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Closing date for contribution of articles - 15th February 2011
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
MegaUnion - Colombo batches 1960 thereabout.
Dear 1960s colleagues of Colombo Medical Faculty,
The megaUnion is on the 13th March Sunday at the Oberoi ( Cinnamon Grand) from 7.15pm to around midnight.
Includes dinner wines, music singing and dancing- our style.
Expenses about Rs 5000/ as I know at present.
We shall be there from different batches.
Please reply about your joining with copy to JB Peiris so he could book an appropriate hall in time.
Happy New Get Together 2011
Susiri
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Death of Sugi Somanathan nee Eliyathamby's husband
Dear Batch mates,
I was informed by Kamalini Jesudasan that our batch mate Sugi Somanathan nee Eliyathamby's HUSBAND has expired.
'Yes I did attend Sugi's husbands funeral. It was after the first heavy snowfall. I have kept in touch with Sugi, we know her husband very well.
Kamalini'
Sugi's email address is :-
sugisomanathan@googlemail.com
For your information.
Philip G Veerasingam
I was informed by Kamalini Jesudasan that our batch mate Sugi Somanathan nee Eliyathamby's HUSBAND has expired.
'Yes I did attend Sugi's husbands funeral. It was after the first heavy snowfall. I have kept in touch with Sugi, we know her husband very well.
Kamalini'
Sugi's email address is :-
sugisomanathan@googlemail.com
For your information.
Philip G Veerasingam
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Jungle Tavern - email sent by Nihal Gooneratne.
READ BEFORE WATCHING ......
This is a video from a French documentary about Africa. You may not understand the narrative, but the video is a hoot and self explanatory.
There are Marula trees which grow in Africa. This is the fruit that is used in the production Amarula Liqueur.
Once a year, the tree produces a very juicy fruit, which contains a large percentage of alcohol. Because of the shortage of water at this time of year, as soon as the fruits are ripe, animals come there to help themselves to protect from the heat and get nourishment. You can easily tell who overindulged...
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=f9f9290c98&view=att&th=12da76680947565d&attid=0.1&disp=attd&realattid=6d906fb14035ee31_0.1&zw
This is a video from a French documentary about Africa. You may not understand the narrative, but the video is a hoot and self explanatory.
There are Marula trees which grow in Africa. This is the fruit that is used in the production Amarula Liqueur.
Once a year, the tree produces a very juicy fruit, which contains a large percentage of alcohol. Because of the shortage of water at this time of year, as soon as the fruits are ripe, animals come there to help themselves to protect from the heat and get nourishment. You can easily tell who overindulged...
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=f9f9290c98&view=att&th=12da76680947565d&attid=0.1&disp=attd&realattid=6d906fb14035ee31_0.1&zw
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Appreciation - Isabella Liyanage nee Nallamanicam by Lakshman Karalliedde
'The Island' - 16th January 2011.
ISABELLA LIYANAGE-Nee NALLAMANICAM -AN INSPIRING LIFE
My first exposure to the Liyanage family was in the early 1950’s during the (then) annual boxing fixture between Royal and Trinity. In three weight divisions, a Liyanage was at the Royal corner and they all fisted the respective Trinity opponents into total submission. In 1960, the middle one-Sunil and Isabella started their medical studies at the Colombo Medical Faculty with me. My friendship with Sunil developed with great rapidity and their home at Gregory’s Avenue was my second home in Colombo. Isabella most aptly described in the Eulogy was immaculate, statuesque, confident and intelligent and uncomfortable but tolerant of the ‘K’s in the batch whose behavior was far from the accepted norms. Sunil, in contrast to his aggressive style in the boxing ring- he battered his opponent at the inter-university championship, was quiet except at block concerts, impish, extremely quick witted with an uncanny poker faced sense of humour. I also knew Isabella’s mother, who first showed me how to care for an infant when Niran, Sunil’s and Isabella’s eldest son was born and Sunil’s mother –Auntie Valerie who at 95 years of age is an avid reader and a computer wizard. Sunil’s late father was known to all of us –affectionately referred to as Patron.
Sunil and Bella left for the UK, shortly after their house jobs in 1967. Both reached commendable heights professionally, with Isabella winning the Gold Medal at the final Radiology Examination, switching to radiology after her membership examination in Medicine. Sunil became a consultant rheumatologist working with a distinguished consultant colleague. They were one of the very few medical couples appointed as Consultants to the same hospital trust which was in one of the most affluent regions in the UK-Windsor-not known only for the castle, as the hospitals served the top rung of society in Windsor, Ascot and Virginia Waters (popularly known as the stock broker belt). Both Bella and Sunil were made honorary members of the Windsor and District Medical Association with the likes of Barbara Ansell.
Isabella, as the sole Consultant Radiologist initially was responsible for developing the specialty in the region to the highest standards in the UK.
When I arrived in the UK for my post-graduate studies in 1970, they hosted me at Reading and introduced the ‘country cousin’ to the British culture which included visits to the pub, lessons on the football league and horse racing. Their home at Virginia Waters was always open to me when I visited England between 1976 and 1989. They were wonderful hosts, generous and genuine.
Both Sunil and Bella treated with empathy and compassion several patients who were near and dear to Kanthi and self. They also looked after our health. On one occasion, to relieve our extreme anxiety, Bella requested a radiology unit to be opened on a Sunday morning at a private Hospital in Windsor, after telephoning her on Saturday evening, to conduct radiological examinations and her expert opinion was about one of the most reassuring and anxiety relieving moments in our lives. In addition, her expert opinion silenced a department of radiology at a London Teaching Hospital.
They provided the best educational opportunities for their two sons, educating them at Eton and later at Oxford, with Yohan obtaining a doctorate from Cambridge. A noble quality which I admired in both Sunil and Bella was that they never provided unsolicited advice but was always available to facilitate and/or provide assistance when requested.
During the past two decades Sunil and I continued with our passion for horse racing with frequent e-mails and text messages which amused our spouses as our selections often fell at the first fence or hurdle or never ended up amongst the first three in flat racing. Nevertheless, we persisted and survived.
Bella’s determination, discipline and dedication to provide nothing but the best for Sunil, Niran, Yohan , the specialty and colleagues and the community she served and friends was in the least admirable. She displayed her inner strengths and courage coping for a long period with an illness for which she was aware that there was no known cure, continuing with her work and helping the family and the community she served. She never wavered, whimpered or worried about her health.
An inspiring life.
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and Time's busy fingers are not practiced in re splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Bella-You have left treasured memories of a precious friendship.
Lakshman Karalliedde
ISABELLA LIYANAGE-Nee NALLAMANICAM -AN INSPIRING LIFE
My first exposure to the Liyanage family was in the early 1950’s during the (then) annual boxing fixture between Royal and Trinity. In three weight divisions, a Liyanage was at the Royal corner and they all fisted the respective Trinity opponents into total submission. In 1960, the middle one-Sunil and Isabella started their medical studies at the Colombo Medical Faculty with me. My friendship with Sunil developed with great rapidity and their home at Gregory’s Avenue was my second home in Colombo. Isabella most aptly described in the Eulogy was immaculate, statuesque, confident and intelligent and uncomfortable but tolerant of the ‘K’s in the batch whose behavior was far from the accepted norms. Sunil, in contrast to his aggressive style in the boxing ring- he battered his opponent at the inter-university championship, was quiet except at block concerts, impish, extremely quick witted with an uncanny poker faced sense of humour. I also knew Isabella’s mother, who first showed me how to care for an infant when Niran, Sunil’s and Isabella’s eldest son was born and Sunil’s mother –Auntie Valerie who at 95 years of age is an avid reader and a computer wizard. Sunil’s late father was known to all of us –affectionately referred to as Patron.
Sunil and Bella left for the UK, shortly after their house jobs in 1967. Both reached commendable heights professionally, with Isabella winning the Gold Medal at the final Radiology Examination, switching to radiology after her membership examination in Medicine. Sunil became a consultant rheumatologist working with a distinguished consultant colleague. They were one of the very few medical couples appointed as Consultants to the same hospital trust which was in one of the most affluent regions in the UK-Windsor-not known only for the castle, as the hospitals served the top rung of society in Windsor, Ascot and Virginia Waters (popularly known as the stock broker belt). Both Bella and Sunil were made honorary members of the Windsor and District Medical Association with the likes of Barbara Ansell.
Isabella, as the sole Consultant Radiologist initially was responsible for developing the specialty in the region to the highest standards in the UK.
When I arrived in the UK for my post-graduate studies in 1970, they hosted me at Reading and introduced the ‘country cousin’ to the British culture which included visits to the pub, lessons on the football league and horse racing. Their home at Virginia Waters was always open to me when I visited England between 1976 and 1989. They were wonderful hosts, generous and genuine.
Both Sunil and Bella treated with empathy and compassion several patients who were near and dear to Kanthi and self. They also looked after our health. On one occasion, to relieve our extreme anxiety, Bella requested a radiology unit to be opened on a Sunday morning at a private Hospital in Windsor, after telephoning her on Saturday evening, to conduct radiological examinations and her expert opinion was about one of the most reassuring and anxiety relieving moments in our lives. In addition, her expert opinion silenced a department of radiology at a London Teaching Hospital.
They provided the best educational opportunities for their two sons, educating them at Eton and later at Oxford, with Yohan obtaining a doctorate from Cambridge. A noble quality which I admired in both Sunil and Bella was that they never provided unsolicited advice but was always available to facilitate and/or provide assistance when requested.
During the past two decades Sunil and I continued with our passion for horse racing with frequent e-mails and text messages which amused our spouses as our selections often fell at the first fence or hurdle or never ended up amongst the first three in flat racing. Nevertheless, we persisted and survived.
Bella’s determination, discipline and dedication to provide nothing but the best for Sunil, Niran, Yohan , the specialty and colleagues and the community she served and friends was in the least admirable. She displayed her inner strengths and courage coping for a long period with an illness for which she was aware that there was no known cure, continuing with her work and helping the family and the community she served. She never wavered, whimpered or worried about her health.
An inspiring life.
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and Time's busy fingers are not practiced in re splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Bella-You have left treasured memories of a precious friendship.
Lakshman Karalliedde
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Sri Lanka through the eyes of a Surgeon.
Please click on the following to see a review of the book 'Cry of the devil-bird'.
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/01/09/sri-lanka-through-the-eyes-of-a-surgeon/
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/01/09/sri-lanka-through-the-eyes-of-a-surgeon/
email from Sunil Liyanage
Dear friends,
I write to convey thanks from our sons Niran and Yohan, Bella’s brother Indran, and from myself to all friends who got in touch with us, whether by email, phone call, card or with flowers. We were touched by your comments and by your expression of sympathy. There were over 300 people in Church; and we reckon half of them came home afterwards.
The eulogies were given by friend and colleague Philip Reginald who spoke about Bella’s work, and by our older son Niran who spoke about Bella from a personal and family perspective.
These are attached to this email.
If you have difficulty in opening the attachments, and would still wish to read them, please get in touch we me directly, sunilpl@btconnect.com and I will send an open Word document.
With our thanks and love
Sunil
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