ReadPART IPART IIPART IIIBy the beginning of the third year there were many in Akbar Nell Hall who chose to move out from the “dry zone” to the “wet zone”. I suppose the opportunity to meet a wide range of students from other faculties particularly the girls was the most obvious attraction for the shift. Having not lived on the ...
Read: PART IPART IIIn the second year, as Halls of Residence were not provided we had to stay outside the Campus. Most of the batch found accommodation in rooms of E-quarters, and boarding homes in Penideniya, Meewatura and the surrounding neighbourhood. Seven of us were lucky to find lodging in a large, comfortable home at Handessa, where facilities, food and ...
Read PART-Iby Maximus Jayantha Anandappa (1972-75 batch)If Machine Drawings were a mystery, then the Workshop Practicals was penance. Foundry, Carpentry and the Lathe Machine were not my cup of tea- though the workshop-staff was exceptionally supportive and sympathetic (when we messed up or broke hack-saw blades) like the down to earth lecturer Mr S Amaradasa. It always mystified me that ...
PART-IHere is my feeble attempt for old time sake to capture the moods of those bygone days. I admit this is a fragment- a pale weak account, an apology for something more vivid, more evocative. You might say I have missed the more remarkable moments and people. But I will count on you to put up with such omissions. If ...
(Published in: http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/6425#more-6425)‘A biography by its very nature’, writes Michael Colin Cooke, in setting the scene for the Bopage Story, ‘reveals a life not only of an individual but of the society and times of that individual.’ A person’s life story, however, can be told in different ways. A biography may be rich in minutiae and fail to go sufficiently ...
Published in www.lakbimanews.lkThere is no one mould into which all great men fit; some are remembered for an achievement or a contribution that changed the world, others for the influence they had on those who came in touch with them, still others for style, or honour, or for a job well done over a lifetime. In the narrower ambit of ...
(Published at: www.lakbimanews.lk)All of us who were students of Batho in the Faculty of Engineering Peradeniya were deeply affected when we got the following message from his son Brian. “After a lifetime spent in the unselfish devotion to the interest of others Prof. Frederick Bartholomeusz peacefully went to his rest today, October 22nd 2011, at the age of 91 surrounded ...
(First published at: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=38921)Professor Munidasa P Ranaweera’s recent glowing tribute to the late Professor Everard Frederick Bartholomeusz (1920-2011) titled "Engineering Mathematics Professor, a Great Mentor and Lifelong Inspiration" prompted me to add this personal note on "Batho" as we all affectionately called him during our university days. The distinguished Founder Professor of Engineering Mathematics at the Universi
Engineering mathematics professor, a great mentor and lifelong inspiration(First published at: http://sundaytimes.lk/111030/Plus/plus_04.html)Professor E. F. Bartholomeusz, Founder Professor of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Peradeniya, passed away on October 22 in Phoenix, Arizona, in the US. He was one of the most respected academics at the University of Peradeniya, and was a great teacher, much loved by all of his ...
The Lionel Bopage Story (written by Michael Cooke) SYNOPSIS:This biography looks at the post-independence history of Sri Lanka (from 1948 on) through the eyes of one of its prominent left wing activists – Lionel Bopage.Sri Lanka is an example of a country that has paid a terrible price for the failure to convert its ethnic diversity into a wider national ...
I am writing this to extend my heart felt gratitude to one of the best teachers I had at Pera eFac, Prof. Sivasegaram or Siva as he was popularly known.Comparison with CLVJ would have made him shine brighter but even on absolute terms he was such a friendly man from whom I could ask some clarification even on a corridor ...
Sisira Adikari has written a reply to Prof Sivasegaram.First read Sisira's article that was serialsed in this blog recently.Parts I & II - Paving the Way to Clear Applied Electricity BacklogPart III - Aftermath of the boycottPart IV - Student clas
Professor S Sivasegaram has sent us the following eMail.Dear Editor I think that some of the recent articles are in bad taste. There is a tendency to settle old scores with people. Several of the personal comments are inaccurate and suggest dubious mot
READ: Parts I & II - Paving the Way to Clear Applied Electricity BacklogPart III - Aftermath of the boycottPart IV - Student clash on the final dayPart V: RevengeThroughout my time from first year to the departure from the faculty (approximately
READ: Parts I & II - Paving the Way to Clear Applied Electricity BacklogPart III - Aftermath of the boycottPart IV – Student clash on the final dayFor good or bad it is customary on the final day of academic year students to pitch parties especi
Read Parts I and II first:Part III: Aftermath of the boycottIn my view, students’ demands were granted so comfortably due to personal conflicts between then dean of the faculty Prof. C.L.V. Jayathilake and the Electrical and Electronics department.
Part I – IntroductionAim of this article is, as a first hand witness and victim, to outline events happened at the Peradeniya Engineering Faculty in 1986 leading to take away (or given away) Final Examination in Engineering Part I, Applied Electrici
Dear eFacMemories readers,I have excellent news for you!Sisira Adikari [E/83/008] is going to write his memories of the eFac days @ Peradeniya.I have received a document running for seven pages with over 3000 words for Sisira. His article focuses
This is an open invitation to all Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Graduates.Share your memories!Write to us:efacmemories@gmail.comIn the meantime, read following aricles already published in this site.1. It's time by Rasika Suriyaarachc
Continued from PART IV: Life after E-facFINAL EPISODE - Some horrible crimesNearly two decades or two generations after my self-proclaimed defeat, the situation is likely to have vastly improved and some of you young guns reading this account might
