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