email from Nana

Dear Tissa
You have put in so much effort and energy into the production of the "Book of Essays"- (which I would like to call it as "Souvenir Part 11" as it would become a very valuable and a memorable souvenir to all our batch mates). Your decision to send any funds raised from the sales of this memorable book & the cover photos towards our student scholarship Fund is greatly appreciated. You have already proven your generosity and your humility by donating such a large number of computers to the Medical Faculty, to fill a dire need. You did not want any publicity even. Your empathy & the contnuing efforts to improve the present limited facilities provided for the students of the Colombo Medical Faculty will be greatly appreciated by the medicoes in particular and the batch mates & the senior academics in the Medical Faculty in general. Thanks to the generosity of some of our batch mates, I have been very fortunate in negotiating the offer of financial assistance to 2 of the very needy medical students every 5 years. Each student scholarship would cost 2.5 lakhs of rupees. Any extra financial assistance would be most welcome.
Best wishes
Nana C.S.Nanayakkara

email pictures from Yogeswary Kanagaratnam - Kannangara.

email from Tissa - Copies of book of essays & of prints of Medical Faculty Facade.

Copies of the book of essays we prepared for the reunion are available for sale. It is priced at Rs. 600 inclusive of postage (5.50 US$). Those interested in purchasing copies should contact Tissa Kappagoda at: ctkappagoda@hotmail.com
Any profits from the sale of these books will be donated to Nana's fund to help the medical students in the Colombo Faculty.
Giclee prints of the cover are also available ($10.00 + postage). This is the actual cost of production of the prints.
Tissa

email from Kasturi

Dear Organizing Committee,
From the day one, you have been getting nothing but kudos from all around. How come? what about poor us the participants? If we didn't participate en mass, what would have happened? We need plaudits from the organizing committee as well! Jokes apart, dear Organizing committee members, all of us, the participants, are indeed indebted to you lovely bunch of indefatigable people, for being selfless,so considerate and meticulous, going into minor details in giving all of us a memorable get together, which would be reposited indelibly in a safe niche in our hearts for ever! Thank you dear friends, thank you ever so much! We are lucky that our batch is blessed with people like you. A hitch though, you should have left apart at least five precious minutes for questions and answers, especially after a very lucid lecture by an erudite research professor like Geri! At least at this late hour , may I ask Geri the Hon. Professor, whether he made use of live models for checking out his different varieties and sizes of pants and brassiers! I envy him for that. I want to inform him that I have devised a unisex pant, where there is a Zip in the centre, one placed anterially and another in the posterior aspect so that in any eventuality, the wearer can make use of either the anterior or the posterior Zip , depending on the requirement. This I have found, is ideal for emergencies. e.g if you have taken a laxative the previous night and you are stuck in a traffic jam! The wearer can open the Zip in a jiffy. A word of caution though, he or she should be careful in closing the Zip. Take care not to let the Zip catch the piZ. In my next intimation, I will be able to present detailed drawings of the devised pants! Take care, and all the best to every body.
Kasturi (TTK)

email from Makuls Senior.

Dear Philip

Congratulations to you and committee on the excellent get together. It was well organised and we really enjoyed it. Enclosed are a couple of photographs from the last evening including one of the old Colombo South Group! Hope Ramya had a successful operation and is back to normal now. Please convey our best wishes to her Regards

email from Chitra

Dear Batchmates
Returned home yesterday with unforgetable memories of a beautiful reunion of our batch-"extended family". Thank you so much to the Organizing committee especially Kapu, Duru,Phillip, Wedi and Piyaseeli,Pushpa,Titus for the hard work which would have gone into planing such a perfect event.No doubt it would have taken atleast an year to prepare.Thank you Tissa for the editing and the picture of our Medical college which I will treasure.Phillip I have not read your books yet but the first few pages suggest it will be very nostalgic. Now I would like to ask a big favour. Can someone kindly please post 2 Attendance certficates to my Sri Lanka address? 2B DeSilva RoadKalubowilaDehiwelaGU is returning next week and will be able to bring them.Many Thanks again.Chitra

email from Buddy

Hello First Eleven,

Thank you very much for your generosity in joining to gether to get the Spirometer for the Medical College. Here are some photographs of the old and new spirometers with those of us who were lucky to be there at the Medical Faculty on the day. In case there are any who have not yet sent in their contributions to Tony Preena, here again is his address -

Dr. Anthony Preena

49 Solomon Street,

Bendigo 3550

and the cheque is for $ 192.30To the rest, thanks again and please ignore this part of the message.

Yours,

Buddy