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It is planned to have the 10th Carnival on an even larger scale on 04th March 2007 at the College Grounds. All persons who wish to help in this mega event are kindly requested to contact the President/Secretary, OTRFU immediately – 0777-484022.
The Advisory Committee has secured the services of Mr Theo Serafin who is a very experienced qualified coach from New Zealand. He will monitor all coaches at all levels and co-ordinate their training progrmames. The Committee has also obtained the services of Mr Ronnie Ibrahim the former Head Coach of Kingswood College, Kandy who produced unbeaten teams for the past 3 years at Kingswood. Mr Ibrahim will handle the 1st XV and Under 17 Rugby teams. In addition Mr Stefan D Silva the former Captain of the unbeaten 1976 Rugby team will also fly down from Australia to be with the team prior to and during the season and will assist in preparing the teams. The OTRFU wishes to thank the former Head Coach, Mr Asanga Seneviratne presently the Chairman of the National Selectors, the Vice President of the SLRFU and the President of the Western Province Rugby Football Union for the services rendered to College as Rugby Coach during 2005 and 2006. The OTRFU further thanks Mr Seneviratne for the large sums of money he has donated out of his personal funds for the improvement of rugby at S. Thomas College in the years 2005 and 2006 and for coaching for two years at no expense to the College. The OTRFU commends the Warden for having appointed an independent Rugby Advisory Committee for 2007 which will comprise of himself and the following persons:
Mr Tissa
Jayasinghe - Chairman The above committee which has been appointed by the Warden will report directly to the Warden. Their responsibilities will include inter-alia the following a) The selection and monitoring and evaluating the performances of all rugby coaches. b) Taking steps to monitor, evaluate and improve team performances at all levels. c) Making recommendations to Warden on any matters necessary for the furtherance and improvement of rugby at S. Thomas College. d) Raising funds for the rugby budget.
The Class of ’94 came forward and organized this event in October. This event was an enormous success with hundreds of Old Boys participating the age groups 20-30, 30-40 and 40 and above. The OTRFU wishes to thank the Class of ’94 for their effort in organizing this event. It is intended to have the Old Boys vs. Present Boys Rugby Fixture this year after making the necessary arrangements with College. A date will be announced later. It is planned to have a Dinner at the Galle Face Hotel after the season. The 2006 social was a great success. The OTRFU Rugby Fund was inaugurated and the initial donation was from Mr Talo Alileema. The OTRFU Website was also formally declared open by the Warden, Dr David Ponniah. The present address is www.otrfu.com. The list of Office Bearers who were elected is published in the website.
The OTRFU wishes to thank Mr Talo Alileema for having made a donation to the OTRFU of 100 Power World Gym Memberships. These memberships are advertised and are being sold through this Website for only Rs 2,500.00 and the proceeds are for the OTRFU. Please check the notice on the website. The OTRFU Website has been re-designed by Mr Shanaka R de Livera with the assistance of the College Webmaster, Mr Channa Asela de Silva (Channa.Asela@RoyalThomian.info). We wish to thank him for all the assistance rendered and for the support extended to the OTRFU in the past few years.
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