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Photos from AGM 2012 in Sr.Flora Memorial hall 24-5-12

Resolutions

RESOLUTIONS - AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

The General Committee, having studied the constitution of the Old Peterites’ Group of Pre 1970 recommends to the general membership the following amendments to be adopted at the Annual General Meeting to be held on 25th May 2012:

1. Name – “The Batch Group shall be called “The Old Peterites’ Group of Pre 1970” hereinafter referred to as “The Group”. This Group will also be known as the “Peterites’ Batch Group of Pre 1970”

2. Objects – “Primarily to promote fellowship among the members of the group, encourage members of the group to join the Old Boys Union and maintain among them a spirit of loyalty to their Alma Mater and where possible assist the Old Boys Union to achieve their goals”

3. Membership - Any person who had been a student at St. Peter’s College and sat for the G.C.E. (Advance Level) Examination or Higher School Certificate (HSC) University Entrance Examination or G.C.E. (Ordinary Level) Examination or Senior School Certificate (SSC), prior to 1970 or left College prior to 1970, is eligible to obtain membership

4. Office Bearers and limit to term of office – To have One Senior Vice-President and One Vice-President instead of 2 Vice-Presidents and insert the title “Hony. Assistant General Secretary” after Hony. Treasurer, in the rules. This rule to read as follows:

“The General Committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall consist of the President, Immediate Past-President (ex-Officio), One Senior Vice-President, one Vice-President, Hony. General Secretary, Hony. Treasurer, Hony. Assistant General Secretary, Hony. Assistant Treasurer, and a further five members. Provided that no Office Bearer or Committee Member shall hold office for more than three (3) successive terms. However an Office Bearer member who has served three (3) successive terms is eligible to be elected to any other post“

5. Duties of the Hony. Assistant Treasurer - Para (e) - Insert as a last sentence. “The Hony. Assistant Treasurer shall assist the Hony. Treasurer in the conduct of his duties which may be assigned and act for the Hony. Treasurer in his absence”

6. The last sentence - We certify that the foregoing is the Constitution of The Old Peterites Group of 1960 –1970 as adopted at the Inaugural General Meeting held on 26th April 2008 (subsequently changed to The Old Peterites’ Group of Pre 1970) and incorporating all changes adopted if any, at an Annual or Special General Meeting of the Group as the case may be.

For and on behalf of the General Committee

Algi Wijewickrema

Hony. General Secretary 25th April 2012

Annual Report 2011 - 2012

OLD PETERITES’ GROUP OF PRE – 1970

ANNUAL REPORT (2011-2012)

The 2011 Annual General Meeting

The 4th Annual General Meeting of the Old Peterites’ group of Pre 1970 was held at OBU Secretariat on 10th June 2011.

36 members attended the meeting and Bentley Barsenbach was re-elected President while Jayantha Atapattu and Harindra Sirisena were elected as Vice Presidents.

Others elected were:-

• Algi Wijewickrema as Hony. General Secretary and Stanley Lumanauw as Asst. Secretary
• Nihal Wijeratne as Hony. Treasurer and Neville Jayalath as Asst. Treasurer
• Committee members:
• Harold Jansz, Hilal Abdulla, Malcolm Atton, David Crusz, Cyril Wijesena, Desmond Perera, Srinath Fernando & Nihal Perera

Committee Meetings & Attendance

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

No.	Name	Office	Meetings Attended
			No. of Meetings	%
1	Bentley Barsanbech	President	11	73%
2	Jayantha Atapattu	Vice-President	12	80%
3	Harindra Sirisena	Vice-President	14	93%
4	Algi Wijewickrema	Secretary	14	93%
5	Stanley Lumanauw	Asst. Secretary	14	93%
6	Nihal Wijeratne	Treasurer	13	87%
7	Neville Jayalath	Asst. Treasurer	15	100%
8	Hilall Abdulla	Committee Member	11	73%
9	Harold Jansz	Committee Member	13	87%
10	Malcolm Atton	Committee Member	13	87%
11	David Crusz	Committee Member	14	93%
12	Cyril Wijesena	Committee Member	11	73%
13	Srinath Fernando	Committee Member	8	53%
14	Nihal Perera	Committee Member	9	60%
15	Desmond Perera	Committee Member – ceased to be a Committee member *
16	Ravi Fernando	Committee Member (Coopted effective November 2011)	1 (out of 4 meetings)	25%

*Ceased to be a committee member from January 2012 due to absence at over 3 committee meetings

In memoriam

We record with profound sadness the demise of our Founder President, Godfrey Gunatillake in July 2011. He was also the Immediate Past President.

In addition to the death of Godfrey Gunatillake, the following deaths of Peterites from this batch were reported to the Committee during this period:

Shelley Wickremasinghe, Noel Jayasundera, Jude Muttiah, Mohan Abeysekera, Russel Morias, Errol Cramer, Ranjith de Alwis, William de Alwis, Nihal Ranasinghe, Upali Siriwardena, Chandra Grero and also George Suraweera (Staff)

Get together Dinner at “Raja Bojun” – 3rd December 2011

A very well attended dinner was held for members and their spouses at the “Raja Bojun”. This has become a very popular event in the Calendar of not only the members belonging to this group but old Peterites of a younger vintage not to mention other well wishers and Sam the Man kept the toes a tapping with his music

145 tickets were sold and we record with pleasure that the surplus made was Rs. 97,510/-.

The committee thanks the sponsors, well wishers, members all who helped to make a success.

Donation of Scholarships

Appreciating the donation of scholarships by our batch group last year, several old Peterites belonging to this batch, have donated funds to offer more scholarships this year.

Rs.77,500/- received specifically for scholarships from Anil Perera (Australia), Joe Rayan (USA) and Kumar Paul (Snr.) - (Sri Lanka), are highly appreciated by the batch and we have arranged for the donation of 5 scholarships for 2 years through these funds. Although the batch preferred to donate scholarships to A/L or O/L students, since the ones identified by Fr. Rector were from lower grades, the Committee agreed to fund these lower grade students who were in dire need of scholarships.

In addition to these scholarships, the batch group has also arranged to donate 4 scholarships for 1 year through our own funds, including one for a student whose father has been paralysed consequent to a motor accident. This recommendation came from one of our own committee members and the committee agreed on this after verifying the facts.

With this noble act receiving due publicity, the Melbourne branch of the SPC OBU has decided to donate several scholarships which will be to the value of Aus $ 1250 and our batch group is coordinating the donation of these scholarships too.

This will also be arranged later in May or early June.

The Peterite Walk

The OBU has organised the Peterite Walk for 13th May 2012 for the noble cause of renovating the chapel.

Members our batch group decided to participate, thus contributing through the purchase of T shirts and in addition our batch group agreed to donate Rs.50,000/- from our funds towards this cause. It was also decided that if the funds allowed the donation of an additional Rs.25,000/- towards this cause, the donation will be increased. This decision was to be taken closer to the event.

Accounts

The audited accounts will be circulated among members at the meeting (if not prior to it - via email)

Looking Ahead

The committee attempted to resurrect the project of a home for the destitute old Peterites but regrettably was not able to do so. However an old Peterite has come forward with an offer of land in Kegalle for a project of this nature and the batch would like the newly appointed committee to explore the possibility and make its comprehensive recommendations, including the constructing and running of such an institute.

For and on behalf of the committee:

Algi Wijewickrema Bentley Barsanbech

Hony. General Secretary President

e-mail : algi.wijewickrema@gmail

Tel : 077 7730441

2011 AGM minutes

OLD PETERITES’ GROUP OF PRE 1970

THE MINUTES OF THE 4TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE “OLD PETERITES’ GROUP OF PRE 1970” HELD ON 10TH JUNE 2011, AT THE ST. PETER’S COLLEGE OBU SECRETARIAT

The meeting was called to order at 6.55 p.m. by the President, Bentley Barsenbach who was in the chair.

At the invitation of the President Harold Jansz led the opening prayer.

The President said that since the notice convening the meeting had been circulated it was taken as read.

In Memoriam

A minute’s silence was observed in memory of old Peterites of the pre 1970 group and staff whose deaths during the year 2010/11 were brought to the notice of the Committee.

Mention was made of the following:

Rev. Fr. Claver Perera, Dudley Sanis Harold de Silva, Melville Assauw, Lalith Ratnayake, Channa Gunasinghe, Horace Perera, Sarath Sudusinghe, Gamini Mannapperuma, Lalith Peiris, Harold Seneviratne, Francis Gunasekera, Russel Morias, Milton Cooray (Staff), S Sathurukulasingham (Staff) as reported in the Annual Report and the name of Raddy Ferreira was also mentioned at the meeting.

Attendance

The following 36 members attended the meeting.

Bentley Barsanbech, Algi Wijewickrema, Stanley Lumanauw, Cedric Silva, Ranjith de Silva, Trevor Georgesz, David Crusz, A M A de Silva, Harindra Sirisena, Desmond Perera, Nihal Wijeratne, Srinath Fernando, Jayantha Atapattu, Harold Jansz, Neville Jayalath, Cyril Wijesena, Hilal Abdulla, Gabriel de Silva, Nihal Perera, Rodney Martinstyn, Malcolm Atton, Russell Weerappa, Michael Rodrigo, Chandra Fernando, Brian Gomez, I Cumaratunga, H N O R M Perera, Peter Goonetilleke, L M A Gomes, Srinath Kumarasinghe, M M Junaideen, G. St. E Brian Ratnayake, Tudor Jayaratne, Yaseen Omar (34 members)

Some undecipherable names:- U N Hapu….., and one other (2 members)

Excuses

Godfrey Goonathilake, Ravi Fernado, Travis Fernando, Erajh Balasuriya, Barney Caldera

Adoption of the minutes of the 3rd AGM

Malcolm Atton proposed the adoption of the minutes of the 3rd AGM which was seconded by Desmond Perera and was approved by the house.

Adoption of the Annual Report

The adoption of the Annual Report was proposed by Jayantha Atapattu and seconded by Nihal Wijeratne, which too was duly adopted.

With regard to the scholarships awarded by our batch group the Hony. Secretary read out an email received from Anil Perera, a member of our batch group, offering Rs. 59,000/- to support our scholarship scheme.

Adoption of the Statement of Accounts

The adoption of the Statement of Accounts, which was circulated, was proposed by Jayantha Atapattu and seconded by Harindra Sirisena and was approved by the house.

Commenting on the improvement of the financial standing of our batch, the President congratulated the Hony. Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurer and thanked them for a good job done.

Address by the Batch Group President

The President thanked all present and welcomed Roshan Dharmaratne, the President of the OBU and Brian Ratnayake, the Branch President of the London OBU Branch.  He also thanked the Committee for the good work done during the year under review and said that to pursue the aim of running a Senior Citizens’ home for needy Peterites was considered by the Committee to be not practical and hence we would be looking at providing assistance to needy Peterites to find such homes.

He added that the scholarships awarded by the batch were welcomed by Fr. Rector who had assured that these scholarships will go to students supported by single parents.

The President said that the flagship event of this batch was the dinner for members and spouses and said that this year we would be able to accommodate more as the College Hall has been promised by Fr. Rector.

He also said that Fr. Rector had asked us to explore the possibility of helping in the College Archives and that the Committee had agreed to consider this request as our batch would be better suited for this assignment.

Election of Office Bearers for the year 2011/12

Prior to the election of the President, Bentley Barsanbech vacated the Chair and at his invitation, Mr. Roshan Dharmaratne, President of the OBU took the Chair as the pro-tem Chairman.

Post of President

Harold Jansz proposed the name of Bentley Barsenbach for the post of President and Jayantha Atapattu seconded the proposal.

With no other names proposed, Bentley Barsenbach was duly elected as the President and resumed the Chair.

Other Posts

Post Nominee/s Proposed By Seconded By

Vice President (2 posts) Jayantha Atapattu Proposed from the Chair

Harindra Sirisena -do-

Hony. Secretary Algi Wijewickrema Proposed from the Chair

Hony. Asst. Secretary Stanley Lumanauw    Algi Wijewickrema Harindra Sirisena

Hony. Treasurer Nihal Wijeratne Harold Jansz David Crusz

Hony. Asst. Tresurer Neville Jayalath Nihal Wijeratne Jayantha Atapattu

Committee Members

Nihal Perera Algi Wijewickrema David Crusz

Harold Jansz    Proposed from the Chair

Hilal Abdulla    -do-

Desmond Perera Harold Jansz David Crusz

David Crusz Malcolm Atton Jayantha Atapattu

Malcolm Atton Harold Jansz David Crusz

Co-opted Committee Members

Cyril Wijesena Malcolm Atton Jayantha Atapattu

Srinath Fernando Jayantha Atapattu Harold Jansz  

Election of an Hony. Auditor

The name of Cedric Silva was proposed by Gabriel de Silva and was seconded by Harindra Sirisena and accordingly Cedric Silva was duly elected Hony. Auditor.

Any Other Business

SPC OBU

The house invited the OBU President to keep them informed of the affairs of the OBU and the Roshan Dharmaratne said that this group was one of the more vibrant and active groups and said that this was evident from the healthy bank balance. He said that the OBU had an excellent dance which realised Rs.13.5 million part of which was used for a project to repair and refurbish all the toilets in the College and also the pavilion. Answering a question raised by Jayantha Atapattu regarding swimming not reaching acceptable levels unlike some other sports, Roshan explained that all the sports which were supported by foundations were doing well and that last year a foundation was formed for academic activities and the results were encouraging with many entering the university and one student topping the A/L results from Colombo district. He added that while swimming did not have a foundation, this could be one of the tasks that the new OBU committee would have to undertake in 2011/12.

Batch Group Matters

Harold Jansz suggested that we announce the date for the dinner as early as possible.

Srinath Fernando said that the idea of the Elders’ home should not be abandoned and Brian Ratnayake said that a proper feasibility study needs to be done before assistance can be sought from any source.

The President said that these matters would be taken up as appropriate by the new committee.

Conclusion

There being no other business, the meeting concluded at 7.30 p.m. with short eats and cool drinks served.

Hony. General Secretary

Algi Wijewickrema