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Peradeniya university lecturers to be honoured

The 1972 Peradeniya University Arts Faculty Alumni Association has organized a Guru Upahara ceremony on Saturday (May 26) at the University Arts Theater, to honour their teachers of yesteryear.

More than 30 former university lecturers would be felicitated at the event organized to mark the association's 40th anniversary. The chairman of the association G.G.P. Abeysekera said that the university education system in the 1970s was exemplary and there were no divisions among the students, academic staff and the non academic, as prevails in the present university system. The felicitation ceremony will be the first in Sri Lanka where university lecturers are felicitated by their former students in a public ceremony.

Altogether 36 eminent professors and lecturers who served in the Arts (Humanities) Faculty during 1972 -76 would be honoured at this occasion by undergraduates who entered the university in May 1972.

At that time the Peradeniya University was considered to be the best and the premier educational institution of education in Sri Lanka, and that period is marked as the golden era of education in recent history.

The following university lecturers would be feliciated at the ceremony.

Professors G.H. Peiris, J.M. Gunadasa, C.M. Madduma Bandara, R.S Gunawardena, Sumanasiri Liyanage, K.N.O. Dharmadasa, P.B.

Meegaskumbura, Desman Mallikarachchi, Gunapala Dharamsiri, N.D. Samarawickrama, B. Hewawitarana, Sumanasiri Liyanage, Ashly Halpe, Merlin Peiris, Nalin De Silva, Ariya Rajakaruna, Ranjith Amarasinghe, Sinnthambi, Wimal Weerakkody, Premasiri, Dharmadasa, Sisira Pinnawala, Kalinga Tudor De Silva, W.M. Gunathilaka, P.V.J. Jayasekara, W.I. Siriweera, S. Kiribamuna, D. Gunarathna, De Soyza, B. Hewawitarana and D. Samanwickrama.

 

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