{"id":45662,"date":"2020-06-08T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=45662"},"modified":"2021-12-19T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T07:32:39","slug":"royal-college-175th-anniversary-dinner-toast-to-the-sister-colleges-proposed-by-s-skandakumar-6th-march-2010cinnamon-grand-oak-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/royal-college-175th-anniversary-dinner-toast-to-the-sister-colleges-proposed-by-s-skandakumar-6th-march-2010cinnamon-grand-oak-room\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL COLLEGE 175TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER &#8211; TOAST TO THE SISTER COLLEGES PROPOSED BY S. SKANDAKUMAR (6TH MARCH 2010,CINNAMON GRAND OAK ROOM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 28px;\">ROYAL COLLEGE 175TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER &#8211; TOAST TO THE SISTER COLLEGES PROPOSED BY S. SKANDAKUMAR (6TH MARCH 2010,CINNAMON GRAND OAK ROOM)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45664\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/S.-SKANDAKUMAR-449x400.png\" alt=\"S. SKANDAKUMAR\" width=\"449\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Hon Minister,past and present Principals of our revered institution, our eminent guests of honour, the Principal of Ladies College and Warden of St Thomas College, distinguished fellow Royalists and their equally distinguished spouses,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I consider it a great privilege indeed to have been invited this evening, to propose a toast to two outstanding schools rich in shared values, and for whom we Royalists have the greatest respect and admiration .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Warden Sir, I know that you must be aware of the fierceness of the rivalry that exists between our two institutions, on the playing fields and on cricket grounds in particular. You will have your first experience of it in the coming week. That rivalry, has over the years, given rise to some of the strongest bonds of friendship between Royalists and Thomians; an excellent reflection on the quality of our mutual education. As for Ladies College, Madam Nirmali, it will be sufficient if I said that successive generations of Royalists have had nothing but love for your wonderful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">girls. And you too are in that category today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">It would not be inappropriate on an occasion of this nature, for one to reflect briefly on one\u2019s own school career and I would like to share with you, three incidents for their diverse nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The first concerns a Teacher, who too was quick to use the cane, no matter how trivial the mischief may have been. He had a curious way of doing it, in that he would get the student to kiss the wall with his nose while raising both arms to the maximum. His theory was obvious; more taut the body, greater the sting!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Once his deed was done he would turn calmly to the black board and write the following line. \u201cA life without pain, is like being on a road that\u2019s going nowhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The second was a much loved senior Teacher, who with the passage of time, found it increasingly difficult to stay awake in the first twenty minutes or so in the period immediately following the lunch interval. So on arrival for a class in applied mathematics, he would instruct us to turn to a page of his choice in Humphreys text book on Dynamics, and attend to the sums on it. He would then take off his spotlessly white coat, place it on the back of his chair and rest his weary head between his arms on top of his desk, to surface 20 minutes later. On one particular day, he woke up ahead of time and decided to walk round the class. At the back end he found one of the students to whom math was a never ending mystery, deeply engrossed in a magazine depicting ladies of easy virtue, in their natural splendor. In confiscating the magazine he said to the boy, \u201cYoung man, you are rotten, even before you are ripe:\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The incident went no further. That was Royal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The third applied to a form master who was a passionate admirer of that great American President Abraham Lincoln. So intense was his admiration that he was even nicknamed Lincoln!! Two things that he quoted remained etched in my mind for the hope and confidence they inspired in me. They were from Lincoln\u2019s letter to his son\u2019s teacher, when <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">he decided to send the boy to school. \u2018Teach him\u201d he wrote, \u2018that for every scoundrel, there is a hero\u2026\u2026. Teach him also that for every corrupt politician there will be a statesman.\u2019 Fortunately, in the ensuing years, we were also taught the fine art of a waiting game called eternal patience!! Looking at the erosion of values in the world around us, I have <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">in recent times, asked myself questions which would have crossed your minds as well. Why did Wall Street, which supposedly had some of the finest brains emerging from the best Universities and Management colleges of the world, collapse as it did?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Why is it that governments in many parts of the world have the painful <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">task of combating, their own citizens, to resolve internal conflicts? And, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">why is the United Nations looking as if it is heading for a re-classification <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">as the Divided Nations?<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I have tried to look for the answers in the time tested values that our <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">three schools have upheld from inception.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">On my first day at school I was made to realize that I was a Ceylonese, as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">an equal citizen of a beautiful and happy nation called Ceylon. While still <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">knee high to our Teachers, we were taught to distinguish between Right <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and Wrong. Here I would like to quote an eminent Queens Counsel who <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">hailed from an equally reputed school in the hills , who said \u2018In the field<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">of justice and fairplay, right is right, and wrong is wrong. The two can <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">never meet. To compromise the two takes an elastic conscience. Such <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">men should be shunned for they are the bane of society.\u2019 Thereafter we <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">were encouraged to emulate the strong, but reminded to protect the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">marginalized and the weak. The next was an important lesson on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Leadership directed at Class Monitors, School Prefects, Captains of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Games, Heads of the Cadet Corps and Literary Associations, Interact <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Clubs etc. who were made to realize that every right implied a<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">responsibility. We learnt leadership required exemplary conduct and its <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">success was synonymous with a golden word\u2026 Accountability. Greater <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the authority, greater then was the accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Earlier this week, I made a nostalgic visit to our assembly hall, and let <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the memories of the solemn Friday morning assemblies roll by. My eyes <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">swept the portraits of all our distinguished scholars. You too, Warden <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sir, and Madam Principal, have preserved similar halls of fame in your <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">respective schools. Those outstanding men and women are remembered<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">even today, for two reasons; their intellect and their integrity and, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">through them we learnt another important lesson for life, the priceless <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">value of honesty. Finally, we were taught to be gracious in defeat and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">humble in victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">It is not a mere coincidence then, that our first lesson was one of equality <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and the last on humility. In our temporary stay on earth we have paid <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">our respects to those who have moved on before us, and heard the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">familiar line at the funeral services, \u2018Death humbles us all because in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">death we are all equal \u2019\u2019 . I have therefore asked myself the question, Why <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">then don\u2019t we use our God given intelligence, and prepare ourselves <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">better for that eventuality, by practicing equality and humilty in Life, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">rather than wait for death to impose it upon us? Yes Ladies and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">gentlemen, The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">or write; they will be the educated who simply will not learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">On the opposite side of humility stands man\u2019s ego. While some degree of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">it is not only desirable, but even essential, an ego out of control could be <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">as dangerous as the weapons of mass destruction that only the egos of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">George Bush and Tony Blair were able locate in Iraq . It was the same <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">ego out of control that led Tiger Woods to believe that his right to improve <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">on his handicap over 18 holes extended beyond the boundaries of a golf <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">course! So, if only our time tested values can find universal application, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">to be discharged with common sense and one\u2019s conscience, humanity <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">may well see a heaven on earth !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ladies and Gentlemen, May I ask you please to rise and drink a toast to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">two outstanding institutions with whom we have shared precious values <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and traditions. May they all be upheld inflexibly in the future as well, so <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">that St Thomas College Mt Lavinia, and Ladies College Colombo can <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">continue to produce for our country, as they have in the past, the men <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and women who can make the difference. TO ST THOMAS AND LADIES <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">COLLEGE\u2026.Thank You \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROYAL COLLEGE 175TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER &#8211; TOAST TO THE SISTER COLLEGES PROPOSED BY S. 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