50th anniversary reunion of the 1960 entrants to the Colombo Medical Faculty

Dear Colleagues,

Dr.Sarath Kapuwaththe chairing, a committee has been formed, to have a '1960 entrants to the Medical Faculty Colombo', 50th Anniversary reunion.

The date of the reunion would be the THIRD to FIFTH of JULY 2010.

The venue of the reunion would be the HABARANA LODGE, HABARANA, SRI LANKA.

The committee representing arrangements in the USA will be as follows:-

1. Tissa Kappagoda ctkappagoda@hotmail.com

2.Dudley Halpe 

Dudley@earthlink.net

3.Hema De Silva

2docs@comcast.net

4.H Piyasena hpiyasena@bellsouth.net

5. Chandran Ponnambalam acponnambalam@pol.net

6.Jeyendran Gunasekaram gunsie@comcast.net

The committee representing arrangements in the UK will be as follows :-

1. Kamalini Jesudasan kamaliniarul@yahoo.co.uk

2. Udula Pathirana pathidus@yahoo.co.uk

3. CSS Nannayakkara (Kalu Nana) Csn@aol.com

4. Pearl and Sydney Hettiaaratchi pearlhett@aol.com

5. Daya Pandithagunawardana 

daya.pandithagunawardana@googlemail.com

6. Ranjini Pandithagunawardena 

dayagunawardena@uhlhs.uk

The committe representing arrangements in Australia will be as follows :-


1. Lucian Wijethunge lswije@bigpond.com

2. Buddy Reid buddygreid@hotmail.com

3. Sujeeva Ratnayake sujiva@bigpond.net.au




We hope that you would give us your support.

This is a first communication. Please reply to this email address - 1960batch@gmail.com.

Yours sincerely,

Sarath Kapuwaththe

kanka_kapuwatte@hotmail.com

We encourage you to send us any email addresses you have, of our batch-mates, to enable us to contact them re the 50th reunion.

Jeevarani Wijesinghe performing at the 40th Anniversary - Dambulla

A 'skit' being performed, at the 40th Anniversary Reunion at Dambulla.

I am sure you could identify the performers of this 'skit', performed at the reunion at Dambulla.

Buddy Reid playing a melody at the 40th Anniversary get together, Dambulla, Sri Lanka.

The 'poster parade' at the 40th Anniversary get together, Dambulla, Sri Lanka.

The 'Poster Parade' was a regular item at the 'Law-Medical match' during our student days. It was hilarious stuff. At our 40th year reunion at Dambulla, we had a similar poster parade inside a hall. It was a single man show but relived the old hilarious times. I am sorry for the bad quality of the photos, taken on an earlier model digital camera.

Remembering Lalith Mendis, Neil Fonseka and Vasanthanathan.

It is time to recall some of our batch-mates who have passed away. The pictures above show the ever smiling Lalith Mendis who died of a stroke, Neil Fonseka who had a degenerative disease and Vasanthanathan who died of bullet wounds from the IPKF, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.

25th Anniversary get-together, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

I took this picture on an Olympus 10. The late Lalith Mendis, 'Karals' and Pushpa Amarasiri nee Ranasinghe are seen in the picture, all three still young and sprightly..