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Tribute to Nimal Maralande\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– By Errol Fernando (<\/strong>16th<\/sup>\u00a0March 1939\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0 31st<\/sup>\u00a0July 1997)<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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My dear friends, my dear fellow-Trinitians, there are times when it is easy to speak and there are times when it is difficult to speak.\u00a0 I thought that it was difficult for me to speak at my father\u2019s funeral service a few months ago.\u00a0 But in some ways it is more difficult to speak here today because it was only this morning that I heard of Nimal\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My thoughts were with Nimal as I drove to school this morning, unaware that he had died.\u00a0 I had planned to phone him from school in response to three messages that he had left for me during the last three days.\u00a0 He left one message with my wife and two messages with my daughter \u00a0–\u00a0 messages that contained Nimal\u2019s usual humour and a couple of jokes which only he and I would understand.\u00a0 I was going to phone him to tell him that I wanted to spend this evening with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had planned to spend this evening with Nimal Maralande, and it is grimly ironic that I AM spending this evening with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I first met Nimal in January 1947 when he and I were seven years old.\u00a0 I was just starting life as a boarder at Trinity, and the Maralandes, who were driving Nimal to Trinity on the first day of the school year, kindly gave me a ride from Colombo to Kandy. \u00a0And \u00a0so began a friendship that has lasted fifty years.\u00a0 We went right through school together –\u00a0 Matron\u2019s Dormitory, Junior School, Squealery and finally Ryde House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One vivid memory I have is Nimal\u2019s mother\u2019s food parcels.\u00a0 Nimal would be the first to agree with me that there was probably no worse food on earth than the food in the Trinity boarding.\u00a0 The reason why many of us survived was because of the food parcels of people such as Mrs. Maralande.\u00a0 It was typical of Nimal\u2019s generosity that he chose to share his food parcels with the rest of us, and Mrs. Maralande\u2019s food seemed to be made as much for us as it was for Nimal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nimal was also my school cricket captain for two years in 1958 and 1959.\u00a0 I shall always remember the final match of the 1959 season.\u00a0 This was our Big Match against our great rivals, St. Anthony\u2019s.\u00a0 Our team was shattered to learn that Nimal could not play in this all-important game because he had turned twenty just a couple of days before the match \u00a0and the rules prevented someone from playing if they were over twenty.\u00a0 So, having played under Nimal for the whole season, we now lost our captain for the only match that really mattered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nimal spent the whole of that match on the boundary line.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he actually said anything \u00a0but every one of us was completely aware of his presence, and while Malsiri Kurukulasuriya was our captain on the field, all eyes seemed to be turned to Nimal \u00a0especially in moments of crisis.\u00a0 Perhaps this was the best indication of his leadership qualities and what we thought of him as a leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nimal was a Trinitian through and through.\u00a0 It was particularly difficult for him because he was following in the footsteps of a most illustrious father.\u00a0 Nimal\u2019s father, Doctor Percy Maralande, had an extremely distinguished school career, excelling \u00a0both academically as well as in sport \u00a0and ultimately receiving the greatest honour that Trinity could award \u2013 the Ryde Gold Medal.\u00a0 It may be debatable as to whether Nimal surpassed his father\u2019s achievements.\u00a0 Nimal would certainly say that he did not.\u00a0 However, I am sure that he at least equalled them.\u00a0 Nimal was an outstanding sportsman, excelling in rugger and cricket, and being awarded a richly-deserved Cricket Lion.\u00a0 I never understood why he was not awarded a Rugger Lion as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nimal was also an exceptional leader and his greatest honour was to be awarded the Ryde Gold Medal \u2013 a rare instance of this great honour being given to a father and a son.\u00a0 If \u00a0Ashan had been at the school longer \u00a0I am sure that we would have had three generations of Ryde Gold Medalists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another of Nimal\u2019s great sporting achievements was to captain the All-Schools Under 19 Cricket Team.\u00a0 A far greater achievement was to captain the Sri Lankan rugger team.\u00a0 He also had a most distinguished working career.\u00a0 He joined Aitken Spence in 1959 and rose to be a Director on the Management Board and the Managing Director of the Shipping Division.\u00a0 Recently, in April this year, he became the Managing Director of the Printing Division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite all his achievements in sport and in his career, to me Nimal was first and foremost a FAMILY MAN \u2013 not only husband and father \u00a0but also son and brother.\u00a0 When Nimal\u2019s sister Vasanthi heard that Nimal had died, she simply said, \u201cHe\u2019s all I had.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vasanthi had lost her own son in April last year, her mother a month later, and yesterday, her beloved brother.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s all I had.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To Cleone, Sammie and Ashan, Nimal was far more than husband and father.\u00a0 He was their friend.\u00a0 While their loss is enormous, they will be sustained by a lifetime of loving memories.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To the rest of us, Nimal was a friend \u2013 and what a friend he was!\u00a0 I am profoundly honoured to have been asked to speak on behalf of his friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He is my oldest friend, and perhaps the greatest compliment he paid me was to ask me to be a kind of substitute father when Ashan was at Mazenod.\u00a0 I remember asking Nimal, \u201c What shall I say if the teachers ask me who I am?\u201d\u00a0 Nimal replied, \u201c Tell them that you are Ashan\u2019s acting father!\u201d\u00a0 I might add that the last time I spoke to Nimal was when he phoned me from Sri Lanka when my father died four months ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

May I conclude by informing you of the family\u2019s arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n

The family will fly to Sri Lanka tomorrow afternoon with Nimal\u2019s body.\u00a0 He will be taken to the family home in Nugegoda.\u00a0 Finally he will be taken to Kurunegala where he will be cremated and the ashes interred in the family burial ground which is the final resting place of his father and mother, grandparents and great-grandparents.\u00a0 Kurunegala was probably his favourite place on earth, and he always hoped to live there when he retired.<\/span><\/p>\n

On behalf of all your friends may I say, \u201cFarewell, Nimal.\u201d\u00a0 For want of a better way of putting it, you were among those very rare human beings who deserve to be called,\u201d The salt of the earth.\u201d\u00a0 We are all better people for having known you.<\/span><\/p>\n

May you rest in peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Errol Fernando<\/span><\/p>\n

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