ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලීය ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ සියවස් පූර්ණ සැමරුම නිමිත්තෙන් සංඝයා වහන්සේ සියක් නමක් උදෙසා පිදෙන දානමය පිංකම 2022 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 30 වන දින ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලීය ප්‍රධාන ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වෙන අතර, මෙම පුණ්‍ය කර්මයට ඔබගේ බැතිබර දායකත්වය ලබාදී පින් රැස් කරගන්නා ලෙසට ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය ඇරයුම් කර සිටියි.

ඔබගේ මූල්‍යමය පරිත්‍යාග ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලීය ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය නමින් පානදුර ලංකා බැංකු ශාඛාවේ පවතින ගිණුම් අංක 604665 ගිණුමට බැර කරන මෙන් කාරුණිකව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

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REAR ADMIRAL, L H A RANASURIYA RSP & BAR, USP, psc, MSc(Mgt), BSc(DS) Mech Eng, MIM(SL)

Born on 20 th October 1968 and educated at Sri Sumangala College, Panadura. He excelled in both studies and sports throughout his school career. He captained under thirteen and under fifteen cricket teams in school. He has held different appointments in college science, buddhist associations and a prominent active character whilst at school.

He joined General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University as an officer cadet on 14th November 1989 and received his second year training at Naval and Maritime Academy, Trincomalee. On completion of two years successful training period he was commissioned as an Acting Sub Lieutenant on 14 th November 1991. Subsequently he was promoted to the ranks of Sub Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain, Commodore and now to Rear Admiral. He is a distinguished graduate of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. Further, he has obtained Masters degree in Management from General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. He has followed lot of local/foreign courses and visited foreign countries for various seminars/meetings.

He did Sub Lieutenant Technical Course in Sri Lanka and specialized in Communication in India. He underwent training on advanced Electronic Warfare course in Pakistan. He successfully followed staff course in year 2005. He has visited Israel as a member of the crew for the acquisition of Fast Missile Vessel. He has visited Andaman Islands for get together of Navies and Coast Guard. He has followed anti piracy/anti terrorism programme in USA and followedSenior Command Course in China.

During more than 32 years of his naval career he has held number of sea and ashore appointments where he performed very successfully. He has commanded Fast Attack Craft, Passenger ship, Fast Gun Boat and Offshore Petrol Vessel, Fast Missile Vessel named P 411, SLNS Hansaya, SLNS Weeraya, SLNS Jayasagara, SLNS Suranimila. Further, he has served on board Surveillance Command Ships, Sub Chaiser and Landing Craft. Furthermore, he has acted as an instructor in Naval and Maritime Academy and General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. He has commanded naval base of SLNS Mahaweli, acted as Western Region Director of Sri Lanka Coast Guard and Commanding Officer of Coast Guard base SLCG Waruna. Further he has performed duties as naval officer in charge of Poonewa, and Commandant of Naval academy SLNS Shiksha, Deputy Director Naval Training at Naval headquarters, Deputy Director General of Sri Lanka Coast Guard and Deputy Area Commander of South East Naval Command. At present, he is performing duties as Director Naval Internal Audit at Naval Headquarters.

He has been awarded with “Ranasoora Padakkama” medal twice by the HE the president for his bravery acts in the face of enemy and other decorations bestowed to him include Uttama Sewa Padakkama, Sri Lanka Armed Service Long Service medal, Sri Lanka Navy 50th anniversary medal, 50 th anniversary independence medal, North & East operations medal, Poorna Bhoomi medal and Riviresa operation campaign medal.

He married Dulmini in 1998 and blessed with a son and a daughter.

SSCOBA donated a magical amount of Rs.1,320,000/- to the Past Cricketers Association in lieu of the 70th Battle of Golds played between Sri Sumangala College and Moratu Maha Vidyalaya on 29th & 30th July at De Soysa Stadium Moratuwa. It is pertinent to mention that the Association has pocketed out only Rs.200,000/- as per the EXCO approval and Rs.1,120,000/- received from three sponsorships. We take this opportunity to thank the sponsors for making this a success.

The photo shows the handing over of the official donation to PCA President – Mr. Saman Kumara by the SSCOBA officials – Mr. Nimesha Nawalage and Mr. Dinesh Katipearachchi on 30th July at a fellowship held at Panadura Sports Club.

We would like to thank Sumangalian, Managing Director of CSN Fashions (Pvt) Ltd, Shopimo, present Exco Member of SSCOBA, Mr. Sirimantha Ranasuriya for donating and fixing 12 fans in the college auditorium worth more than Rs 200,000/-

Thank you so much for your generosity!

100th Annual General Meeting of SSCOBA was held successfully on 25th June 2022 from 0830hrs onwards at the college auditorium with an overwhelming attendance of members despite the setbacks of the country. New office bearers were appointed for the year 2022/2023.

Mr. Aravinda Perera, a reputed corporate leader in the country has been once again appointed as the President to steer the association in this crucial year. He held the same position from 1994 to 2000. Mr. Nimesha Nawalage & Mr. Dhanuka Kottahachchi were appointed as Joint Secretaries and Mr. Dinesh Ketipearachchi was re-appointed as the Treasurer.

The meeting was attended by the Principal, representatives from other affiliations of OBA including the President of Junior OBA Mr. Geeth Sanjaya, the Vice President of Colombo Branch Mr. Janalal Rodrigo, and the President of Past Cricketers’ Association Mr. Saman Kumara.

A large number of distinguished old boys of various disciplines took part in the event and expressed their views constructively.

The vote of thanks was given by the Jt. Secretary, Mr. Nimesha Nawalage.

We would like to thank Sumangalian, Engineer at Seagate Technologies in Singapore, Mr. Dhammika Sandaruwan Perera from 2003 A/L Batch for making a donation of Rs 27,000/- to the Rugby Development Fund of SSCOBA.

Thank you so much for your generosity!

Centenary (100th) Annual General Meeting of the Sri Sumangala College Old Boys’ Association will be held on Saturday, June 25th, 2022, at the college auditorium from 8:30 am onwards. All members are welcome!

පානදුර ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලයීය ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ ශත සංවත්සර මහා සභාව 2022 ජූනි මස 25 වන සෙනසුරාදා උදැසන 8:30 ට විද්‍යාලයීය ශ්‍රවනාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වේ. සියලු ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සාමාජිකයන්ට ආරාධනා!

අප සංගමයේ පසුගිය වසරේ මෙහෙවර වාර්තාව මෙතනින් බා ගත කර ගන්න: පසුගිය වසරේ මෙහෙවර වාර්තාව

අප සංගමයේ පසුගිය වසරේ ගිණුම් වාර්තාව සියලුම සාමාජිකයන්ට විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල මගින් ලබා දීමට කටයුතු සුදානම් කර ඇත. එසේම අප සංගමයේ වාර්ෂික වාර්තාවේ මුද්‍රිත පිටපතක් ශත සංවත්සර මහා සභාවේදී ලබා ගැනීමට හැක.

Annual Get Together – 2022 of Sri Sumangala College Old Boys’ Association will be held on 25th June 2022 at Jie Jie Beach by Jetwing – Panadura from 7 pm onwards to the tune of INSIGHT.

Three great sons of our Alma Mater – Mr. Anurath Abeyratne (Chairman & Managing Director of Anunine Holdings Pvt Ltd, Korean SPA Packaging Pvt Ltd, Eagle Power (Pvt) Ltd, KSPA Embilipitiya Paper Mills (Pvt) Ltd, Ethimale Plantation (Pvt) Ltd and ATIRE (Pvt) Ltd), Mr. Rohantha De Fonseka (Chairman of C D De Fonseka & Sons Pvt Ltd and Senior Director of Biomed Scientific (Pvt) Ltd) and Mr. Tissa Illeperuma (Founder/Chairman of Naturub Group of Companies) will grace the night as special guests.

Mr. Wilson Kahandagamage, Mr. Vijith Salgado, Mr. Sanath De Silva (three past presidents of SSCOBA) and Mr. Sarath Alwis (former joint secretary of SSCOBA) will be felicitated for their yeoman service towards the success of SSCOBA.

Tickets are priced at 4,000/- and can be obtained from the SSCOBA Exco Members

The organizing committee encourages you to bring your own booze. Otherwise you have the option to purchase them from the hotel at their rates.

All Sumangalians are welcome!

Please call SSCOBA Joint Secretary Dhanuka Kottahachchi on 077 322 4224 or SSCOBA Treasurer Dinesh Ketipearachchi on 077 731 6183 or Vice President Nimesha Nawalage on 071 243 5204 for more details.

We would like to thank Sumangalians, 1996 A/L Batchmates from around the World for collectively making a donation of Rs 1,337,052/- to the “සුමඟුල් රිවි බල” Solar Power System Project of SSCOBA.

Capt. Kasun Hewage – Sri Lanka
Janaka Sudara De Silva – Sri Lanka
Dhanesh Kuruppu – Australia
Daham Dunumadalawa – Canada
Ranjeeva Prasanna Silva – Australia
Shamitha Athukorala – Singapore
Rajith Alwis – Australia
Surandana Adhikaram – Australia
Mayura Edirisinghe – Australia
Menik Deerarathne – Australia
Gayan Shyamal Dehipitiya – Sri Lanka
Vinoth Fernando – Australia
Jagath Nirosh – Australia

Thank you so much for all of your generosity!