Peradeniya university lecturers to be honoured
Atapattu BANDARA
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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