St. Peter’s College Old Boys’ Union holds AGM

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St. Peter’s College Old Boys’ Union held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday, 29 June. The day’s proceedings commenced with Holy Mass concelebrated by no less than seven priests including the Rector, Fr. Trevor Martin and two Old Boy Priests. The Rector’s breakfast was enjoyed by all present which preceded the AGM. At the AGM, Fr. Rector in his address stressed the importance of education, discipline and the inculcation of values at St. Peter’s. He said that he has launched two projects already with improving of education and values in mind. With the establishment of an exam culture at College and introduction of a value based culture, he said that he had no doubt that St. Peter’s will be the number one school in Sri Lanka. He emphasised the need for encouraging students to perform at their best, be it in studies, sports, co-curricular or extra-curricular activities and for the teachers to be innovative in the imparting of knowledge. He concluded by thanking the OBU for the support extended to him and while thanking the outgoing President and committee, he wished the President to be elected and the new committee God’s blessings. The out-going President Dr. Nicholas Jayasekera having presented the achievements of his Committee during the year 2013/14, thanked the Committee and wished the new President to be elected all the best. Before the conclusion of the meeting, the newly-elected President Romeish de Mel thanked the out-going President for the tremendous amount of work done and pledged to continue the good work. He also said that he would do everything possible to assist Fr. Rector to achieve the laudable objectives that he has already set for St. Peter’s. The Office Bearers elected for the year 2014/15 are as follows:

Patron: Rev. Fr. Trevor Martin (Rector)
Vice Patrons: Rev. Fr. Felician Perera (Ex-officio), Rev. Fr. Travis Gabriel (Ex-officio), Lankamanya (Dr.) Lester James Peiris, Prof. Willie Mendis, Prof. Ashley Halpe, Kumar Paul (Snr.), Mano Chanmugam, Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonathileke, Dr. Ananda Soysa, Eardley Thilakarathne, Prof. Rohan Jayasekera, Nivard Cabraal.

President: Romeish de Mel
Immediate Past President: Surgeon Rear Admiral Nicholas Jayasekera
Nominated Past Pre-sidents: Gerry de Mel, Suranga Seneviratne, Roshan Dharmaratne
Vice Presidents: Asela Lihinikaduwa, Chanaka Goonewardene, Hans Beekmeyer, Rohan Anthony, Sanjeeva Abeygoonewardene, Vishal Rodrigo, Noel Cooray (Rector’s Nominee).
General Secretary: Algi Wijewickrema
Asst. General Secretary: Haariz Rahman
Treasurer: Dion Saverimuttu
Asst. Treasurer: Shiran Yatagama
Editor: Sujith Silva
Asst. Editor: Ravika de Silva
General Committee Mem-bers: Jerry Anderson, Maj. Jayantha Atapattu (Ret.), Deepthi Jayamaha, Dushantha Gunewardene, Aruna Perera, Ramesh Fonseka, Dinesh Rodrigo, Ashley Fonseka, Lindsay Melder, Warren Dalton, Dasty Ismail, Vinod de Silva, Kumantha Ranasinghe, Shanushka Perera, Nilanka Peiris, Vidarshan Dabera, Shamal Perera, Randy Roche, Kevin Edwards, Charles Wijesooriya, Navin Fonseka.