Text Box: S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia Class of ’75 (O/L) Association. Minutes of the 23rd Annual General  held at CAPRI CLUB on the 10th March 2006.  

 

Text Box: S.T.C. Mt. Lavinia. Class of ‘75

 


                                                             


 

 

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The President, R.C.P.Gooneratne , in the chair.

1.    The notice convening the meeting having been posted to the members.

2.    The minutes of the 22nd AGM:
Held on 6th March 2005 having also been posted to members prior to the meeting, the President requested that they be taken as read.

With Shanaka de Livera proposing and Lalith Dassenaike seconding the minutes were accepted & confirmed.

3.    Accounts for the year 2005-2006: The accounts which had been distributed earlier were then taken up. After discussion Rehan Fernando proposed and C.P. Richards seconded that the accounts be adopted. It was duly adopted.

4.    Election of Office bearers for 2006: Shanaka de Livera took the chair as pro-tem chairman.  R.C.P. Gooneratne was re-elected President.

Unlike the previous AGMs, there was no election.  Members were identified and contacted prior to the AGM and consent obtained and the names were read out by the President.  Valuable time wasted on long drawn out election procedures was saved as a result which also provided additional time for discussion of other important agenda items and issues.

The following office bearers were duly elected.

      President: R.C.P. Gooneratne

      Vice President: Vasantha Jayasuriya

      Secretary: Lalith Dassenaike

      Asst. Secretary: S. Kumaranathan

      Treasurer: Kapila Peiris

      Committee: R. Vinothan

                         S. Barathamanickam

                         Aith Sirisena

                         D.R. Fernando

                         Dr. Manjula Karunaratne

                         Suresh Ganeshan

                         Raju Mathew

                         Ravi Goonethileka

5.    President’s address:  RCP thanked the members for being present at the Get-together.  It was noted that we had around 51 members at the commencement of the meeting.  He also thanked the very active and committed committee for all the hard work during the year and for faithfully meeting once a month in the “spirit” of things!  He also noted the strong and active network in operation especially the well organized database and the number of overseas members now on-line.  This facilitated many opportunities of meeting up with our overseas colleagues who visit Sri Lanka.  As a result during the year we were able to meet with more than 10 overseas colleagues namely Meth Gunawardena, Chanaka Yatawara, Gyan Fernanco, Hiran de Mel,  Devapriya Senanayake, Keith Obeysekera, Ariyanayagam, Monindra Gunasekera, Pata Wijesinghe, Kavan Munasinghe, Dinesh Warnakulasuriya and others. 

6.    Any other business:  The following issues were discussed:

a.    More support for College activities – The committee supported the College in purchasing a rowing boat, support to the monthly breakfast for the oarsmen and was planning on contributing towards new curtains for the college hall.  Many members had very generously supported these activities in numerous ways.

b.    The members unanimously agreed that the AGM and social should be held on the night of the 2nd day (i.e. Friday) of the match. 

c.    Class of 75 T-shirts were printed for the AGM for which credit goes to Vinothan for doing a great job. 

d.    It was decided that an updated address book will be ready in time for the next AGM. 

e.    Support for STC Gurutalawa was discussed at length with different view points and suggestions being expressed.  RCP mentioned that the proposal and thereby support requested by Warden was only a temporary measure.  Finally it was agreed that the new committee would take up the matter and take appropriate decisions. 

f.     There was also a discussion with regard to the support to College drama.  Here again no firm decisions were made with mixed opinions being expressed. 

g.    It was unanimously agreed that fund raising was a priority both in terms of meeting needs of the College as well as in view of the upcoming 25 year celebrations of the Association in 2008. 

h.    Thanks go out to Vasantha who screened a DVD of previous Socials.  To see us much more active on the dance floor and in “high” spirits was very enlightening to say the least which provided that extra vigour to carry on partying till the wee hours of the morning! 

7.    The meeting adjourned with the singing of the College Song. 

Lalith Dassenaike

Secretary

 

 

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