Notice of the Annual General Meeting And Annual Report (2010-2011)

OLD PETERITES GROUP OF PRE – 1970

Notice of the Annual General Meeting

And

Annual Report (2010-2011)

OLD PETERITES GROUP OF PRE 1970

Notice of the Annual General Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the 4^th Annual General Meeting of the Old Peterites Group of Pre 1970 will be held at the OBU Lounge of St. Peter’s College (lower ground floor) on Friday, 10^th June 2011 at 6.45 p.m.

Agenda for the Annual General Meeting

1. Read Notice convening the meeting
2. Opening Prayer
3. Two minutes silence in memory of Old Boys and Satff who have passed away during the year
4. Excuses
5. Adoption of the minutes of the 3^rd AGM
6. Adoption of the Annual Report 2010/11
7. Adoption of the Accounts for the year 2010/11
8. Address by the President
9. Resolutions
10. Election of Office Bearers

The following Office Bearers will be elected:

• Hony. President
• Vice-President – 2 posts
• Hony. General Secretary
• Hony. Assistant Secretary
• Hony. Treasurer
• Hony. Assistant Treasurer
• 6 Committee Members

11. Election of Auditor
12. College Anthem

By order of the Committee

Algi Wijewickrema

Hony. General Secretary

25^th May 2011

THE ANNUAL REPORT (2010 – 2011)

Minutes of the 3^rd AGM

The AGM of the group was held at OBU Secretariat on 4^th June 2010.

38 members attended the meeting and Bentley Barsenbach was re-elected Hony. President while Ravindra Fernando and Jayantha Atapattu were re-elected as Hony. Vice-Presidents.

Others elected were:-

Hony. General Secretary - Algi Wijewickrema, Hony. Asst. Secretary – Stanley Lumanauw, Hony. Treasurer - Nihal Wijeratne, Hony. Asst. Treasurer - Neville Jayalath.

General Committee members – Harold Jansz, Harindranth Sirisena, Hilal Abdulla, Malcolm Atton, David Crusz, Cyril Wijesena and Desmond Perera

Immediate Past President - Godfrey Gunathilake

Committee Meetings & Attendance

13 committee meetings were held and attendance of Committee Members at these meeting was as follows:-

No.	Name	Office	Meetings Attended
			No. of Mtgs	%
1	Bentley Barsanbech	President	13	100%
2	Ravi Fernando	Vice-President	11	84.6%
3	Jayantha Atapattu	Vice-President	10	76.9%
4	Algi Wijewickrema	Secretary	12	92.3%
5	Stanley Lumanauw	Asst. Secretary	12	92.3%
6	Nihal Wijeratne	Treasurer	12	92.3%
7	Neville Jayalath	Asst. Treasurer	9	69.2%
8	Hilall Abdulla	Committee Member	11	84.6%
9	Harindra Sirisena	Committee Member	10	76.9%
10	Harold Jansz	Committee Member	10	76.9%
11	Malcolm Atton	Committee Member	12	92.3%
12	David Crusz	Committee Member	12	92.3%
13	Cyril Wijesena	Committee Member	11	84.6%
14	Desmond Perera	Committee Member	12	92.3%

We record with regret that our Immediate Past President was unable to attend meetings due to ill health.

In Memoriam

We place on record the passing away of the following Old Peterites and members of staff (based on information received by our Batch):

Rev. Fr. Claver Perera, Dudley Sanis, Harold de Silva, Melville Assauw, Lalith Ratnayake, Channa Gurusinghe, Horace Brohier, Sarath Sudusinghe, Gamini Manapperuma, Lalith Peiris, Harold Seneviratne, Francis Gunasekera, Russel Morais, Milton Cooray (Staff) and Sathurukulasingham (Staff)

Get together Dinner at D. B. U. Hall – 27^th November 2009

A very well attended dinner was held for members and their spouses at the DBU hall with music for dancing by Sam the Man.  This has become a very popular event in the Calendar of the members and well wishers belonging to this group and Sam the Man kept toes a tapping with his music.

124 members, wives and well wishers attended this event and all enjoyed the evening.

The surplus recorded was Rs.251,386/-.

The Committee thanks the sponsors, well wishers, members and all who helped to make this event a success

Donation of Scholarships

Based on a decision taken by the Committee, a total of 7 scholarships were donated for the year 2011, for needy students attending St. Peter’s College. Out of the 7 scholarships donated, 5 were from the Batch funds while 2 were from the President, Bentley Barsanbech and the Vice-President, Jayantha Atapattu.

The value of the Scholarships donated was Rs.59,500/-

Rev. Fr. Rector, to whom our batch made this presentation, thanked the batch and assured that these will be used for needy students who in most cases were supported by single parents finding it difficult to meet the students’ expenses.

The Committee hopes to make this an annual award, depending on availability of funds.

50 Over Match At The Oval 12^th March 2010

38 of our members and some guests of our group were present at the enclosure allotted for us to enjoy the 50 over match against St. Joseph’s.

The members present enjoyed the occasion thoroughly although we regretted the loss to St. Joseph’s.

Caps

The batch produced 100 caps for sale among members and well wishers.

A limited number of caps are available priced at Rs.500/- each and are fast selling.

Appointment of the Auditor

As an Hony. Auditor was not appointed at the AGM, the Committee agreed to appoint Lalith Dabera as the Hony. Auditor and the Committee wishes to thank the Hony. Auditor for conducting the audit of the accounts

Accounts

The unaudited Accounts for the year 01st April 2010 to 31st March 2011 showed an excess of Income over Expenditure of Rs. 316,411.29 as against the last year’s figure of Rs.122,920.14.

St. Peter’s College Archives

Fr. Rector has requested our Batch to undertake the cataloguing and documenting records of the College Archives.

A team from the Committee will arrange for this to be commenced.

Looking Ahead

Though we had plans to start and manage a home for destitute old Petes, it is clear that such a venture would not be practical and the Committee suggests that the next Committee look at the possibility of assisting in the placing needy Peterites to Elders’ Homes which are professionally run by charitable Catholic institutions.

Algi Wijewickrema                          Bentley Barsanbech

Hony. General Secretary                 Hony. President

47/3, St. Rita’s Road,Mount Lavinia       57/11, Railway Avenue, Nugegoda

e-mail : algi.wijewickrema@gmail          e-mail: Bentley@eureka.lk

Tel : 077 2981330                                   Tel.071 2747728

THE COLLEGE ANTHEM

Chorus

Lend a heart and lend a hand,

And lift the flag on high,

Let its glorious colours give,

A greeting to the sky

Golden gleam and Silver sheen,

And blue that crowns the world,

Set the flag aflying boys,

And keep the flag unfurled.

While in boyhood here we linger,

Mid a garden’s fragrant flowers,

Who will dare to point a finger

When such joys are ours?

Work enduring, play alluring,

Fill our happy hours,

Ills all curing, health ensuring,

In St. Peter’s bowers

And our flag is floating proudly,

Let us sing it praises loudly

(Repeat chorus)