoMSAA
held on 05th October 2011 at 12 noon
Venue: Senior Common Room, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo. Present:
1. Prof. Harsha R. Seneviratne
2. Prof. A.H. Sheriffdeen
3. Dr. J.B. Peiris
4. Prof. Sanath P. Lamabadusuriya
5. Dr. Athula kaluarachchi
6. Dr. Saroja Siriwardena
7. Prof. Jennifer Perera
8. Dr. Piyusha Atapattu
9. Dr. B.J.C. Perera
10. Dr. Chandra Jayasuriya
11. Dr. M.S.G. de Silva
12. Dr. Nalika Gunawardene
Excused:
1. Prof. Rohan Jayasekara
2. Prof. Lalitha Mendis
3. Prof. Colvin Goonaratne
1. Dr. Dennis Aloysius
2. Prof. Ravindra Ferrnando
3. Prof. R.L. Jayakody
4. Dr. Lucian Jayasuriya
5. Dr. D.S. Liyanarachchi
6. Prof. Rezvi Sheriff
7. Dr. Lalith Wijeratne
At the outset the president welcomed the committee members for the third meeting of the general committee of CoMSAA.
Meeting commenced with correction and confirmation of last minutes. Confirmation of minutes were proposed by Prof. Harsha R. Seneviratne and seconded by Dr. Piyusha Atapattu.
1. Web site
Mr. Asith de Silva had provided a sample web site with the quotation of Rs. 92000.00 for design and installation. The committee decided to look at other quotations before making a decision on this offer. Dr. Piyusha Atapattu and Prof. A. Kaluarachchi agreed to look into this.
2. Logo
A logo has submitted by Mr. B. N.T.M. Borukgama. Committee decided that
a. Certain alternations to be made
b. That a legend explaining the contents should also be added
This was discussed with Mr. B. N.T.M. Borukgama
3. Letter head
Members added the titles that they wanted on the letter head.
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4. Office space
No communications have been received from the Dean as yet.
5. Bank account and receipt book
The following details were given by Prof. Jennifer Perera
a. Cheques should be written in favour of COLOMBO MEDICAL SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, account no. 72262672 of Bank of Ceylon, Regent Street Branch.
b. The cheque/ cheque deposit slip together with the application form should be sent to Prof. Jennifer Perera, Treasurer CoMSAA, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 271, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
c. For internet banking or telegraphic transfer please use the following information(Swift code: BCEYLKLX, Bank code : 7010; Branch code : 627) and drop an email to comsaa@rocketmail.com about the transfer.
d. Savings Account no: 72251147 of Bank of Ceylon, Regent Street Branch.
6. Membership drive
A CD containing names and addresses of all doctors registered with SLMC has been obtained.
Graduates from the Colombo Medical Faculty have been identified.
All members agreed to get as many addresses as possible from their batches.
7. News letter
Electronic news letter designed by Dr. B J C Perera and Dr. Chandra Jayasuriya was discussed. Members agreed to the format. Following were appointed to the editorial committee.
 Dr. BJC Perera,
 Dr. Chandra Jayasuriya
 Prof. Manori Senanayake
 Dr. Kavinda Dayasiri
 Dr. Philip Veerasingam
8. Development of a corporate plan
Prof. Harsha Seneviratne agreed to provide summarized version of the detailed corporate plan that he brought to the meeting.
9. The names of following members were proposed for election as co-opted members and unanimously agreed upon
a. Dr. Deepa Wimalasena
b. Dr. Philip Veerasingam
Prof. Athula Kaluarachchi Dr. Saroja Siriwardena
Co-Secretary Co-Secretary

Our revered teachers of the 1960s.

Pictures scanned from an article in the Sunday Times of September 25 2011.

Buildings and memories

The Pathology Block

The Physiology Block

A window of the Library.

I took these pictures on the 1st July 2011 when I went to the Medical Faculty, Colombo. These were taken around 6.45pm. I do hope that these pictures bring back memories of the early 1960s.

Ragupathy's 40th wedding anniversary celebration photos - Still smiling.

A happy man with his children and grandchildren.
All the best wishes of the Batch of 1960 goes to him.

Water-color by Tissa Kappagoda - Koch's Clock-tower and Administrative Block of the Medical Faculty, Colombo.

Tissa did this water colour and had a print-out for sale at Rs.250/-, at our 1960 entrants Batch get together, at Habarana.

1960 entrants Reunion in July 2010, Dambulla, Sri Lanka.

Decisions of the organising committee, for the 1960 entrants batch reunion.

The meeting was held in the house of Durumila on 21/11/2009.

It was attended by Sarath Kapuwaththe, Geri Jayasekara, Buddhi Kaluaratchchi, Ranjan Fernando, Philip Veerasingam, Ranjini Thevarapperuma and Durumila Kumara.

1. Problems regarding the printing of the souvenir were discussed. These included the charges for advertisements in it. Buddhi and Duru promised to get some adverts.

2. The costs for attendance are as follows:-

Single rooms Rs.10,500/- per day

Double rooms Rs.12,000/- per day

Triple rooms Rs.15,000/- per day

A two day booking will cover Friday 2^nd July 2010, Lunch to 4^th July 2010 Sunday Breakfast.

Additional Rs2000/- each for the Gala Dinner on Saturday 3^rd July 2010.

3. There is no advance payment for bookings now

Please give your full name, the type of rooms required and the number of days one or two to the following by email and get confirmation

htlres@keells.com

Ms.Indu. Chandrawansa is dealing with the bookings.

Please keep in mind the heavy bookings in the tourist hotels in Sri Lanka.

You cannot get last minute bookings.

4. There is a special option for anyone resident in Sri Lanka from the 1960 entrants batch, to attend the sessions from outside. The hotel costs for meals for those resident in SLwould be:-

Breakfast – Rs.1400/-

Lunch - Rs.1400/-

Dinner – Rs.2800/-

5. Anyone interested in a trip to Trincomalee and night stay there, after the get-together at Dambulla, should contact us at

1960batch@gmail .com

Have a nice day.

Committee meeting Colombo, 2/10/2009

Kalu Nana, Ranjini Thevarapperuma, Sarath Kapuwaththe, Durumila Kumara, Ranjan Fernando - Photo Philip Veerasingam. Duru has a soft tissue swelling due to /insect bite.

1960 batch

25th reunion 1960 batch

At least three of the children in the picture, taken at our 25 anniversary reunion in Kandy, are now fully qualified doctors. How time has flown by.

Photo 1963, Sivaraja - ?Port health visit.

Phots 1963 - Guess who?

Karunanayake and 'Joe' Srikantha.

For your attention please.

To keep this blog going, we need more photographs of activities past and present, of the medical batch of 1960 Colombo. Please send us your photographs with comments, to the email address below:-

1960medicalbatch@gmail.com.

Thank you.

Guess who? 5.

 Third row - B.Balakrishnan, A.D. Vas Gunawardena, G S Gnanasingam, Nihal Gunaratne.
Second row -D.P.Gunawardhena, B.Kaluaratchi, Chandra.Dissanayake, M.G.S.Karunanayake, T. Rasmuththiah.
First row -Shanthi Fernando, Nalini Rodrigo, Sugi Somanathan, Chitra.De.Silva.

Guess who? 4

Standing 2nd row :-L.R. Amerasekara, L.S. Wettasinghe, C.S. Nannayakkara, H.P.Gunawardena, Sarath Samarasiri

Standing 1st row :- N.Murugananthan, Jayaweera, Lanka Wijesena, T. Fernando, D.P. Gunawardena.

Seated :- Imelda Sayrah, S. Piyasena, K.Ediriweera, Shanthi Fernando.

Guess who? 2.

Standing 2nd row - Milroy De Silva, MB Siri De Silva, Vipula Ariyasena, Dudley Halpe, Fred Spittel, Chandran Ponnambalam.

Standing 1st row - Purushothuma Das, K Ragupathy, D Rajapakshe, HG Punyadasa, Rudra Hoole.

Seated - Anula Nikapota, Angela Wijethunge, Lucky Jayasekara, Sujeeva Ratnayake, Ranjini Thewarapperuma.