home A Night To Remember
Dinner in honour of Mr. Nimal
De Silva
Saturday October 15th 2005 at Campbell Park - Sri Lanka
Wesley teacher for 33
years & the master in Charge of Cricket for 25 years
The most famous and the highest paid professional sportsman in school's 130 year history, Sri Lankan
test
cricketer Farveeze Maharoof broke the traditions and hugged his master in
charge of cricket when he
presented Mr. Nimal De Silva a plaque which stated
" Nimal Sir, In recognition of your loyalty, dedication,
generosity and highest level of Integrity.
25 years of memories we treasure "
- Past cricketers of Wesley College.
Mr. Suppiah Wesley athletics
and Hockey master in charge of 1970's and 80's
introduced
Mansar Jahn as the only Wesleyite to captain the nation in any sport for the
past 30 years
(Sri Lanka Hockey captain 1994). Mansar was invited to present the main gift
to
Mr. Nimal De Silve & Mrs De Silva - Two return tickets to Australia.
Wesley College hockey legend , brilliant all rounbd sportsman of
late 70's and early 80's giving away the gift. Mr Suppiah also
paid tribute to the brother of Mansar, the great Malik Jahn who died in 1984.
He said " I didn't even cry for my father's funeral,
but I cried for his. Malik Jahn for me is the greatest Wesley boy.
Our Hero
" He is the master at Wesley of
whom I carry the fondest memories and whom I hold in the greatest respect. And
this ,
without him ever teaching me in a classroom environment. The reason
.....he did his best for us during our junior cricket
days , treated us with respect and love ( putha was the word he used to
address all of us by ) , dedicated himself a
hundred per cent to the task at hand , and taught us discipline and
integrity !!! I carry this with me even today. "
- Sridhar Kanakasabapathy ( cricketer 1976 - 1982)
" He was one of the kindest teachers I have ever met.“ - Dilu De Alwis USA Cricket Captain - 1976
" As small kids we wanted
to walk behind this teacher. But he did not let us walk behind him, he walked
with us.
....We Sri Lankan are sometimes reluctant to use the words "champion" and
"great". But no matter how strictly one uses
those two words, they are appropriate to describe the unique human being
whose achievements we celebrate this evening."
- Mahendra Dissanayake ( cricketer 1976 - 1985
)
Greetings and salutations from all over the world -
click here to download slides shown on the giant screen as a PDF file (file size 178kb)
Organizing committee : Roshan Dassananyake , Darshana Liyanage, Prasad
Amarasekara, Prakash Selvarajah,
Mahendra Dissanayake & Mithri
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