Overseas Visitors to ASLGSC HQ

We are introducing a new feature to our website. The headline shows what it is. We will publish here photos of overseas visitors taken with the ASLGSC head quarters in its background.

We will take all efforts to take with us a camera on Saturday’s visits to head quarters, but please have your camera also with you when you visit ASLGSC HQ in your next visit to Sri Lanka.

April 2010 Visitors

During last few days the ASLGSC had two visitors from overseas. The first one to arrive was Mr. Vladimir Kothzr who happened to be a very senior officer in the Foreign Students Section in the People’s Friendship University during the 70s.

Although he did not have a particularly close relationship with the Sri Lankan students like some others we used to know, Mr. Kothzr attentively listen to the students when they had problems. There were several occasions we knew when he helped out SL students when they had encountered serious problems. In 2003, he took a particular interest to meet the SL delegation (ASLGSC) to the ‘Graduates Forum’ held in Moscow.

This time, he is here on a private visit to this country and it is his first time here. He happily accepted the invitation to the end of the month dinner hosted by Dr. Hector Weerasingha, Newton Karunaratna and Hemantha on 24^th April.

He thoroughly enjoyed the evening, having met many of his old acquaintances. He admired our newly completed building and commented that in no other country, graduates from Russia have achieved such a feat.

The second visitor was one of our own, Mr. Kumar Athulathmudaly and his wife from Sydney, Australia. Having a brief and a busy stay in SL, Kumar was unable to join us for the dinner on 24^th and could visit “Mahagedara’ only on Monday, 26^th evening.

The President and a few of the EXCO members, who were free that evening, met him at the ASLGSC.

Kumar Athulathmudali is one of our members in Down under who vigorously campaigned for contributions for our building project successfully. He was also very pleased to see the present state of our building and congratulated the EXCO, assuring his continued support for any other future project we undertake.

July 2009 Visitors

Padma Karunarathne was in Sri Lanka for a short visit from Bangkok. Nandana Gajanayaka had come on vacation after 4 years from Ottawa, Canada. Many of our senior members may remember Nandana as a very active Executive Committee Member of our Association graduated in China. They came to our HQ for the End of the Month Get Together.

Dr. Prem Attanayake and his son Naveen were in Sri Lanka on holiday. They were keen to spend the maximum possible time with Prem’s mother who is living in their ancestral home in Badulla. Hence they could not come to our HQ on a Saturday. But Prem was interested to see the progress of the building project. So Mr. Jaliya Dharmasena accompanied Prem and Naveen to the HQ just before they took their flight back to San Francisco, USA.